Set up as a trader. Did you buy for yourself, for someone else on commission, or for open resales on some small station that's on the edge of nowhere. Nobody but you knows. When you disappear, who knows where you go.

As things are in your story, all the pieces don't fit together nice and neat. Thus allowing this.


In the everything, and everyone, is connected universe. None of that can happen. Instead, you will end up with the perfect communist universe as envisioned by Carl Marx. We will all become the perfect worker bees, he thought the human race should become. Everyone ends up as perfect copies of whoever they are replacing, the needed knowledge poured into their minds like so much cement.

The problem is the same as the perfect man scenarios. Eventually something falls far enough out of true that an original thought is needed to fix it. But, there are no original thinkers left alive. So the system collapses. Whoever survives the collapse, has the task of building a new civilization.

No, not quite.

Though having freighters in play also helps hide things ...

There can never be a perfect communist anything because you will never get everyone to agree with everything - it's been tried and failed.

But sometimes you can help speed up or slow dissimilar systems so that they blend rather than destroy each other when they do make contact.

And no man is perfect, there's no way for him to know and understand 'everything'.

And the bigger the project the more people needed that understand their roles and how they affect the 'big picture' - the better to be able to make adjustments as needed to reach the goal.

The only secret kept is the one not told.

Vix

The best trick is not the one where they can't figure out what or how you did it, but that they don't even realize that you did anything at all.

that's what the politicians all hope for...

Vix

The current ones aren't doing a very good job of it, more like 'WTF do you think you're doing?'

*laughs... too true...

Vix

hell, Boris and Natasha could do better than that bunch....

At least they'd be funny doing it - these clowns are just stupid ...

^THIS!^



P.S. And also, a Diary/Journal (ANYTHING that you're storing your thoughts/secrets in or on, is NOT a guarantee of security!)

and that is a fact...

Vix

There are some things in today's political climate that are still being kept secret like the Epstein Client List. Why would that be? Maybe because many of our politicians and bureaucrats are on that list?

The JFK records were sealed for fifty years - so most of those that were in on it would be dead - then they still never released a lot of things that they were known to have ...

The current idiots greatly fear any actual truth coming out of what they're doing in the background - and they know there's no way to keep their puppet in charge because there's no way to hide that he isn't just a puppet. And they have nothing else to replace their puppet with - they all look like crap at this point.

Third Method

HA!

"We may need to reset the AI again, the best it can come up with the data we have is that someone in the Federation in helping hide the bugs and they may be progressing at an accelerated rate."

"Does it suggest 'who' might be helping them?"

"As you know, ever since that thing on Parakit and the data from Boyce Kline the AIs have been blaming almost everything unknown on that Neal Foster ..."

"Yeah reset it, not even he would dare try to hide something this big ..."

Hahaha =^.^=

Already added for the next update!

when is the next update to the folly saga? it's been so long. i am eager to see what happens next.

Still thinking on it and making little changes - lots of tying off loose ends ...

I do my level best to abide by these simple principles regarding 'Secrets.'-
1) Is it MY secret, that no one else knows about, that only affects me? If 'Yes,' why in the world would I give it away to another, unless we were getting so close our lives intermingled and it would be necessary?
2) Is it someone else's secret, told in confidence, that if shared would harm them? Or still better, HELP them (Say someone you loved/cared about, confided in you they were suicidal, and you knew you didn't have the skills to help counsel them.)?
3) Is it a secret that harms or helps? (Kinda different from #2, mostly regarding less than 'Life threatening' things.)

That's pretty much it. For better or worse, secrets are a real part of living a life of an articulate species.

Handle them respectfully.

Or in this case there's too much that needs to be done to help things along. So who do you trust with what and how far? And when do you give them more - or cut them out as needed.