The Lane Hackers | Recruitment

[Failed Hacker]

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Case: 0848eb6566133a30c8885214ed234962
Alias: Kananga
Transponder: R~LH~Kananga
Background: Interspace

Message

Okay. I did everything you asked of me in these transmissions. I worked for the people I shot at to afford this... ship.
Look at this... I shot storages. I used to defend these. Well okay. I guess there is no use ranting about this now.

Through this new Partnership of Interspace and the BHG they kinda reworked the internal security. That is how they got me. So here I am. At a base I didn't even know about, in a ship that looks like it should fall apart any second. But I have a load of that cardamine for you. And a couple of guns I got cheap. If you don't need them I am sure Montezuma will.

I also had to destroy a transport close to Buffalo. But well I guess it doesn't mean much. It was very unresponsive and didn't tell me why it was there.

So if you have any further... Objectives for me... go ahead. I would prefer a minute without fearing some of the guys at these stations shooting me though.

I am actually looking forward to meeting you... I hope this wasn't for nothing.

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[Maximillian Largo]

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Case: 22078094d92baf97add81abbedd97cc8
Alias: Maximillian Largo
Transponder: R~LH~Maximillian.Largo
Background: Ageira Technologies

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Recruit Maximillian Largo here. As I write, they are unloading my Cardamine cargo I brought to Montezuma. And I did what you asked me to do.

Now, about my background: Born and grown on Manhattan, learned early to fly either freighters and fighters alike. I started as an independent, roaming all days through the Border Worlds and Edge Worlds. Then, after a long time, decided to give independent freelancing and joined Ageira.

This was the worst mistake I ever made. I could see with my own eyes all that corruption inside Ageira, with my colleagues, even while working in the labs...
Something snapped me up. I have seen an Ageira employee bribing a LPI officer onboard Pueblo, as I recently was sent there to resupply the station. I haven't heard what they did say, but the first thing I did was to ask explanations to that colleague of mine. He didn't give me explanations, just laughed at me. And the LPI officer too laughed at me. They tried to kill me, to no avail-and the rest's history.

Left Pueblo running in a shuttle left in the docking bays. Hacked the trasponders and left for refuge among the Rogues. Not right away, of course. I firstly holed up in Rochester, to put myself back toghether, then (the very same day) I destroyed the depots containers near Baltimore and Manhattan. After that, I made my way for Buffalo, and next to Alcatraz. I worked a while for the Rogues, the Outcasts and the Hackers themselves. Made myself a little reputation with them.

I also went to Minnesota, to look for that codename weapon from the Mantrid wreck. I haven't found it, but I found another one in Ontario-from a Hacker wreck named Torbay.

After a long while, I managed to buy a Bactrian from Montezuma. As I bought it, I made more and more missions to make the highest possible reputations among Hackers, Outcasts and Rogues.

At last, and ending this comm, I made the run of Cardamine from Mactan, where I took assignments, to Montezuma.

Cardamine bought at Mactan
Cardamine sold at Montezuma

If you have more assignments or objectives, Maximillian Largo is at your full service.

Have a nice day.

P.S: From the screenshots, it appears a huge difference of credits. That is because I did outfit my Bactrian with a full Hacker weapon loadout, as well as other trinkets. And also bought my own Scimitar. And cash ran dry. Rather dry. Obviously all money earned in the Hacker way of life.

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[Franz.Oberhauser]

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Case: f47a39fb87e1bde8b389336ba16a28f3
Alias: Franz Oberhauser
Transponder: R~LH~Franz.Oberhauser
Background: Ageira Technologies

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Dear Lane Hackers,

just some hours ago I’ve finally arrived at Montezuma Base. After docking my Bactrian I’ve found a dark corner in the bar, ordered a pint, leaned back and took a deep breath. That was absolutely necessary after the last few days, which felt like a start into a completely new life. But this time it is a free and just life, where those oppressive and corrupt lackeys from Ageira finally will have to pay for what they’ve done.

But first of all I need to say thank you for your help! Without your warning and your detailed instructions my chances to escape from Pueblo Station would have been nearly non-existent. Especially as a greenhorn pilot (I’ve spent most of my life on Planet Denver and Pueblo Station) my life would have come to a sudden end.

