--Hack initiated--
-Decryption in process-
-Comm ID : *indecypherable crypto mask encoded*
Processing....
To Sr. Director Moriarty...
That's it! I've had enough and they're gonna have pay now! Too much control is being exerted in so called "Liberty". No longer is it a democracry and the number of authoritarian factions is rising every day in order to levy the increasingly draconian taxes! The hell with it! This mouse has turned and will stand for no more... Time to take back what has been ripped from the People (and in particular, me!)
It's time for Ageria and those fools at Interspace Commerce learned what it means to be taxed! I've lost my house, job and everything, all down to a few minor discrepancies in my tax return and the slightly irregular accounts that I operated for my has been, washed up, employers .. Pah! Good job they went bankrupt!
Anyway, I've grubbed together enough cash to change my identity so no-one will be able to trace this comm (particularly the IRS) and reckon I can grab a new ship from Manhattan when no one's looking... But I need somewhere to go.. Can you help?
I'm well travelled in Syrius, so can find my way around if a bit of smuggling's needed.. all the way to the outer rim worlds, but can also run a fiesty fighter! I'm happy to do either considering I'm asking you to give me a chance... I can also see a bit of sneaky intervention, nerve and information tapping and greasy grassing could just suit.
If you're willing to consider me I'm usually around in the evenings at GMT times.
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Date: 00102654:92:68 +0100
Subject: She will lo ve you all night long
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(The message contains only video data which appears to be an ad for a pharmaceutical product supposed to enhance the size and performance of a certain specific male organ, but when the data is interpreted as alphanumeric characters, somewhere embedded amongst the unintelligble bytes, the following text can be read:)
Trusting that you will be monitoring any and all transmission into and out of this system with extreme scrutiny, I am confident this message will reach you eventually. I have hidden it within one of the many millions of advertisements that are flooding the servers of this station daily, knowing from experience that the chances of these being checked thoroughly enough by security to detect this message are negligible. Even so, I will refrain from using any names of specific places or persons and will for the moment be known to you only by the fictitious moniker Max Power.
Being a strong antipathist of corporate syndicates in general I have nevertheless worked for one which is all too well-known to you for several years now, since it is hard to survive in Liberty without being in some direct or indirect way in the employ of one of the "Big Three" or their lackeys. Due to my expertise and background I have found myself in a position with relatively easy access to information of a confidential nature. Over the years I have gathered quite a bit of damaging evidence of the more shocking and appalling practices, as well as some extremely valuable intel when in possession of the right persons.
I have therefore decided that the moment is right for me to cut my ties to the corporate machine and start to fight for my ideals, which include most prominently a freedom of information, which is decreasing at an alarming rate in currect day Liberty. Having known of your organization since I was a teenager and secretely fancying your self-styled revolution of intellectual freedom, I have decided to finally take my chances and apply to join your cause.
I must admit that my experience as a fighter pilot is virtually non-existent, but programming droids being something of an out-of-control hobby of mine, my knowledge of scripted AI systems allows me to make any craft almost completely fly itself by automated processes, requiring very little skill and input from the pilot.
In order to facilitate a reply I will be sending another message like this exactly 43.6 standard Sirian time units following this one, to a non-existent address at this station, allowing you to piggyback your reply on the automatic NDR.
Awaiting your reply and wishing you the best in your endeavors,
This is a message from the Rogue Anti-Defamation League in co-operation with the International Association of Cosmetics Retailers.
Join the fight against the most persistent typographical error ever to terrorize the roleplaying community.
Learn the difference: ROGUE <> ROUGE
Comm-ID: *encrypted*
Timezone: GMT + 1
Subject: To LH Directors
To LH Directors,
I'm apologizing for having to hack your channel but i'm desperate.
Currently i'm working as a cybernetics engineer at Ageria and strange things has happend here lately.
Last week our senior engineer pointed out a flaw in the trade lane security system reported it to our manager. And now both the manager and the engineer have been sacked and are no where to be seen. The official explanation is that they were sacked because of lack of work. But recently work has been like hell. Deadlines that is too short and people being sacked/replaced all the time. They have even installed filters at work to "stop pornographic content". But I got hold of the filter code and it all had to do with censuring and monitoring the workers.
I don't know how long it will be before it'll be my turn to disappear. Therefore I'm making a run for it. I have managed to escape to manhattan and have "borrowed" a starflier.
