Agents Of Empire/The Iavo Conspiracy

This page is dedicated to unraveling the "big mystery" of the game.

It is unknown currently if Iavo are the master controllers, knowing pawns of another group, unknowning pawns of another group, or just one group in a tangle of competing ones. They do seem to be involved in every big event so far:

Facts

1. We know from decrypted Gwyne data that the sites Iavo suggested for their meditation retreat on the colonies were the same as suggested as good sites for a "secondary beacon" by Gwyne.
2. We know at the party Basinbloke talked about the emperor's abdication being forced, and Iavo and a giant space baby being involved somehow.
3. We know a Nif@x shipment of a space baby was destined for Iavo.
4. Reig's original dream on Iavo took place the day the baby shipment arrived on Iavo (as far as we can work out). It was mildly helpful; it's possible that he picked up on some sort of cry for help from the shipped babies.
5. Reig's second dream seems to indicate that the babies are being stolen from somewhere, and that the person/group who is being stolen from isn't happy about it, and planning revenge.

Open Questions/Hypotheses

1. Who is Frost working for?
   1. Iavo
   2. Gwynne
   3. The emperor
   4. The babies
      • This, at least, seems unlikely: he was arguing with the baby and had a bomb installed in his head, presumably to blow it up if the negotiations went sour.
        • Except maybe it wasn't a bomb but instead only a psychic suppressor field that gave people headaches.
        • Since "MATTERS CAN PROCEED" only occured after disarming Frost, it is possible the device was the only thing preventing the baby from influcing its mental mojo on the party.
2. What happened during the missing 48 hours at the emperor's party?
   • The memory wipe turned out to have included the bit in the transcript with the giant baby, so the 'missing 48 hours' were actually 24 hours of stuff-in-the-transcript, and 24 hours of normal wandering around the party.
3. Who is behind the abdication?
   1. It's an internal human struggle, with Iavo/Gwynne on one side and the ruling class on the other
   2. It's part of the babys' revenge plot against the humans stealing them.
4. How many involved human factions are there? Are Iavo and Gwynne conspiring together, is Gwyne calling the shots, or are they both beholden to a third party?
   1. Iavo and Gwynne are working together
   2. Iavo and Gwynne and the Emperor are working together
   3. Iavo and Gwynne and an unknown third party are working together
5. Basingbloke heard the Emperor say "something about Iavo, and something about only doing this under compulsion" What?
   1. Iavo is the one forcing the Emperor to do something
   2. The baby is the one forcing the Emperor to do something
   3. The 'doing this' means 'abdicate'
   4. The 'doing this' means something else (steal babies?)