Maybe I should introduce myself. My name is P... Well, I guess you know it already, as you’ve managed to contact me at Pueblo Station, during a moment I needed help more than ever before. Just call me Franz Oberhauser from now on. I’ve grown up on Planet Denver as a child of farmers. We led a rather simple life, but always had enough to sustain ourselves due to our fields next to the sea. I’ve spent half of my childhood fishing there until someday those people from Ageira Technologies and Deep Space Engineering came in order to buy our house and fields. My parents didn’t want their money and sent them away, but just a few days later bulldozers came, destroyed our house and my parents disappeared. One year later the mayor of Crichton Springs (together with some flunkeys from Ageira) celebrated the opening of a luxury tourist resort.

I will never forget these crimes, but somehow they changed my life in a positive direction too. At the age of eleven I got adopted by a woman working in the Ageira Headquarters. Luckily I decided to conceal my personal history to everyone – even my new family and friends. But my curiosity and thirst for knowledge about the universe and technical innovation became stronger every day. At the age of 18 I started my first part-time job as a technician at Pueblo Station while at the same time studying Information Security Management at Crichton Springs University. With 28 the great day came: I was promoted into Ageiras Information Security Department.

Time for revenge had come. My direct supervisor always feared an infiltration of Ageira by the Lane Hackers. I made my best to make his nightmares come true and started to disclose information about Ageiras new security systems. However I never could successfully establish contact to the Lane Hackers …

After four years Ageira somehow must have traced me down, even though I felt safe all the time. I know you must have observed my somehow as it can’t be a coincidence, that your message arrived just in the right moment.

I’ve closely followed your instructions, sabotaged industrial supply depots near Balitmore Shipyard and Planet Manhattan, hunted down Ageira and Liberty Navy scamps in missions for the Liberty Rogues at Buffalo Base and – thanks to your information – found the crashed Mantrid in Minnesota System. Last but not least: a huge shipload of delicious Cardamine is being unloaded from my Bactrian right now (except one unit, which I will keep for myself).

Hopefully you will respond to my transmission soon, because (don't tell the Liberty Rogues) on this base I’m slowly getting bored due to the lack of real intellectual counterparts. I`m sure you know where you can find me.

Yours sincerely,
Franz Oberhauser

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[TheKrazyCanuck]

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I hope this is message gets into the right hands, you can call me Emmerich. I am currently a server technician for Ageira Technologies onboard Pueblo Station. I have been given security clearance that has allowed me to access certain documents pertaining to their business practices that have, shall we say, opened my eyes to all they have done over the course of my employment with them. I figured the best thing to do with all this new found information is to turn it over, along with my services to those that can make a difference with them. (IE: YOU). I'm sure if you wish to reach me, you know the best way to.

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[The Lane Hackers]

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The Lane Hackers

"Making the corporate weenies cry, so our kids can live in a free and just galaxy."

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[Red Grant]

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Case: 24aa8108c43140a016dfc4053d8d5640
Alias: Patrice
Transponder: R~LH~Patrice
Background: Lane Hackers

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Well hello there Hackers,

Or would you prefer me calling you 'The inner circle'?
I managed to complete all phases today.

Phase one was quite easy honestly. Those bounty hunters were barely a match for me. I managed to get a small fighter set up with some weapons, before I grabbed some codename weapons from wrecked ships in Ontario (A HELLION type), which I was stupid enough to forget to document, and Alberta (CERBERUS). After selling those, i got to a nice bank account of 6 million credits to buy myself a Dromedary on Bethlehem.

Then we got to phase 2 and 3. These have proven to be quite difficult, as the wreckage tips i recieved were far from correct, even though the items fattened up my account slightly. I managed to persuade a freelancer into getting me the Trade Lane Parts in person, and I delivered these to Airdrie as requestion. 100 of them.

Now, I am quite certain i dont have to get indepth about myself here, as by now you probably already learned all you need about me. If not, well... You surely have even more secure communication info of me already. I hope you dont mind me configuring my transmission colors a little, I prefer em this way.

I hope to receive a reply from you folks soon.

H.

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[Chang]

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Case: 9d601ccec55f9309947c27f9a6f21149
Alias: Chang
Transponder: R~LH~Chang
Background: Ageira Technologies

Message

So as might of found out already from digging around my file I was a ageira fighter escort but on the side they had me developing safeguard's to help prevent the lane hackers doing what they do best hitting the most valuable cargo.
To cut a long story short I was found deleting the safeguards and destroying the back up 's and on my way out I destroyed all storage depot's on my way to the Badlands'. I also hit a convoy of h.fuel to bolster our reserve's and stole what I could carry from the DSE scum

If you haven't read my file I am a male who does not give out any more than that because you can never be too safe right.

the navy fighter's went down like fly's even with civilian gun's, they then sent bounty hunter's into the Badlands after me let's just say no one will see them again.

