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ID: Erich Wright (AKA LH~Chrono)
Age: 27
Location: Mactan Base
(Current Station Records)
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My ambition to work for Ageira started at a young age, I grew up on Erie seeing the massive transports of Ageira docking and cruising around in sub-orbit. I wanted to be a part of building the cutting-edge technology that would shape the future of all Sirians. I didn't come from a well-off family, but, after studying hard in high school and writing a hell of an admissions essay, I managed to get an Ageira corporate scholarship and off to Cambridge I went. The next 6 years were spent getting a degree in physics and masters in applied astrophysics. At this point Ageira offered me a job back in Liberty and I leapt at the opportunity ready 'to help the universe' or some other idealistic absurdity.
When I got to Los Angeles, everything was as I had always dreamed of. Ageira set me up in a corporate research lab under a respectable PhD and in what must have been a multi-million credit lab. I worked for over 2 years with our lab churning out inventions and patents. The company treated me great, but I began to notice most of our work never saw the light of day. Burying research that could affect their 'white box monopoly' I could have understood, but the company consistently denied funding for projects that would have alleviated hunger and poverty throughout the houses. The official excuse was impossible to implement, but the real reason was unprofitable to implement. Then I kind of just had a breaking point one day'¦ The assistant VP of planetside R&D came to speak to the researchers at our facility in a televised event and started speaking of Ageira's 'commitment to a better tomorrow' and other corporate dreg. During the Q&A session (full of scripted questions) I pushed my way to the nearest mic and asked him about the reasons for not implementing the food transit project or the new safety specs for jump lanes.
I was quickly escorted out of the conference and told to report to my supervisor that afternoon. I knew it was now-or-never so I went to the nearest auto-teller and took out as much as I could from my corporate accounts before they were frozen. Using my old Bretonian ID from my school days, I booked a civilian transport back to Erie and made it back home for the first time in 8 years. My cousin got a hold of a second-hand CTE 750 (worst ship I've ever laid my eyes on) and I set out in search of the Hackers. I was going through jump holes and staying off the lane grid, having to fight Xenos on even-terms just to get to Rochester. There the junkers let me rest and allowed me to fix up my ship. After trying my luck at the Xenos again, I tried to return to Rochester only to find several [LNS] tagged ships orbiting the station. I fled as soon as I saw them and managed to somehow find Buffalo in the badlands. Upon getting my dagger I flew to Mactan and found it under assault by bounty hunters. After fighting alongside outcast and hacker pilots through waves of bounty hunters, I finally gained their trust enough to get access to this channel to officially post my application.
I pray I've proved myself worthy of joining your elite organization. I just want a chance to get back at Ageira and let the world know that all Ageira cares about is its own pocketbook.
This is Lee. Abraham Lee.
As you will know now, you received this . . . hack from the New York Junker Headquarter, Base Rochester.
The Lane Hackers.
>>extracting...tracking.subject:"Crius.Lee"...match.found<<
Excuse this little verification. Now, as you can see, our surnames are the same. My son made it to your front lines. I am sure, he was telling his story. "Gent.Lee". That was my codename, as I worked at AgeiraCorp. My son..
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received enough credits to make it through that entire corrupt Liberty Space. The reason, I knew too much. My whole family was in danger. They feared, I could betray them by bespeaking that special technology to concurrents. My wife.. and one of my two children lost their lifes already. Only Crius made his way out of Ageira's claws. By beguiling Ageira I could escape. It took it's time, but I was able to escape.
One day, we were testing that already named special technology. It should give more power to Jumpgates, allowing more vessels to jump at once. That special research site was hiding at, yes that's true, Pittsburgh's Debry field. They did not know, that I was already informed about the assassination of my family. I was sad.
Taking revenge for that and giving me the opportunity to flee, I caused an overcharge, which caused in turn a huge explosion, destroying all those vessels nearby. My escape pod was since that point of time drifting in the debry field. A Junker found me one day ago. He just took me up and brought me to Rochester.
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Now, that I've made my way to Mactan, I've equipped my Dagger, a wonderful ship by the way, I received my first mission from Mr.Sanguinetti. He took over a freighter with Pharmaceuticals. He called me, to guard that cargo. Later he came again and looted all the bare credits, in order to sell those Pharmaceuticals. I received 1.000.000 $ for that act of Loyality. After that all I wanted to clear up my reputation with the rest of the Lane Hackers, so I made some Jobs.
I hope you'll affiliate me. I've found my son at yours' and we want to pay back, what they've done to us.
