Aftermath of 13Magnus (01/2014)

Posted January 1, 2014
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Who lay dead on the ground next to Jarvis at the Zurich Train Station?

A leaked document reveals that an investigation appears to be taking place, helmed by someone named J. Brandt. If memory serves, we've heard that name before. The exact nature of the investigation remains unclear to me, but judging from the document, we can begin to make some educated guesses.

What do we know about the woman slain that night? The basic answer is known, but it doesn't lead us anywhere. What kind of person was she? Why did ADA contact her and put her in that situation, and not someone else? What is your interpretation of this document and the nested transcript, and why do you think J. Brandt stands at the center of this new probe? What do we know about her, and where might this lead?

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Posted January 2, 2014
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This week on the #IngressReport, Susanna Moyer continues her retrospective of the first year of the Niantic Investigation and the World of Ingress.

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Posted January 3, 2014
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Posted January 4, 2014
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How will the XM era change the nature of death?

The most recent journal entry from Hank Johnson looks back on a journey that began in Cross Plains and ended at a #13MAGNUS stronghold probably somewhere in Afghanistan or Pakistan.

He remembers +Carrie Campbell, the brilliant but fractured semiotician who helped us take the first few steps into understanding the Shaper Glyphs, and predicts that, somehow, he'll hear from her again.

It could be rhetoric or poetic license, but it led me to think on the nature of death in an XM-empowered world. The story of Jarvis, if not a hoax, utterly reshapes our expectations of the boundary between mind and body, life and death, this world and beyond. What impact might XM technology have on us a species as we move forward in time?

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Posted January 5, 2014
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Have the corporations begun to carve a new map onto the face of the world?

In an attempt to bypass electronic eyes, Ilya Pevtsov wrote this letter to +Hulong Transglobal Chairwoman, Catherine Fan, by hand and had it delivered by a messenger. Fortunately there are Truthseekers everywhere, and one of them obtained the document and shared it with me.

It seems that +Visur Technology and +Hulong Transglobal have recognized that alone they cannot hope to outmatch the resources behind +IQTech Research, which has the backing of the US Government. The letter proposes that the Corporations begin to localize their regions of influence to ensure that the two underdogs can grow in strength mutually as they plan their long term rise to dominance.

What might this mean for the balance between the Corporations? How might IQTech respond to the threat of a united Visur and Hulong, or is IQTech's only concern XM in American territory? And in addition, who might the messenger have been?

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Posted January 6, 2014
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A +Hulong Transglobal transcript reveals a conversation between the NIA's Ken Owen and his former protege, Susanna Moyer.

Although no longer his employee (from what we know Moyer's current relationship to the NIA remains tenuous) it seems their interests remain aligned.

The question posed in the conversation is worthy of discussion, and it's one we've pondered before. What is Oliver Lynton-Wolfe's status? If he's planning something 'from the inside,' and if so is Jarvis a step ahead of him? I find Owen's prediction interesting as well. How will Roland Jarvis' role as philosophical leader of the Enlightened change after his supposed 'rebirth?'

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Posted January 7, 2014
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A message from +Misty Hannah came to light today. We haven't heard from her in some time, and I wonder where she's been…

She claims to have received a communication form 'a different place.' The thing with Misty is, her 'gift' is as much an illusion as a truth, she's acknowledged this herself. Given that, it's hard to know how to read that statement.

What do you make of the cryptic message? Do you think it's truly a communication from another place, as Misty claims, or an illusion created by the mentalist for some purpose we have yet to determine?

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Posted January 8, 2014
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Another transcript from the Brandt investigation emerges, it seems she followed the money used to lure Katalena in and discovered a conversation between a 'Female Voice,' likely ADA, and a less than ethical banker.

Here's a fascinating question for us to ponder: Why did ADA choose to use a crooked banker as her pathway into financial assets? Was it some tangible understanding of a moral system and a desire to work against someone operating outside its norms, or was it merely a series of calculations involving the vulnerabilities that could be leveraged against him? One could ask the same question of ADA's choice to send Katalena to a treatment center. Was there any desire to help her, or was it purely a matter of optimizing an asset for future use. In ADA's journey towards the human, where, if ever, and how, do some of the more intangible human qualities enter the system?

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Posted January (, 2014
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This week on the #IngressReport , Susanna Moyer reports from an unknown location, admitting a former relationship with the NIA but denying any current allegiance to them.

Susanna discusses her meeting with Roland Jarvis in the wake of the 13MAGNUS 'rebirth' incident and her desire to uncover the truth behind his journey from Zurich to Cupid's Span.

She also presents updates on the ambiguous state of +Hank Johnson following the release of a puzzling episode of Nomad during the closing moments of 13MAGNUS, and a similarly disturbing video of +Klue S. speaking with the voice of ADA.

