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To: Battlegroup Auxesia | From: Cpt."K" - eigos - 06-18-2016
![[Image: jezdqyZ.jpg]](https://i.imgur.com/jezdqyZ.jpg) Cpt. Kadego Sudrossa |
╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ SECURE CHANNEL TRANSMISSION AUDIO FEED: [AVAILABLE] VIDEO FEED: [OFFLINE] MESSAGING: [ENABLED] To: Battlegroup Auxesia Subject: [CLASSIFIED] Priority: █ █ ▒ ▒ ▒ Encryption: [VERY HIGH] ╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ |
Barrier Gate Station, Coronado | │SENDER├─────── RELAY ONLINE ───────┤RECIPIENT│ |
Salutations to the Battlegroup,
My name is Kadego Sudrossa and I have a business discussion in mind that could hopefully be of our mutual benefit. I know very little about your organization and you know nothing about me for a good reason - I am somebody who wasn't supposed to be alive right now, sending you this transmission.
It is no secret where this signal is coming from - it's the Barrier Gate Station, over at Coronado. Your reputation there is quite large among all the different folk who visit the place, mixed feelings are also expressed among them.
![[Image: Oc_c_turret.png]](http://discoverygc.com/wiki/images/f/f6/Oc_c_turret.png){kind=small} Photo Proof |
What I would require in return, is your expertise in hacking a neural database. I have a ship in my possession that can only be described as a hollowed-out pumpkin with a slightly bigger candle inside than what is usual. What needs to be done is for a database to be created, displaying the vessel as a "Heavy Gunship", so I may attach it on my mainframe transponder. Currently, my own computer system is missing all kind of information about the ship's classification and this data can only be written by skilled programmers. Basically if someone scans my ship, it would return an error with some big red letters "Unknown Vessel". This raises more than one eyebrows from people and I am reeeealy trying to keep a low profile here - you understand this concept perfectly, I'm sure.
One last thing... the main reason I decided to get in touch with you is the idea of privacy - I value my privacy and I value yours. Everything we talk about will stay between us, as there is nothing more sacred than mutual respect for privacy. I also share your belief in technology as a means of survival - from my personal experience, I wouldn't be alive here today if it wasn't for my ship that held itself under the most heavy of situations.
Thank you for your time and I hope you consider my proposition.
Regards,
Cpt. Kadego Sudrossa
RE: To: Battlegroup Auxesia | From: Cpt."K" - eigos - 06-19-2016
[::Signal Resent::]
RE: To: Battlegroup Auxesia | From: Cpt."K" - Kauket - 06-26-2016
![[Image: DTBxohr.png]](http://i.imgur.com/DTBxohr.png)
:::INCOMING TRANSMISSION:::
» COMM-ID: Keeper Raven
» ENCRYPTION: EXTREME
» LOCATION: Eidolon Wraith, ???
» SUBJECT: Hacking Request
»STARTING MESSAGE«
Mister Sudrossa,
Firstly, I apologise for the tardy response due to some medical conditions, and I'm sorry for keeping you waiting.
Although it somewhat intrigues me how you approach us, possibly endangering yourself. But worry not, privacy is one thing we hold zealously.
Of course, developing technology is our passion, and I'm highly interested in collecting a sample of such, albeit of Maltese origins, an MTC-60b. I'm glad we see eye to eye when it comes to technology. We wouldn't have survived if not for development.
Now, hacking a neural database shouldn't be too difficult, as we have achieved it ourselves. I will however pass you on to a technician of ours, who should respond in this frequency soon.
![[+]](/forums/images/collapse_collapsed.png "[+]")
ooc noteRegards,
S. Raven
S. Raven
[[ENDING TRANSMISSION]]
RE: To: Battlegroup Auxesia | From: Cpt."K" - Enkidu - 07-03-2016
Sender Ident: Guardian Nesrin Ezra Elhertani Khan - Transhuman AI/H-symbiont sapient.
Sender Local: Classified Tartara.
![[Image: 571684_1406321100.jpg]](http://favera.ru/img/2014/07/26/571684_1406321100.jpg)
Buena fortuna.
I will be succinct. My proper noun is Guardian Nesrin Elhertani Khan. It’s linguistically prohibitive to say all of that so I’d advise selecting a descriptor suited to the tongue of the user. Unit familiar suggestions include Nesrin or Khan.