Greetings, my name is Asher Black and I herewith inform you that I have completed all steps you demanded.
My story begins as an escort pilot and jack-of-all-trades for Ageira. I did my job and I did it good, braving many obstacles.
However, over the years, the company seemed to start entrusting me with more and more delicate missions. It began with deliviring highly secured and isolated objects that neither state authority, nor myself were allowed to see. Then Ageira made me ferry around scientists to very shady and dubious bases and regious throughout the Sirius sector. Of course again, I did not get any further information. I still obeyed.
But after that, they stepped over every boundary.
One day, Without any further notice, they carried a human-sized package into my ship and gave me the assignment to jettison it deep into the Detroit Debris Field. For the first time in my life I got wary and had the package opened in Rochester. The sight was horrible, a charred and disfigured corpse of a human. Its Gender could not be determined anymore, however he or she looked very young. I was shocked and terrified, their transmitters must have registered my action.
In the docking bay of Rochester, I began to pace. Where should I go? Will I experience the same fate as that poor guy? Since the story spread quickly in the base, a Lane Hacker stood before me. I prepared for even more trouble, but he simply handed me over a notice: "Hack this channel and do exactly as it says". I did not see any alternative, the life as a regular citizen and coporate puppet was over. Without delay I proceeded in fulfilling the Lane Hacker's instructions.
At first I was too terrified by the thought of returning to the Munitions, but there was no choice. I reentered my ship and docked. Security was light this evening, though I had my Blaster ready to fire at anyone who would stand in my way. I quickly paced over to the weapon's hangar where I quickly stole an Adv. Stunpulse cannon. The robot mounted it quickly and I dashed out without further delay.
Rochester was, fortunately enough, not that far and I landed there once again. I upgraded my shield and bought some Barrager guns, I knew I will have to fight. The next days I spent on destroying light patrols and Storage Depots, until the Rogues would let me land on Buffalo. Of course my conscience was heavy after taking apart simplest escort wings, but I always say to myself "It's better than Ageira's systematic homicides".
It was the first time I landed on a true Pirate base, but respect seems to be everything there. With my good reputation they were very welcoming and without much paperwork, I found myself flying a Dagger.
Using jumpholes whenever possible, I proceeded to Mactan. When I was finally there, I knew there was no return. At first the Outcasts took me more or less into their aegis, since the Hackers were still a bit suspicious. However, after doing 2 or 3 missions for the Outcasts, the Hackers started to trust me and gave me assignments too. It took many weeks and even more destroyed Piranhas to finally call myself a recruit Hacker now. It was harsh and blunt, but it is a price worth paying to smash the most corrupt coperates of Liberty.
I am ready!
More about me:
I was born on planet Erie, 6. April 795 AS. My first work was fixing Trade Lanes for the DSE for about 2 years.
One day after I fixed an advanced issue in the Trade Lane in front of some Ageira workers, they invited me to work for them at Detroit Munitions, and I accepted.
In start my new work was perfect:
Good salary, place to sleep inside company, and not that hard work. But after they recognized my talents, they asked me to work even more...
After some time I decided to quit Ageira, but after I told that to my boss, he told me that I'm not going anywhere...
15 days passed, and I seen a chance to steal a Starflyer and some Stuntpulse equipment.
Escape from Detroit/Liberty
At Detroit I destroyed 2 Ageira ships and loaded their escape pod's in my cargo. I heard that someone at Rochester will pay for that pilots.
After I landed at Rochester, I started to ask around how to escape from Liberty, one Junker told me that my best chance is to buy a new ship, and recommended me a ship dealer at Buffalo. I was also warned that Rogues will not trust me that easily.
So I decided to earn their trust by killing Rogue's enemy's. First I destroyed some storage depots near Newark to get more attention from Liberty Police, after destroying Police ships I loaded few Police pilots, and escaped to Buffalo, on my way there I went onto 2 Navy, and 2 Bounty Hunters ships, destroyed them, and loaded escape pods...
After showing that pilots to Rogues, they accepted me, and even paid a good money for them.
There i found that equipment dealer, bought a Dagger, and headed directly to Magellan, Mactan Base.
