Life continues apace in space.

S.O.A.P. phase one completed successfully. Those who know, know.

In other less cryptic news, I've been chatting to Nyneve and she's due to graduate in a couple of days. A couple of days! Where on earth has all the time gone? I know she was excelling in all of her second year piloting classes and that she'd be in the first batch of graduates this academic quarter, but even so! Her parents are flying out by Interbus to attend her graduation and I promised I'd go as well. It'll be nice to see my aunt and uncle again after all this time.

Anyway, I'm a little concerned about her. Where is the excitable, anxious, naive and innocent Nyneve? Now she's talking of tearing down the Empires and all the lies that prop them up. She's particularly vociferous in her verbal attacks on the Amarr empire, but she claims that the Republic and the Federation are little better in their complacency and so it is up to us capsule pilots (she uses the word 'us' even though she's not even qualified yet) to lead the way forwards in this new era. I can't tell if she's a wannabe freedom fighter or a confused posthumanist.
Was I like that when I graduated? I don't think so... I was more in awe at the vastness of New Eden. I wonder what holochannels she's been watching?
Still, I like her new hairstyle and she's willing to let me fit the first prototype of my new quantum monitor onto her ships.

I'm not sure what to call it, and haven't yet submitted a patent application which I suppose I should do soon, but the quantum monitor is the first experimental success I've had in applying the quantum waveform guiding prinicple. Initially, all it will do is simply register and filter out precise waveforms to monitor certain key changes in state in individual specified parts of the ship such as the camer drone interface and the propulsion monitors. Simple enough entanglement transmission will send this information to a reciever device but the clever part is that I've managed to finally find a use for all of those spare teraflops of processing power my Hoarder-class industrial ship has in using it to crunch through probability functions to decrypt the information. Why? Well when I said it would use simple enough entanglement, as the regular FTL systems do, I didn't mean a direct transmit because those are infinitely hackable. I meant going through a tenfold set of entanglements, modulated by sychronised waveform fluctuations.

For the non-rocket scientists out there, that means I'll be able to see what she sees and get the same kind of system readouts she gets without anyone else being able to nose in. If this works successfully, the next step will be to broaden the range of systems that can be monitored and introduce a communications loop whereby I we can talk to oneanother off the FTL system. The ultimate in information security I guess.
I'm not stupid and I can see potential abuse of this system if anyone else figures out how to operate it. It'll be clearing through the ship's AI to ensure no funny business, that could potentially disrupt the operation of the ship, occurs.

Maybe I'll be able to refine it to an extent that I can mount the reciever/decoder on a ship with less than a supercomputer for a brain.
I'll never understand why industrial ships were given such powerful AIs.

Venting

Just getting this off my chest to save exploding about it at an inopportune moment.

My GOD are EM a useless bunch of fucking whingers and bitches at the moment. I make a single line statement in a single comment flatly pointing out the COMPLETELY TIDE TURNING and GIANT GAPING FLAW in their million-rule uber-restrictive frigate tournament rules that basicalyl makes a complete mockery of the rules, and I'm the one who gets flamed as if I've been decrying it everywhere!

Did they not watch the inter-alliance tournaments? Did they not witness first had just how utterly devastatingly HUGE an advantage pirate implants are in a fight? To say any implants go but to then restrict the ships and modules to be used so heavily is a total waste of time. Give me a bog-standard, off-the shelf Rifter & kit and with a full set of Slaves and I'll mince anyone else in a faction-pimped Rifter.

Basically I've been slapped with 'if you can't say something nice, don't say anything at all' which, considering I can't even *think* of a nice way of putting "your entire premise is flawed", means I'm not going to be saying anything. They'd ratehr stick their fingers in their ears and go 'lalalala what problem? there are no problems!'

Funny, just like Midular's government...

I don't think I'm going to be showing up either at this rate. Already I know I'm being considered the primary target in the LTRAD team because of my reputation. I'm too busy working on my quantum theories to get enthusistic about hauling myself over to a completely farcical tournament setup after having been told off for attempting to point this out.

I'm sure I saw Lady Portia's Maller today so she's probably back from wherever her family lands are. Maybe she can fly instead. At this point I really couldn't care less about the fact she's not known for being a particularly good frigate pilot.