I'm willing to sabotage and/or smuggle to show the public how corrupt sirius have become. My fighting skills are not so good but I'm trying the best I can.
I have encrypted the comm-id to ensure my safety, but i'm certain that you will find a way to contact me.
I wish to remain anonymous, so you can just call me Judas. For the better part of a decade I have
been employed by Agiera's Trade Lane Department. However, I was recently sacked for an incident
involving the Vice President of Trade Lane Affairs' personal shuttle and several tons of spoiled Luxury
Food. Given my background in Trade Lane construction, I figure I can be of some use to you, and you
can be of considerable help to me, as I am now destitute and in need of allies. I have an extensive
knowledge of Trade Lanes and their various nuances, and I would be willing to either fight or smuggle
for you, whichever you require more, though my specialty is in avoiding fire rather than returning it.
I am currently within Liberty Time Zone GMT-6. I eagerly await your reply.
Incoming transmission...
ID: Captain Johnathan Hayes
Source: Prison Ship, New York System
Hello. I am currently returning to Manhattan from yet another unsatisfying job, and would like to join your fighter wing in hope that I'll get a decent living wage for once. Their idea of a promotion was putting me in charge of this prison ship, working more, and no raise. So let's see how they like this.
Corrupted data found. Truncating...
Truncation interrupted. Encrypted data found. Decrypting...
Time remaining: 3m21s
Corrupted data found. Truncating...
Resuming decryption... Time remaining: 2m13s
Complete.
Hah! Those fools thought I'd sit idly by and return to normal life after what they put me through? Idiots, the lot of them.
Alright, here's the real story. I'm a former freelance computer hacker, usually worked for various corporations here in Liberty. You may have heard of me, one of my old aliases, the one Liberty didn't pin anything on me for, was Blackmoon. Corporations paid me, I acquired poorly-secured information, their competitors found out about the hired hacking attempts (though never my identity), so they paid me to retaliate. It was a beautiful arrangement. I could've retired at 25 at the rate I was earning money. From this, I learned of corporate corruption.
Then I got curious and decided to try my skills against a Liberty Security Force server. No damage, no payment, simply did it for the challenge. And for this, I was thrown in jail for five years. It was supposed to be longer, but their records weren't kept on paper, and... well, you get the idea.
I learned an important thing from my imprisonment: Allies are immensely valuable. With the help of an organization like yours, I'd have been released much faster.
I prefer using combat craft, and I have some prior experience with a Dagger, having used one to gun down some Ageira goons that discovered my identity. However, I must confess that I am not the greatest pilot alive, though my still being alive says something, so any additional training you can provide would be immensely appreciated.
Now, as for Mr. Hayes? He's the pilot of the vessel bringing me back to Manhattan. I don't much care for the guy, considering the times he bludgeoned me with a metal bar for laughing at his ridiculous haircut. I must say, the delay has done nothing to make revenge less sweet.
I have full confidence that you will come up with a way to respond, and I hope you decide to accept my services.
Corrupted data found. Truncating...
Transmission complete.
hacking to Freeport 4 ......Sucess
Hack send to NB ........Sucess
Etc.
......incoming masage......
From:quickquick.... cant find location... Error Code 5412
To:Director moriatry
[color=#FF0000]
Hi! This is Orsion kac-ion speaking. I wish to say you that i wish to join LH. Now I am writing you in my hacker gunship. I have importand information about ageria tehnologies that will maybe help you bakrot them. I cant carry this information no longer. ow i am going to Buffalo from there to machtan . See you in space .I hope that information will help you bankrot ageira tehnologies .I cant use tradelanes so i will come to machtan tomorow I hack few agieria ships and find out that they are now passing freeport 4.I have more importand information in my laptop. I cant tell you now. See you.
........End of masage...
Former CEO of BMM I had women, gold, luxury, carpets and luxury liner....
--Hack initiated--
-Decryption in process-
-Comm ID : Henry *data corrupted*
Processing....
Processing....
Processing....
---Hack Sucessful---
They took my son from me. He was all I had, my wife died ten years ago from natural causes. My son was an inspector for Ageira. He was only 20, so young, so young. The last time I spoke to him he said he had some things to check out, some of the things he was inspecting showed bizzare anomalies and his manager was indifferent to them at best. He wouldn't go into details, and in hindsight I guess he was trying to keep me safe, because 2 days later he died. They called it an accident. A 'navigation error' which led him to fly into an asteroid while inspecting trade lane rings. I think they are lying. My son was top of his class at the Ageira Flight Academy, he never made a single error in any of the examinations, I was so proud of him.
