[General Battuta]

As usual, I'm with Snail.

[Charismatic]

Why would the NTF do a better job at gathering and interpeting Ancient data and tech, then the whole of the GTA or GTVA? Why would they let the enemy do that, isntead of doing it themselves.

[General Battuta]

Why would the NTF do a better job at gathering and interpeting Ancient data and tech, then the whole of the GTA or GTVA? Why would they let the enemy do that, isntead of doing it themselves.

Bosch. Who was clearly in possession of some old GTI information that others didn't have easy access to.

[Snail]

Why would the NTF do a better job at gathering and interpeting Ancient data and tech, then the whole of the GTA or GTVA? Why would they let the enemy do that, isntead of doing it themselves.

Convenience. It's not good for the GTVI/GTVA to be doing this stuff, since officially this entire GTI research project is banned, or was at least 'buried' (in Bosch's words) by the GTVA. If you have a convenient dude who is going to do it for you and has already made some progress there's really no reason to stop him.

[Droid803]

Not to mention that the GTI stuff was pretty much Taboo, as it was associated with the Hades rebellion.
Which is probably why they buried it in the first place - probably public pressure.
However, the NTF provides a convenient excuse - the GTVA can just use what the NTF finds, saying that they're just spying on the enemy or something.

[terran_emperor]

Makes me think Bosch had a "Cigarette Smoking Man" type character watching him...

[Snail]

Makes me think Bosch had a "Cigarette Smoking Man" type character watching him...

Lt. Rusk?

[terran_emperor]

Lt. Rusk?

who?

Edit: Nevermind found him

[Snail]

Communications officer on the Iceni. Someone like him (low ranking but still close to him) would likely be a mole.

[Charismatic]

Whos Rusk?

And why \ when was the GTI research banned? It seems counter productive.

[Snail]

Whos Rusk?

Comm. officer on the Iceni.

And why \ when was the GTI research banned? It seems counter productive.

Why? Because the GTVA are idiots. Or because the general populace didn't like the idea of reusing the knowledge.

[Mobius]

Comm. officer on the Iceni.

I hope you meant "Communications" and not "Commanding"...

[Commander Zane]

Then it would be CDR.

[Lucika]

Why would the NTF do a better job at gathering and interpeting Ancient data and tech, then the whole of the GTA or GTVA? Why would they let the enemy do that, isntead of doing it themselves.

Bosch. Who was clearly in possession of some old GTI information that others didn't have easy access to.

My theory is that GTVA wanted to extrat this tech AND to deal with their inner enemies, thus asked Bosch - an operative - to create a fake rebellion and test Shivan tech. Note that they didn't asked Snipes and Alpha 1 to destroy the Iceni, and Command ordered to ignore the ship in Return to Babel, too.

[Snail]

My theory is that Bosch broke away from the GTVA for what he felt was a just cause, not knowing he was actually a pawn being manipulated for a darker, more sinister cause.

[Commander Zane]

My theory is that GTVA wanted to extrat this tech AND to deal with their inner enemies, thus asked Bosch - an operative - to create a fake rebellion and test Shivan tech. Note that they didn't asked Snipes and Alpha 1 to destroy the Iceni, and Command ordered to ignore the ship in Return to Babel, too.

But...if Bosh is the leader of the NTF...how is the rebellion fake?

[Droid803]

Uh yeah...
And the GTVA took some serious losses. I doubt they'd be stupid enough to bring something like that onto themselves knowingly...
Unless the GTVA high command is like Palpatine...

[Snail]

Uh yeah...
And the GTVA took some serious losses. I doubt they'd be stupid enough to bring something like that onto themselves knowingly...
Unless the GTVA high command is like Palpatine...

Not all of GTVA High Command. Just Head-CM2. Yes. He's the reason for everything. Everything.

[Commander Zane]

[Lucika]

My theory is that GTVA wanted to extrat this tech AND to deal with their inner enemies, thus asked Bosch - an operative - to create a fake rebellion and test Shivan tech. Note that they didn't asked Snipes and Alpha 1 to destroy the Iceni, and Command ordered to ignore the ship in Return to Babel, too.

But...if Bosh is the leader of the NTF...how is the rebellion fake?

The rebellion isn't fake... just Bosch is an operative and, in the end, would have cooperated with the GTVA (his deployers!) to lure the rebel fleet into a trap. He was just an aid to find the rebellious people.