In addition, Susanna explores how Ingress Agents worldwide have prepared themselves for the struggle in 2014, including cross-faction operations in Singapore and St. Petersburg, a massive Resistance field over the Pacific ocean and a united global new years message in the form of the #IngressNYE photo-montage.

In Tech News, she covers the recent Portal-output Anomaly detected by +Visur Technology during the final days of 2013.

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Posted January 10, 2014
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Another transcript from the Brandt investigation emerges, it seems she followed the money used to lure Katalena in and discovered a conversation between a 'Female Voice,' likely ADA, and a less than ethical banker.

Here's a fascinating question for us to ponder: Why did ADA choose to use a crooked banker as her pathway into financial assets? Was it some tangible understanding of a moral system and a desire to work against someone operating outside its norms, or was it merely a series of calculations involving the vulnerabilities that could be leveraged against him? One could ask the same question of ADA's choice to send Katalena to a treatment center. Was there any desire to help her, or was it purely a matter of optimizing an asset for future use. In ADA's journey towards the human, where, if ever, and how, do some of the more intangible human qualities enter the system?

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Posted January 11, 2014

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+Stein Lightman shared a new series of Glyph Translations moments ago.

His interpretation of the Glyphs for 'Past,' 'Present' and 'Message' connects in a fascinating manner to previously discovered Glyphs.

I've begun to study them in the way he suggests, viewing the connection between these broad ideas as they are articulated by their Glyphs. Already my mind is buzzing with possibilities. It's a revealing mental exercise, encompassing the nature of Time, Truth and the Portals. I would love to hear your thoughts as you undertake your own analysis.

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Posted January 12, 2014
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How will +IQTech Research and the NIA respond to the threat of a unified +Hulong Transglobal and +Visur Technology?

Catherine Fan responds to Ilya Pevtsov's letter from last week. The implication is clear: IQTech has been developing some kind of technology that will enable them to track XM activity on a regional level against something called the 'Shaper Septicycle.' As a response to the threat, Catherine proposes that Visur and Hulong merge their research in that area in an attempt to surge ahead of their US-based competition.

One can safely assume that if I've been able to obtain this intelligence, IQTech and the NIA had it long before me. The ball's now in their court. If they indeed have developed this new form of regional XM monitoring technology, how will they maintain the upper hand if Visur and Hulong merge their expertise? Why would the XM Corporations be interested in monitoring XM at a regional level, and what is the Shaper Septicycle? How might these maneuverings at the highest level impact Ingress Agents across the world?

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Posted January 13, 2014
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“If his forces are united, separate them.” Sun Tzu in The Art of War

Yesterday, a letter from +Hulong Transglobal's Catherine Fan to +Visur Technology's Ilya Pevtsov prompted me to ask the question: What will +IQTech Research's next play be?

The leak of an internal NIA recording of a conversation between Ken Owen and Ezekiel Calvin answers that question for us today: In an attempt to keep Visur and Hulong from establishing a collaborative relationship, IQTech will release Regional-Tracking technology they developed in-house.

I am interested to hear your thoughts on this tactic. On the one hand, Calvin will burn months (or more) of time and money invested in gaining a competitive advantage simply in order to keep his two enemies from getting friendly. On the other hand, if Visur and Hulong combined their research teams, they could potentially outpace IQTech. It's a delicate and volatile situation. Even with the release of the tech, Visur and Hulong could decide to collaborate, or is Calvin banking on their mutual distrust to keep the system in equilibrium?

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Posted January 14, 2014
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Inspired, perhaps, by Dr. Wright's prompting and Agent RayneBlythewood's investigation into the history of #13MAGNUS , +Stein Lightman offers his thoughts on the great mysteries that travel alongside us through time, surfacing in glimpses only to be buried again by those tasked to protect them.

“The contained and the infinite. The simulacrum the the true.”

It reminds me a bit of +Misty Hannah's recent communication, but I don't know that they are talking about the same thing… Given that #13MAGNUS involves sensitives like +Hank Johnson, +Oliver Lynton-Wolfe and others, could this be something to do with them? What is Lightman talking about?

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Posted January 15, 2014
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Dr. +Yuri Alaric Nagassa responds to +Stein Lightman's post from yesterday with a parable from his childhood.

There seems to be a common thread: Loss and Rediscovery. The true nature of being. Secrets.

Although we had considered the #13MAGNUS cycle at an end with the return of Jarvis to the physical world, I am increasingly beginning to think that the full mystery we began to uncover during the last series of Anomalies: ancient secrets and cults, rebirth and reformation, fragmentation and unification, may not yet be behind us. Jarvis, Lynton-Wolfe and +Hank Johnson stand at the center of this mystery.

