Speaking of cloak and dagger politics, did anyone else notice that the High Deacon that approved Artico Kor-Azor's methods of rule was killed under suspicious circumstances three years ago? It was officially a terrorist attack by the Bloody Hands of Matar, and he was supposed to be meeting the Empress for a simple holy day rite. The Empress narrowly missed the meeting by cancelling 20 minutes prior to the explosion. Suspicious? I fucking think so.
http://community.eveonline.com/news.asp?a=single&nid=3769&tid=4So, the way I see it, this whole thing could have gone three ways:
1.) Exactly as it did as reported, the Bloody Hands wanted to kill both the High Deacon and the Empress but Jamyl got lucky. Alternatively, perhaps she really was killed but she cloned and the offical report covers up that part.
2.) Jamyl got word of the Bloody Hands attack before arriving at the meeting and cancelled to avoid it, but did not inform the High Deacon. She used the opportunity to get Mervan Moritok out of the way for some reason...
3.) Jamyl was behind the whole thing, and she had the High Deacon killed for her own purposes.
Now we find out that Mervan was a solid part of Heideran's old regiem and that he perhaps approved of something Artico was doing that she does not approve of. EVERYTHING IS CONNECTED.
