Mike Wissinger brought up an interesting point that will likely get buried in the noise on the original post, but...
Mike Wissinger brought up an interesting point that will likely get buried in the noise on the original post, but this changes the balance of power in the XM world with Strategic Explorations / Hulong Transglobal now making a money play directly toward the holders of the scanner. How do you think the other players in the XM world will respond? We know that IQTech Research and Visur Technology are not likely to be happy about this (post from Niantic Project incoming?) What sort of technologies could the other XM corporations offer us?
Originally shared by Ingress
Strategic Explorations (SE), a black-lab research and intelligence group associated with Hulong Transglobal, has injected a new ‘Storefront’ into the Ingress Scanner. Intel suggests that this ‘Storefront’ will soon roll out to all Agent Scanners.
SE’s researchers appear to have stabilized Chaotic Matter to forge three new items: Key Lockers, Frackers and Beacons. SE allegedly plans to offer containers of “Chaotic Matter Units” or CMUs for sale which can be used to obtain these new objects.
Here is what we know so far:
Portal Fracker: A Portal Fracker doubles the Hack Output for a specific portal for 10 Minutes or 150 hacks whichever happens first. All agents hacking the portal get this benefit.
Beacons: The Beacon utilizes frequency modulation to temporarily project holographic imagery above a Portal. Agents can obtain various kinds of Beacons for several use cases.
Key Locker (limit 5 per Agent): The Key Locker is able to store Portal Keys in a shielded enclosure that prevents these items from impacting the Scanner Inventory limit. Each Key Locker can hold up to 100 Portal Keys.
This is likely just the beginning of SE’s foray into Chaotic Matter development. Many more items are expected.
Agents, even though these items may be tempting, you should be aware that Chaotic Matter is known to be dangerous. It has been shown to cause mutations and has unknown effects on human physiology.. Should you choose to experiment with these new constructs, you do so at your own risk.
Originally shared by Ingress
Strategic Explorations (SE), a black-lab research and intelligence group associated with Hulong Transglobal, has injected a new ‘Storefront’ into the Ingress Scanner. Intel suggests that this ‘Storefront’ will soon roll out to all Agent Scanners.
SE’s researchers appear to have stabilized Chaotic Matter to forge three new items: Key Lockers, Frackers and Beacons. SE allegedly plans to offer containers of “Chaotic Matter Units” or CMUs for sale which can be used to obtain these new objects.
Here is what we know so far:
Portal Fracker: A Portal Fracker doubles the Hack Output for a specific portal for 10 Minutes or 150 hacks whichever happens first. All agents hacking the portal get this benefit.
Beacons: The Beacon utilizes frequency modulation to temporarily project holographic imagery above a Portal. Agents can obtain various kinds of Beacons for several use cases.
Key Locker (limit 5 per Agent): The Key Locker is able to store Portal Keys in a shielded enclosure that prevents these items from impacting the Scanner Inventory limit. Each Key Locker can hold up to 100 Portal Keys.
This is likely just the beginning of SE’s foray into Chaotic Matter development. Many more items are expected.
Agents, even though these items may be tempting, you should be aware that Chaotic Matter is known to be dangerous. It has been shown to cause mutations and has unknown effects on human physiology.. Should you choose to experiment with these new constructs, you do so at your own risk.
And how far do you think the other corporations are along in their CM research? We know Visur had dabbled in it...
ReplyDeleteDigging out mod/gear cards to come up with an answer
ReplyDeleteA post from X is probably en route at this point. From a political standpoint, Hulong and SE have the upper hand whereas in 2014 it was Visur with Capsules and IQ with the Regional Scoring that were in the lead within the corporate arms race.
ReplyDeleteKeeping in mind that to some degree the corps are now all working together, I wonder what this'll spell for them and us all.
Dr. Edgar Allan Wright, your comments on this are appreciated.
Indeed. Will this be seen as a power play potentially disrupting the cooperation of the corporations? Perhaps that's why this happened under the Strategic Explorations banner- to give Hulong upper management some deniability.
ReplyDeleteWe know V and IQ had advance knowledge of the project, and that they weren't sure Ni knew they knew, from one of their 3 way chats. What surprised me mist was that Smith's mercenary corps, SE, was spearheading the scanner development to enable this project. Have they always held a lock on H's CM research?
ReplyDeleteI'd be surprised if their knowledge wasn't flowing up to Hulong proper, but it definitely could have been some technical/political force that kept the actual working with Dark XM (and potential liabilities) in SE.
ReplyDeleteDid Smith need A Detection Algorithm "out of the way" to complete this injection into the scanner app for Hulong Transglobal?
ReplyDeleteMichael Flood Very interesting....
ReplyDeleteMy question is why did they have to delve into CM to create these items? Is there a property of CM that further compresses the data more so than the XM capsules that allows them to take up zero space?
ReplyDeleteOr do they store in a 'different' space due to the chaotic matter (sub space etc.). does CM exist outside our universe , or at least allow access?
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