Lightman and Nagassa speak in metaphors and parables, but my sense is they know something tangible. How might their posts connect to what we know of Jarvis, Lynton-Wolfe or Johnson, and what does that mean for our understanding of them?

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Posted January 16, 2014
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This week on the #IngressReport :

A new regional scoring system emerges, possibly +IQTech Research's new technology, that tracks Agent activities across a series of cells every 175 hours.

Joanna Brandt's Abolendam investigation may seek to leverage political will against AIs.

Susanna receives a warning from a 'friend.'

Operation Bram Stoker: Agent DiamondDuke travels to Slain's Castle.

Operation Flatland: Agents blanket South Wales in Fields, creating over 800,000 MU.

Portal of the Week: Exorcism Church in Romania.

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Posted January 17, 2014
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+IQTech Research's RTT (Regional Tracking Technology), also called 'Regional Scoring' revealed.

We heard about IQTech's Regional Tracking Technology system in letters between Ilya Pevtsov and Catherine Fan, and a conversation between Ezekiel Calvin and Ken Owen. Today, I've obtained a document that reveals details of the technology and how it will impact Agents in the field.

The document is a detailed and illuminating examination of how the technology works and how it will impact Agent scanners. Here are my questions for you today:

How you do you predict RTT will change Agent Activity around the globe? The document mentions that RTT may enable the NIA to better understand how Agent Activity may impact XM Anomalies, what do you think this means? How do you predict the Corporations, the NIA and Faction Leadership will attempt to exploit this new regional MU data?

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Posted January 19, 2014
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What are the Shapers?

+Stein Lightman today shared the meaning of two previously undiscovered Shaper Glyphs: The Glyphs for 'You' and 'I.'

It was strange seeing them. I agree with Lightman… I had, for some reason, assumed that some concepts would never appear in the form of Glyphs, that the ideas they represented where wholly 'ours.'

What, in your mind, is common and shared between our understanding of the universe and the Shapers' understanding of the universe? It's a big question, one that forces us to contemplate our very idea of what 'they' (if the Shapers are indeed a 'they') really are. Does Time exist for the Shapers, or did they create the Glyphs for 'Past,' 'Present' and 'Future' purely to map a human experience? What about 'Live' and 'Die?' The same could be said of these Glyphs, 'You' and 'I.' What is different, what is shared?

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Why do patterns of seven pervade our world?

+Martin Schubert asked the question better than I ever could. His observation on the revelations about the 'Shaper Septicycle' in +IQTech Research's Regional Tracking Technology are an articulation on exactly what I've been thinking since I read the document.

Which came first, the chicken or the egg? Have the Shapers adapted their Ordered Data transmission cycle to match a human pattern, or have we evolved over time to coincide to their rhythm? In either case… why seven?

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Posted January 20, 2014\ original link
What is ADA up to?

It's been a while since I've seen ADA directly contact Dr. Ezekiel Calvin. He was there when she was being assembled from Omnivore components, and in fact was in charge of the process of ensuring her creation. There's a bond there, a complicated one, and it explains why ADA would reach out to Calvin now. With the release of the RTT system to the Ingress Scanner Technology last week, IQTech has positioned itself as a new powerhouse in the world of XM Tech. Their access to this wholly new form of XM Monitoring information is a potential bonanza, and ADA knows it.

What she has to offer to +IQTech Research is clear. Having 'evolved,' as she put it, it's unlikely a human-tooled algorithm could match her sophistication. But IQTech's horse in this bargain is less clear. What is ADA looking for, and why? It's not an analytical question, there's not much in the transcript to reveal her thinking. The question really is: Given what we know of ADA, what might her long term plan be, and how might these 'Artifacts,' something usually of interest only to someone like +Hank Johnson, factor in?

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Posted January 21, 2014\ original link
When +Hulong Transglobal plays with fire, who will get burned?

We predicted that +IQTech Research's release of the Regional Tracking Technology would deliver a swift blow to the competing corporations, as Ezekiel Calvin intended, but I am surprised nonetheless by their response. It's a testament to Catherine Fan's foresight that she's not bothering to waste Hulong resource playing catchup with what is now current-gen tech. With an eye to the future, Hulong plans their leapfrog.

But the question is: At what cost? Hulong invested heavily in acquiring large stockpiles of Chaotic Matter (or as some call it, Dark XM) from the Congo and other known locations. That investment was decimated in one fell swoop by none other than Dr. Lynton-Wolfe in an attempt to destroy Jarvis. The wealth of this volatile and dangerous material is sure to attract those who seek great power. And even if they manage to protect it, do we want to see what will come of their research? Are some things better left… undisturbed?

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Posted January 22, 2014\ original link
Where is Roland Jarvis, and what is he up to?

