Speaking a a long-time worker in classified activities, I would ask how Q could know that anything was in the "highest classification" unless he was read into that activity---and had broad knowledge of all the lesser classified programs? Not credible to have such broad knowledge. "High" is a misleading adjective, since the degree of secrecy is determined by the limitation of access (need to know), not by any hierarchy. He could know this only by being briefed into the activity. And if he had been, he would be up for charges for even talking about it. So, Q is only making a surmise.
And the "vastness of space" reference is an invitation for the reader to fill in the blank. It communicates nothing, and could equally be a prompt to reflect on the formidable distances involved and the near impossibility of physical transport between the stars. But he leads you along to think what you want to think, in the belief that he is affirming it. Simple as a hoax card trick.
We'll if we believe that the "Q" Operation has been - "planning for decades" and that less than 10 know the whole plan.... I'd say that it's very possible for someone inside the "Q" to know about - "highest classification". That's just my take, but thanks for sharing yours.
Here's the thing about classified work. You simply don't talk about it in any particulars. The fact that he attempts to is a tip-off that he is not in that environment. Or he is merely repeating popular press information, such as regarding Project Blue Book. Or deflective testimony the Air Force may have given to Congress. My background consists of clearances for Secret, Top Secret, NATO Secret, Sensitive Compartmented Information, and Critical Nuclear Weapon Design Information. (Amusingly, I was in line to be briefed into a Q clearance once.)
Some of the information will never be revealed, because to do so would also reveal limitations of key strategic systems (weapons, sensors, and communications). The military is in a bind. They simply cannot reveal that kind of information, and we shouldn't expect that they would.
They could. They might. But if they did, they wouldn't talk about it in even oblique terms. That's me. I'm rather hard-headed after 40 years of working in that environment. Keeping secrets is the utmost in simplicity: just don't talk about it. You even learn the trick of forgetting it.
Speaking a a long-time worker in classified activities, I would ask how Q could know that anything was in the "highest classification" unless he was read into that activity---and had broad knowledge of all the lesser classified programs? Not credible to have such broad knowledge. "High" is a misleading adjective, since the degree of secrecy is determined by the limitation of access (need to know), not by any hierarchy. He could know this only by being briefed into the activity. And if he had been, he would be up for charges for even talking about it. So, Q is only making a surmise.
And the "vastness of space" reference is an invitation for the reader to fill in the blank. It communicates nothing, and could equally be a prompt to reflect on the formidable distances involved and the near impossibility of physical transport between the stars. But he leads you along to think what you want to think, in the belief that he is affirming it. Simple as a hoax card trick.
We'll if we believe that the "Q" Operation has been - "planning for decades" and that less than 10 know the whole plan.... I'd say that it's very possible for someone inside the "Q" to know about - "highest classification". That's just my take, but thanks for sharing yours.
Here's the thing about classified work. You simply don't talk about it in any particulars. The fact that he attempts to is a tip-off that he is not in that environment. Or he is merely repeating popular press information, such as regarding Project Blue Book. Or deflective testimony the Air Force may have given to Congress. My background consists of clearances for Secret, Top Secret, NATO Secret, Sensitive Compartmented Information, and Critical Nuclear Weapon Design Information. (Amusingly, I was in line to be briefed into a Q clearance once.)
Some of the information will never be revealed, because to do so would also reveal limitations of key strategic systems (weapons, sensors, and communications). The military is in a bind. They simply cannot reveal that kind of information, and we shouldn't expect that they would.
So Q or Q+ wouldn't really know? Interesting take.
They could. They might. But if they did, they wouldn't talk about it in even oblique terms. That's me. I'm rather hard-headed after 40 years of working in that environment. Keeping secrets is the utmost in simplicity: just don't talk about it. You even learn the trick of forgetting it.