To: Lane Hacker professorship

[Omicron]

COMM ID: Angel Kate 'Valkyrie' Golanska
TO: Lane Hacker professorship
Subject: Lost something?
Encryption: Medium

Welcome Hackers. Disregard my affilation whatever relationship you may share or shared with my group. I contact you privately in rather extra ordinary matter.

On search for a new starship model I may move around off-duty without using my primary ship outside our zone of operations (and annoying my boss), I went to Rheinland to check what they have to offer. All of decent tech limited to local house enforcers or being junk for random civilians. Well I almost lost hope until I found something that might be of interest to you too.

In place called Koeln, Kruger mining star system you may be aware of already, on one of the stations I found individual selling rather interesting pieces of hardware, which from what I know belongs to you. I haven't been in Liberty for a while but when I see Lane Hacker ship, I know it is one. This seller aquired sizeable ammount of Bayonet class fighters alongside Broadsword bombers from unknown source, and possible he might get more. They let me though to take a closer look, everything about ships looks legit besides a fact, it was renamed to "Borderworld" in registries. Why am I concerned? I do not wish you bad myself and if that number of any craft was released upon open market from any faction, results may not be best.

Now we come to this momenth. I dont know whether you aproved this or not, or even if you are aware of this 'salesman' yet. What you do with this, is your choice. Location, alongside proof you can get per request or simply track source of this transmission your way - whatever option you preffer.

Valkyrie out.

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[Omicron]

:::transmission repeated with HIGH encryption:::

Guess that would draw their attention perhaps.

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[Nicole Hunter]

...hack.initiated...decryption.in.progress...
...count.your.fingers.recognized...transmission.encrypted...
...uploading.data...
...decryption.failed...

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...encryption.in.progress...hack.terminated...

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[Brutus Clay]

Valkyrie,

Your perspicacity is remarkable. Yes, those ships are indeed of Lane Hacker design. Or rather, they were modified by Lane Hackers. Without revealing too many details about our ship production capabilities, I can say that we have been maintaining a small "fleet" for quite some time now. We have found that ships available on the Borderworlds market do not fully fulfill our needs, but that with a few modifications we could significantly enhance their capabilities. It is extremely easy to refit fighters and bombers with newer avionics, navigation, tactical and weapons systems, and not so hard to build completely new ships using spare parts from older models.

This is what we have been doing so far, until it occurred to us that there could be a market for our creations. We've decided to distribute the ships you know as Bayonet, Broadsword and some others to the black market. Last I heard, they were extremely popular.

You're welcome.

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[Omicron]

COMM ID: Angel Kate 'Valkyrie' Golanska
TO: Lane Hacker professorship
Subject: Lost something?
Encryption: High

I guess it is then settled. Myself would not expect that kind of craft in hands of freelancer not affilated to you in any way but I guess times changed. Perhaps at some point we will meet in space once.

Valkyrie out.

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