This is the mission thread for Joker Team, if you aren't part of Joker team, your thread is elsewhere.
Joker team, or its current members at least, find themselves waking up in a strange new environment. It is a lot like the old stasis pod area in the barracks, but smaller and circular, with the back wall filled with stasis pods that appear to be able to rotate out to accommodate extra pods. As soon as they are out of stasis, still naked, slimy and shivering on the ground, the voice of steve comes over the intercom.
>Welcome to The Daedalus, one of our recently constructed sister ships. This is the ship which will be dropping you off at the location and it will be the one picking you up. I'm afraid there's little time for you to make yourself at home, however, because we've already reached the drop off. After this briefing and any questions I'll be sending you off immediately. So, lets get started.
Part of our recent scientific advancements has been research into exploitation of reality distorting effects and technologies similar to amps and synthflesh. However, in order for us to continue these activities, we are going to need a great deal of human subjects. And unfortunately, for reasons that are above your pay grade, just cloning up a bunch of them won't do the trick. As such, we're gonna need a lot of probably unwilling participants. Now, we could go around asking our allies for their malcontents, but that has bad connotations and doesn't paint us as the nicest people. So instead, I'm going to have you lot steal us some humans and establish a stable source of subjects. All with plausible deniability, of course.
We are here at...on second thought better for you not to know any details if possible. Try not to remember any names if you can. That way when the military courts ask, you can honestly tell them that you don't know. In any case, we're currently in orbit around a UWM hive world, one of those super over populated urban hell holes that exist outside the galactic core but not quite on the outskirts. The UWM are still hard and strong here; police and peace keeping units will be around and they have a lot of freedom to deal lethal force out to minor problems. But they will have plenty of other things to take care of, so as long as you don't make too big of a ruckus, you should be fine. The idea here is that Hive worlds have such a huge population and such a high level of crime that, well, they're basically the best place in the known galaxy to Disappear a lot of humans.
We've had the Sons of Hephestus setting things up for you all, so your job is going to be simple in theory, perhaps difficult in practice. We need you to set up some sort of system by which people can be kidnapped, placed in stasis and shipped off to heph. And then to actually use that system and gather...oh, 50,000 people. It will probably take you a while and require a good deal of relocating and different processes. So, welcome to the human trafficking business.
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