I have followed out every task asked [gun cam proof http://imgur.com/a/nGYNP]
If ever needed I am ready for my next mission
I hope to hear from you soon

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[Roland Marquis]

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Case: 4339f8f3c835b841c870d1ad744bcce3
Alias: Roland Marquis
Transponder: R~LH~Roland.Marquis
Background: Ageira Technologies

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Good evening gentlemen.

This was quite the trip. Far more exciting and worthwhile than that incessant drudgery that is Ageira. As I'm sure you already know, I was a coder there. Had my hands on the Ageira trade lane systems and quite a lot of information. A lot of valuable information. But before we get to that, I might as well explain why I've decided to break free from my corporate overlords.

It started with a girl - it seems like it always does. Let's call her Sarah for now. Met her at a bar on Denver, daughter of some rich corporate stooge. She had an interesting way to entertain herself - cardamine. This is how I was introduced to this intoxicating concoction. Unfortunately, this is also where things got complicated for me with Ageira. Remember that wonderful, valuable information? Well I began discreetly selling it to some rather unsavoury individuals so I could pay for the cardamine.

At first it was manageable. But then Sarah and I needed more and I was forced to get more daring. Inevitably the noose started to get tighter. Soon enough, I was tipped off it was time for a "random drug screening." Random... like I was supposed to believe that. This is where you come in. The way that I see it, I was a Lane Hacker but in name. Might as well make it official.

Escape from Pueblo was easy enough. You could walk an elephant through there and people wouldn't even notice, how do you think I was able to get all that cargo information out so easily for all that time? On the way to the Badlands I raided Baltimore and blew up some of those terribly defended cargo pods. Like shooting fish in a barrel. However, those Rogues didn't trust me yet, told me I had to something really ballsy and to be creative.

So I decided to raid some police equipment. A lot of donuts were vaporised... come to think of it I think I actually hard the sound of crying through the vacuum of space from all those brokenhearted cops.

Making enough creds to get myself a Dromedary wasn't difficult. In fact, it was rather poetic. The hunters became the hunted. Once the freighter was secured, the cardamine was delivered. There was an extra few units, but I've decided to keep those for myself.

I await further instructions. In the mean time, I've been told Montezuma has an excellent house of ill-repute.

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[Miranda Frost]

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Case: de3354a274949513153974fb8e5d51ed
Alias: Miranda Frost
Transponder: R~LH~Miranda.Frost
Background: Ageira Technologies

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Good day, I really hope you are getting this message, I just can't stand lurking in places with smelly junkers and loud rogues.
They sure know what needs to be done to get a job done, but they are messy and really have no manners.
Thank you for your message, you sent it just in time. You were right, the station guards were closing in to my quarters just as I stormed out the door.
Somehow, they must had suspected me sending you encrypted messages over the time. They must had hidden some kind of tracer code in my last data packet, I am pretty sure now that data pack was actually a set up for me to take it. It was too appealing to turn down, I should had known better but what was done, was done.
As soon as I entered the docking bays, I manage to get the small shuttle and escape, I didn't even bothered taking the trade lanes, I couldn't let the police know where I was headed, so I made a run towards the New York jump hole. The Xenos start shooting me as soon as they picked me up on their scanners. I landed at Rochester to make repairs and went straight to the DSE depots. I shoot them up to create a diversion as I made my escape towards planet Manhattan. When I arrived there the police was on my tail, so I shot their depots as well just to buy myself a little longer. The in confusion and the disorientation I slipped through and made my way to Pennsylvania.
Over there, the rogues did not trust me. So I had to earn their trust. They offered me some missions to prove myself and completed them. The junkers were not fast to just take my word either, so they had me running errands too.
I was in need of credits to survive and to satisfy my need for cardamine so I took your advice and headed to Minnesota to scavenge for whatever I could find. I did manage to get a nice piece of hardware and the junkers sure payed nice for it.
With the credits from the errands and the missions from rogues, I manage to get myself some food, equipment and the needed contacts.
I've spent most of the credits on bribes to make myself known on the underworld market and to gain the trust needed from the rogues and the junkers. Who knew if you buy a round to everyone in a bar would make you so popular ?
Anyway, you asked me to prove myself to you too, so I did what you asked me. I've brought the 50 crates of the cardamine at Montezuma Base. I just landed now in hangar bay 02, platform B. I will be renting a room here on the base, I simply can not stand going in the bar again, and having every damn rude, smelly, loud, unmannered and unintelligible rogue.
I have bought a unmarked transmission device off the black market, just input D02-NT-Z to call me, or if you want a face to face meeting, I am staying in room 202B, second Deck, C wing. I await your response.

