Apologies for the lack of updates for these trying times.
~~Cycle 1 Sub-Cycle 9.1~~
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It was a simple deal. Although you didn't get the group of murderous thugs that stormed the facility, you got a nicely group from the same organization (They are too busy going on the down-low.) who would break the convoy, steal the truck that is hauling the main-frame, and then drive it to a secretive place where it will be immediately disassembled and the main-frame moved into the Taboos holdings.
Once the timeline was struck, the mercenary team began to do their own thing. You didn't have much interaction besides simplistic contact information and associated data that they had requested. They never found out about the true reason why you needed the mainframe, and no less than 86 hours later, the convoy was struck with nothing less than three separate rocket-propelled grenades. After the rain of wreckage was over, a toothless hobo-looking person personally slew several convoy members before single-handedly getting shot by some passing by citizen. Assisting forces on the mercenary team pushed into the convoy, and the rest of the squad managed to save the life of the downed personnel and successfully hijack the armored freighter in question.
From there, it seems their pilot, (the homeless looking person was, in fact, the team's get-away driver as well.) managed to pilot the lumbering craft through oncoming traffic and then into a twisted city ruin, abandoned long ago. After literal hours of presence which ended in three separate gang-on-corporate wars, the team managed to hide in between two wrecked buildings for twenty-four hours.
Once the heat was off the freight-car, the truck moved to the designated drop off point and then was quickly and efficiently dis-assembled, the serial numbers of each part filed off and all its cargo removed, cataloged and then cycled into the black market or into your personal holdings. The hired-help themselves stuck around nearby the facility; It was part of the Iron-Brotherhood, and they are lending their services in return for a couple of favors.
The mercenaries are demanding their payment.
A. Pay them well, with a little bit extra for their troubles.
B. Give them the original agreed-upon sum.
C. Burn them, they are deniable assets after all.
D. It's convenient that the Diable corporation quickly and efficiently managed to acquire their information and hunted them down while you stone-walled them.