Q&A With Cynthia Michaelson, Jinteki Corporation PR

Something very interesting is afoot at Fantasy Flight Games.  Apparently, Christian Petersen and company have entered into some kind of partnership with the Jinteki Corporation in order to produce a game or game product to be released in December 2008 that will leverage Jinteki’s unspecified products and services to deliver something supposedly revolutionary. The terms of the partnership are strangely unclear and Jinteki’s role is almost completely obscured. And there have been strange emails intercepted that seem to position CEO Petersen in a subservient footing to what may turn out to be FFG’s new governing body.

Maybe this all tin foil hat talk, but I smell something pretty diabolical. Online, gamers and observers have been tracking Jinteki’s strange and obscure moves and very little is known at this point beyond vague statements, leaked emails, and decrypted clues. Jinteki’s website, www.jintekicorp.com, shows only a corporate logo although apparently there was once a larger site located there. There have been some unusual personnel issues at FFG and there has been at least one death that seems associated with the backroom dealings that are going there. There are suggestions that Jinteki may be involved in fields as diverse as artificial intelligence, evolutionary acceleration, ESP training, cloning, or some sort of advanced manufacturing capability.

I was offered an opportunity to interview Jinteki’s PR representative, Cynthia Michaelson, regarding the FFG partnership and what follows is a transcript of this interview. I don’t think it sheds any light on what’s going on, but it does illustrate the elusiveness and deception that Jinteki is engaged in, and as such I call on all gamers to be vigilant and to carefully watch what happens next. Read between the lines, here. She isn’t telling us half the story because there’s a half that we’re not supposed to know.

I requested a photograph of Mrs. Michaelson as well as an opportunity to ask some follow-up questions but I was soundly rebuffed by Jeremy Stomberg, FFG's marketing and public relations point man. He seems to be afraid of upsetting anybody at Jinteki.

Well, there you have it folks. Let’s have a round of applause for Cynthia Michaelson of Jinteki Corporation and her commitment to corporate accountability and freedom of the press.

At the end of Mrs. Michaelson’s email was a cryptic code which I recognized to be part of a Youtube address. The video answers at least one question- “HB”, the company that walked out of a deal with Jinteki appears to be Haas Bioroid. Like Jinteki, no SEC filings or public records have turned up any further information. The video, posted by someone named “Alan” that worked for Haas Bioroid, shows what looks to be footage of Zener card testing conducted as part of the “Nisei Project” at Jinteki. The subject, who is female and has a bar code on the back of the neck, seems to be failing the test. “Alan”, or “bltech138” has posted two more of these videos.

Even more interestingly, in the FFG forums as of yesterday this same code appears in an email that a user received from Kevin Wilson, FFG’s in-house design maven responsible for DESCENT and most of their redevelopment projects. Here is what he says:

Between FFG strangely deciding to replace one of its star designers, the reluctance of Jinteki to discuss pretty much anything about their business or why there is absolutely zero public record of their existence, and the possibility that people associated with FFG and/or critical of the Jinteki Corporation and its motives may be in very real danger this is shaping up to be a situation which demands that gamers get informed, stay informed, and continue to look for further clues and leads as to what Jinteki is doing and how Fantasy Flight figures into their agenda. 

BTW- has anybody heard from Thaadd? I'm worried.