The Lane Hackers | Internal Comms

[JonahC]

...hack.initiated...decryption.in.progress...
...Hacker.Orlov.recognized...transmission.encrypted...
...uploading.data...

Greetings Miss Hunter,
I trust you are feeling well?

I have prepared the report of my visit to Baffin. I think I witnessed something I have only read about in the archives. First of all I recieved a communication from Richard Cole who is some higher-up in the Zoner heirarchy, who wanted me to hack into the databases of a ship he purchased supposedly from an ex-hacker.

This seemed rather odd to me as the only ex-hackers I know of are not breathing any longer. In any case her is a copy of our conversation upon my arrival at Pueblo Bonito. Note: I could not get any closer than 600m to the station, their guns were all locked on to my gunship.

[11.08.2013 18:56:38] LH~Mactan.Vindicator: I am apporximately 40 k from your location.
[11.08.2013 18:59:09] Marilon: Richard: Tei Kallistei sir
[11.08.2013 18:59:27] LH~Mactan.Vindicator: Orlov: Good day to you as well.
[11.08.2013 18:59:40] Marilon: Richard: As you can see this is an old ship.
[11.08.2013 18:59:51] LH~Mactan.Vindicator: That is some peice of hardware you have.
[11.08.2013 19:00:24] Marilon: Richard: Indeed, restoring it is a bigger problem
[11.08.2013 19:00:39] LH~Mactan.Vindicator: As I can imagine it would be.
[11.08.2013 19:01:30] Marilon: Richard: I suggest you look into the databanks, for us it was rather hard to decipher.
[11.08.2013 19:01:36] LH~Mactan.Vindicator: Well, I can do some scans. And of course, the datafiles...I would need to download them in entirety to my ship.
[11.08.2013 19:02:29] LH~Mactan.Vindicator: I dont have a clue yet what sort of information would be contained in them. But likely things Zoners have no business with.
[11.08.2013 19:02:40] LH~Mactan.Vindicator: No offence.
[11.08.2013 19:03:17] Marilon: Richard: None taken, point is we need to update the databanks with our data we gathered over the years.
[11.08.2013 19:03:24] LH~Mactan.Vindicator: *initiating scan*
[11.08.2013 19:04:18] LH~Mactan.Vindicator: *database download activated*
[11.08.2013 19:05:12] LH~Mactan.Vindicator: This encryption is old but still good. Trying to crack other Hackers work is much more difficult than cracking into a...
[11.08.2013 19:05:24] LH~Mactan.Vindicator: corporate or even military database.
[11.08.2013 19:05:42] LH~Mactan.Vindicator: *data recovered*
[11.08.2013 19:05:58] Marilon: Richard: That explained why our engineers where unable to do so.
[11.08.2013 19:06:35] LH~Mactan.Vindicator: This will be difficult even for me. I will need to take this up with Miss Hunter.
[11.08.2013 19:06:57] LH~Mactan.Vindicator: She will likely have the decryption keys.
[11.08.2013 19:07:26] LH~Mactan.Vindicator: *Vessel system scans complete*
[11.08.2013 19:07:42] Marilon: Richard: Let us hope so, it would be a waste if the vessel would never be able to fly again in the future.
[11.08.2013 19:08:01] LH~Mactan.Vindicator: Now, I am interested to know how you came into posession of this vessel.
[11.08.2013 19:08:56] Marilon: Richard: I bought it from a salesman. An former Lane Hacker. He kept it after his journeys hidden.
[11.08.2013 19:09:13] Marilon: Richard: Think maybe to sell or who knows what he intended to do with it.
[11.08.2013 19:09:46] LH~Mactan.Vindicator: There have been some incredibly crafty Lane Hackers.
[11.08.2013 19:10:44] LH~Mactan.Vindicator: I can only imagine what he intended with this vessel...and yet, why sell it to you...and not ransom it back to us?
[11.08.2013 19:11:16] LH~Mactan.Vindicator: Did he talk about his reasons at all?
[11.08.2013 19:12:14] Marilon: Richard: Sadly not. It was a quick and swift transfer. I brought a case full with credits and what he did after that?
[11.08.2013 19:12:23] Marilon: I have no clue.
[11.08.2013 19:13:02] Marilon: Richard: As suddenly he came into my transmissions the same way he just vanisht and seems never to have
[11.08.2013 19:13:25] Marilon: existed at all. I guess thats one of the things the Lane Hackers are good in.
[11.08.2013 19:13:47] LH~Mactan.Vindicator: I am sure Nicole knows more about this wraith.
[11.08.2013 19:14:24] Marilon: Richard: lets hope so.. You did gather what you need for now?
