Ok, so, for those wondering about the Jedi investigating the Dark Side croime scene:
- As possibly any Dark Side player watching the scene may have guessed (or else been terribly confused)- and similarly for LS players keeping tabs on the DS thread- it was the Bureau who wiped the records (for that matter, it was the Bureau that blew the window). The Bureau nearly got caught out here, deploying illegal assets right in front of the Jedi, but good ol' Dark Side favourite S'Nar got control of the situation just in time to cover it up (he also ordered the comms jamming shortly before his ship arrived). The only mistake he made- though understandable in a hurry- is that the wiping of the records was too professional, compared to the rest of the work done by, say, a team of players who entirely lacked Fix-It. If he had had the various systems shot to pieces, it would have been less suspicious
- Getting the timing logs would have revealed the crazy nature of the order of events- the window blew after the fight started, and the records were wiped far too late to make sense (the wiping was not logged but it could have been deduced because the system, stopped recording anything after the wipe). I did try to drop a few hints about the timing not making sense
- There was never any chance of getting camera records; they were the trap
- Whilst the Bureau as a whole has to go on for plot reasons, finding enough suspicious information would have put the dead Agents under the spotlight for doing backdoor deals with Merek (which, incidentally, was true- they never reported in what they were doing because they wanted the glory of catching the Dark Siders for themselves) which would have forced S'Nar to be genuinely helpful as he doesn't want the Jedi saying the Bureau is being defensive about corrupt Agents. Incidentally. whilst S'Nar was not being helpful, his power to obstruct was limited- but he would have stopped any Renegades from looking through security systems and the like as that is case evidence for officials only.
- But the big prize for the Jedi here would have been in checking out Merek rather than the crime scene, because the Bureau were not as thorough when wiping his stuff as they haven't worked out his importance yet. There were posts saying sussing out Merek was important but that wasn't followed up by any attempt to recover any of his records. His comms records would have been remarkably interesting. If you had gone anywhere near that Jelena would have got an intuition ping (not sure if this was ever noticed or has been forgotten over the years, but Jelena has a ping with the Kuylen family- it last went off when looking at the prophecy on Thalos, though for a very hard to guess reason- and Merek worked with Kuylen). Finding the Kuylen link would have linked this into the wider Jedi case and shut the Bureau out, and also given some hints for later.
In the end, though, and slightly to my horror, you staked everything on the cameras, which was the guaranteed zero.
- One compensation is that the Dark Siders could have got Merek's comms records as well but never did (though they would have needed a much more successful plan, and someone with Fix-It, and to have thought of it)
As it is, the Bureau is going to recover everything and keep it a secret.
So the good news for both sides is that neither currently has an information advantage over the other.