Entry--A02
Great. Juuust great. Shortly after leaving the medical bay I find out the Siphon has been mysteriously sabotaged with the crew doing a vanishing act. Pretty sure some bastard did not want me finding that out until it was too late. Considering I'm still alive (for whatever good it's worth), I have to assume my invisible enemy's plan failed.
My weapons were all disassembled upon my arrival here, but I got a drunkard yesterday to tell me of some old munitions stored away deep in the lower levels. If I have to fight my damn way out of this place, so be it.
-Entry terminates at 1015
20080207
20080129
Deep Archive Alteration Detected
entry header: Napoleonic Wars, 1799-1815
entry created: 0527, 25810930
last edit: 0527, 28810930
encryption key: blackfog delta39 TEF standard ******a2, reroute 63.TS.wnet.sub
>ENTRY ALTERATION DETECTED
>TERRAN ARCHIVAL GUILD PASSWORD REJECTED
>NOTIFYING memoryintegrity.Q.widernet
>NOTIFICATION REJECTED BY SPAMBOT meminteg.widernet, build 7.2
It's as I thought; privatelog entries aren't private on the Passenger. I've noted at least half a dozen accounts pry into that entry about "Gwin" and our next moves. With luck that'll put them off the scent for a few cycles. Future field testing reports and other sensitive intel will be deposited in deep info storage here - the archivist on this whacked place is a halfbyte; so hopped up on Gen-Cola mixed with illegal depressants that I don't think he could find his own wetware, let alone an altered entry from the Ancient History d-banks. Just use your head and keep up on the Fact of the Week.
Stage one of the testing is complete - you were exactly right. The Genomic Webbing Integrated Network prototype is fully repairable by standard neurotechs. The yutzes didn't even know what they were fixing, but Gwin was back up much sooner than you expected. Much longer than I'd have preferred, but at least the Passenger isn't a boring hole-in-the-web like some of my postings. Some colorful auras around here.
And speaking of auras, the modded AuraGen you equipped Gwin with is working so far - no questions. They did ask where our "unusual" augs were from, but they let drop without much effort. All the officials here are really dull - truth, the archivist is the most interesting one of all the greys. Once you get into the unofficial sectors of the Passenger, though...well, I'll leave that for the next drop. Too much data in one of these ancient history pages and even that blazer of an archivist might notice.
In the meantime, send me everything in the TEF d-base you can about the Passenger. There are way too many mysteries in this place. As long as it's not classified, you can send them to the Blackfish addy, otherwise use a remote dump here. Per orders, will begin stress-test of Gwin in unfamiliar, cybernetically hostile environment. Have heard of a pseudovirus that might do the trick. Blackfog out.
>EXTERNAL DATA REQUEST ACCESS, DATE 2319, 28811001
entry created: 0527, 25810930
last edit: 0527, 28810930
encryption key: blackfog delta39 TEF standard ******a2, reroute 63.TS.wnet.sub
>ENTRY ALTERATION DETECTED
>TERRAN ARCHIVAL GUILD PASSWORD REJECTED
>NOTIFYING memoryintegrity.Q.widernet
>NOTIFICATION REJECTED BY SPAMBOT meminteg.widernet, build 7.2
It's as I thought; privatelog entries aren't private on the Passenger. I've noted at least half a dozen accounts pry into that entry about "Gwin" and our next moves. With luck that'll put them off the scent for a few cycles. Future field testing reports and other sensitive intel will be deposited in deep info storage here - the archivist on this whacked place is a halfbyte; so hopped up on Gen-Cola mixed with illegal depressants that I don't think he could find his own wetware, let alone an altered entry from the Ancient History d-banks. Just use your head and keep up on the Fact of the Week.
Stage one of the testing is complete - you were exactly right. The Genomic Webbing Integrated Network prototype is fully repairable by standard neurotechs. The yutzes didn't even know what they were fixing, but Gwin was back up much sooner than you expected. Much longer than I'd have preferred, but at least the Passenger isn't a boring hole-in-the-web like some of my postings. Some colorful auras around here.
And speaking of auras, the modded AuraGen you equipped Gwin with is working so far - no questions. They did ask where our "unusual" augs were from, but they let drop without much effort. All the officials here are really dull - truth, the archivist is the most interesting one of all the greys. Once you get into the unofficial sectors of the Passenger, though...well, I'll leave that for the next drop. Too much data in one of these ancient history pages and even that blazer of an archivist might notice.
