Contiguity Initiative
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History
Not much is known about the origin of this enigmatic group. The first event attributed to the Initiative was a cyber attack on a secret UCSH research facility in 2468. In the span of 49 seconds, the hackers downloaded and corrupted all available data on the Noosphere, the Martian Revolutions, and phoron research, killed 12 researchers and injured 33 by overriding airlock controls. For the next 4 hours, all intercoms across the facility were broadcasting anime openings, and the site director's NanoChat was flooded with early 21st century internet memes. How these pictures were preserved for 4.5 centuries remains a mystery to this day.
Since that day, siilar attacks on corporate infrastructure have been recorded multiple times per year. The attacks mainly target UCSH members, though attacks on Terra Union, World Prosperity Spheres, and even the Syndicate members have been recorded as well.
Structure
The Contiguity Initiative consists of many independent cells, which makes cracking down on them nearly impossible, as even if one were to be found (which is already quite a challenge), no further information can be extracted by any means. It is unclear if the organisation has a central governing body, as even if there is one, the individual cell members have no idea of it.
Allegiance and goals can vary from cell to cell. Some cells work alone, others cooperate with the Syndicate (and are it's biggest source of telecrystals), various Noospheric cults, and rarely other factions, including even Nanotrasen. Rumors speak of multiple contacts with Them, but no definitive evidence was found.
Technologies
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Addendum: You guys do realise that we hacked this database 3 months ago, right? Tell your cybersecurity team to get good.
Addendum 2: ██████ █████ unknown ███████ █████ balls obliterated ██████████ ████████ ███. Man I hate it here.
Recruitment
Many different recruitment tactics have been employed by Contiguity Initiative over the years, including digital advertisements, spam mail, posters, indoctination of child soldiers, astral projection into people's dreams, paradoxes, word of mouth, word of █████████, and editing restricted databases to inject contact information. After getting in contact with the new recruit, a small shuttle is usually sent to a remote location, which then delivers the new recruit to the cell's base of operation. Most shuttles are rented from local transport companies.
Now, reading this, you'd probably think that planting a sleeper agent would be very simple, right? Well, unfortunately for us, it's not that simple at all, because most of the time they somehow figure it out before the agent actually arrives to the cell's base. And when they do? The agent is sent to an organisation closely mimicing a Contiguity cell, but not actually doing any of the... Contiguity things. So, the agents usually exfiltrate a few months or years later, without having anything to report at all.
Addendum: If you wish to contact the Contiguity Initiative, send an email to xX_superuser_69_Xx@nyanomail.net
Addendum 2: Don't actually do that, the previous addendum was left by an undercover Nanotrasen agent. We don't leave contact information in restricted databases, and have never used spam mail.
Addendum 3: Do actually do that, addendum 1 was in fact a real Contiguity agent. Addendum 2 is completely false and is written by Nanotrasen to confuse you. Except the spam mail part, we'd never do such a thing.
The usefulness of this article
At this point, rather debatable. We aren't even sure which parts of this are actual historical parts, and which ones are edits by the Contiguity to throw us off, or maybe even edits by our own staff to throw the Contiguity off. Just remember, ████████ ██████ ██████████████ █████████ ███████ ███████ ███████████. In case of a cyberattack, refer to your closest head of staff for further instructions, and hope that they haven't somehow hacked your boss' brain.