The Lane Hackers | Internal Comms

[Wolfgang Weisen]

...hack.initiated...decryption.in.progress...
...Deceiver.Wolfgang.Weisen.recognized...transmission.encrypted...
...uploading.data...

Greetings.

I would like to report that the research operation on the alien structure in Coronado system has been concluded. We are still analyzing the data, however considering our extremely limited knowledge on the technology behind jump gates, we do not expect to come up with more meaningful information as most of our results lead to thousands of different scenarios.

The mission started when Mr Graves and I met the Order operatives outside the jump hole in Cortez system. They had already scouted the immediate area around Coronado so we quickly proceeded to the structure. Fortunately everything went well except a temporary contact of a Colonial vessel which however did not bother us further. That and one of their operatives, Nicholas Rogers. I would normally have removed his unnecessary comments from my report but he was so interruptive that I believe you should know. He is apparently mentally ill and aside of his disturbance and insults, he went as far as to launch a Starkiller Torpedo to the structure while we were examining it. We believe that this didn't cause any problems whatsover.

Anyway from the research data that we uncovered during the operation, our scientific consultant reached the following results:

1. The power output of the alien structure is currently many times larger than that of an Ageira jump gate. Which means that attempts to destroy it may create Hudson Gate scenarios, but many times more powerful.
   
2. Most of the structure's energy is concentrated on its uppermost point.
   
3. While the Ageira jump gates are completely different from the Gallic ones, The alien structure bends time and space in a very similar manner as the Ageira ones. We have yet to explain why Liberty in the 1st and 2nd century after its foundation developed jumping technology and science in a similar way as the alien civilization and not as the Gallic one, for example.
   
4. The structure can control the build-up of the singularity of the event horizon which allows it to be connected to countless places simply by controlling that build-up. Considering its immense power output mentioned in point 1, it can bend space much more and thus is able to send those who use it at a much further location that human jump gates can. Our scientific consultant also believes that if the structure reaches a certain level of power output, it can be denonated which would create a collosal explosion.

Unfortunately we could not determine the date of the structure since we couldn't identify any of the materials that it is made of. We baited the Order operative into telling us how old the structure was by lying to them about its age, but apparently they don't know as well. However, the Order told us about other things both during the operation and after, upon further inquiry.

1. Even the largest of nomad vessels are able to use these "jump gates".
   
2. According to the Order, this structure leads to a heavily fortified location, which explains why the drones that they sent through, never made it back.
   
3. The star system that this structure currently leads to is Tau-117.
   
4. According to the Order, the organisation does not know about any other Daam K'Vosh objects or structures without our zone of operations.

LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Hail.
Order|CV-Seeker: We see you.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Mr Rogers? A pleasure.
Order|CV-Seeker: Let us proceed, planet's far too close to stay here for too long.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: I am Mr Weisen of the Lane Hackers.
LH~Gustav.Graves: Hello there.
Order|CV-Seeker: One odd pirate, bounty hunter and occasional freelancer roam the neighbourhood. Nothing we cant handle just in case.
Order|Aoi;Kunieda: Ehh. Kon'nichiwa..
Order|CV-Seeker: Aoi Kunieda, my wingman... and Rogers, for extra security.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Very well. Let's set course for the structure.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: I am escorted by Mr Graves.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: There's nothing much to tell about me.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: Keep it straight to the point.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: During the survey the structure was active.
Order|CV-Seeker: Orders are: terminate anything that emerges from other end of the gate.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Hopefully it can be activated again or else...
Order|Aoi;Kunieda: Hai. Roger that.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: I am in no combat vehicle. Mr Graves is my security.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: Received, preparing for attack.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Oh yes, it is active.
Order|CV-Seeker: Those were build to last.
LH~Gustav.Graves: Weisen, meanwhile I am rerouting this Bayonet sensors at your disposal.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: Systems online, ready to engage.
Order|Aoi;Kunieda: Scanners clear for now.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: So I am going to deploy the gravitional buoys. They will measure all the things.

