The Lane Hackers | Internal Comms

[Rak]

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Ey', gents.

Recently I've been spending more time in Shikoku due to the increased mercenary presence in Liberty, coupled with my usual ship of choice.

Today I took my Bactrian out for a spin, but- sadly- it was during the late part of the cycle, when I could not sleep. As such, there wasn't a whole lot of traffic around, until this fellow stumbled upon me.


At first, I had no idea who he was, because he was missing a few valuable parts from his ship- such as his identification module. The problem was that he was hauling both gate and lane parts and was on his way to New Tokyo.

[26.09.2014 00:44:05] LH~Rak.: Well now, what do we have here?
[26.09.2014 00:44:18] LH~Rak.: That's an actual question, Ostwind.
[26.09.2014 00:44:20] LH~Rak.: The hell are you?
[26.09.2014 00:44:26] LH~Rak.: You seem to be missing something.
[26.09.2014 00:44:38] LH~Rak.: Also, if I have to disrupt you again, I will tear your face off.
[26.09.2014 00:44:44] LH~Rak.: I am dead serious.
[26.09.2014 00:44:47] Ostwind: what!"?7
[26.09.2014 00:45:02] LH~Rak.: Exactly.
[26.09.2014 00:45:07] LH~Rak.: That's the question.
[26.09.2014 00:45:35] LH~Rak.: How about you stop and answer the question, before I remove your engines.
[26.09.2014 00:46:01] Ostwind: what do you whant?
[26.09.2014 00:46:07] LH~Rak.: A number of things.
[26.09.2014 00:46:07] Ostwind: i got lane part
[26.09.2014 00:46:13] LH~Rak.: I see that.
[26.09.2014 00:46:23] LH~Rak.: Do tell, do you work for Ageira or something?
[26.09.2014 00:46:28] LH~Rak.: Since you are hauling gate parts and all.
[26.09.2014 00:46:44] Ostwind: No i m on my self
[26.09.2014 00:46:49] LH~Rak.: That's strange.
[26.09.2014 00:46:54] LH~Rak.: You seem to lack freelancer papers.
[26.09.2014 00:47:12] LH~Rak.: I do have this feeling that you are in fact working for Ageira.
[26.09.2014 00:47:41] LH~Rak.: Lane hackers do not really like Ageira, no.

He was very hard to talk to at first. Then he dropped this on me:

[26.09.2014 00:48:09] Ostwind: im going in bretonia right now
[26.09.2014 00:48:13] LH~Rak.: If you were indeed an Ageira dog, your cargo would have had your cargo floating in space by now.
[26.09.2014 00:48:20] LH~Rak.: You are sort of far away from Bretonia, you know.
[26.09.2014 00:48:44] Ostwind: I had my cargo on pueblo station
[26.09.2014 00:49:05] LH~Rak.: And do you know that the cargo you have is not in fact sold in Bretonia?
[26.09.2014 00:49:11] LH~Rak.: Or rather sold off at.
[26.09.2014 00:49:36] Ostwind: you can follow me or i can take another route
[26.09.2014 00:49:53] LH~Rak.: Well, we have a problem here.
[26.09.2014 00:50:03] LH~Rak.: I am still not fully convinced that you do not belong to Ageira.
[26.09.2014 00:50:11] LH~Rak.: What with your choice of ship and cargo and all.
[26.09.2014 00:50:20] LH~Rak.: How about you convince me?
[26.09.2014 00:50:42] LH~Rak.: You know, before your cargo ends up floating in space.
[26.09.2014 00:50:44] Death: chipper was put out of action by a hostile vessel.
[26.09.2014 00:50:56] Ostwind: I got the larger profict by biyng it at 5000 on pueblo and selling it
[26.09.2014 00:51:16] Ostwind: at 13000
[26.09.2014 00:51:17] LH~Rak.: So you have docking access to Pueblo station?
[26.09.2014 00:51:23] Ostwind: on planet hambourg
[26.09.2014 00:51:29] LH~Rak.: Now I think you are an Ageira employee even more.
[26.09.2014 00:51:34] LH~Rak.: You are sort of doing it wrong.
[26.09.2014 00:51:57] LH~Rak.: Wait, since when are we talking about Rheinland now?