Regards, Miranda Frost.

Industrial sabotage | Police diversion | Scavenging | Contact

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[Le.Gérant]

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Case: c09470d54390ef8d6e3ff6bbb2608e7c
Alias: Le Gérant
Transponder: R~LH~Le.Gérant
Background: Lane Hackers

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Phew, so here I am docked in Airdrie Hideout after a looong journey and man, what a ride it was.

As per the instructions, I have completed all the phases. Before I continue, a little bit of background on me. I don't have a way with words like a poet or a writer would but I'll do my best. I originate from Gallia, born and raised, that alone puts a target on my back in most House systems. I never agreed with the expansionism happening in Gallia, why put our isolated House at risk I thought? Why risk the lives of our citizens when we already have everything we need? Conquer all? What joke. Let's just say that I had some extreme views on isolationism that weren't agreed on which effectively had me exiled. Having to run away from Gallia, I tried to make a new life in Liberty but.. well, there's absolutely no reason why that would have went well. Since I left Gallia, I had to live a life of Piracy and in Piracy, what I found was a family. Friends, family, allies, everything I had craved for in a hostile world seemingly against me was all there. For the longest of time when I was younger, I was taught that pirates are miscreants, cowards, unloyal but they were wrong. Pirates are courageous, they truly do what they believe in with extreme fervor and will always be loyal to another friend. Never in my life have I been agreed with and felt so much of one-mind with other individuals.

So that was my short background, just so you at least know a little bit where I'm coming from. If you truly want to know, I would be happy to answer questions and expand on my past but for now, let's get to the matter at hand of my recruitment.

It all started with me receiving the informations for the Transporter Code and Dock Access Key. Won't lie, that civilian ship is not something I would ever expect me to be fighting in but damn, the guns that were put on it on it packed quite a punch. It was surely quite the shock for the targets I.. umm, disposed of to have a simple Stargazer rushing headlong at them.

Instructions asked me to show my resourcefulness by making enough money to obtain a Bactrian ship at Montezuma base. I wasn't too sure how to do it first, Mactan base is surrounded by water clouds but, water. Not the most profitable of business. As I headed to the local bar to have a drink and freshen up the mind a bit, I was approached by a shady figure who promised me I could get money if I did "simple" jobs for him. Assassinating high-profile targets, taking out nearby hostile bases and patrols, simple things. Best of all, he promised me lots of money for these jobs, just what I needed.

The missions I were given went quite well but I kept getting bolder and bolder and taking on increasingly more difficult missions. Thankfully, on my way to a mission in the barrier, I picked up a friendly Rogue on my radar going by the name of Rhys Maeda, a Rogue coming from Kusari, quite unique right? But good fellow. The Rogue was also in the mood for making some money so we ended up teaming up together to take care of some of the Navy and Bounty Hunters flying a bit too close to Mactan base in the Barrier. Got quite a few of them, those are only a fraction of the one we were able to get alive.

After I had accumulated enough money which was roughly 2.2 million to make sure I had enough to outfit it with some guns, the Rogue showed me the way to Montezuma Base where we finally parted way. I was finally able to get my Bactrian but not before stopping by the Bradley wreck in the barrier. Before moving to Montezuma, I was hoping maybe I could find some Lane Parts and get a heads up on phase 2 but tough luck, the wreck was empty. I didn't have much luck with wrecks today. Torbay, empty. McKinley, empty. To hell with wrecks so I decided the best way to get those lane parts would to go right to the source where after lots of fighting against Xenos, Bountry Hunters and Navy patrols, I was finally able to stop an Ageira convoy where I was able to successfully capture 87 Docking Ring parts. With the quantity needed for Phase 3, I made my way to Alberta in hope of finding that fabled Airdrie Hideout.

Hideout is right, took me quite a lot of hacking and triangulation to get it right but in the end, I was able to make my way through the field to finally find Airdrie Hideout. With all that done, here I am in Airdrie Hideout awaiting further instructions.

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