- Deploying the buoys -

Order|Aoi;Kunieda: Incoming.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: Come to daddy you son of
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: And we are done.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: I will let Mr Smirnoff, talk to you now
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: Who?
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: A drink is talking to us?
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: He is our scientific consultant.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: He is onboard this vessel.
Order|CV-Seeker: Very well.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: No really, we're not that drunk to talk with a bottle
Order|Aoi;Kunieda: Spare us, Rogers.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: Smirnoff , Coalition vodka
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Smirnoff: Valkyrie, could we please stop having this disturbance? Thank you.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: Look Mr Bottle
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: Come on what's your real name?
Order|Aoi;Kunieda: Shut up, Rogers.
Order|CV-Seeker: Rogers is... special. Still... Rogers, Smirnoff is not a vodka this time.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: Go ahead
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Smirnoff: This is my alias. That is my name that everyone knows me.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: I'll make an exception for your vodka nickname
Order|CV-Seeker: Understandable, we do go by callsigns as well.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Smirnoff: So I am getting the data as we speak.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: Get it, good job.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: These bastards keep coming at us
Order|CV-Seeker: Keep killing them.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: Stay focused on the guns

- Drones start streaming the data -

LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Smirnoff: From a first glance the power output of this structure is many times larger than of a normal Jump Gate.
Order|CV-Seeker: Meanwhile, we were observing this gate ever since this system was charted.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: Of course is bigger, they need bigger ships to go through it.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Smirnoff: So if something happened to it... Imagine Hudson Jump Gate... ten times.
Order|CV-Seeker: More stable.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Smirnoff: So I highly advise the Order to not do something harmful to the structure.
Order|CV-Seeker: In fact, it does stand here for more than a thousand years.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Smirnoff: Unless we uncover the technology behind it, of course.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: We're experts man.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: We have seen this gate model
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Wolfgang: Seeker what data do you have about these gates? How old are they?
Order|CV-Seeker: Smirnoff. To even make a dent into it, you need weapons of mass destruction... on massive scale.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: It's model N1G-5 nomad prototype hypergate
Order|CV-Seeker: Rogers, you dont even know what you are talking about.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: Say I am expert at it.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Wolfgang: *sighs* I think it is time for Mr Rogers to go.
Order|CV-Seeker: It has been abandoned, as everything Daam K'Vosh made in Sirius sector.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Wolfgang: I specifically asked for professionals, not comedians.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: You're really funny
Order|CV-Seeker: What became of creators of this gate is unknown to us. There are no signs that could relate to forceful removal of DK from this sector.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Wolfgang: Deploying robots. They will analyze the date of the structure based on its material.

- Deploying robots on the surface of the structure -

Order|CV-Seeker: For all intents and purposes, it was put here for a reason old forgotten.
Order|Aoi;Kunieda: As what Wolfgang-san said, Rogers. Either focus on gunning, or you may be dismissed.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: You will be dismissed pal
Order|CV-Seeker: It is standard issue jumpgate to be entirely honest...
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: Kunieda use more firepower on these ships!!
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Smirnoff: Ah! Perfect! Materials cannot be recognized...
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: They're after you !
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Smirnoff: Meaning that we cannot estimate the exact date. But based on the corrosion of the structure, they are at least millions of years old. Do you agree, Valkyrie?
Order|Aoi;Kunieda: Nevermind that, destroyed.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: More incoming!
Order|CV-Seeker: Millions... it is debatable. At very least it was here when humanity still fought in the Sol war.
Order|Aoi;Kunieda: Return to your post.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: More guns to their tails!
Order|CV-Seeker: It is made of materials not available to humankind, invulnerable even to capital power of our biggest ships.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: Yeaaaa take it