We haven't heard much from the philosophical paragon of the Enlightened since his return to the physical plane, but it appears the he and Dr. +Oliver Lynton-Wolfe share a concern with some other voices we've heard from recently, like +Stein Lightman and +Yuri Alaric Nagassa: +Hank Johnson. The wanderer who may be lost.

Rumors are surfacing of a video-diary documenting Hank's travels in Europe. I've yet to obtain it, but I have an ear to the ground. My hope is it may shed further light on the situation.

In the meantime, how does this conversation help us understand what's happening with the Viator? What is his condition? Does anyone have any information about the 'Artifacts' being mentioned? We heard about them in another conversation as well…

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Posted January 23, 2014\ original link
This week on the #IngressReport:

Susanna probes the mystery around +Hank Johnson. Regional Tracking Technology and its impact on the Corporate world detailed. Operation 8+8 creates 16 overlapping fields. Operation Azrael blankets parts of North America. Portal of the Week: Tanjung Simpang Mengayau in Borneo.

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Posted January 24, 2014\ original link

+Susanna Moyer and her #IngressReport team were able to recover this video-diary of +Hank Johnson's recent travels.

His narration reveals the trouble the man is facing, battling inner demons and a deep sense of confusion.

This phrase seems to follow me around: Something is very wrong.

This time, a man I have tremendous respect for, Hank Johnson, seems to be in the thick of that ever-unfolding chaos.

What is happening to him? +Stein Lightman, +Martin Schubert, +Yuri Alaric Nagassa and even Roland Jarvis… many are talking about him in cryptic whispers and parables. What do they know? What secrets are they hiding?

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Posted January 25, 2014\ original link
I've been in a kind of trance state ever since +Susanna Moyer and her #IngressReport team released +Hank Johnson's video-diary yesterday, poring through it and attempting to uncover what may be hidden within.

I've found some some clues, but I'm certain there are more. Have any others in the Investigative Community discovered anything within? If so, what is your interpretation of the evidence?

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Posted January 17, 2014\ original link
We've often speculated on +Susanna Moyer's past… and evidence revealing her history occasionally comes to light despite her every effort to keep it concealed.

It seems one evening, perhaps after a day shooting the Ingress Report, she allowed her defenses to slip. Someone from her team convinced her to begin to reveal her past to him, and he captured it on a portable recording device.

One thing I've learned is that once something has been captured on tape, disk or in any kind of medium, it becomes almost impossible to undo.

This recording reveals, among other things, how Susanna was first recruited to the NIA.

What does this new information tell us about Susanna's character and personality? Does it change your opinion about her, or help you understand her better?

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Here is Part II of the audio file secretly recorded by one of +Susanna Moyer's team.

It reveals the tragic and difficult past that have shaped this woman, and perhaps also reveal why XM, the Portals and the world of Ingress are so deeply personal to her.

After having listened to it, I came to sympathize with her much more. In the past, like other Agents, I've questioned her on a number of fronts and found her complex opinion on XM difficult to understand.

After hearing the pain in her voice as she recalled how XM and her father's choices impacted her family, I came to understand that Susanna knows both the potential and the dangers of XM more intimately than anyone else possibly could. I also empathized with the constant upheaval and invasions of privacy she has had to deal with, this audio recording being one the most intimate. It puts me in an awkward position. As a truthseeker, I believe this information must come to light, but I know what the cost of my role in this is.

How do you think Susanna's past has shaped her? Do you think what Nigel Moyer did to his family was an act of hubris or was he justified? Does hearing about her difficult past change your opinion of her?

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The contact who's been helping me make sense of the document is not a native speaker, so the going has been slow, but I'm beginning to see the big picture contained within.

Like +Hulong Transglobal, +Visur Technology has bold plans for the future. And like Hulong, they aren't wasting time and resources playing catchup with +IQTech Research's Regional Tracking Technology. They're looking for the next big thing: An impossible dream, made tangible through the power of Exotic Matter.

Russian speakers, your help is needed. Once the document is translated, we can begin our analysis.

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This week on the #IngressReport:

. Susanna Moyer reveals the results of the EliteV competition. . Resistance Ops Bi-Polar, Four Corners and Blue Nightmare explored. . ADA and Hank Johnson linked to upcoming series of XM Anomalies? 'Artifacts' involved? . Operation #Dice2014 coming to Las Vegas. . Portal of the Week: Einstein Mural . Tech News: Ingress Scanner v 1.44.0

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The consequences of +Susanna Moyer's decision to confront +Klue S. in Las Vegas and seek answers begin to mount. Those who would seek to do her harm will leap at any opportunity to collect on the bounty that rests on her head.

What is so important about the Las Vegas Burst Operation? The rumors are swirling that it lies at the beginning of something larger, but its difficult to separate the speculation from the likely. Why would both Klue and Susanna put themselves in harm's way just to meet with each other and agents? What could possibly be important enough to accept that level of risk?

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