RE: Second Sun
03-09-2018, 09:47 PM
(This post was last modified: 03-09-2018, 10:03 PM by Akumu.)
Some things aren't adding up here. Keating's been MIA for 14 years. If he's not here, how is he the primary suspect? How do we know he's back? Also, whatever mission he was on at Distant Shores (SS or UT) is definitely not something you crawl back from after missing your transport. If he were truly MIA, how could he possibly be here?
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Keating was never missing. He was listed that way and allowed by the NSC / person(s) at the NSC to go dark. Not great as far as integrity of the NSC and your ability to do your job are concerned.
Keating somehow stowed away on the return transport without the knowledge of the NSC and then went on living with his family for 14 years, again without the knowledge of the NSC or CFNIS. Seems vanishingly unlikely.
Keating returned from Distant Shores on his own, mentally compromised from however long he spent lost, found his wife with a child that wasn't his (victim was born after Keating went MIA). Suggests motive for murder as well as for kidnapping his own child. Deeply disturbing, as it means there is some non-NSC controlled link between here and Distant Shores. However, Morris stated he had been living off the grid, meaning there is some evidence that he didn't just turn up.
Some kind of time fuckery, where timelines where Keating returned and where he didn't merged. Locus at Keating, so nearby it seems like he's been here the whole time but further out it seems like he's MIA. Mental strain of reconciling the two simultaneous pasts makes him snap, same motives as above. Same troubling aspects as above. Suggests perhaps some kind of meta-time, where the timelines merged "recently." Could this be related to the apparent time/time correlation of the Demarcation, how time passing for us seems to bring the Demarcation temporally closer?
Or maybe I just have too much confidence in the NCS to think they couldn't possibly not realize an MIA sailor had just been living with his own family for fourteen years.
In any case, get more detail on this "living off the grid" thing. According to who?
Options:
Keating was never missing. He was listed that way and allowed by the NSC / person(s) at the NSC to go dark. Not great as far as integrity of the NSC and your ability to do your job are concerned.
Keating somehow stowed away on the return transport without the knowledge of the NSC and then went on living with his family for 14 years, again without the knowledge of the NSC or CFNIS. Seems vanishingly unlikely.
Keating returned from Distant Shores on his own, mentally compromised from however long he spent lost, found his wife with a child that wasn't his (victim was born after Keating went MIA). Suggests motive for murder as well as for kidnapping his own child. Deeply disturbing, as it means there is some non-NSC controlled link between here and Distant Shores. However, Morris stated he had been living off the grid, meaning there is some evidence that he didn't just turn up.
Some kind of time fuckery, where timelines where Keating returned and where he didn't merged. Locus at Keating, so nearby it seems like he's been here the whole time but further out it seems like he's MIA. Mental strain of reconciling the two simultaneous pasts makes him snap, same motives as above. Same troubling aspects as above. Suggests perhaps some kind of meta-time, where the timelines merged "recently." Could this be related to the apparent time/time correlation of the Demarcation, how time passing for us seems to bring the Demarcation temporally closer?
Or maybe I just have too much confidence in the NCS to think they couldn't possibly not realize an MIA sailor had just been living with his own family for fourteen years.
In any case, get more detail on this "living off the grid" thing. According to who?