My name is Aleera Sunrise. I was born on Planet Manhatten. I'm a daughter of a hardworking dad and a caring mother. When I was young I dreamt about flying a huge ship that allows me to visit other systems and meet other people, not only libertonians. Well my dream came true when I finished the University of Stellar Navigation. My dad had a contact in the Ageira who offered me a full-time job in the corporation as a navigator on the Ageira|Kirthar Advanced Train. I was so happy that I had a chance to work on a Train so I accepted it. Things went incredibly good. The Kirthar was ordered to haul Gate/Lane-parts to Okinawa and damaged Robotic components to Pueblo Station, Colorado. We were doing it for like a 2 weeks when the Captain fired me instantly as we reached Pueblo. I wasn't sad at first, more like surprised. My first question obviously was the: "Why?" and the answer was: "You are replaceable. You cost too much money for Ageira." Even the members of the crew were shocked because of this. I didn't know about the financial part of my job, so I had no idea how much do I really cost. I flown home on the first passenger transport that reached Pueblo and told this to my parents. They were already furious because they have received a message from Ageira, while I was enroute, that I have refused many orders of the Captain. Of course I told them, that's a lie and so on but that didn't really help. I moved to my childhood friend temporarily, who works for a chip-developing company. When I told her what happened, she immediately told me that she can hack the Ageira employee database. So she did, she scrolled to my name.
"....Name: Aleera Sunrise - Status: [color=#FF0000]Fired - Reason: To be added...."
I couldn't believe in what I've just seen. That's the reason why I do want to join the Lane Hackers. I want Ageira to pay for it's sins. When I contacted a lawyer about what happened to me, they all told me that they cannot do anything about it, because Ageira is diplomatically invincible. I thought using the not-that-diplomatically solution would work, then. So I applied.
Escape from Liberty:
When my friend was working I used her personal terminal in order to look for groups who're against Ageira mainly. I've found the Lane Hacker's portal with my friend's code breaker software that she developed. There were instructions that told me what to do in order to get a ship and the papers. I left a message for my friend, and took the hover-taxi to get to the landing pad. I bought a Starflier of my last salary and took off. I flown to Detroit Munitions. The dockmaster known me well there, so there wasn't any problem with getting in. I told him that I'll need weapons because I'll be an escort pilot for Ageira. He led me out of the hangar immediately. Through many corridors we have reached the armoury where the mechanics were already installing the guns. I paid the bill and left. Read about the depots near Newark on the NeuralNetPage. I found and destroyed them. The police sent four fighter drones to get me but they failed. I continued my way up to Rochester Base. My scanner found a signal of something large next to the base. It was a Pilgrim class slave liner commanded by a junker. I asked for docking permissions after a short chatter about the local junk field. He let me to dock. I sold the pilots for a few credits there, so I could buy a new shield and weapons. I asked around if they're aware of any other patrols. After I've uploaded the gathered information to my ship's memory core, I took off. I flown to Manchester, in order to destroy the depots. I caused a little mess there, because a Bounty Hunter gunship pilot wasn't so happy about it. He was so dumb that he believed that it was only a malfunction of my ship. I headed back to NY and docked Buffalo Base. I did a few missions for the Rogues for money and a second-handed Dagger. After I got the stuff, I headed to Mactan, Magellan. While I was doing missions, the long range comms relay recommended a contact for me. I don't know what did it, maybe my friend, maybe something else, I don't care. I contacted LH~Medea~. I told her my story and my goals and asked for help. She led me to Mactan and helped me in missions, in order to get my papers, scanner and weaponry. I have not received any money because I could cover my stuff.
I think that's all. Hope I haven't left anything out.
Portholes ZP: Pirate Everything! Wrote:login Stewart ********
cd /home/exunt
init decrypt24 -_syringe -weshallobtainthearticoil
init exunt/syringe -echo
... Loading syringe
... 'syringe' loaded successfully!
setTimerEx(random(500), 1200+random(600), "run(\"init ..%sys%\emergencybackup.sys\")", "admin", "admin")
... function timer set successfully!
setTimerEx(500, 600+random(300), "init ..%sys%\unregister", greyHat1917, thewinteriscold)
... function timer set successfully!
// Syringe running:
Code:
Checking hangar deck for outbound civilian ships...
... outbound civilian ships found!
checking civilian ship flight plans including the Vespucci system ...
... three found!
checking results for Electromagnetic Countermeasures ...
... one found!
checking information regarding the ship ...
... Pirate Train, registered as a Liberty Rogue, no cargo, Mactan Base, Magellan, to America Base, Vespucci, to Buffalo Base, New York!
Attaching self to ship's undocking navigation protocol ...
