Intuition: The Terrans

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1. Gaudel Ausington had his amulet in his possession for about fifteen years.
2. Gaudel Ausington was an import/export middleman, the sort who would deal with smaller trading companies (often the just-one-ship kind) and do all the planetary arranging for them to hook them up with appropriate planetside merchants. He's been doing that for about five years, though he has a Sanctuary and Homeground native background (his age is listed as 42). It seems to be the case that only the past five years (which is how long he's had that particular job) is a legit background, and the rest is forged, moderately competently but without enough personal ties to be true, and without any confirmation from the actual people who he's supposed to have interacted with. It's a decent forged background, but would surely not stand up to a serious background check.
3. Gaudel Ausington had duped a bunch of hackers into trying to take down various government computers in order to destabilize the red Hegemony.
4. A few years ago, Citizen Archibald entered an alliance with a conspiracy of people who called themselves Proteges. One of the interests of the Proteges appeared to be heating up the cold war between the Red and Blue Hegemonies, which is something he was interested in, as several of his more profitable concerns come from large weapons manufacture.
5. Part of how they ensured a good loyal secret group was a lot of skill with brainwashing. Archibald wasn't brainwashed at this point. About a year ago, the Proteges acquired the kidnapped Heir to the Blue Hegemony. She's been being kept in various secure locations since then, and a number of the Citizen's staff went off to deal with that. A couple of months ago, Archibald actually got brainwashed as well.
6. The Terran hacker we apprehended on Stannis Law was born on the Terran ship and lived there until age 15. He was let off on the Well about 10 years ago.
7. The Terran hacker on Stannis Law was paying spies on both sides to swap fleet codes, so that when there's a big war, both sides will be able to compromise the other side's defenses and everyone will die.
8. His superiors would recognize him and contact him when he returned to the Well, which he was to do after wrapping up the information exchange.
9. The Santa Maria, towing the colony modules, would take about order 80 years to make the trip from Terra to Ridena, without the colony modules, more like order 20 years. The Hippocrates, if you converted most of the internal space into fuel storage, would take order 30 years.

Leads me to believe that...

The Terran plan is to destabilize the Linked Worlds to an extent that they are unable to protect themselves from the Flames. Given their brainwashing prowess, there probably aren't very many actual Terrans present. It also seems likely that they don't understand exactly how the Linked Worlds are going to protect themselves, or they'd be attacking the bloodlines directly, but they do seem to have some notion that it's directly related to governmental order. Then, they plan to recolonize, post-Flames. Thus, they do have a plan for protecting themselves.

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