Code Aria Inquiry

Summary

On Y.C. 109.10.30, Now-former Commander Gispali Rhatal resigned from his position in CONCORD. At the same time there were allegations of CONCORD's wrongdoing concerning the death of an officer that had been supposedly killed in the regions of space now known collectively as the Drone Regions. The remains were never recovered.

The investigation by CONCORD in the Drone Regions was the result of an unauthorized gate activation in Y.C. 108.11.27 when the multiple gates that were sealed during the Spectrum Breach event spontaneously and simultaneously reactivated all across Empire space. The Code Aria Patrols that were sent in to investigate were almost all lost whilst on active duty in the Drone Regions, suspected of haven fallen prey to the rampant Rogue Drones that are present in those Regions.

Suspicion was cast heavily on CreoDron in the leaked document known as the Code Aria Inquiry that they were the corporation who had been responsible for the initial creation of the self-aware artificial intelligence that the Rogue Drones possess. This was in violation of Concord directive omega-one-five, that artificial intelligence should not be capable of becoming self aware.

The Code Aria Inquiry report also detailed many covert Empire research programs that resulted in Rogue Drones being created, with many of these suspected of being attempts to replicate The Orphyx Program, specifically the A.I. routines capable of freeform thought. At least a few of these programs included researchers that had worked on the original Orphyx Program.