To: Glass - Printable Version

Valentina... Rodriguez...

Listen, the Rodriguez part rings a bell, but I'm not getting anything from Valentina. As important as I am, people not knowing who I am is part of the point. On that point, how do you know more than your colleague? And what is this work I must presume that you speak of? Who is your colleague? Who are you? I thrive on information, and this gives me nothing! I swear, if you're some princess on Pittsburgh and this is another bit of spam getting through the filter...

Sweet mother; as soon as the memories came back from reading the logs, so too did the headache. At least you can be considered more forthright.

As I'm sure you understand, there is a fair bit of information that is generated around the construction of ships, much less 23 of them. Less would have been generated if they'd been bought. That is what the black market is often for, you understand. Not just the acquisition of items, but the obfuscation of their purchase. So what you're asking is, from the outset, an unusual, and unusually laborious request. But, not outside of our capabilities.

All the same, I need more context. How long can we wait? The deeper into the archive this data goes, the less interest there will be if it disappears. The fewer human factors to deal with, the fewer workers who will question where 20 fighters and 3 yachts have gone. To the center of the matter, why is it that you have been able to commission the construction of these ships, but now must erase the evidence? If the ships are under your control, to have them go missing would almost be preferable. If this is some kind of corporate tax evasion, then we might still be willing to help you, for the right price.

I have interest in this, yes, but understanding, no. If you don't care to elaborate, then I will organise that whatever construction orders of the appropriate number of ships with whatever shared denominator it is, are erased. We will attempt to erase as much as we can that is related to them, as well as some extraneous records to cover our tracks. But this will leave a gaping hole of information that may well draw more attention than you would wish if someone does go sniffing. We can leave traps to perform the same erasure against any backup restored to the system prior to a purge, but we will have to orchestrate the less competent crony working that day.

The only other question in that case is, do you have credits to offer for our services or something more interesting?

So you want a large assortment of lawfully acquired ships to go missing. I'm not entirely sure if you're acting as an intermediary here or not. I'm still not sure whether you or your client already have the ships or not. If you do not have the ships and they are held by a target, then a boarding and retrieval operation would be a better method. Assuming you do have the ships, if they were lawfully acquired, they could be sold for use by smugglers, disappeared or made unrecognisable as the same ships without erasing records of their creation - and the former would be easier.

I can only assume that a group that was able to order the construction of the ships, but wishes to use them for criminal activity, but wishes to retain their lawful standing, would request that records of construction and purchase were erased. And so I am willing to direct our aforementioned attempts to destroy these data, but payment would be best in the form of an ongoing relationship with whomever it is that retains that standing. We could use an asset on the favorable side of the law from time to time. A few credits for the immediate expenditure wouldn't hurt, either.