Anyang, South Korea
Last night, police and riot control forces were assembled in orderly ranks in front of the beleaguered headquarters of Pearl Abyss, their expressions hidden behind ballistic shields and gas masks; their fear was felt in the air. Protestors have been sparring with city riot control for the past 27 hours as angry and disgruntled consumers affected by the blockage in the Suez Canal vent their rage against the source of global economic turmoil. Overturned police vehicles lay scattered around the building, many ablaze. Bricks, molotovs, and Mountain Dew cans can be seen streaking through the night towards the building shadowed in the gloom of the many fires blazing in the streets.
The Ever Given, a massive container ship, veered off course in “high wind conditions” blocking off one of the major corridors in global economic logistics: The Suez Canal. Many Aliexpress Vibroblades are said to be caught in the massive logistical backlog, and as a result angering many consumers across the globe.
Representatives from Pearl Abyss Public Relations Division have been fighting on social media for over 48 hours now, following a leaked report. Hackers successfully gained access into the Suez Canal Company servers used to manage and provide navigation assistance for vessels traveling within the canal. To the shock of SpiceyVeldspar (the hacker claiming responsibility for the leaked report) he discovered that the Suez Company has been using an auto-piloting program purchased from Pearl Abyss to navigate billion ton vessels through the canal. Why they would use a program from a gaming company is still being speculated on.
“I almost spilled my G-Fuel across my desk when I came across the code”, SpiceyVeldspar told a reporter via TeamSpeak, as he wished to keep his face anonymous. “I almost ignored the code but the space_navigation_program_edited_v19.exe called out to me after I scanned through at least 200 Excel files filled with strange calculations and weirdly named commodities.”
It turns out that the innocuous program was direct from Pearl Abyss, and when demonstrated to the public on Morning Breakfast New Eden, the experts assembled showed how the program followed a waypoint system overlaid on a topographic map of the Suez Canal, with code names for critical points such as the Al Qantarah straight named Uedama, the Gulf of Suez labeled Mifrata among many other confusing names. One waypoint was only numbers and letters in the middle of the Sahara Desert to the shock of many experts. Strange secondary values next to each codename from -1.0 to 1.0 which has baffled experts around the globe.
Analysis by social media experts on Reddit found that ”a ‘simple option’ must have been selected” when the Suez Canal Company employee was operating the navigation program on the Ever Given, ending in disaster. One user, after looking at the hacked information concluded that the obvious cause must have been human error; the captain aboard the freighter must have selected “Prefer Shorter” in the program midway through the canal, which caused the container ship to turn sharply to a waypoint somewhere near Cairo.
As we all suffer the continued effects of this crisis, Suez Company employees continue to do their best to dislodge and get the Ever Given moving again.