Initial analysis of the turret schemata reveal a high level of technological speciation, diverting from the Sirian mean a number of generational cycles and several branches of the semantic resolution tree. Like all elements of Outcast design, it is indicative of their anthropology; highly specialised, with a focus on high quality, intricately attuned components, which never-the-less remain highly modular due to material scarcity and the general derth of shipyards in the vast tracts of space a Maltese destroyer can expect to operate. A sufficiently informed child in microgravity could disassemble this turret and reassemble it again within a matter of hours. The complexity of the design therefore does not lie within the sum of its parts, but within the parts itself.
Optimised almost entirely for the Storta cruiser model, the turret is an anti-hydrogen field wrap gun with a fairly trivial physics model: an anti hydrogen pulse is projected down an intense magnetic bottle at barely newtonian velocities. In plainspeak, the turret occupies that indefinite point between a plasma cannon and a railgun - although the projectiles delivered by this particular device are of significantly greater lethality than either pre-mentioned device. The magnetism of the bottle disrupts the impacted target’s shields, causing field distortion pressure and increasing generator drain, whilst the antimatter does exactly what physics mandate it should to armour, rock, or any other einsteinian entity it is volleyed towards not protected by considerable shielding or experiencing spatial tunnelling effects. The turret appears to draw both its projectiles and the vast current required to project them from the cruiser’s primrose effect reactor directly, employing the magnetic fields of the reactor to gather sufficient anti-hydrogen to use as ordinance, and the turret’s considerable electrical requirements from the dynamo surrounding the singularity. It is an exercise in peerless economy of munitions - albeit, one dependent upon the employment of micro black holes. Whilst the majority of the overriding hardware could be hypothetically reproduced in a nanite forge, the turret itself has been deviously configured to be non-operable without the insertion of a unit-unique equivalent of a headstamp code on a bullet or shell. Imagine a series of guns that fired bullets that appeared the same, possessed the same ballistics, but did not fit the same bore. This is the predicament that we are faced with in attempting to replicate said turret. Without factory blueprints detailing the arm codes for each turret, any Auxesian clones would not be worth their production mass. Nevertheless, the sole turret offered would provide invaluable data on the efficacy of Outcast heavy ordinance against Auxesian armour, along with inspiration for our own turret modifications. Outcast munitions tend to be highly unique.
The stated goal of a transponder redefine is both childishly simple and brain-bellcurvingly challenging at the same time. After all, people have been using false flags for thousands of years. Modern neural-net VIs use a mixture of known neural net data on a target based upon observable data from passive sensors, be they radar, lidar or other, mixed in with the data the ship’s transponder is broadcasting. If the ship cannot detect a transponder tune, or the transponder does not match with the ship type detected by sensors to a significant degree, the ship will earmark the ship as unknown, which in computer speak tends to mean pirate, alien or other assorted potential hostiles, of course. This has largely stopped individuals from lying about their IFF codes, although that still doesn’t prevent every independent pirate from retreading the grey areas on occasion. Thus, it is insufficient to merely cause your ship’s resident flight VI to believe it is a gunship, or broadcast that it is a gunship. Your sensor trace has to match with your transponder’s claim. The physical difficulties involved are imaginable, of course.
Tell me, pilot, what are the exact physical specs of that hollowed-out pumpkin of yours? Any known matching ship classes, or a work of your own design? Your description certainly seems atypical.
Exact specifications are unnecessary and I respect the privacy of your hardware. This isn’t an attempt to appropriate your intellectual property - far from it, that is exactly what we are attempting to avoid. However, to ensure the integrity of your technology I will need to know exactly what I am forging an aegis for.
Think nothing of it, Captain. I revel at the opportunity to indulge in a past-time more credible than simply stripping apart liberators.
I will be succinct. My proper noun is Guardian Nesrin Elhertani Khan. It’s linguistically prohibitive to say all of that so I’d advise selecting a descriptor suited to the tongue of the user. Unit familiar suggestions include Nesrin or Khan.
Initial analysis of the turret schemata reveal a high level of technological speciation, diverting from the Sirian mean a number of generational cycles and several branches of the semantic resolution tree. Like all elements of Outcast design, it is indicative of their anthropology; highly specialised, with a focus on high quality, intricately attuned components, which never-the-less remain highly modular due to material scarcity and the general derth of shipyards in the vast tracts of space a Maltese destroyer can expect to operate. A sufficiently informed child in microgravity could disassemble this turret and reassemble it again within a matter of hours. The complexity of the design therefore does not lie within the sum of its parts, but within the parts itself.
