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Prowling the Cult - Act II | The apartment raid in Los Angeles - Yoshida - 12-01-2015 The orbit of Los Angeles was as busy as always. Commercial transports and citizens on their private shuttles were constantly coming and going to the planet, along with the occassional police patrol. For the last few decades Planet Los Angeles enjoyed the highest development rate in Liberty. "It is our turn now." The Lane Hacker operative with the blonde hair said. The relatively young man was augmented, with mechanical extensions covering his eyes and a side of his face. "Are we going to be scanned now?" Goro Yoshida asked while he was occupied with another business on his computer. The senior Hacker's tone was demanding and his posture intimidating. The entire operation was a very risky one; no mistakes could be allowed since that would put all of them at risk. "Yes, activating the plasma burst shielding now." Then the augmented Lane Hacker operative pressed the button and the ship was momentarily cloaked on a powerful electromagnetic field. This forced the docking ring's scan to absorb tremendous amounts of data causing the system to collapse and thanks to the absorbed software viruses to produce the wrong results to the traffic inspector. While not an extremely complicated technique, countermeasures could easily be installed and thus the technique was used sparingly by the Lane Hackers. Once the ship crossed the planet's atmosphere it headed for the Bronx District, one of the oldest and relatively poor districts of the planet. The relief was obvious in the eyes of most of the crew since the majority of them haven't been on a planet for years. The team swiftly landed on a private launching pad and headed to a nearby unmarked and abandoned apartment. "We are twenty kilometers away from our target. Load up gentlemen." Yoshida announced. While seemingly abandoned, the hideout contained an impressive number of Detroit-made light arms and close combat armored uniforms. There was also a respectable amount of stored cardamine. The Lane Hackers through their planetary sympathizers and Junker contacts have established such hideouts and stashes in every district of Los Angeles, should they ever need to use one of those. From the collection Yoshida retrieved only a pistol which clearly indicated that he wasn't going to activately participate in combat. RE: Prowling the Cult - Act II | The apartment raid in Los Angeles - Maria Freudenstein - 01-13-2016
"We are twenty kilometers away from our target. Load up gentlemen." Yoshida announced. *Typical Yoshida*, Maria thought, *gentlemen, is he blind!* Maria cut short the musings and started to organise the next stage, the 20 kilometer move to the target. "Right you heard the man, load up and wait by the door." she barked, as she tucked a pistol in the rear of her waistband and pushed a few grenades into her webbing pockets. It was her job to get this detail to the operatives location without being detected. An interesting problem considering most of the squad were bristling with weapons. She grabbed one of the old fashion projectile shotguns from the stash and strode towards the apartment door, she had always found that a diminutive blonde with as shotgun was quite persuasive. A shotgun is a very personal threat in close quarter situations. Passing the webbing and the shotgun to the man nearest the door, "Wait here while I call a Taxi" she grinned. Of course a Taxi would be a bit obvious for a band of heavily armed people making a 20 K journey, what she was looking for was a squat. One of the large robotic vehicles that automatically crisscrossed urban centres. They were basically unmanned robustly built cans on low wheels performing a whole range of delivery and clean-up duties including moving maintenance supplies for the municipal authorities, they were computer controlled vehicular dogsbodies. These were ideal for their needs, ubiquitous windowless vehicles nobody noticed and crucially computer controlled, a hackers dream. Peering around she saw a number of likely candidates in the vicinity, briefly toying with the idea of using the garbage squat she thought that a little grubby so she headed towards one that was obviously just dropping pallets off at what appeared to be a substation, ideal, stopped, open and importantly clean. A quick flick open of the control panel, a brief set of commands entered and the vehicle was now under their control. Parking by the original safe house, she opened the loading ramp, "Quick get in the taxi has arrived.". As the squad settled in, "Make yourself comfortable this will take about 15 minutes". A speed not out of line of what a squat would travel at when making deliveries. In fact squats could go considerably faster but in the circumstances that would draw attention, a squat on full emergency call often ended up with police escorts. As is often the case just prior to deployment some quips were thrown about but a silence descended as they approached and eventually pulled up outside the suspects. As the door opened the command "Ok, get ready" was punctuated by the report of a medium calibre weapon that continued to reverberate around the neighbourhood. RE: Prowling the Cult - Act II | The apartment raid in Los Angeles - Maria Freudenstein - 01-23-2016