I did some digging of my own, seeking out people who left Ageira of their own accord, which wasn't easy considering how many ex-employees are on 'indefinite vacation'. They found out somehow, threatened me with imprisonment if I persisted in digging. It's obvious the official channels are in their pocket. I want answers, I want the truth about my sons death, but most of all....I want REVENGE!
I offer my services to the Lane Hackers in the hope you will be able to help me get to the truth about my sons death. I have little experience in combat, but now is the time for me to take the fight to them. Please accept me. No father should have to look on his sons grave.....
---Hack terminated---
Brad B. Bad here, no that isn't my real name. I worked for Ageira as a Computer Security Specialist until about two months ago when I was fired as well as five members of my division when we discovered illegal transfers of credits from recently disposed of employees accounts and back into Ageira central account, using various dummy accounts to assure they were not detected. Clearly they didn't cover their tracks up enough, I immediately tried to cover my own tracks and that of my team however it was to late, we had already been discovered by another CompSec.
We were suspended and arrested for taking money from the ex-employee's bank account. I had told the police everything that had happened, how we'd found that Ageira was doing the one taking money from the ex-employees and even offered to show them the evidence but it was too late Ageira had already manipulated the evidence making it all point to me and my team.
The trial was a swift one, I knew that we would be found guilty and we were. After the trial we were to be sent to the LPI Sugarland, I'm guessing on that day for what ever reason they had no transports available because they hired a freelancer to take us there. Clearly this freelancer was inexperienced due to the fact he was piloting a starflier. Just after we took off me and my team jumped him and took his “assets” from him.
This is how we got here, I personally am volunteering so that I can be on the front line using a fighter and hacking equipment to bring down Ageira, however my team wish to work as hackers in some safe place away from the fighting and so fourth.
/Execute_wlf.in.sheeps.clothes
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Program executed....Hack Successful//Transmitting Log
Source: Error code 11392 Multiple sources detected... unable to determine correct source
Time:Error data corrupt...Revised Estimated time of arrival 7:30 -05:00 GMT
/Log Start
This is a prerecorded log from a friend, broadcasting from an undisclosed location. For the past decade. I have been covertly helping friends of mine, and of yours. I was part of a LSF cleanup crew, the ones who went in and salvaged stuff from engagements to make sure they don't get back into the "wrong" hands. For all those years I would take the salvage and after some covering up send them back to their owners, rouges mainly. Recently however they have caught on to my act, and after 2 unsuccessful attempts to frame me for an arrest they tried to take me out. luckily I made it out alive, but I was left in need of new employment.
I approve of all of your methods and I think I will be most useful if I am part of the smuggling ring, as I am fairly experienced with that line of work. Even if you don't let me join I will still personally do my best to hurt all those in liberty who dare oppress the honest hardworking person.
One last thing, call me Packrat
/Log end
/Execute_sheep.dog
Program executed...Transmission terminated
The following message was received by the Hacker Signals Department from an Ageira Employee in distress :
***Luxury liner Hawaii tourist interface computer activated***
****Please state your current audio, video or phone call desire****
*****Establishing connection to the main server****
<a: Mainframe unavailable, password required.
<a: Password incorrect. Be advised, is your caps lock on.
<a: Entering external card disk d.
<d: Running decryption check. Password retrieval commencing
<d: password found, stored under .document.
<a: Mainframe unavailable, password required.
<a: password approved, entering mainframe E.
<E: Searching topic: "ship schematics"....
<E: Ship schematics found. Transferring to external card drive.
<E: New task [y] [n] ?
<E: Searching topic "authorization codes"
<E: Authorization codes found. Transferring to external card drive.
<E: New task [y] [n] ?
<E: Opening recently stored files. Deleting access, deleting id.
<E: Connection terminated.
I've got to get out of here. Briefcase - check. Actually, thats all I need. Now to find those escape pods.
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****Incoming Encrypted message****
From: Reinhard Train
To: Whoever finds it, I'm sure the address is right.
Subject: Seeking aid, fast. The key is to be bold!
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