In the meantime, send me everything in the TEF d-base you can about the Passenger. There are way too many mysteries in this place. As long as it's not classified, you can send them to the Blackfish addy, otherwise use a remote dump here. Per orders, will begin stress-test of Gwin in unfamiliar, cybernetically hostile environment. Have heard of a pseudovirus that might do the trick. Blackfog out.
>EXTERNAL DATA REQUEST ACCESS, DATE 2319, 28811001
20080127
Response from Mr. Vermouth
c/o: a.VERMOUTH PRIVATE WORKSTATION, I&aP Branch Office.
sent from:
Alex Vermouth
c/o I&aP
9099 Cyran Bermuda
Office ROOF, The Love Shack
Firth, Perias, Helon 0059.4531
sent to:
JavaBomberman
c/o Lightstation: Passenger
terminal z12
javabomberman.Q.widernet
body:
encryption code accepted. encrypted message follows:
Clearance ID ALPHA>OMEGA>4400.SCOPIO
Forgive the late response. We have been having problems over here. As soon as I got your message concerning the Siphon and its link to the mysterious "AIUS" sequence ('digital vandalism' as the media outlets put it) I put together some tight ass crawler-bots to run queries on anything and everything to do with that bitch of a story. I checked the ArcNet, the UniSphere, TrinityWeb, and EVEN the Edgerspace Communication Grid. I checked them all. Mostly I found the same old boring crap. 'Siphon found empty! Crew missing! AIUS repeating sequence! Mystery!', but it was when I cracked some higher level pulse traffic on the ArcNet that I found something big. Real big. I got a couple seconds look at it, not enough time to extract it, and then my computer systems blinked out. Hmm, another Blackhat knocking out my connection because I had hit the gold mine, perhaps? Then on every single god damn monitor I owned the repeating sequence began to pour out: "AIUS AIUS AIUS AIUS AIUS AIUS AIUS AIUS AIUS AIUS AIUS AIUS AIUS AIUS AIUS AIUS AIUS AIUS..." and so on. It was really messed. Nothing I have tried has cleaned out my systems of this damn AIUS virus. It's something otherworldly. I've gone through ten I&aP systemTerminals already. The boss is totally going to fry my ass when he finds out. It's crazy. Any terminal I bring into that room gets infected by the virus. EVEN IF THEY AREN'T SHARING ANY COMMUNICATIONS!!!! I do not know how it's possible, it only seems to work in THAT room. I've locked and quarantined that office so nobody can get in, I want to do some more tests but I don't want any old idiot to walk in there an kill their pocket tablet or something.
Now I'm doing my work from on the roof. I've set up a nice little shack up here, right next to the I&aP communication array. As soon as I build some better net-defense bots I'll try and decrypt and extract that golden nugget I found on the ArcNet. As soon as I crack it, I'll let you know what it's all about. Here's hoping I don't fuck up any more of I&aP's computer systems.
-Alex, out.
end encryption.
MESSAGE ENDS
sent from:
Alex Vermouth
c/o I&aP
9099 Cyran Bermuda
Office ROOF, The Love Shack
Firth, Perias, Helon 0059.4531
sent to:
JavaBomberman
c/o Lightstation: Passenger
terminal z12
javabomberman.Q.widernet
body:
encryption code accepted. encrypted message follows:
Clearance ID ALPHA>OMEGA>4400.SCOPIO
Forgive the late response. We have been having problems over here. As soon as I got your message concerning the Siphon and its link to the mysterious "AIUS" sequence ('digital vandalism' as the media outlets put it) I put together some tight ass crawler-bots to run queries on anything and everything to do with that bitch of a story. I checked the ArcNet, the UniSphere, TrinityWeb, and EVEN the Edgerspace Communication Grid. I checked them all. Mostly I found the same old boring crap. 'Siphon found empty! Crew missing! AIUS repeating sequence! Mystery!', but it was when I cracked some higher level pulse traffic on the ArcNet that I found something big. Real big. I got a couple seconds look at it, not enough time to extract it, and then my computer systems blinked out. Hmm, another Blackhat knocking out my connection because I had hit the gold mine, perhaps? Then on every single god damn monitor I owned the repeating sequence began to pour out: "AIUS AIUS AIUS AIUS AIUS AIUS AIUS AIUS AIUS AIUS AIUS AIUS AIUS AIUS AIUS AIUS AIUS AIUS..." and so on. It was really messed. Nothing I have tried has cleaned out my systems of this damn AIUS virus. It's something otherworldly. I've gone through ten I&aP systemTerminals already. The boss is totally going to fry my ass when he finds out. It's crazy. Any terminal I bring into that room gets infected by the virus. EVEN IF THEY AREN'T SHARING ANY COMMUNICATIONS!!!! I do not know how it's possible, it only seems to work in THAT room. I've locked and quarantined that office so nobody can get in, I want to do some more tests but I don't want any old idiot to walk in there an kill their pocket tablet or something.