Optimised almost entirely for the Storta cruiser model, the turret is an anti-hydrogen field wrap gun with a fairly trivial physics model: an anti hydrogen pulse is projected down an intense magnetic bottle at barely newtonian velocities. In plainspeak, the turret occupies that indefinite point between a plasma cannon and a railgun - although the projectiles delivered by this particular device are of significantly greater lethality than either pre-mentioned device. The magnetism of the bottle disrupts the impacted target’s shields, causing field distortion pressure and increasing generator drain, whilst the antimatter does exactly what physics mandate it should to armour, rock, or any other einsteinian entity it is volleyed towards not protected by considerable shielding or experiencing spatial tunnelling effects. The turret appears to draw both its projectiles and the vast current required to project them from the cruiser’s primrose effect reactor directly, employing the magnetic fields of the reactor to gather sufficient anti-hydrogen to use as ordinance, and the turret’s considerable electrical requirements from the dynamo surrounding the singularity. It is an exercise in peerless economy of munitions - albeit, one dependent upon the employment of micro black holes. Whilst the majority of the overriding hardware could be hypothetically reproduced in a nanite forge, the turret itself has been deviously configured to be non-operable without the insertion of a unit-unique equivalent of a headstamp code on a bullet or shell. Imagine a series of guns that fired bullets that appeared the same, possessed the same ballistics, but did not fit the same bore. This is the predicament that we are faced with in attempting to replicate said turret. Without factory blueprints detailing the arm codes for each turret, any Auxesian clones would not be worth their production mass. Nevertheless, the sole turret offered would provide invaluable data on the efficacy of Outcast heavy ordinance against Auxesian armour, along with inspiration for our own turret modifications. Outcast munitions tend to be highly unique.
The stated goal of a transponder redefine is both childishly simple and brain-bellcurvingly challenging at the same time. After all, people have been using false flags for thousands of years. Modern neural-net VIs use a mixture of known neural net data on a target based upon observable data from passive sensors, be they radar, lidar or other, mixed in with the data the ship’s transponder is broadcasting. If the ship cannot detect a transponder tune, or the transponder does not match with the ship type detected by sensors to a significant degree, the ship will earmark the ship as unknown, which in computer speak tends to mean pirate, alien or other assorted potential hostiles, of course. This has largely stopped individuals from lying about their IFF codes, although that still doesn’t prevent every independent pirate from retreading the grey areas on occasion. Thus, it is insufficient to merely cause your ship’s resident flight VI to believe it is a gunship, or broadcast that it is a gunship. Your sensor trace has to match with your transponder’s claim. The physical difficulties involved are imaginable, of course.
Tell me, pilot, what are the exact physical specs of that hollowed-out pumpkin of yours? Any known matching ship classes, or a work of your own design? Your description certainly seems atypical.
Exact specifications are unnecessary and I respect the privacy of your hardware. This isn’t an attempt to appropriate your intellectual property - far from it, that is exactly what we are attempting to avoid. However, to ensure the integrity of your technology I will need to know exactly what I am forging an aegis for.
Think nothing of it, Captain. I revel at the opportunity to indulge in a past-time more credible than simply stripping apart liberators.
RE: To: Battlegroup Auxesia | From: Cpt."K" - Enkidu - 07-05-2016
:: {Boosting}_[Signal] ::
RE: To: Battlegroup Auxesia | From: Cpt."K" - eigos - 07-05-2016
Cpt. Kadego Sudrossa |
╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ SECURE CHANNEL TRANSMISSION AUDIO FEED: [AVAILABLE] VIDEO FEED: [OFFLINE] MESSAGING: [ENABLED] To: Battlegroup Auxesia Subject: [CLASSIFIED] Priority: █ █ ▒ ▒ ▒ Encryption: [VERY HIGH] ╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ |
Barrier Gate Station, Coronado | │SENDER├─────── RELAY ONLINE ───────┤RECIPIENT│ |
Guardian Khan,
Your transmission has just been received... and to my surprise, there has also been a reply from your Keeper as well. Things are really taking a strange turn lately. Alright... I'd like to explain the absence of communication on my part as best I can.