... attachment successful, boss level access confirmed
exit
// Syringe running on the PT, initialized when ship initializes the station's undock nav protocol:
*A man wearing a grey suit wearing said Guy Fawkes mask would appear, but in a video*
Good day! I am called by Stewart. You may recognize my name from the Ageiran virus scandal. A short time ago, I left Erie for good. After stealing a barely functional light fighter, I managed to dock with Rochester Base. After performing missions for the money to buy stunpulse weapons, I acquired one and left for Buffalo Base. After obtaining a Dagger and some new equipment, I departed for Mactan. I have been destroying bounty hunter weapon platforms and light outposts since.
I currently fly with the callsign "LH~Stewart" and with Lane Hacker affiliation.
I have not engaged in any acts of piracy with people, though I have destroyed drone transports full of Basic Alloy. I stopped a Mastodon full of Boron between Manhattan and West Point, but he refused to pay and my weaponry was simply not able to get past his shield before he docked. However, I received word that he was destroyed by a group of independent bomber pirates for refusing to pay later. I have not received any credits from anyone at all. Actually, the high cost of Train Cruise Disruptor missiles is a rather large barrier to any serious attempt at pirating. I made a friend with a captain of a Spyglass, but due to the current rules of engagement he of course is unable to help me pirate transports.
I have however destroyed several bounty hunter outposts Magellan.
I apologize for having to hack into your channel, but it is an emergency situation.
I'm currently an ASF pilot and some interesting things are starting to happen around me. You see, we were transporting some "Need to Know" items and I was only recently added to the convoy. In the course of transporting these items we were attacked 3 separate times by Hackers, but we were able to safely deliver the cargo.
After that mission some of my co-workers started to act strangely around me. So I hacked into one of their Personal comm channels and saw that I was being portrayed as a hacker affiliate, because they were not attacked so frequently before me joining them. So I asked one of my old friend in the communication and sensor division to check whether there were any reports about me to my superiors and he confirmed that they were waiting for orders to proceed against me.
Having known that, I bribed a civilian to transport me to planet erie ad from there I acquired an used CTE 750 AE Civilian pile of junk. With that I flew back to Rochester base in NY system. The junkers there drove a hard bargain and agreed to give me good quality shield and weapons if I managed some low profile assassinations for them. I did and they paid. By now I had managed to blow up some LPI and DSE storage sats and more LPI patrols and bounty hunters.
After accomplishing this, i said goodbyes to the junkers and flew to the Buffalo base Liberty Rogues. Ther too I managed to do some missions for them and got me a brand new dagger. Then I went to the Mactan base based on the info the rogues gave me and maxed out my rep by doing missions and occasionally with the help of other LH members.
If I am to be Hacker on paper, I thought it would be wise to become a hacker for real. I hope you can accept me. I will be in magellan.
:: Data stream detected ::
:: Downloading message ::
:: Type: notification ::
:: Source: Series X "Dagger" Border Worlds Light Fighter ::
---- :: Callsign: LH~Queue ::
---- :: Location: Mactan base ::
Good day!
My name once was Daniel Jeffers. It probably still is, somewhere, but for me it is as much a history as my status of a code-monkey on Ageira's payroll.
I worked my daily 8-hour job for a mediocre pay in one of Ageira's Manhattan's branches. Write the some lines of unimportant code for a few hours, debug some other code for some more, not what you would call a challenge. Nor a hazardous job, either.
I was proved wrong though. I made a mistake: I got curious. Being a quite fast worker, I often found bits of free time in-between my tasks, I used those to widen my view on the world and the company. I couldn't get deep into the system without rising alarms and tipping off the security, getting deep wasn't even my my aim at the time. I just followed some routine communications going on, read a few files of interest in archive. This and that, all the things any bored employee with enough expertise to bypass the most basic security protocol would do.
I don't know if you follow matters so trivial, but if you do, you probably remember an accident that took place in Manhattan's orbit a month ago. A Starflier crossed the landing pattern of an Armored Transport and turned into a miniature debris field on its own. Two people, both of them Ageira employees (positions not disclosed to public), killed on spot.
It didn't surprise me at first when a week later I stumbled upon an ongoing communication about those two. Getting a bit deeper into details did rise my interest, though. The content of messages was rather vague, but reoccurring references on "Issue" and "Successful solution" did make me wonder. I ran a search on the dead emplyees and found that they were part of a team developing a certain functionality of RTS. The records also noted that they've run into financial difficulties recently.
Out of my foolishness I told this to a friend and colleague of mine. He was interested more than I was, and I'm afraid he took an initiative to find out more on his own. In my naivety I did not suspect anything.
