*** Incoming Transmission ***
*** Source: Unknown
*** Tracing, source location Comm Satellite 001, Texas system
*** Tracing, source location Police Mainframe, Manhatten, New York system
*** Tracing, source location Spaceport, Pittsburgh, New York system
*** Tracing, source location Battleship Missouri, New York system
*** Tracing, source location unknown object, Cortez system
*** Tracing, source location unknown object, unknown system
*** Tracing... tracing... tracing... tracing... error: operation timed out.
*** Message as follows:
"Hello, Hackers. Attempt to trace this message if you can; I'm confident in my abilities. I taught myself to hack while bored in class. I never had a decent program to use until now. I've got this signal bouncing off so many receptors it's not even funny.
"It's not so much that I want to hit back. I'm not joining the Hackers out of anger-- I'm joining out of desperation. I tried to hack into the police mainframe to find out what's really going on in Zone 21. I didn't know the Police and Navy maintained completely seperate mainframes. I'm a hunted man, Sir. I didn't have a decent program then; they traced me. I've been expelled from school and they're after me. I had to hackwire a Starflier just to get off Manhatten. It was hard to outfly two wings of Defenders with only one hand to work with.
"I'll do whatever it takes, Sir. Pirate software off the Lane network, fly beside you in Transport raids, I have no life to return to if I leave the Hackers. I will prove a most valuable asset once we have the funds to replace Ageira.
