Correcting one assumption: The VVS had the data because Sora had the data. She had access to a complete, unredacted copy of The Database (not yet called the Whole Fenspace Catalog) for a couple of weeks between the Interdimensional Intrusion Incident and her leaving StellviaCorp to join the VVS. Noah would have been quite happy to sit on the data for decades. The world had just gone through one paradigm shift - the appearance of handwavium - and a second paradigm shift so close to the first one would have been bad for his business. (Whether this is true or not doesn't matter; it's what he believed to be the case.)
As for helping the Wizards rebuild... Hmmmmm... Hmmmmmmmmmm... They aren't friendly with StellviaCorp, but they aren't an antagonistic faction either. Somebody's going to have to convince Noah, and at this point he's still paranoid about Convention-wide security so that "somebody" will have to be a person or group that he already trusts. Can you tell me why Yayoi, Kohran, Jake Hansen, Kelly Harrison, A.C. Peters, Buckaroo, Blackstone, or Katz Schroedinger could get Noah to change his mind? (Keep in mind that only the first two know about the redacted portions of the Catalog although the others may have their suspicions, and Katz is even more paranoid than Noah.)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
As for helping the Wizards rebuild... Hmmmmm... Hmmmmmmmmmm... They aren't friendly with StellviaCorp, but they aren't an antagonistic faction either. Somebody's going to have to convince Noah, and at this point he's still paranoid about Convention-wide security so that "somebody" will have to be a person or group that he already trusts. Can you tell me why Yayoi, Kohran, Jake Hansen, Kelly Harrison, A.C. Peters, Buckaroo, Blackstone, or Katz Schroedinger could get Noah to change his mind? (Keep in mind that only the first two know about the redacted portions of the Catalog although the others may have their suspicions, and Katz is even more paranoid than Noah.)
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012