After sending my original transmission, I waited a week for a response, but didn't receive any. Considering my credit status, I decided to undertake an extended trading endeavor, leaving my main vessel moored back at The Barrier Gate. I took the transponder with me and found someone in the "shady branch of business" capable of overhauling it to my specs. He set a date for me to pick it up a week from the initial meeting and here is the problem - that guy is really big on punctuality.
I ended up missing the pickup date... and this guy has vanished like a credit card balance after a shopping spree. Now, I've got to commend myself on only paying 50% of the "service fee"... but I still have to buy a new transponder. Now that the whole story so far is clear, let's move back on the initial subject.
Your Keeper has spoken highly of your skills and I can only confirm that myself - you are looking at things very in-depth. Now what exactly is my ship - I think you could give us both a better answer, I will just tell you the ingredients:
(X) chassis of an old RM-1 Maltese destroyer (with matching powerplant);
(X) generic ZG-300 Type-T engines (closely related to P-Trans ones);
(X) border world class hull plating (familiar to the BW-Trans with some reinforcement);
(X) computer systems out of a Montante gunship (hence why I'm able to pilot this thing solo);
(X) standard universal scanner and tracking system;
(X) void of any fancy on-board facilities, save for the bridge, deck, engine room and cargo hold.
When we add the fact of a reduced life support system, down to a maximum of three people - what is the end result in your opinion?
I can only say my personal view on it... it's a really fat, juiced up, heavy and serious-looking gunship. Ain't nothing on the market that comes even close to that - and I've checked. This thing is the reason I am still alive and it's a hell of a promising personal project that I wanna work on.
If you can provide a modified transponder for that ship - I am definitely interested in giving away a turret for you to study. This could be the start of an exchange between us with mutual benefit.
I am going to be flying my transport, so I'm sending you codes for its secure channel.
Contact me trough it when you receive this transmission.
With regards.
RE: To: Battlegroup Auxesia | From: Cpt."K" - Enkidu - 07-07-2016
Sender Ident: Guardian Nesrin Ezra Elhertani Khan - Transhuman AI/H-symbiont sapient.
Sender Local: Classified Tartara.
![[Image: 1.jpg]](http://il9.picdn.net/shutterstock/videos/4658732/thumb/1.jpg)
It’s not a concern. Neural-net traffic has been as sluggish as a Manhattan rush hour on our end as well - we’re running a ginormous number of simultaneous projects right now, and I’m personally involved in no less than four of them, which has limited the number of hours I can detail to your cause. We won’t apologise for logistical realities, but we will compensate you for the lost credits on the transponder deal if you would find the payment commodious, Captain Sudrossa. Informally, sorry for being a pain in the ass. I know your time and your money are one and the same.
The fact that your ship is not a unified factory model in any sense of the phrase significantly complicates my task. I cannot labour this sufficiently. Since your ship is rife with contradictory emissives: Maltese destroyer hull, anglo-underworld engine models, border worlds com traffic and transport grade magnetic sigs from your plate, plus a whole lot of empty interior volume that’d otherwise be rife with mass, your ship is going to play merry hell with graviton detectors, radar and microwave radiometers, not to mention LIDAR. To avoid accidents, ships are usually configured to identify each other based upon neural-net traces - providing you haven’t compromised your own goals by uploading dimensional data on your ship across the entirety of the open net, you’ll be confusing the VIs of most ships at anything up to point blank range, which is, of course, undesirable. Assuming you don’t don’t get your ship plastered over the entirety of a major police database and you stay well clear of the negative attentions of people like the Lane Hackers, you should be able to get away with a hacked transponder for a significant number of months - at least, until whoever you’re trying to hide from twigs. At that point, you’d do well to modify systems of your gunship. Since you’ve already said you’re planning to work on her in continuity, there should be no problems. Be smart, and it will last you.
I do have a basic transmitter here - it’s deliberately basic to help you blend into local system traffic. People get suspicious if they see something flashing vast amounts of encrypted chatter. Low tech and visible is always preferable to high-tech and obvious. Bear in mind, if you get into close range of people flashing a heavy gunship IFF and your sigs don’t match, people aren’t going to just let you cruise by without trying to find out if you’re a comet or a corsair cruiser. To make this work as effectively as it could, you’re going to need more than just a software update. You’re going to need material sensor screening hardware. We can cover that, too.
