Being a festival day most the none tourist shops are closed but he will be able to find a book/electronic book on tethering - it is probably not as in debth as he would like but explains the history of the three part tether and goes into some detail about recent experiments to further the tether for added security, comfort or giving users a greater range in what can be done in the void.
There's quite a few books on void space itself though none are particularly in depth. Most are surface level books or travel journals.
The press seems pretty free, there are several newspapers about the void, he will find a couple of articles that are not pro-ministry (one is on goods-trading and the other about a void crew that got into trouble for breaking some minor rules). There's a few anti-void in general sentiments though they are mostly in the form of letters written in from older Osigan's complaining that the void training school brings disruption and rowdy young people who are not connected to Osiga.
When looking up news reals he will find there isn't much mention of the VTE. There is one article that is more a listing of ministry committees meeting in the next month. If he goes back a month or so he will find a couple of articles about members of a mission crew out of Osiga being questioned for unusual Void Activity including sealing off a world from the void. Most are the bare facts though he will find one article that includes interviews with Pepper and Jin-Roh about what happened (its pretty sparse on detail about the entity and doesn't mention the voidtreckers by name but for someone with the context its a decent explanation of what happened). This one is pretty sympathetic both to the crew and to the tragedy of the entity though it doesn't shy away from the ethical implications of sealing off worlds from the void.
There are also a couple that are less flattering- one in a news production that seems to be void wide and very very pro-ministry that is mostly a rant about void missionaries taking the law into their own hands (this one also doesn't mention the VTE by name but has dark undertones about an 'unregistered voidcraft'). Another from a news production called Osiga Now and Forever is sparse on facts but very harsh on Anan specifically.
In general though press is pretty positive about the void and the ministry though most the Osigan newspapers that aren't specifically for void news mostly focus on Osiga or the galaxy. There are articles about past cases and it's a mixed bag of coverage and opinion.
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There's quite a few books on void space itself though none are particularly in depth. Most are surface level books or travel journals.
The press seems pretty free, there are several newspapers about the void, he will find a couple of articles that are not pro-ministry (one is on goods-trading and the other about a void crew that got into trouble for breaking some minor rules). There's a few anti-void in general sentiments though they are mostly in the form of letters written in from older Osigan's complaining that the void training school brings disruption and rowdy young people who are not connected to Osiga.
When looking up news reals he will find there isn't much mention of the VTE. There is one article that is more a listing of ministry committees meeting in the next month. If he goes back a month or so he will find a couple of articles about members of a mission crew out of Osiga being questioned for unusual Void Activity including sealing off a world from the void. Most are the bare facts though he will find one article that includes interviews with Pepper and Jin-Roh about what happened (its pretty sparse on detail about the entity and doesn't mention the voidtreckers by name but for someone with the context its a decent explanation of what happened). This one is pretty sympathetic both to the crew and to the tragedy of the entity though it doesn't shy away from the ethical implications of sealing off worlds from the void.
There are also a couple that are less flattering- one in a news production that seems to be void wide and very very pro-ministry that is mostly a rant about void missionaries taking the law into their own hands (this one also doesn't mention the VTE by name but has dark undertones about an 'unregistered voidcraft'). Another from a news production called Osiga Now and Forever is sparse on facts but very harsh on Anan specifically.
In general though press is pretty positive about the void and the ministry though most the Osigan newspapers that aren't specifically for void news mostly focus on Osiga or the galaxy. There are articles about past cases and it's a mixed bag of coverage and opinion.