Ask about this IC at some point, Silver - I've been thinking about it a lot too and then suddenly the answer hit me in the head like a truth-brick.
Though I have to admit, in the past, long investigations debates and discussions have concluded brilliant and exciting political maneuverings behind things that turned out to be untrue...
"The only way all of this makes sense is if Midular is actually working covertly while screaming peace at the top of her lungs as a stalling tactic. That would explain this, these orders, that job, and this, and these letters, and this thing we found in Hadozeko and these news articles from 2004..."
Empyrean Age release: "Oh, no, we were wrong. It turns out that we do have a bleating grass-eater as Prime Minister, all that stuff is unconnected and somehow our allegedly brilliant PM didn't manage to work out that women in slavery might get raped."