Now I'm doing my work from on the roof. I've set up a nice little shack up here, right next to the I&aP communication array. As soon as I build some better net-defense bots I'll try and decrypt and extract that golden nugget I found on the ArcNet. As soon as I crack it, I'll let you know what it's all about. Here's hoping I don't fuck up any more of I&aP's computer systems.
-Alex, out.
end encryption.
MESSAGE ENDS
OFFICIAL MESSAGE AS FOLLOWS:
c/o: COMMUNICATION PROBE TERMINAL z12 OF THE LIGHTSTATION PASSENGER.
Communication Probes of tomorrow, today. Only the best for a passenger of the Passenger.
A ComInd product.
sent from:
JavaBomberman
c/o Lightstation: Passenger
terminal z12
javabomberman.Q.widernet
send to:
Alex Vermouth
c/o I&aP
9099 Cyran Bermuda
Office 426, sublevel XIV
Firth, Perias, Helon 0059.4531
body:
encryption code accepted. encrypted message follows:
Clearance ID GAMMA>DELTA>4242.EGARION
Alex. More news on the source in relation to the Siphon anomaly. Contact with the source has been limited to pub meetings and idle chat. I was coming up short on info, and even my target hacks into this "AIUS" business yielded no profitable results. However: Last night, I was headed for another meeting with the Lieutenant. On my way to the usual pub location I noticed Spudler being tailed. No way he'd have been found out if I hadn't seen the tail. It was just his own dumb luck that a fellow Argon Project member would have been on this rusted bucket of a lightstation in the first place. It was further dumb luck that he was obviously a rook and I was able to "liberate" him of his Aura ID scrambler and Trick Book as I "accidentally" brushed past him on my way to meet with Spudler. He was apprehended moments later when the authorities ID'd him positively. The Lt. didn't notice that, so I'm not sure if he knew he was being tailed. I doubt it, even a rook AP member is fucking good. Dumb luck. I could use some of that.
By the by, I never got a response from my previous transmission. Did you turn up anything on this whole ordeal? I'm still pretty baffled, but I sure couldn't let my only source get taken down before I had a chance to make some creds on this.
Or maybe these aren't getting to you, in which case I'm already a dead man. If that's the case, the pox on all your families, you AP scum. I'll never forgive you, and you better send an army if you hope to take me down.
Nah, you're getting these. I'm not dumb enough to believe I wouldn't already be dead if this was intercepted without my knowledge.
Java out.
end encryption.
MESSAGE ENDS.
Communication Probes of tomorrow, today. Only the best for a passenger of the Passenger.
A ComInd product.
sent from:
JavaBomberman
c/o Lightstation: Passenger
terminal z12
javabomberman.Q.widernet
send to:
Alex Vermouth
c/o I&aP
9099 Cyran Bermuda
Office 426, sublevel XIV
Firth, Perias, Helon 0059.4531
body:
encryption code accepted. encrypted message follows:
Clearance ID GAMMA>DELTA>4242.EGARION
Alex. More news on the source in relation to the Siphon anomaly. Contact with the source has been limited to pub meetings and idle chat. I was coming up short on info, and even my target hacks into this "AIUS" business yielded no profitable results. However: Last night, I was headed for another meeting with the Lieutenant. On my way to the usual pub location I noticed Spudler being tailed. No way he'd have been found out if I hadn't seen the tail. It was just his own dumb luck that a fellow Argon Project member would have been on this rusted bucket of a lightstation in the first place. It was further dumb luck that he was obviously a rook and I was able to "liberate" him of his Aura ID scrambler and Trick Book as I "accidentally" brushed past him on my way to meet with Spudler. He was apprehended moments later when the authorities ID'd him positively. The Lt. didn't notice that, so I'm not sure if he knew he was being tailed. I doubt it, even a rook AP member is fucking good. Dumb luck. I could use some of that.
By the by, I never got a response from my previous transmission. Did you turn up anything on this whole ordeal? I'm still pretty baffled, but I sure couldn't let my only source get taken down before I had a chance to make some creds on this.
Or maybe these aren't getting to you, in which case I'm already a dead man. If that's the case, the pox on all your families, you AP scum. I'll never forgive you, and you better send an army if you hope to take me down.
