Moravia Orbital Colony, Ulysses | 237d/3008AD | Von Hapsburg System
Megacity Time: 8:11Maintenance Worker's Lounge
Quiet (+1 Intellect, -1 Stealth)
Deuce continues to monitor the cameras to see when his time to strike will be.
[4] You gather some basic observations.
Firstly, the rebellion is intensifying. The police in the mall have been overrun and rebels are occupying stores, picking up loose containers to use as protection and looting yard equipment stores for weapons. The reasoning behind yard equipment stores on a space station eludes you, but the bottom line is, the rebels are now armed and dangerous. However, rather than an organized mob, the mall is now littered with small groups, some taking advantage of the disruption to loot stores for themselves, while others reserve their wrath for police robots and luxury restaurants.
Speaking of robots, you figure you could control one from your laptop, provided nobody else gets a lock on it. There are three bots still active in the mall. One is currently being controlled by an officer, and heading toward the police station, and another is currently damaged and standing by, awaiting repairs. The third one is currently on patrol and is fighting several civilians hacking at it with garden hoes and pickaxes. Using its long legs for sweeping attacks on the troublemakers, it seems to be winning.
Next, there seems to be some commotion in the headquarters. Using your phone's retinal projector, you run some Guild software that relays the positions of your team. You also set some facial recognition software to highlight all faces on said map, allowing you to track the movements of guards around your teammates, should anything bad occur which would require some coordination.
Judging from crowd movements, something has caused people to move away from a particular coffee shop near one of the tram stations. Switching to camera feed, you discover a ring-shaped alien, or perhaps a machine of some sort, coated in some orange, translucent gel. It is darting from table to table, rolling onto and absorbing meals, drinks, and possessions left behind by those in flight. You spot it absorbing a phone.
You discover a store with a neighboring clinic. The store itself seems to have been cleared of customers, who are lined up and being searched by guards at a security checkpoint. There are scorch marks scattered across the walls of the store.
Inside the clinic, there seem to be guards inside a large tank of acid, along with a mass of a thick turquoise substance at the bottom of the chamber. Several persons in haz-mat suits are watching over the situation.
You also have access to secure feeds from the laboratory. Here you look through several of the containment units, finding some empty while others contain various specimens:
-A potted plant with spherical white flowers. It is kept in a cold environment with lots of water droplets on the camera moving in one direction, probably being blown off by a heater.
-A chimpanzee. It appears to be dead.
-An incredibly bright object suspended inside a tube of clear liquid, constantly evaporating around the pinpoint of light. The chamber appears to be a vault covered in a reflective material.
-A vine with fine, sharp leaves and a noticeable cyan tint. It has many thorns on its stems and is covering the room on all surfaces except for the light hanging at the center of the chamber ceiling. Even the door of the containment unit is covered.
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Headquarters, Floor 3
Professional Atmosphere (+1 Intellect)
Over the comms, Atlos speaks. "It appears to be some sort of bio-agent after all, though it appears to require an aqueous environment for transmission. Is this similar to the one you two observed?"
To Akatin he says, "Hop on. This unit can go faster than either of us can walk. I fear it may be poor form to speak of the mission, but as I've probably revealed too much already, we're here to sabotage something."
"Run to the halls!"Leaving the gardens, you discover that a crowd of people has fled from a coffee shop named Jill's. Through the glass windows you see a ringed orange object rolling around on the tables of its own accord and absorbing food left on the tables.
The group of SpaceInc'ers discussing security notice the affair, and propose they move to a more quiet location. They shall be moving to one of the open-window bars that grants a direct view of the gas giant through a massive window. One of them briefly mentions seeing "them" through the window, but none of them specify what "they" are, let alone asks for clarification.
Akatin speaks, knowing that Rtalis clicks and screeches won't attract much attention even if heard through the pressure suit's skin.
"Sabotage you say? Paid by a competitor, most likely. Tell me, how did a Rtalis, of all possible races, become an infiltrator? I don't mean to dissuade you, but... the environment really doesn't suit us very well, pardon the unintentional pun. Okay, maybe it was intentional..."It seems that there isn't widespread knowledge of the contamination. Perhaps it would be prudent to spread awareness.
Maintenance Shafts
Hidden (+1 Stealth)
"...OBJECTION!" WARDEN slams the suspect against the ground, then continues, "THERE IS A DISCREPANCY WITH THE PORTRAIT ON THIS ID. IT IS CLEARLY FALSIFIED. YOU HAVE BEEN CAUGHT TRESPASSING ON SpaceInc. PROPERTY. YOU HAVE BEEN CAUGHT ON CAMERA DURING YOUR ATTEMPTED SABOTAGE, AND THERE IS SUFFICIENT EVIDENCE TO BRING ADDITIONAL CHARGES OF MURDER, PROPERTY DAMAGE, IMPERSONATING A SpaceInc. EMPLOYEE AND JAYWALKING."
Attach a RADAR unit (from my inventory) to him somehow, then hand him over to the guard. Run to a corner as if on patrol, then when the guard stops paying attention, slip into a maintenance shaft.
[3] Slipping the radar unit, a sharp stick the size of a pencil, inside the target's shoe, you relinquish possession of the suspect to the guard whilst hiding the Emcor inside a department you refer to, publicly, as the "Confiscation Bin."
"RESUMING PATROLS." you state, maintaining the guise of a soulless automaton for as long as possible before slipping out of sight and looking for another maintenance shaft entrance. You find one, just behind a couch. Said couch is part of a large alcove roughly 8 meters in diameter, furnished with three large sofas around a giant chess board. Galactic residents of all stripes take turns playing a Spacechess succession game, wherein each competitor inherits the board from the last player. So far it seems that a Corvan has just maneuvered his battleship into a disadvantageous position, but little does his opponent realize that he has set up a very realistic kill on the enemy command vessel, if his successor is to follow through with the plan.
To sneak into the shaft, you will have to first remove the covering plate. [1] Unfortunately it is secured by padlock, and zapping the lock while surrounded by bystanders will definitely attract attention.
The radar unit appears to be moving, but stops after a certain point not too far from your current position. It no longer exhibits oscillatory movement from walking, which means the target is sitting down, probably in a police station. Curiously, said police station is located right in the middle of a population center. You recall various maps of the structure you've seen on the wall, and pinpoint the current location to... a bathroom.
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Moravia Lab
High Security (-1 Stealth)
"May I recommend taking inventory of all potentially dangerous diseases stored in the lab? See if everything's still there?"
"This is exactly what our assistant researchers are supposed to do as part of their job descriptions. We've been checking for tampering since we discovered the breach."The workers use a crowbar to remove the top layers of the glass chamber. They then lower a rope over the edge, allowing half of the guards to climb out. While the third guard approaches the rope, you notice one side of the blob leaning closely to one side of the chamber, a sign that it is still capable of locomotion.
[1/6] Before you can speak up, the blob manages to launch a mass upward, just over the edge. The mass sheds its protective teal-colored outer layer and releases a spider-like unit, which scuttles up the wall and forces its way into the ventilation shaft. Meanwhile there is a sizzling noise as acid pours into the breach left in the blob's matter and dissolves more of its mass.
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