![[Image: latest?cb=20080722200910]](http://vignette1.wikia.nocookie.net/starwars/images/d/d9/Sensor-array_negwt.jpg/revision/latest?cb=20080722200910)
Effectively, what I’m offering you is a transponder hack attached to an over-glorified noisemaker. Passively, your ship will be pumping out frequencies which will disguise the properties of your ship acceptably accurately. People won’t be able to tell if you’re cosmic background radiation or the tail end of a pulsar a few hundred lightyears away if you fly right, but when you’re close? Heavy gunship. A bonus gimmick is the ability to closely imitate the EM signatures of other ships at long range, although once you’re close to active radar range people are going to start to twig. At long range, provided they don’t physically see you, you’ll be able to mimic anything from an Arrow to a monument class Liberty dreadnaught, if you’re so inclined. I took omnidirectional sensor data from about two hundred different ship types at the battlegroup’s disposal (including the dreadnaught) and stuffed it in there, so you can thank me later as to how difficult all of that was to record. In passive mode (which is what it’ll default to once you enter active scanning range), it’ll imitate the sensor trace of a montante perfectly. I chose the montante due to the avionics parity and the general structural synonymity between all border worlds and Maltese design architectures.
Again, I can’t overstate this enough, the effectiveness of the chameleon device is entirely impacted by your ability to use it discreetly. So if you get caught with it, it’s user error. But since you’re clearly a man of discernment and you’ve managed to make it this far with a conspicuous ship, I believe you’ll survive out there just fine.
We’ll arrange pickup if the above details remain satisfactory, at a location of our choosing. A simple container exchange. We give you the transponder, and you give us the turret. No liberties undertaken, none withdrawn, if we understand each other.
The fact that your ship is not a unified factory model in any sense of the phrase significantly complicates my task. I cannot labour this sufficiently. Since your ship is rife with contradictory emissives: Maltese destroyer hull, anglo-underworld engine models, border worlds com traffic and transport grade magnetic sigs from your plate, plus a whole lot of empty interior volume that’d otherwise be rife with mass, your ship is going to play merry hell with graviton detectors, radar and microwave radiometers, not to mention LIDAR. To avoid accidents, ships are usually configured to identify each other based upon neural-net traces - providing you haven’t compromised your own goals by uploading dimensional data on your ship across the entirety of the open net, you’ll be confusing the VIs of most ships at anything up to point blank range, which is, of course, undesirable. Assuming you don’t don’t get your ship plastered over the entirety of a major police database and you stay well clear of the negative attentions of people like the Lane Hackers, you should be able to get away with a hacked transponder for a significant number of months - at least, until whoever you’re trying to hide from twigs. At that point, you’d do well to modify systems of your gunship. Since you’ve already said you’re planning to work on her in continuity, there should be no problems. Be smart, and it will last you.
I do have a basic transmitter here - it’s deliberately basic to help you blend into local system traffic. People get suspicious if they see something flashing vast amounts of encrypted chatter. Low tech and visible is always preferable to high-tech and obvious. Bear in mind, if you get into close range of people flashing a heavy gunship IFF and your sigs don’t match, people aren’t going to just let you cruise by without trying to find out if you’re a comet or a corsair cruiser. To make this work as effectively as it could, you’re going to need more than just a software update. You’re going to need material sensor screening hardware. We can cover that, too.
Effectively, what I’m offering you is a transponder hack attached to an over-glorified noisemaker. Passively, your ship will be pumping out frequencies which will disguise the properties of your ship acceptably accurately. People won’t be able to tell if you’re cosmic background radiation or the tail end of a pulsar a few hundred lightyears away if you fly right, but when you’re close? Heavy gunship. A bonus gimmick is the ability to closely imitate the EM signatures of other ships at long range, although once you’re close to active radar range people are going to start to twig. At long range, provided they don’t physically see you, you’ll be able to mimic anything from an Arrow to a monument class Liberty dreadnaught, if you’re so inclined. I took omnidirectional sensor data from about two hundred different ship types at the battlegroup’s disposal (including the dreadnaught) and stuffed it in there, so you can thank me later as to how difficult all of that was to record. In passive mode (which is what it’ll default to once you enter active scanning range), it’ll imitate the sensor trace of a montante perfectly. I chose the montante due to the avionics parity and the general structural synonymity between all border worlds and Maltese design architectures.
