Episode 004
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ORCA Wiki.
Dear reader, the story of ORCA sometimes seems more tangled than most detective novels, and it does not come apart at a glance. It is a hall of mirrors. You catch sight of a fact, reach for it, and your hand meets glass; the same fact is already looking back at you from four other surfaces, none of them quite matching. Nobody builds a hall of mirrors by accident.
Your author and his team have spent an unreasonable amount of time inside this one, tapping every surface, and have carried a few things out with them that still keep their shape in daylight. They are laid out below in separate files, so that you may form a view of this enterprise that is entirely your own. The story has not finished happening; its characters keep adding to it, and the files below will grow as they do.
Chapter index
Start anywhere.
There is no right order. Each file lives its own life, so open whichever one catches your eye and follow it wherever it leads. I am in no hurry to tell you what they add up to. When the last one is published, and it will be, the conclusion ought to be yours rather than mine, built on facts you are welcome to check line by line. Do check them. I would take it as a compliment.
Some files are not ready. Some are ready and not yet published. When one grows, I shall say so on its card. There is, as ever, no published plan, and I intend to keep it that way.
The public chronology
A dated record of the transition from ORCA to ORC4 across domains, company records, posts, launches, investment claims and the expired Dubai licence.
Open chronologyORCA's Swiss quest
Nobody in the company's leadership can settle on where the headquarters is. Zug, or Zurich. Opinions vary.
Open fileA masterpiece, now taken down
An unusual website for a cyber security company, a work of art in its own right, since taken down and preserved here for you to wander through at your leisure.
Open fileHenrik and ORCA take Twitter by storm
The ORCA account, the later ORC4 account and the period when both were live at once.
Open fileORCA becomes ORC4
The February 2025 transition from ORCA to ORC4, reconstructed from dated posts, the new domain and the company's own explanation.
Open fileThe signatures tell the same story
ORCA in one email, ORC4 in another. Names, titles, domains and addresses compared line by line.
Open fileThe employment record
The people who worked for ORCA, the company named as their employer on paper, and what the official labour record says about both.
Open fileWhat investors were told
Every invitation to invest, and every promise that came with it. The Dubai licence expired along the way. The invitations did not.
Open fileThe logo collection
ORCA, ORCA 3.0, ORC4 and the related product marks, laid out in the order they appeared.
Open fileThe moving-image archive
Presentations, promotional films, product clips and reposted video claims in one browsable record.
Open filePresentations
The slides, the promises and the pitch. How ORCA and ORC4 presented themselves to partners and investors.
Open fileRIGHT OF REPLY
To anyone who appears in these files, whether as a participant, a witness, or simply someone close enough to know: if I have a fact wrong, missed some context, or interpreted something badly, please tell me. Better still, send me the document that shows it. I will correct the record gladly, promptly, and with thanks. The point of this archive is not to be right at all costs; it is to get the story right.
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