*Dannazione!!*, she thought as she realised where the shot had originated. "Right you heard where that came from, the situation changes." pointing at the four closest "Standard UT 3/5, on me, partire." she smiled as she realised that in times of stress she reverted to the historical language of her Italian ancestors. "The rest of you secure the area." she called as the previously indicated men entered the building. In short time the apartment was in their control with nothing untoward visible apart from the obvious dead body with what appeared to be a self inflicted gunshot to the head. "Unpick the place." was all Yoshida said. They all knew what that meant and when a Hacker search team searched nothing was safe. After a thorough and professional search they were little further forward apart from the gun, body and one gently humming computer there was nothing of note, total normality. No arsenal, no drugs, no electronic surveillance, nothing but the gun, body and very expensive computer looked out of place. Even then, in all honesty, in this neighbourhood the gun and body were not that noteworthy. RE: Prowling the Cult - Act II | The apartment raid in Los Angeles - Isabelle Engler - 02-06-2016
After the search was complete, hacker operative team secured the perimeter, nothing could get close without being notecing. From that moment this apartments turned into the impregnable bastion. The apartment itself had became too quiet, it seemed that the time flowed more slowly. Yoshida looked at the dead body with a bit of with disgust and regect then glanced thowards the computer. The machine was not incredible, but it looked quite expencive comparing to other things around. Apparently this computed has some special use, this person did not regretted money or probably it was provided by someone else. Yoshida I sat down at the computer, he concentrated at breaking the password protection usually it's not taking much time. Hacker spent a bit more time than usual, but this system had no chanses. *That wasn't too hard, but this guy knew how to set the passwords. So... what do we have here?* He tried to open several files, but the data was corrupted, After a few more attempts he got asured that this is not an accident, but regularity. Soon Hacker managed to find the background process which was responsible for this. The idea behind this became clear to Yoshida, hidden background process in the core of the operational system is slowly corrupting random data segments. System is remaining functional until the last moment and everything seems to be in order. *Hm, if the password would take more time it could be too late. *. Yoshida concetrated at the work, but the process seemed to be unspotable. Yoshida wasn't able to terminate it, but he managed to block it pretty fast. As soon as the corruption of files was halted, hacker sigh and start copying of the saved files. While the the process of copying went on as usual, Yoshida opened several files with the high priority mark. Quote: Quote: RE: Prowling the Cult - Act II | The apartment raid in Los Angeles - Isabelle Engler - 02-11-2016 Quote:(05-19-2015, 12:00 PM)Hana Ken Wrote: Quote:(05-14-2015, 08:26 PM)Geoffacake Wrote:
"It's done." Said Yoshida just when the copying process was finished. "We got what we came for." He lauched the data corruption process again. "What's the status?" "All clear." Reported hacker operative at the window. "What about the stairs?" Maria Freudenstein glanced at infrared imager and EMP scanner then reported as well. "Everything seems to be fine, we can move now." "Alright, it looks like that there will be nothing extraordinary. Team, departure protocol E-7, all in accordance to original plan. " Said Yoshida with the calm and even routinely voice. The team quickly and quietly leaving the apartment, all 360 degrees around the teams are exposed to fire. No one and nothing can attack covertly or even to get close enough without being spoted. In a few moments the appartments were clear, dead body and the computer with erased data will say nothing to almost any investigator. It is hard to image that the police will take murder investigation in this district seriously. They will rather recieve the infrormation that this person was strange and write off all on suicide version. Some psycho just deleted all data on his computer and committed suicide, he left the door open so someone else, who probably came on the sound of gun fire, just came in and stole the gun and probably something else. This version will likely be "acceptable" and some police officer will probably be promoted for an excellent work. |