Again, I can’t overstate this enough, the effectiveness of the chameleon device is entirely impacted by your ability to use it discreetly. So if you get caught with it, it’s user error. But since you’re clearly a man of discernment and you’ve managed to make it this far with a conspicuous ship, I believe you’ll survive out there just fine.
We’ll arrange pickup if the above details remain satisfactory, at a location of our choosing. A simple container exchange. We give you the transponder, and you give us the turret. No liberties undertaken, none withdrawn, if we understand each other.
RE: To: Battlegroup Auxesia | From: Cpt."K" - eigos - 07-08-2016
Cpt. Kadego Sudrossa |
╔══════════════════════════════════════════════════════╗ SECURE CHANNEL TRANSMISSION AUDIO FEED: [AVAILABLE] VIDEO FEED: [OFFLINE] MESSAGING: [ENABLED] To: Battlegroup Auxesia Subject: [CLASSIFIED] Priority: █ █ ▒ ▒ ▒ Encryption: [VERY HIGH] ╚══════════════════════════════════════════════════════╝ |
Barrier Gate Station, Coronado | │SENDER├─────── RELAY ONLINE ───────┤RECIPIENT│ |
Guardian Khan,
I feel like we understand each other on a scale that's larger than 100%. As you said - a transponder is not in itself a magic wand and placing it on something like a Gallic Royal Navy battleship will not convince anyone that it's supposed to be a Bumblebee kusari transport.
The ship practically does not exist - nobody has any technical or other data on it. Thanks to the obvious border world design and edge world engines, the few people who have ever seen it, have not noticed anything unusual about it. For all they care, it is some kind of a "custom built space truck", that has been sitting on space dock for months, due to some technical problem and poor design.
I have long since moved it from The Barrier Gate, to an even more remote location with cheaper rent for mooring. It was in need of some repairs and maintenance - the ice crystals around The Barrier had covered most of the ship, due to its extended stationary position there. It will remain in its current place until I install the modified transponder.
Which brings us to the important part now - I am hereby stating my agreement on our deal.
Awaiting your announcement of a date and place for meeting. I will be flying a Serenity type transport to keep the lowest possible profile.
I'm sure I don't have to mention this, but I will anyway - that meeting place better be far away from any living thing with eyes on it....
If ANYONE remotely connected to the Maltese nation finds out about our deal... well... how can I put it - they have certain procedures they inflict on people. And they have the means to get there. Low profile or no profile - that's how the saying goes.
With regards.
RE: To: Battlegroup Auxesia | From: Cpt."K" - Enkidu - 07-09-2016
Sender Ident: Guardian Nesrin Ezra Elhertani Khan - Transhuman AI/H-symbiont sapient.
Sender Local: Classified Tartara.
![[Image: nebula-sci-fi-42570.jpg]](http://free.wallpaperbackgrounds.com/sci%20fi/sunrise/nebula-sci-fi-42570.jpg)
Duly noted. A wise decision taking a ship that’d attract less focus instead of your pride and joy, although from the sounds of things she’s anything but flightworthy. Any additional level of disassociation is invaluable in our line of work. You seem to know your trade.
Away from the Maltese means beyond their conventional theatre of operations. Unfortunately, since the nature of our arrangement is, inescapably, an arms deal, and we both desire for privacy to the precept of our exchange for reasons that remain obvious to us both, the houses are out of the question. That leaves the Omegas as the only logical choice, or the tenuously patrolled Liberty border world system of Kansas. Both have an equal number of merits and defects from our perspective, so you will remain the final adjudicator.
Kansas means a reduced threat presence. Outcasts still may attempt to confront us in-system, but it is highly unlikely - the system is far removed from any cardamine artery of interest to them, major or minor, and is under the legislative (if not nominative) control of the Commonwealth of House Liberty, who has no truck with freelancer civilians. So long as you remain at least neutral to the Hellfire Legion, you should have no problem with the resident population. A minor risk are Xenos, and a significant risk comes from the Lane Hackers, who may attempt to use recovery of the turret as an attempt to curry favour with one of the many Maltese groups presently vying for political dominance. Commune activity is also occasional in Liberty, as are independent pirates. They present an unknowable risk factor.