Nah, you're getting these. I'm not dumb enough to believe I wouldn't already be dead if this was intercepted without my knowledge.
Java out.
end encryption.
MESSAGE ENDS.
Assignment Log 2447
Entry--A01
I have given up hope that the Siphon is going to find me out here. My writing in this log is two-fold: It is mandated by the FLA that we record abnormal mission status, of which this definitely qualifies. The sub-station on Targol-5 typically picks up these records after a few months as well, so I am praying to any gods that are listening they will find these.
Everyone on this damn station seems so neutral and functional. Almost as if they are robots. As I sit here drinking my Gen-Cola, which tastes like Gwakii piss, I have the strangest feeling I am being watched. I felt it first yesterday when I was touring the lower levels of the station looking for weapons. A shadow at the corner of my eye, faint footsteps that are in perfect cadence with mine. Maybe I'm just going crazy, but I will have to watch my back.
Targol-5, if you are reading this message, I may already be dead. This station needs to be investigated thoroughly; something is seriously f*cked up here.
--Entry terminates at 1546
I have given up hope that the Siphon is going to find me out here. My writing in this log is two-fold: It is mandated by the FLA that we record abnormal mission status, of which this definitely qualifies. The sub-station on Targol-5 typically picks up these records after a few months as well, so I am praying to any gods that are listening they will find these.
Everyone on this damn station seems so neutral and functional. Almost as if they are robots. As I sit here drinking my Gen-Cola, which tastes like Gwakii piss, I have the strangest feeling I am being watched. I felt it first yesterday when I was touring the lower levels of the station looking for weapons. A shadow at the corner of my eye, faint footsteps that are in perfect cadence with mine. Maybe I'm just going crazy, but I will have to watch my back.
Targol-5, if you are reading this message, I may already be dead. This station needs to be investigated thoroughly; something is seriously f*cked up here.
--Entry terminates at 1546
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code %23** Rerouting Blackfish Logprivate.
HEADER: Pulse traffic getting tangled, message being rerouted and tagged with proper marker. Damn tourists don't know how to use the public workstations even after going through the welcoming seminar. (sigh) At least it keeps my job interesting. REROUTE#23.BY.wnetadmin.q
MESSAGE STARTS, 0403:
to: logprivate
loginid: Blackfish.********a2
**begin audio recording**
I never thought it would take this long to get Gwin up and walking again, but considering how close she was to the core when it ruptured...well, I should probably be happy we're here at all. And that we managed to crash into the one place in the constellation that could salvage Gwin’s fused neural augs…well, let’s just say my take on dues has been tweaked a bit since we got to Passenger.
Passenger's one weird place. Take, after their webbing snagged us and we just needed to be processed, the damn station wouldn’t accept our univID’s! We had to log new ones just to get Gwin cleared into the medlab. I guess universal doesn’t mean what it used to. And that’s not the least of it, I just haven't had time to update my logs nearly enough in the years I've...we've been here. Time goes kind of…differently here.
Though with Gwin up again, I'm all the more reminded of everyone we lost from the Vanyr, however long ago it was. **pause in entry** But that doesn't matter anymore. With all of us back on our feet and out of the medlab in the morning, we can start trying to track down the fleet and get back to where we belong.
**end recording**
MESSAGE STARTS, 0403:
to: logprivate
loginid: Blackfish.********a2
**begin audio recording**
I never thought it would take this long to get Gwin up and walking again, but considering how close she was to the core when it ruptured...well, I should probably be happy we're here at all. And that we managed to crash into the one place in the constellation that could salvage Gwin’s fused neural augs…well, let’s just say my take on dues has been tweaked a bit since we got to Passenger.
Passenger's one weird place. Take, after their webbing snagged us and we just needed to be processed, the damn station wouldn’t accept our univID’s! We had to log new ones just to get Gwin cleared into the medlab. I guess universal doesn’t mean what it used to. And that’s not the least of it, I just haven't had time to update my logs nearly enough in the years I've...we've been here. Time goes kind of…differently here.
Though with Gwin up again, I'm all the more reminded of everyone we lost from the Vanyr, however long ago it was. **pause in entry** But that doesn't matter anymore. With all of us back on our feet and out of the medlab in the morning, we can start trying to track down the fleet and get back to where we belong.
**end recording**
20080126
## Widernet Update
Users, please tag all story threads to ensure post integrity. The Passenger's WIDERNET is known to experience heavy pulse traffic and without proper organization, systems can get tangled. Thank you for your cooperation. Enjoy your stay.
