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I find a bit laughable, to mind you. Reading the Benezia report, on how the STG slowly compile that data, to understand – ‘what the heck’ happened.
And with their main source being the extranet; with reliability at 96%? Like really?
While some of the more important stuff – like on-hand observations and data-hack taps are rated at 56% and 71%
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(I find it funny, the almost best intelligence group, is saying that information got from the extranet is almost one-hundred percent legit)
(That is like the CIA or FBI, getting their information from the internet. Saying all that we get from there is legit – even more than the wire-taps or likely suspect-observations we do)
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The main reason for this is pretty simple.
The STG is not like a human group. Human intelligence operations tend to focus on identifying ‘threats’ prior to any possible execution. Salarians, with their belief in the Wheel, do not typically believe it is possible to avert events — only to avert the damage they do.
In that light most of the STG analytic effort is spent trying to look at past events to identify patterns and clues that they can apply in the future to prepare for similar events.
The accuracy of things like data taps and on-site observation is lower than media stuff for two reasons. The first is that both of those require analysis and deduction, and all too often a given piece of data was interpreted in the completely WRONG fashion, leading it to be of very limited usefullness.
For example, the STG knew that volus ships were being hit. But based on the pattern of attacks (which folllowed shipping lanes into the Traverse) and the lack of attacks on planets, they assumed that the attacks were due to pirates having broken volus commm encryption, not that someone was attacking them for nav charts to show Prothean digs.
Likewise, direct observation by STG units was often compromised by either the unit seeing something that wasn’t it’s focus or by the analyst applying the data in the wrong fashion. The STG is riven by politics and the various pieces do not all work well together.
On the other hand, media reports and extranet articles often happen long after the fact with all the known data already clearly laid out.
It’s not that the STG is incompetant — far from it. But they do not approach things in a human fashion because they aren’t human, and they cast their expecations in the light of salarian fears, not mere data grinding. This is the main reason the AIS has held out so well against superior STG resources (and fared so poorly against the asari).
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Himura — exactly. Humans tend to expect spies to follow certain conventions…and as I pointed out in the asari document about special forces, the typical asari ‘spy’ isn’t even aware she’s doing that at all.
The STG reports are also much different stock than standard STG operations, keep in mind. They are reports to the SIX, and as such are more position papers than actual intelligence work.
Given how much more information our society has come up with since the advent of the internet and citizen journalism it is not surprising the extranet presents more of the same in the future.
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