I have been travelling for a while, establishing my cover, when I get a message from Conductor. My first real mission!
Operation Green Steamroller is a go.
Soft intelligence has reached us that in Sector 7 Alpha Bravo, which is close the centre of AWJ space, certainly well within the Weave, a group of scientists in a remote settlement on Animus are working on forgesworn DNA, splicing it into domestic animals as part of a series of experiments to build up to create human-forgesworn hybrid super-soldiers. I need to sneak in to an adjacent administration facility, low risk, and to help me along a mercenary platoon is conducting hazardous environment training immediately adjacent to the science facility.
Environmental details: Animus is a planet considered tainted, humans cannot survive in the atmosphere without protection; it is highly corrosive with reasonably high levels of nitric acid in the atmosphere. Environment suits work well. There is a diverse life, all of them with extreme adaptations to the acidic atmosphere.
Target details: The administration office is a low security office block. The specific office is an accountancy firm and will have alarms on the entrance and security systems on their computer systems. There is no evidence they are using anything stronger than commercial encryption.
There are security guards patrolling the office block. They are comprised of people who failed, or have retired from, local sector local police or mercenary groups. Threat level is low.
Copy relevant data, leave without a trace.
There is no particular hurry on this mission; current intelligence suggests they are yet to successfully splice forgesworn and mammalian DNA.
Dropbox protocol 17 Gamma.
I swear on my dagger to complete this mission, and reread the briefing while looking up Animus in my ships logs. It is on a well-established trading route, and because of the corrosive atmosphere they have quite an extensive list of materials they need. If I had a larger ship I could import all kinds of things in bulk as my cover but they buy parts for data hub relays that keep them connected to the Weave on a surprisingly regular basis. These are small, relatively cheap and not highly regulated so I can purchase them without blowing my cover and it would make sense I might transport them. I already have a trading route into Sector 7AB and Boreas, which has a known passage to Animus.
I use my funds to purchase Weave data hub relays, and everyone’s favourite brandy for the route to Boreas. This all goes well and as I try to form a deeper bond with Medwyn, the trader here in Sector 5 Mu Iota, he agrees to give me an ongoing discount if I will help rescue his husband. I ask for some more details. It turns out his husband, Steffon, is on Boreas, which is good, and seems to be trapped there. Medwyn is sketchy on the details though, so I agree to investigate, and if it’s possible, and he’s willing, bring him back. Medwyn asks if I’ll swear a vow to that effect and I agree.
Next session, I will actually travel to Boreas…
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