I mean, you can sort of see how confusing this was. Still, the fellow actually talked back, instead trying to run towards the nearest station. So he couldn't have been an Ageira employee, so I decided to question him a little bit more. After a few more tries, I decided to save the guy from becoming their lapdog.

[26.09.2014 00:53:11] LH~Rak.: You know, I do beleive you are an Ageira employee trying to make fun of me.
[26.09.2014 00:53:15] LH~Rak.: And now you will drop your cargo.
[26.09.2014 00:53:21] LH~Rak.: Unless you can prove me wrong.
[26.09.2014 00:54:23] Ostwind: i don't know how i can convince you that i m telling the true
[26.09.2014 00:54:23] LH~Rak.: The clock is ticking. I suggest you do one or the other soon, you Ageira dog.
[26.09.2014 00:54:41] LH~Rak.: Well, do you work for Ageira or not?
[26.09.2014 00:54:58] Ostwind: No i don't!!!
[26.09.2014 00:55:13] LH~Rak.: Good. Now come back to the previous lane ring with me. We are going to get you more fitting cargo.

It took some time, but I showed him that running cargo around for Ageira and Interspace was less fun than taking it from them instead.

[26.09.2014 00:56:05] LH~Rak.: Good, now drop the cargo you have
[26.09.2014 00:56:22] Ostwind: wait
[26.09.2014 00:56:24] LH~Rak.: We will replace it with something more suitable.
[26.09.2014 00:57:26] Ostwind: i want only money i can gave you at a price that you and i can earn money
[26.09.2014 00:57:37] LH~Rak.: No, we will simply get you better argo than this.
[26.09.2014 00:57:41] LH~Rak.: Just watch and learn.
[26.09.2014 00:58:16] Ostwind: *how to drop*?
[26.09.2014 00:58:33] LH~Rak.: Open your cargo, select the goods and click the drop button.
[26.09.2014 00:58:59] LH~Rak.: Hmmm, let's see.
[26.09.2014 00:59:00] Ostwind: dropped
[26.09.2014 00:59:05] LH~Rak.: Oxygen. Nope. That's not good.
[26.09.2014 00:59:16] LH~Rak.: Let's wait for the next transport.
[26.09.2014 00:59:51] LH~Rak.: Oh look.
[26.09.2014 01:00:00] LH~Rak.: Synth paste.
[26.09.2014 01:00:27] LH~Rak.: This sells back on Ames depot in Kepler.
[26.09.2014 01:00:39] LH~Rak.: You will get more money than for the gate parts.
[26.09.2014 01:01:03] Ostwind: i can't grab it!
[26.09.2014 01:01:17] LH~Rak.: Yes, that was what I was talking about.
[26.09.2014 01:01:24] LH~Rak.: You seem to be lacking an ID module.
[26.09.2014 01:01:33] LH~Rak.: Go to the nearest base and grab a Freelancer one.
[26.09.2014 01:01:40] LH~Rak.: It will enable your tractor beam.
[26.09.2014 01:01:45] LH~Rak.: Once you do, come back.
[26.09.2014 01:01:53] LH~Rak.: We have around 20 million worth of cargo floating around here already.
[26.09.2014 01:02:03] Ostwind: ok
[26.09.2014 01:02:13] LH~Rak.: Oh yeah, get some better guns, will ya?
[26.09.2014 01:02:21] LH~Rak.: Killing these things by myself is tedious.
[26.09.2014 01:02:28] LH~Rak.: Charons will do.
[26.09.2014 01:05:37] LH~Rak.: Welcome back.
[26.09.2014 01:05:47] LH~Rak.: Right then, you will find that Paste sells back in Kepler on Ames.
[26.09.2014 01:05:57] LH~Rak.: Got some Xenosomething Fillers, those go to New Tokyo.
[26.09.2014 01:06:14] LH~Rak.: Every single shipment of these should earn you around seven million credits
[26.09.2014 01:07:35] Death: Volar_Doharis suffered a self-inflicted catastrophic decompression.
