So… did anything happen to the people on those lists after they were published?
Nothing ever happens unfortunately.
They’ve been replaced with replicants.
Of course not.
As is usual, the mass publishing just makes a smokescreen. Because sure some (a lot) of them were there raping kids. But others just got invited to hang out at one of the most influential people on Earth’s private island and accepted the invite. Maybe they were aware of how fucked it was and maybe they just “got weird vibes” but still made sure to show their face to get the political/social benefits.
But that also means that all the rapists totally were just there because famous rich people told them to be.
Its more or less the story of almost every single wikileaks “drop”. You can’t really get “justice” with broad and indiscriminate data dumps. The most you can hope for is “awareness” but the likely outcome is instead political and social mistrust.
they became eva pilots, obviously
(i have no idea whats up with the whole epstein thing, im completely clueless)
Well, it’s simple.
Solomon Epstein discovered a way to make fusion drives orders of magnitude more efficient. Unfortunately, he grossly underestimated how much more powerful his new drive would be, and died testing it while sustaining more than 11G for 37h, yeeting his own corpse in deep interstellar space.
Fortunately, his files were recovered by his widow, who sold them to the secessionist Martian Colony government, who in turn sold them to the UN in exchange for independence. Earth and Mars developed the engine design so ships could move much farther and quicker than had been possible before, enabling a new gold rush in the outer Solar system and especially the Belt.
And that’s why the Epstein Files were so important.
If only