- At the top of the structure -

LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Smirnoff: This is where I pick up the highest concentration of anti-gravity rays.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Smirnoff: Deploying more robots.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Smirnoff: Hmm...
Order|CV-Seeker: Do not make yourself hopes with penetrating its hull.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Smirnoff: They do not penetrate. They analyze.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: You need a special drill for that.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: Look that was the last assault
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: We can take a break now
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: No more hostiles
Order|CV-Seeker: More are coming, keep them off us.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: Crap
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Smirnoff: That is quite interesting, Valkyrie.
Order|CV-Seeker: Continue...
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Smirnoff: I didn't expect to see such results but this structure bends time and space in very similar manner as our Jump Gates.
Order|CV-Seeker: Simplest solutions may be the best even in DM's case.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Smirnoff: Gallia uses different technology for all we know.
Order|CV-Seeker: I dont know anything about Gallia, but mayhaps they reached same technology by other means?
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Smirnoff: Yet Liberty advanced a technology which is very similar to the Daam K'vosh.
Order|CV-Seeker: There is one goal and many ways to achieve it.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Smirnoff: I obviously cannot estimate how many different ways there are. But finding the same way... we either think the same way with the alien civilization or... I don't know.
Order|Aoi;Kunieda: Have you tired yourself out, Rogers-san?
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: I don't get tired so fast
Order|Aoi;Kunieda: You seem so.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: Those useless bugs can't do crap
Order|CV-Seeker: For all we know, we only scratched the entry level of DK technological achievements. We do not know where are the limits.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: No way bro
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: I am not tired
Order|CV-Seeker: It may be way most fit for purpose given.
Order|CV-Seeker: Perhaps most stable, it needs no maintenance.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Smirnoff: Seeker what kind of vessels can use this gate? All sizes?
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: 4 X sizes.
Order|CV-Seeker: Battleship class can jump through.
Order|CV-Seeker: It depends on state of gate itself.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: It can end up bad if gate is unstable
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Smirnoff: Have you tried to jump on your own?
Order|CV-Seeker: Any probe sent through was destroyed almost instantly.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Contact.
Order|Aoi;Kunieda: Intercepting
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: Yea more hostiles, we take care of them.
Order|Aoi;Kunieda: Follow me Rogers.
Order|CV-Seeker: Do not attack human ships unless I order so.
Order|CV-Seeker: Be careful.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: Of course
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Smirnoff: So you have not attempted to jump?
Order|Aoi;Kunieda: Hmph. Lost track of it.
Order|CV-Seeker: That means... other side is fortified with static defenses.
Order|CV-Seeker: Environmental hazard is out of option, since occasionally ships do jump to our way.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Smirnoff: While conducting the survey we witnessed unknown ships using it. We were cloaked, and watched from distance.
Order|CV-Seeker: Nomads, no doubt.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Smirnoff: I think we will uncover more data if we use the gate. Considering that probes were destroyed...
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Smirnoff: No. Human ships.
Order|CV-Seeker: Das Wilde Wesen, The Wild. Aoi Iseijin, Division 9...
Order|CV-Seeker: Infested forces.
Order|Aoi;Kunieda: We were unable to find the ship, as we lost track of it.
Order|CV-Seeker: Mayhaps it was blimp on scanners.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Wolfgang: What do you think you're doing Rogers and sending torpedoes to the structure?
Order|CV-Seeker: And in fact it's on other end of this system.
Order|Aoi;Kunieda: Perhaps.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: Your mind is playing .
Order|Aoi;Kunieda: Anyway, resume previous post, Rogers.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: I didn't send anything through.
Order|CV-Seeker: We are right next him... Rogers fired nothing towards the gate.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Wolfgang: Valkyrie, he is endagering the entire operation.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Wolfgang: I have the picture...
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: You aren't that smart
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: Beware of wilde
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Wolfgang: *sighs*
Order|CV-Seeker: We did attempt damaging this object with capital ship grade arms. To no result.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: Now don't fool around
Order|CV-Seeker: Rogers, shut it.
Order|Aoi;Kunieda: Rogers, I need you here for a moment.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: He seems so smart no way to talk with such people.
Order|CV-Seeker: I will talk to Lane Hackers... you are providing security.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: Fine
Order|CV-Seeker: Sometimes insane are the best pilots.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Wolfgang: Valkyrie, shall we attempt a jump?
Order|CV-Seeker: We have general idea where it leads, but as I said it is certain suicide to approach it from this direction.
Order|CV-Seeker: It is fortified on the exit.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: Tell him to jump first
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Wolfgang: We will not linger.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Wolfgang: And I believe I have adequate security to make it... right?
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: Keep focused on trade lanes this gate is beyond your knowledge hacker
Order|Aoi;Kunieda: Oi... Rogers.
Order|CV-Seeker: As I said, you will be fired upon the first second.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Wolfgang: Very well.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: Man, just don't jump. Exactly, it's trap, as always.
[EG]BS51-Backgammon[CV]: (system wide) Starsznayder: so... you are going to "intercept" us in our solar system?
Order|CV-Seeker: Reports from my people... Colonial battleship is about.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: Keep calm , you've been already intercepted and scanned.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Smirnoff: I am about to check one final thing.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Smirnoff: I need 2 more minutes, Valkyrie.