[11.08.2013 19:14:41] LH~Mactan.Vindicator: I would also need to know what your intentions are with this ship, should it get into flyable condition again?
[11.08.2013 19:15:45] Marilon: Richard: Not entirely sure yet about that i must say. I am thinking of using it as a defense of our beloved home. And maybe
[11.08.2013 19:16:28] Marilon: even use it to help the ones in need. 1 thing is for sure it will never be seen within liberty or directly bordering systems.
[11.08.2013 19:17:40] LH~Mactan.Vindicator: I suppose that is all I need for now.
[11.08.2013 19:18:02] LH~Mactan.Vindicator: Orlov: good evening Miss Hunter.
[11.08.2013 19:18:07] LH~Nicole.Hunter.: Good evening, Mr Orlov. I presume, you're in Baffin
[11.08.2013 19:18:19] Marilon: Richard: Ok sir. Well if you could keep me informed on the opened channel?
[11.08.2013 19:18:19] LH~Nicole.Hunter.: in order to learn more about our stolen LHGS.
[11.08.2013 19:18:29] LH~Mactan.Vindicator: I am, and you will not believe what I am looking at.
[11.08.2013 19:18:38] LH~Nicole.Hunter.: What you're looking at?
[11.08.2013 19:18:43] LH~Mactan.Vindicator: No LHGS at all.
[11.08.2013 19:18:59] LH~Mactan.Vindicator: A spyglass. As in one of the originals.
[11.08.2013 19:19:18] LH~Nicole.Hunter.: That is interesting....
[11.08.2013 19:19:36] LH~Nicole.Hunter.: I need to see it on my own eyes.
[11.08.2013 19:20:02] LH~Mactan.Vindicator: This Mr.Cole claims to have bought it from what I can only assume is a defector.
[11.08.2013 19:20:21] LH~Nicole.Hunter.: This is getting more and more surreal I see.
[11.08.2013 19:20:28] Marilon: Richard: Sir?
[11.08.2013 19:20:50] LH~Mactan.Vindicator: I have completed a scan of the vessel. And I have downloaded the entire datafiles from the ship.
[11.08.2013 19:21:06] LH~Mactan.Vindicator: I am communicating with Miss Hunter.
[11.08.2013 19:21:21] LH~Mactan.Vindicator: I believe she would like to see this ship for herself.
[11.08.2013 19:21:22] LH~Nicole.Hunter.: Is it still there?
[11.08.2013 19:21:53] LH~Mactan.Vindicator: Yes, at Pueblo Bonito, near Planet Eris
[11.08.2013 19:21:54] Marilon: Richard: I suggest it would be better to arange another time for this. As i have to depart.
[11.08.2013 19:22:02] LH~Nicole.Hunter.: ETA 8 minutes.
[11.08.2013 19:22:08] LH~Mactan.Vindicator: I will relay this to her.
[11.08.2013 19:22:22] LH~Mactan.Vindicator: They have re-docked the vessel.
[11.08.2013 19:22:38] Marilon: Richard: Like I said you can use the data you gathered on the said vessel. And keep me informed on the communication
[11.08.2013 19:22:41] Marilon: channels.
[11.08.2013 19:22:51] LH~Mactan.Vindicator: They will let you look at it in an arranged time. I think you may have scared them.
[11.08.2013 19:22:57] LH~Mactan.Vindicator: Roger.
[11.08.2013 19:23:05] LH~Nicole.Hunter.: Scared them?
[11.08.2013 19:23:23] Marilon: Richard: 23's and may Eris be with us all.
[11.08.2013 19:23:23] LH~Nicole.Hunter.: That's interesting.
[11.08.2013 19:23:40] Traffic control alert: Marilon has requested to dock
[11.08.2013 19:24:06] LH~Mactan.Vindicator: Well, once I said I was communicating with Nicole Hunter, and that she would like to see the ship, they docked.
[11.08.2013 19:25:01] LH~Mactan.Vindicator: I will relay our communication logs as well as the data from the vessel to you shortly.
[11.08.2013 19:25:02] LH~Nicole.Hunter.: Very well, returning to base then.
[11.08.2013 19:25:23] LH~Mactan.Vindicator: As you can imagine, it is heavily encrypted.
[11.08.2013 19:25:44] LH~Mactan.Vindicator: You have the decryption keys, I assume?
[11.08.2013 19:27:35] LH~Nicole.Hunter.: Even if I don't have the keys, it's still my database, Mr Orlov.
[11.08.2013 19:28:07] LH~Nicole.Hunter.: *laughs*
[11.08.2013 19:28:36] LH~Mactan.Vindicator: Of course, of course.
[11.08.2013 19:28:51] Traffic control alert: LH~Mactan.Vindicator has requested to dock
[11.08.2013 19:29:28] LH~Mactan.Vindicator: I will rendezvous with you at Mactan, and present you with the information.
[11.08.2013 19:29:42] Shutdown

These are the scans I took of the vessel:





I am also sending you access to the communication channel Mr. Cole opened to me.

We will speak of this further, I am sure of it.

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

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