-WNetAdmin.Q
-WNetAdmin.Q
20080125
Encryped Transmission: Assignment #: P002627-03
Partial Decryption--Passenger
21:00
from: Unknown signal
to: Mobile Device *6625854
yjil4kja4uq3lsdnvau5326ie22hflcoduqh%36242yg3t6gf2f987df0987gdf-
=df0df6g8s76f8&%$5b4k3k55-
Tunneler, this is Red Star. Requesting status of current assignment. The lieutenant's aura presently reads active. Consider station personnel expendable in elimination of target.
^%$#1][f[faalkflgGw928552%yfjf928h98gh92-1ggf2.
Mission closes 013008 at 0600.
21:00
from: Unknown signal
to: Mobile Device *6625854
yjil4kja4uq3lsdnvau5326ie22hflcoduqh%36242yg3t6gf2f987df0987gdf-
=df0df6g8s76f8&%$5b4k3k55-
Tunneler, this is Red Star. Requesting status of current assignment. The lieutenant's aura presently reads active. Consider station personnel expendable in elimination of target.
^%$#1][f[faalkflgGw928552%yfjf928h98gh92-1ggf2.
Mission closes 013008 at 0600.
20051214
RELAY TO ALL PASSENGER CREW MEMBERS
...
...
...
message as follows:
from: Blackfish.Q.widernet
to: passenger.em.widernet.sub
Thank deus my request for a widernet account went through in time, otherwise we'd be completely mute out here. We lost engine containment and barely had time to vent; even so it fused most of our systems. We have a plug in the breach but I'm not sure how long it'll hold. Several of my crew and my companion are severely hurt, I hope you have a burn specialist in there. I'm still not sure this is getting through, our main dish got fried in the accident and most of our permissions were on that frequency. All that's left is the backup dish and we can't get through to anyone but the widernet so I hope someone's watching this feed. We're still on course thanks to inertia but I hope your docking web is strong, I'm not going to be able to slow her down on approach. We should be there in an hour. Until then we can only wait but PLEASE have your med staff ready, Gwin needs help bad. I can pay.
...
...
message as follows:
from: Blackfish.Q.widernet
to: passenger.em.widernet.sub
Thank deus my request for a widernet account went through in time, otherwise we'd be completely mute out here. We lost engine containment and barely had time to vent; even so it fused most of our systems. We have a plug in the breach but I'm not sure how long it'll hold. Several of my crew and my companion are severely hurt, I hope you have a burn specialist in there. I'm still not sure this is getting through, our main dish got fried in the accident and most of our permissions were on that frequency. All that's left is the backup dish and we can't get through to anyone but the widernet so I hope someone's watching this feed. We're still on course thanks to inertia but I hope your docking web is strong, I'm not going to be able to slow her down on approach. We should be there in an hour. Until then we can only wait but PLEASE have your med staff ready, Gwin needs help bad. I can pay.
20051207
OFFICIAL MESSAGE AS FOLLOWS:
c/o: COMMUNICATION PROBE TERMINAL m39 OF THE LIGHTSTATION PASSENGER.
Communication Probes of tomorrow, today. Only the best for a passenger of the Passenger.
A ComInd product.
sent from:
JavaBomberman
c/o Lightstation: Passenger
terminal m39
javabomberman.Q.widernet
send to:
MR. GOLIATH, esq.
c/o GOLind
123 Vega Sound
Suite 1
Amagrand, Syonis, Argon 3387.3212
body:
encryption code accepted. encrypted message follows:
First transaction yielded a sale of 200 kilos. Received 19000 cdu's for sale. 17100 cdu's are encoded on currency chip. Access code LsP.¥¥¥.000169754 will return funds. Still awaiting communique on debt of lost goods.
end encryption.
MESSAGE ENDS.
Communication Probes of tomorrow, today. Only the best for a passenger of the Passenger.
A ComInd product.
sent from:
JavaBomberman
c/o Lightstation: Passenger
terminal m39
javabomberman.Q.widernet
send to:
MR. GOLIATH, esq.
c/o GOLind
123 Vega Sound
Suite 1
Amagrand, Syonis, Argon 3387.3212
body:
encryption code accepted. encrypted message follows:
First transaction yielded a sale of 200 kilos. Received 19000 cdu's for sale. 17100 cdu's are encoded on currency chip. Access code LsP.¥¥¥.000169754 will return funds. Still awaiting communique on debt of lost goods.
end encryption.
MESSAGE ENDS.
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