Difference between revisions of "Lane Hackers (player faction)"
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*[http://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=5082 Lane Hacker Information Sheet] | *[http://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=5082 Lane Hacker Information Sheet] | ||
| − | *[http://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=5086 Lane Hacker | + | *[http://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=5086 Lane Hacker Internal Comms] |
*[http://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=26178 Lane Hacker Mission Archives] | *[http://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=26178 Lane Hacker Mission Archives] | ||
*[http://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=5085 Lane Hacker Recruitment] | *[http://discoverygc.com/forums/showthread.php?tid=5085 Lane Hacker Recruitment] | ||
Revision as of 14:53, 19 October 2013
- This is a player faction. For the affiliated NPC faction, see Lane Hackers
| Lane Hackers | |
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| Origin |  Liberty
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| Affiliation | Lane Hackers |
| Alignment | Unlawful |
| Profile | |
| Date of founding | unknown |
| Founder(s) | Moriarty |
| Current leader(s) | Nicole Hunter |
| Base of operations | unknown |
| Primary role | |
| Piracy | |
| Secondary role | |
| Naval Befuddlement | |
History
Lane Hackers are mostly composed of former Los Angeles Ageira Technologies employees who created the extremely complex scanning and database system known as USI (Universal Ship Identification). Departing the company rather acrimoniously in 750 AS, they have become a growing problem in the Independent Worlds.
The Lane Hackers in Magellan and Galileo share one common origin Ageira. The scandal that erupted within the company after the great Galileo bypass project, which resulted in the unnecessary construction of a hugely expensive set of Jump Gates and Trade Lanes, forced several executives and an elite development team out. This would become the second part of the core of the Lane Hackers, along with the original California scanner group that fled to Magellan. The investigation continues to this day, but has so far been unsuccessful in locating the Lane Hacker bases.
No Hacker has ever been captured, although various Rogues in the Independent Worlds have been caught possessing remarkably accurate information regarding upcoming high-value shipments. Security measures have been added to the software, but the Hackers remain one step ahead, leading Ageira security experts to believe that there are many sympathetic programmers still within the company, possibly being secretly paid off with the proceeds from the thefts. The Lane Hackers prefer to sell their information to others rather than do the dirty work themselves, although they sometimes swoop in and tractor in a cargo if it's particularly juicy. Fancying themselves as modern-day Robin-hoods, they avoid direct confrontation when possible, unless it is the henchmen of the despised IC and Ageira.
They like to frequent Freeport 4 and the Ames Research Station, as their asteroid bases within the clouds can become claustrophobic. Their Cardamine addiction forces the Hackers to trade drugs for Trade Lane info with the Outcasts at the Mactan base. Leiden is a key transfer point for smuggled goods between Kusari and Liberty, especially the Artifact trade, which the Hogosha dominate. A steady stream of Hogosha ships make the journey to the Galileo system. The Lane Hackers have also been spotted in Colorado, leading authorities to speculate that there may be multiple Jump Hole routes into that system from the Independent Worlds.
Goals
- The bankruptcy of the corrupt Ageira Technologies, the fraudulent Deep Space Engineering, the nefarious Interspace Commerce and the dissolute cartel known as Independent Neuralnet Division.
- Confiscation of all revenues illicitly purloined from the intellectual expertise of former, current, and future Ageira employees by Ageira Technologies with the collusion of Deep Space Engineering, Interspace Commerce, their corporate conspirators and associated hoodlums in Independent Neuralnet Division.
- Elimination of the hypocritical and puritanical social and legal restrictions on the use of the intellectual enhancer Cardamine.
- The eventual use of confiscated revenues to establish a new Research & Development technology firm to replace the nefarious Ageira Technologies. The firm will honor its employees, conduct fair and just business practices, and pursue technological innovations for the benefit of all mankind. The firm's first project will be the development of an inter-dimensional, quasi-molecular, table-top nomad-brain disgronifier suitable for purchase by every middle-class family in Sirius. Then families can sleep peacefully without worrying about whether there is a nomad under the bed or about to leap out of the dark closet at 2 am when you have to get up to go to the bathroom because you just had to drink that 26th Sidewinder Fang before you left your neighbor's groovy shindig.
Methods
- The interdiction and disruption of all commercial traffic in the colony of Liberty and its bordering systems in order to bankrupt Ageira Technologies, Deep Space Engineering, Interspace Commerce and Independent Neuralnet Division through disruption of their contractual obligations throughout Sirius.
- Harassment and, where necessary, termination of all so-called "legal authorities" under the corrupting influence of Ageira Technologies, Deep Space Engineering, Interspace Commerce and Independent Neuralnet Division.
- Infiltration of commercial interests by Lane Hackers at every level of planning, production, logistics, and security services to provide timely intelligence to the Lane Hacker Professorship and allied parties. Disruption of all broadcasts of the ancient Terran Techno-Operational Treatises known as "James Bond films". Confiscation of all known copies of these Treatises for Lane Hacker training purposes.
- Leveraging the Lane Hacker alliance with the Outcasts and Liberty Rogues to further insinuate the enlightenment of Cardamine into Liberty Society at every level.
- Embarrass, humiliate, harass, prank, infiltrate, disrupt, annoy, irritate, purify, cleanse, flail, disgronify, discombobulate, confuse, disconcert, fluster, rattle, encumber, thwart, obstruct, hinder, impede, interfere, and tickle Liberty Security Force and Liberty Navy at every turn to reward them for so masterfully and effectively shilling for Ageira Technologies, Deep Space Engineering and Interspace Commerce. This shall include but not be limited to sneaking Cardamine into the food supply at the LSF and Liberty Navy barracks and depositing yellow organic liquid supplements into their drinking water at every opportunity.
Hierarchy
The ranks are as follows, from highest to lowest:
Diplomacy
Identification
On joining the Hacker ranks, members dispose of their former identities and adopt aliases. These aliases are primarily the names of prominent antagonists taken from the "James Bond Documentary Series" of ancient Earth.
Lane Hackers identification tag:
- Lane Hackers: LH~
- Assassins: LH~A~
Lane Hackers carry Lane Hacker IDs and squawk either Lane Hacker or Lane Hacker Guard IFFs.