[26.09.2014 01:15:16] LH~Rak.: Yo, welcome to the scrapyard.
[26.09.2014 01:15:22] LH~Rak.: How's the profit?
[26.09.2014 01:15:55] LH~Rak.: What you are doing now- is called Fencing.
[26.09.2014 01:16:05] LH~Rak.: Selling stolen cargo.
[26.09.2014 01:16:22] Ostwind: you whant somthing in exchange?
[26.09.2014 01:16:26] LH~Rak.: Since you can dock on lawful bases, unlike me. And unlike you, I can shoot down these transports.
[26.09.2014 01:16:40] LH~Rak.: Well, feel free to throw me a mil or two every once and a while.
[26.09.2014 01:16:43] LH~Rak.: Now go on, go sell.
[26.09.2014 01:17:13] LH~Rak.: Those Xenosomething fillers were sold off somewhere in New Tokyo.
[26.09.2014 01:26:53] LH~Rak.: Yo.
[26.09.2014 01:27:09] LH~Rak.: Remember to drop all of the useless things, when you tractor all of the things up.
[26.09.2014 01:27:16] LH~Rak.: Oxigen and water are usually not worth it.
[26.09.2014 01:27:21] Ostwind: how i can gave you money?
[26.09.2014 01:27:27] LH~Rak.: So are pilots- you don't want to get into trouble for those.
[26.09.2014 01:27:36] LH~Rak.: I'll show you in a sec, let's see what these fellos have...
[26.09.2014 01:27:42] LH~Rak.: Oh, food.
[26.09.2014 01:27:48] LH~Rak.: This can be taken to Ames.
[26.09.2014 01:28:38] LH~Rak.: So, how's the profit looking?
[26.09.2014 01:28:46] LH~Rak.: Better than running gate parts for some liberty company, huh?
[26.09.2014 01:28:58] Ostwind: much better!
[26.09.2014 01:29:26] Ostwind: I want money whithout covering my hand in blood
[26.09.2014 01:29:35] LH~Rak.: Well, not really blood.
[26.09.2014 01:29:43] LH~Rak.: I mean all of the ships have escape pods and all.
[26.09.2014 01:29:49] LH~Rak.: Not like anyone's hurt *Shrugs*
[26.09.2014 01:30:02] LH~Rak.: We just are...hmmm...reposessing cargo.
[26.09.2014 01:30:14] LH~Rak.: Who cares who delivers it to those stations? Corp transports or you?
[26.09.2014 01:30:19] LH~Rak.: They get their cargo, after all.
[26.09.2014 01:30:52] LH~Rak.: That and I am doing all of the shooting after all.
[26.09.2014 01:31:04] Ostwind: there are vips?
[26.09.2014 01:31:14] LH~Rak.: Ho ho!
[26.09.2014 01:31:16] Dude: Heyy
[26.09.2014 01:31:17] LH~Rak.: There's good man.
[26.09.2014 01:31:33] LH~Rak.: Cardi for Liberty. Gotta love that.
[26.09.2014 01:31:46] Dude: All they can take
[26.09.2014 01:32:35] LH~Rak.: At some point we will need to relocate.
[26.09.2014 01:32:41] LH~Rak.: Otherwise the palce is a bit too....scrappy.
[26.09.2014 01:32:46] LH~Rak.: Too much useless stuff floating around.
[26.09.2014 01:32:50] Ostwind: i gave you money
[26.09.2014 01:32:56] Ostwind: this is my last run
[26.09.2014 01:33:01] LH~Rak.: Right.
[26.09.2014 01:33:15] LH~Rak.: Well, if you want to work with the Hackers again at some point, you know my name.
[26.09.2014 01:33:45] Ostwind: Ok this is funny and proficuous
[26.09.2014 01:33:51] LH~Rak.: I know right?
[26.09.2014 01:33:56] Ostwind: ahahahah!
[26.09.2014 01:34:08] LH~Rak.: Welcome to the world of the unlawfuls.
[26.09.2014 01:34:13] LH~Rak.: This is how things are with us.
[26.09.2014 01:34:29] LH~Rak.: Cheers!

In total, one fellow saved, 15 million credits made.
All of the relevant guncam images can be found on our servers HERE.





~Rak

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