Orange Industry Haulage

[Chenzo-]

Chapter Two, additional kindling

The first stage was to see how to go about getting hold of the ships which caught his eye. Weeks of stakeout operations followed. omega 7 wasn't unfamiliar territory to an Outcast, nowhere was. It wasn't that friendly either. Chenzo began to personally observe the movements of the staff who worked on Briesen Mining Station. Shift patterns, high activity times, low times. His initial plan was to steal them, oh how easy it would be. But what would be better? To familiarise himself with them to potentially gain more business in the future? That was a much better goal. Not likely but worth trying. As time went on, he pondered more and more. The clouds making it very easy to go unnoticed.

Finally, after gathering what he thought was enough knowledge, he went well away from the station and engaged in conversation with one of the Rheinland corporations haulage ships. Upon initial interaction, understandably the haulier was shocked. Even tried to offer him credits. Chenzo was disgusted of how badly represented Outcasts were within this space. The vast majority of Outcasts with any service experience were well fed, armed and had no care for petty taxation, certainly not anyone from the 101st. What he gained from the interaction was much more valuable, information. The name of their CEO, a man which quickly became almost an obsession for him. Heads of house corporations weren't necessarily corrupt, but they all had one thing in common. The love for Credits, regardless of the fact they already had more than they could ever possibly hope to spend.

Armed with the information of the CEO, his movements and all the information gathered on stakeouts, he initiated communications with Kert Reber, CEO of Das DHC.

After initial communication, it was clear there was little to no reason they would ever conduct business past Chenzo's initial area of interest, however good to neutral terms would always be better than hostile ones.

Stage one and two were complete. Locating ships capable of meeting his demands and gaining access to them. Next was actually getting them back to where he could use them to allow his much larger master plan to unfold.

His trusted connections within the community of Junkers were never far from Chenzo's thoughts, he also trusted them greatly. He went about making contact and funding cloaking technologies for a Salvager ship class owned by the Trafalgar Junkers. This would be both an entry point for crew at his disposal to pilot the transport ships back and of course exit unnoticed carrying the supplies and materials required to start engines and escape.

The Lane Hackers, specifically Oliver Cesari of the Inner Circle had made promises to Chenzo of custom made software which would mask the transponders of the ships crew who were piloting them. This was essential as the moment Maltese technology would be engaged to "jump" the engines into motion after being dormant for so long, the transponders would also read as Maltese which wouldn't be good for a swift and un-hindered escape plan.

A time and place to meet was arranged with Cesari, it was an essential part of his plan.

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