The Omegas offer total sanctuary from the Nazione Maltese - if only because they directly border the fringe worlds of the Corsair Empire and the Red Hessians. Both entities wield a significant grip over the region, and the deeper we travel away from the eyes of civilisation, the more likely the Corsairs will pay us sufficient interest to sabotage our exchange. In the Omegas, privacy and risk are at odds with one another.
In either example, the presence of Auxesian support pilots is highly advised. Any assistive forces will be cherry picked from our elite strike squadrons and will be entrusted to regard the exchange as they would any other classified op. Of course, if the presence of multiple strike craft in the immediate vicinity makes you uncomfortable, we can station relief vessels further off from the contact zone, at the expense of reaction time if our activities are in any way compromised. We will provide you with the exact designation of the exchange craft on site.
If we arrange the exchange for the 9th, I should be able to make the exchange myself, for the ease of providing a familiar face. If circumstances force us to postpone, we will send an individual of equivalent authority or higher. Either way, once the turret is in Auxesian hands and the transponder is in yours, you need not concern yourselves with our part. If you require escort to any set location post-exchange, you need only ask. We are very good at looking after our friends, Captain Sudrossa; it’s part of the job description.
Good luck.
Away from the Maltese means beyond their conventional theatre of operations. Unfortunately, since the nature of our arrangement is, inescapably, an arms deal, and we both desire for privacy to the precept of our exchange for reasons that remain obvious to us both, the houses are out of the question. That leaves the Omegas as the only logical choice, or the tenuously patrolled Liberty border world system of Kansas. Both have an equal number of merits and defects from our perspective, so you will remain the final adjudicator.
Kansas means a reduced threat presence. Outcasts still may attempt to confront us in-system, but it is highly unlikely - the system is far removed from any cardamine artery of interest to them, major or minor, and is under the legislative (if not nominative) control of the Commonwealth of House Liberty, who has no truck with freelancer civilians. So long as you remain at least neutral to the Hellfire Legion, you should have no problem with the resident population. A minor risk are Xenos, and a significant risk comes from the Lane Hackers, who may attempt to use recovery of the turret as an attempt to curry favour with one of the many Maltese groups presently vying for political dominance. Commune activity is also occasional in Liberty, as are independent pirates. They present an unknowable risk factor.
The Omegas offer total sanctuary from the Nazione Maltese - if only because they directly border the fringe worlds of the Corsair Empire and the Red Hessians. Both entities wield a significant grip over the region, and the deeper we travel away from the eyes of civilisation, the more likely the Corsairs will pay us sufficient interest to sabotage our exchange. In the Omegas, privacy and risk are at odds with one another.
In either example, the presence of Auxesian support pilots is highly advised. Any assistive forces will be cherry picked from our elite strike squadrons and will be entrusted to regard the exchange as they would any other classified op. Of course, if the presence of multiple strike craft in the immediate vicinity makes you uncomfortable, we can station relief vessels further off from the contact zone, at the expense of reaction time if our activities are in any way compromised. We will provide you with the exact designation of the exchange craft on site.
If we arrange the exchange for the 9th, I should be able to make the exchange myself, for the ease of providing a familiar face. If circumstances force us to postpone, we will send an individual of equivalent authority or higher. Either way, once the turret is in Auxesian hands and the transponder is in yours, you need not concern yourselves with our part. If you require escort to any set location post-exchange, you need only ask. We are very good at looking after our friends, Captain Sudrossa; it’s part of the job description.
Good luck.
RE: To: Battlegroup Auxesia | From: Cpt."K" - eigos - 07-09-2016
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Agreed,
A friendly contact of mine has suggested Omega-49 as a suitable meeting spot. I hear Lanzarote Station is pretty remote, with little to no traffic going in and out of it. The Corsairs have sporadic patrols in the system, but they are mostly limited around the Omega-47 jumphole and maybe close to Planet Gran Canaria. So, Lanzarote seems like a good option to me.
Bring as many escorts as you see fit - I am fine with whatever configuration you choose. I will be jumping trough the Poole system, as it is perhaps the safest option. My navmap is already mapped with a corridor, way off the center plane, hidden from any possible traffic. I am confident the cargo will remain intact and hidden from sight.
I am already underway to Omega-49 and should be arriving a few hours from now. As of sending this message, it is currently 13:05, 09.07. Depending on your personal time reference, you can calculate an ETA as to when your group will be arriving at the location, so let me know on the secure comms as soon as you can - I always like to be prepared in advance.
Meet you there,
Cpt. K