The Lane Hackers | Internal Comms

[Liz Krest]

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Ingeniousness

I have uploaded an entry on our mission archives that elaborates on my completion of Mission 11 as per it's parameters. I believe this suffices for the Ingeniousness criterion.



Lockdown

I gathered Master Assassin Raphael Drake and Fixer Franz Oberhauser today in order to perform a lockdown operation in Shikoku system. The reasons behind my choice of this system were multiple.

• The abundance of entries and exits of the New York system would make a proper lockdown impossible for three people.
  
• The same applies to Texas, but I would argue it's an even worse case due to the multiple awkwardly positioned jump-holes leading in and out of the system.
  
• California is the only option that is comparable to Shikoku, but having been around for the past while I did not take note of any traffic moving from Bretonia to Liberty or vice-versa.
  
• Pennsylvania is arguably a better choice than Shikoku, but the traffic that usually crowds this system are rookie Freelance miners.
  
• Colorado is an inferior choice to Shikoku due to Shikoku being a better "bottleneck" system by shape.
  
• Leeds shares the problems of New York and Texas, combined. Multiple entries and exits, all awkwardly spread around the system.
  

With all of the above points in mind, our lockdown operation of the Shikoku system begun.

I assigned Raphael Drake on the jumpgate leading to New Tokyo with the premise that he would be the first to make contact with any hostile entities that might be sent out to intercept us from the New Tokyo system. I trusted that Drake would be enough to handle any snubcraft that the Naval Forces would throw our way to disrupt our operation. Franz Oberhauser was assigned to keep the jumpgate leading to Galileo clear, while I stood at a position where I had control over the tradelane ring leading to the Kepler jumpgate and vision over the Galileo jumphole.

We had our first "catch" about an hour into the operation, a Junker transport by the callsign Free_Riki_Multi. The Junker had a Freelancer IFF and was hauling Cardamine, I halted the ship in order to inquire regarding it's cargo hold and destination, and my course of action would be relevant to his behavior. The captain of the ship decided it'd be best to engage me while I was scanning the ship and before speaking any words. Luckily, with only a few hits to my hull I managed to escape his fire and begin my own bombing runs on the vessel. The transport fled to Kepler but was intercepted right on the other side of the jumpgate and taken down by me. I had Franz Oberhauser bring a nearby transport from Leiden in order to tractor all that cardamine in and move it to the station. This marks our first successful extortion of the operation.

[∎] - ID Scan
[∎] - Cargo Scan
[∎] - Destruction
[∎] - Tractoring cardamine, part 1
[∎] - Tractoring cardamine, part 2
[∎] - Tractoring cardamine, part 3
[∎] - Cardamine drop-off on Leiden Base


The Kusari Naval Forces seemed to have caught up on our little operation here in Shikoku and launched a minor counter-attack against us, starting from New Tokyo as I had predicted. Master Assassin Drake yet again proved his effectiveness by taking down both of their ships without any help, showing no difficulty in doing so.

Our second catch came just before the end of the 2 hour mark and was in the form of an NSE vessel, callsign NSE|=Njord. I have hunted that vessel down in the past multiple times and I knew that it was headed to Pueblo Station. I advised Drake to move to the Kyushu jumphole due to my past experiences with that specific transport captain and his paths. With my assumption that he would jump into Shikoku using that jumphole being correct, Drake was able to catch and extort that transport full of Luxury Food for the dull-minded Ageira lapdogs of Pueblo.

[∎] - ID Scan
[∎] - Cargo Scan
[∎] - Payment


In addition to getting both extortions for the criterion, the wing that was under my command also remained in the Shikoku system for a duration longer than 2 hours, a time duration I consider to be more than enough for a lockdown to be deemed successful after. Of course, the final word belongs to the Professorship.

Lastly, I'd like to thank both of my colleagues that participated in this lockdown with me. Your help was of great value, Master Assassin Drake and Fixer Oberhauser.

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