While the attention was understandably on the potential forced resignation of Clituleng Giisost - this remains up in the air two days later, with some conspiracists insistent that the fact we haven't seen images of him in the hospital is a sign that he's dead - the mystery of the contaminated RPD supply remains.
The team have now been able to produce their own pure RPD supplies onsite, but it is understood that their initial supplies had to be provided indirectly through NBO journalists. "It is known that, along with KBT, TV3 (the two major Kytlerian public broadcast networks), and RTX Radio, NBO have a selection of journalists who carry equipment that synthesises their audio output into a little-used but relatively safe and potent RPD of the so-called 'Aura' class," said Dr. Jennifer Riley, a biochemist at the University of Zube who is not employed by, but provides some work on behalf of, the Margaret Institute. "The production process for this class of RPDs is far more complex than most other RPDs, which is why they see relatively little use elsewhere - we understand Krytenia are the other notable exception, and even then only sporadically - but their decentralised production process makes them relatively immune to sabotage of the kind that appears to have occurred with the RP-inin supplies the Kytlerian team took to these Games."
Until now, most concerns around RPDs have stemmed from either their side effects - the source of the moral panic that took generations of Kytlerians out of international sport following the Andersonian Revolution - or the increasing use of "synthetic RPDs" using new, cheaper production techniques, which are highly unreliable and have been the subject of significant crackdowns from anti-doping agencies who do not consider them "true" RPDs. The idea of RPD sabotage has gained far less attention, despite being seen as a potential cause of the high attrition rate within international sport. It has been speculated that the main cause of sporting withdrawal is actually a highly dispersed international group of saboteurs called Let International Fights End (LIFE), who masquerade as an anti-war campaign group but in practice dedicate most of their resources to disrupting international sport through RPD sabotage. LIFE rallies have long been popular in the left-wing Kytlerian stronghold of Burana in the far west of the northern peninsula, but few have been aware of their anti-sport agenda until recently. "It's actually classic horseshoe theory," observed Prof. Alex Rodgers, a psephologist at the University of Roddens that has studied the influence of LIFE in Burana. "A group professing to be on the anti-war far left have persuaded those sharing that persuasion to effectively fund an Andersonian mission all over the multiverse."
Others question the LIFE theory. "I refuse to believe that one mysterious organisation can have that much influence across more nations than we can even keep track of," argued the Bay City University philosopher Professor Xavier Prost. "And especially the idea that they are responsible for nations literally ceasing to exist. Why would a group called LIFE have their hands on such death?"
The evidence remains complex and diffuse. All we know for sure is that the issue of RPD sabotage is now firmly on the Kytlerian agenda - including, perhaps, in an impending election campaign.
