Reunion??

A couple of chat logs from a "reunion" of the main Niantic Sensitives was leaked...  (http://investigate.ingress.com/2017/02/11/reunion-1/ and http://investigate.ingress.com/2017/02/11/reunion-2/ )

Where does this leave them?

Reunion 1

lightman joined the conversation.
nagassa joined the conversation.
Victor joined the conversation.
CC joined the conversation.

lightmanWe all in?

MartinSchubert
I count 10– no Jarvis… no ADA and no Oliver.

Calvin
Thank you for joining this chat. I suppose by now you’ve all read my letter.

MartinSchubert
yeah

nagassa
I’ve come to terms with it, Calvin.

Victor
As have I. I agree that at this point our greatest resource is each other.

lightman
I suspect I speak for most of us when I say that our circumstances are too bizarre, too outlandish…

nagassa
I think most of us are unsure if our state of limbo is a gift or a curse.

Victor
I feel much the same — as if I’m preparing to be vaulted into the future — an unexpected life path.

nagassa
knowing what is coming, one can prepare.

Hank
Changes your relationship to your journal, for sure.

CC
Yes.

DevraB
Sorry to rush past the pleasantries, but to the topic at hand? What meaning do you ascribe to the Shards bearing our images? I half expected to disappear. I was preparing for the worst… again, I guess…

Hank
No. Our personas are safe.

MartinSchubert
Easy for you to say — you’re not a simulacrum anymore.

Hank
Fair point.

Calvin
My best understanding is that the Shards only have to do with the composition of the MAGNUS — our connections to the Archetypes.

Hank
A MAGNUS lives and changes. Those who assemble our shards determine whether the MAGNUS remains and who remains in the MAGNUS.

DevraB
Do we die if we leave the MAGNUS?

MartinSchubert
Unknown.

Hank
Yeah. The sources are silent on that, but it seems that some of the members of the Vesuvian MAGNUS lived after the debacle with the shield and what I presume was the destruction of their attempt to build a Tecthulhu.

DevraB
So these Shards only affect the bonds that tie us to the MAGNUS?

Hank
I think so. Not sure if the fact that we’re a disharmonious MAGNUS is what made it possible for our bonds to be disrupted this way.

DevraB
Were we that disharmonious?

Calvin
A different meaning. I was attempting to form a synthetic MAGNUS. What I did not know was that in a 13MAGNUS or an ANTI-MAGNUS all of the members are of the same alignment. We were of different alignments.

DevraB
So it was inevitably going to go bad?

Reunion 2

Here is the second fragment of the bizarre conversation I uncovered yesterday… Devra’s final question is one that I’ve pondered as well — what do the 3 empty chambers in the ABADN image mean?

The conversation between these mostly long-silent Niantic Researchers is below:

DevraB
So it was inevitably going to go bad?

Hank
Not all rifts are bad.

nagassa
It’s strange, I’m led to believe that I once knew all of you well, but many of you are utterly unfamiliar to me. Even though we seem to be divided, I feel we are as one.

MartinSchubert
Poetic wax aside, I agree we are all in the same boat.

Victor
Yes. I have done some scholarship, attempting to put things to gether from public sources.

MartinSchubert
Me too. Filed a Freedom of Information Act request for the HAZDATA records from Niantic.

CC
and?

MartinSchubert
Nothing. It appears that HAZDATA is an extra-legal entity and thus not under FOI jurisdiction.

Calvin
I could have told you that. Some rich entrepreneur from South Africa has been trying to acquire it. I will tell you more as I learn more. No other data right now.

Victor
You continue to retain your intelligence network?

Calvin
Informal relationships, mostly. I haven’t been fired, but I know I’ve been airgapped.

lightman
What about ADA?

Victor
From what I can tell, she has changed significantly over the last few years… But I don’t know. I would have expected her to join us.

lightman
Maybe she in not able to? She has been heard of little recently, and what we have heard seems strange.

enoch
we’re all strange now. sometimes I ‘feel’ our times there. I feel as if i know you, and, in some way I do, but I can’t summon a single memory.

Victor
Despite their dubious origins, the Tycho and Hajra-Lee works do connect to the known fact.

MartinSchubert
Frankly, I believe they are accurate.

Victor
I would tend to agree.

MistyH
That’s gotta be the ultimate magic trick. Make an entire era of our lives disappear. But I’m with Enoch. Sometimes I have flashes of memory.

nagassa
I would beware of false memories. Your brain does not like the void and tends to fill it, much like the process of a dream.

MartinSchubert
I would have assumed that you, of all of us, would most believe the truth in dreams.

nagassa
Touché. I believe in cosmic consciousness and artificial memories. They are two halves of a coin.

DevraB
The ABADN image. What do you think the three empty chambers mean?