⚝ Intercepted At April 19, 2026
Chapter 6 (Cont.)
Rundicate's accounts hold that hunted esotericware outfits were most regularly working on credit siphon, eavesdropping, identity theft, illegal prosthetics and such. Project Austerlitz, the recurrent security branch of investigation, A&R, retrieval and extirpation ops focused on esotericware, had been one of my proudest administrative moves. The outfits who managed to escape annihilation were heavily dispersed, out of order and functionally voided by Datamangle's zero-day attacks. Even if they managed to crawl out of the hand of the law, the rings' credits were confiscated, their advanced custom machines fingerprinted, and their communication channels compromised. Very few did escape capture by Rundicate, some even with equipments. But ultimately, their influence was virtually reduced to nil. Septauxthebes was not documented in any record before the Moire expose. Not just that, they were using a completely undocumented comms protocol. Analysts are excavating evidences of situations that were not documented before. And to add to the mystery, such a faction was intercepted and assaulted by another hidden faction. Regarding the assailants, no clue has been found. The forensic reports of the site says that they were exceptionally clean with their methodology and track coverup. Keinstein's assassination cannot be an isolated case; it's astounding that the assassination even took place. Everything was secured to the miniscule bits. The only answer now, is that we have no safisfactory answer yet but only cryptic leads. The implications are immense. It's possible that there are some elite esotericware organisations which have exploitated the central matrix in ways unforeseen by the authority and remained undetected till the Moire incident. Which is something that has... never happened before...
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