- Going very close to the structure's singularity point -

LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Analyzing...
Order|CV-Seeker: Very well, we will hold this place down.
Order|CV-Seeker: We would be glad to send scouts through yet... if automatic drones are destroyed instantly...
Order|CV-Seeker: There are always other ways.
Order|CV-Seeker: Flashy big gate is their most defended point.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Wolfgang: Might I suggest to send Rogers first?
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Wolfgang: Will help me with that headache.
Order|CV-Seeker: It is directed towards Tau cluster, based on our knowledge.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: How about you send in your butt first?
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: I can cut it with my knife and send it in
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Wolfgang: I thought you said that you know where it leads, Valkyrie.
Order|CV-Seeker: Tau cluster.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Smirnoff: 60% complete
Order|CV-Seeker: It is likely we know already where it leads, we just had no way of sending ship through safely to confirm.
Order|CV-Seeker: To a jumpgate there must be always a pair... at least as far our human gates are concerned.
Order|CV-Seeker: Good job at diverting the colonial battleship, Kunieda.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: It was a good idea
Order|Aoi;Kunieda: Hai.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: I can now bother looking at the sparkles.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Smirnoff: Okay the results of the Schwarzschild formula are here!
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Smirnoff: Let's see. Interesting...
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: It's made of ginger bread?
Order|CV-Seeker: Formula?
Order|Aoi;Kunieda: Resuming my previous post.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: Resuming attack formation
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: Scanning area
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: Area clear, I got nothing
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Smirnoff: Yes a physics formula to calculate hyperspace bridges.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Smirnoff: Normal physics do not apply in such cases.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Smirnoff: So apparently this structure can control.. the build-up of the singularity of the event horizon...
Order|CV-Seeker: I am not quantum physics scientist... I know the established facts and practicals about these objects.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: Ya man, simply put, gate leads to hell.
Order|CV-Seeker: Are you saying, cause interplanetary apocalypse?
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Smirnoff: Our gates come with a prefixed number of the energy of the singularity from the factory.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Smirnoff: This one doesn't...
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: It can colapse all our gates.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Smirnoff: I am saying that this Gate can lead to different places if "tuned" differently.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: Different dimensions too?
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Smirnoff: Or... it can be "tuned" to build up massive energy in order to blow up and destroy... everything around it?
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: Yea, look at these holes and antennas
Order|CV-Seeker: You are about as such expert in faster than light travel like me in cooking... hint, I am terrible at it, Mr. Rogers.
Order|Aoi;Kunieda: So it can be a teleportation portal, or a weapon of mass destruction, Wolfgang-san?
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Smirnoff: That's still a hypothesis however. We will analyze the data more diligently when we get back to Mactan.
Order|CV-Seeker: Back to your discovery, Smirnoff. Even human gates can be redirected, to some degree.
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: Make sure you go straight to your hideout, we don't want Navy to get their hands on this stuff.
Order|CV-Seeker: I would like to bring the Pennsylvannia gate in New York itself.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Smirnoff: Smirnoff please. And yes Kunieda you are right.
Order|Aoi;Kunieda: Ahh. Hai, I apologize.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Smirnoff: But that requires a whole load of new Gate parts and re-calculations. This Gate is seemingly not under such limitations.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Smirnoff: If only we knew how to "tune" her...
Order|CV-Seeker: If you ask me, we should disable them given a chance.
Order|CV-Seeker: In as less explosive measure to the neighbourhood as possible.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Wolfgang: Are you sure you want to proceed without fully knowing the technology behind it?
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: Better not reveal the devil.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Wolfgang: Playing with things we don't know is not advisable...
Order|CV-Seeker: There are people with greater knowledge at it than me, no doubt.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Wolfgang: Anyway, the tests have been made. We should not linger around here anymore.
Order|CV-Seeker: Minds in The Order that could find a solution.
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Wolfgang: Collecting used equipment.

- Tractoring the equipment used for the research -

LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Wolfgang: Done. I don't suppose we can be escorted back to Liberty?
Order|Nicholas.Rogers: You're scared, hacker?
Order|CV-Seeker: State the system
Order|Aoi;Kunieda: Hush, Rogers.
Order|CV-Seeker: Magellan?
LH~Wolfgang.Weisen: Wolfgang: Ja.

Once the research was over, the Order vessels volunteered to escort us all the way back to Mactan Base because of the sensitive data that my vessel possessed. Fortunately there was no incident on the return.

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

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