Three days later, I came to work in the morning to find out my friend unexpectedly had volunteered for a deep-space research team and have left overnight.
Right!
I maybe was naive till then, but to hell with everything if I ever bought that kind of lies.
I also knew that I will probably the next one to "volunteer".
I did not return to work after lunch that day. I had a personal Starflier and a bit of reserve cash, I gathered all I could, changed the callsign of my ship to buy me some hours of time and left to the debris field in search of Junker base where I could find a temporary refuge. As I was entering the field, a patrol of bounty hunters nearby went on an intercept course and launched a disruptor at me. Luckily, it failed to stop me due to the range but it did get the message across: "There's quite a bit of cash on your head"
My cash reserves depleted quickly and I had to make a living doing a bunch of minor favors for Junkers and later Rogues. Things no-one else wished to do, such as safeguarding a jumphole from an overly eager Bounty hunter and alike.
First mention of Lane hackers I heard from a pilot calling himself an Admiral of Hellfire legion. After a while of inquiring, a rogue took me to a base in Buffalo, gifted me a second-hand Dagger (taking half of my savings as a payment, of course) and told me to get going to Magellan, where I could probably put my talents to better use (taking the remaining half of my savings for this invaluable advice).
It did took a while for me to get to Magellan. I was lucky enough to be greeted and met there by one of yours, known as Mr. Krimmler. I was told then to contact you on this channel as soon as I sort out and repair my ship's systems.
They say crime never pays. Ageira and those of the same shade feel like an exception. They think to able to make people disappear with no consequences. But they will have to pay. I'm ready to see to it.
[color=#66FFFF]Now, with that done, I'd like to talk about my biography, escape from Liberty and all that.
Biography:
I was born on planet Erie. My life as a child was quite nice. I had everything I wanted, went to the best schools and stuff. My family was very rich. While my mother didn't work anywhere, my father worked for Ageira, and that's the company that made us rich. After I finished a High school, I moved to Manhattan. There, I met new friends and went to university for the computer stuff. I finished as the one of the best in the class, and Ageira offered me a job. They wanted me to be one of their computer experts. To be more precise, they used my hacking skills to discover where the local Rouge patrols were so they could inform supply vessels and that's how I earned my pay, which was pretty decent.
Few years after I got a job, my father decided to quit working for the Ageira. His boss was all pissed off by hearing that and he wouldn't let my father leave without my father paying him. That's when everything started to be rough. And ye, after years my father finally managed to get out of it by some miracle. Few years later, I got into my office and suddenly I heard the voice saying: "You're fired."
I was frozen for a few seconds, then I turned around and saw my boss with a big smile on his face. I tried to ask him why, but as soon as I opened my mouth he cut me off by saying that I should leave. I was very disappointed but I remained calm and left the office. Months were passing and I didn't have a job. I even contacted a few well known lawyers, but all they said was that they couldn't do anything about it and that Ageira was too powerful for them. Some day, while sweeping through a broadcast looking for a job, I heard something about Hackers recruiting new people who are tired of Liberty corporations. After days of thinking, I finally decided to join and make Ageira pay for its sins.
That's all. Now, the second part, escape from Liberty and reasons of joining.
As I had very strong connections on Manhattan, I successfully obtained an Starflier on the black market and I didn't hesitate to use it to escape. I learned what I had to do to become a Hacker and I approached the first step. My old docking codes were useful as I managed to dock at Detroit for the last time in my life and get a Stunpulse gun from an old friend. After that, It took me quite a while with basic scanner to find Junker base but I remember worse times. The new shield was up and running. However, I was really low on my bank account. I went to Newark station to search for some police depots so I could blow them up and make Rouges like me. Sadly, the traffic was high and I didn't want to attract any negative attention so I decided to take the hard way.
I went to Junker base as there were quite a lot Xeno rookie patrols and I knew blowing them up would make Rouges like me a bit. I blew up many Xeno ships, and then I docked on Rochester base to see if I could find someone to tell me where's the Buffalo base located. I met some Rouge and he explained me how to get to Buffalo. There, I managed to get enough credits for Borderworlds light fighter and I was on my way to Magellan. I finally arrived on Mactan and I exchanged some of my guns for the Hacker ones, which are far better. I did a few missions and when my respect was high enough, I went to get my identification papers which lasted quite a short time.
Now I'm here, sending this transmission and hoping that I didn't forget anything.
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