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Chapter two
In the vastness of space, shrouded in an ion storm not too far from a conglomerate of stations, was a ship scanning for a specific asteroid formation. The long range scanner was behaving well, considering it had never been meant for use on an X1 Valkyrie.
An occasional spotting of a rogue hive robot slowed down the search as evasive maneuvers had to be taken so not to jeopardize the mission. At times, a lone phase blaster was used to clear the path. The pilot was having a nice relaxing day.
Ultimately, the sought-out diamond formation, along the galactic plane, was found and unsurprisingly, a glowing purple crate's beacon flashed amidst the greenish hue of the ion storm. On screen, confirmation of the package's identity reassured Gyp Nage that he had found his next assignment's details.
A familiar *thump* resonated throughout the small ship's hull confirming the acquisition of the crate unit. Through a small access hatch, the newly-decorated Corporal crawled into the cargo bay, opened the crate and retrieved a PDA. Gyp Nage then placed his own PDA into the crate and crawled back into the pilot seat.
Thrusting backward, Gyp Nage jettisoned his cargo and sent the crate unit into the void with a phase blaster burst.
"good bye for now" he thought.
The replacement PDA was too cold to boot. Instead, Gyp placed it on the heater vents behind the head-up display to warm it up and proceeded connecting it to the X1 on-board computer for easier in-flight access.
It's forged serial number and transponder ID would conceal it's origin.
The Corporal headed to the storm's exit point and proceeded on his course to an empty unmonitored region of Jallik. There, he decrypted the PDA's main log and read up on his new assignment.
Greeting Corporal.
Due to the sensitive nature of this operation, you will be acting without the help of the Psychological Reform Committee. This mission is entirely under the jurisdiction of the Strategic Political Committee. However, we are assigning a new, updated, version of the agent to aid in retrieval of certain information to assist you and to help guide Strategic Political Committee's strategy.
Your first task in to implant this agent back into the target super computer. Given your... return from retirement on your father's farm land, we will proceed by infecting this PDA and make sure it leaves a trace as to it being the source of the re-insertion of the agent back into the supercomputer. Your retirement predating the self-erasure of the previous agent will make it appear that your offline PDA hadn't had a chance to clear itself.
The Psychological Reform Committee's successful re-insertion of the drunkard did make your own re-insertion easier. We've had your confirmation of your re-insertion and guild bank loan prior to sending you this PDA so we are very pleased things are moving forward as expected.
Henceforth, the agent will be our primary means of communication with you. Further instructions will be forwarded to you at a later date.
Your second assignment is to get up to date with the second subject of your previous assignment. She's probably ready to undertake the second phase of your operation.
--General Rudlio
PS
My wife extends her gratitude for your constant supplies of fresh solanum roots. They will be missed while you are on your tour of duty. Be safe.
Gyp Nage proceeded in removing the log entry and waited a while for the agent to manifest itself. The console remained blank for a while and then came to life on it's own. A number of status lines scrolled on screen and then a single prompt blinked.
Initialisation done.
Agent online.
sMogul$: Awaiting connection...
"awww shit..."
An occasional spotting of a rogue hive robot slowed down the search as evasive maneuvers had to be taken so not to jeopardize the mission. At times, a lone phase blaster was used to clear the path. The pilot was having a nice relaxing day.
Ultimately, the sought-out diamond formation, along the galactic plane, was found and unsurprisingly, a glowing purple crate's beacon flashed amidst the greenish hue of the ion storm. On screen, confirmation of the package's identity reassured Gyp Nage that he had found his next assignment's details.
A familiar *thump* resonated throughout the small ship's hull confirming the acquisition of the crate unit. Through a small access hatch, the newly-decorated Corporal crawled into the cargo bay, opened the crate and retrieved a PDA. Gyp Nage then placed his own PDA into the crate and crawled back into the pilot seat.
Thrusting backward, Gyp Nage jettisoned his cargo and sent the crate unit into the void with a phase blaster burst.
"good bye for now" he thought.
The replacement PDA was too cold to boot. Instead, Gyp placed it on the heater vents behind the head-up display to warm it up and proceeded connecting it to the X1 on-board computer for easier in-flight access.
It's forged serial number and transponder ID would conceal it's origin.
The Corporal headed to the storm's exit point and proceeded on his course to an empty unmonitored region of Jallik. There, he decrypted the PDA's main log and read up on his new assignment.
Greeting Corporal.
Due to the sensitive nature of this operation, you will be acting without the help of the Psychological Reform Committee. This mission is entirely under the jurisdiction of the Strategic Political Committee. However, we are assigning a new, updated, version of the agent to aid in retrieval of certain information to assist you and to help guide Strategic Political Committee's strategy.
Your first task in to implant this agent back into the target super computer. Given your... return from retirement on your father's farm land, we will proceed by infecting this PDA and make sure it leaves a trace as to it being the source of the re-insertion of the agent back into the supercomputer. Your retirement predating the self-erasure of the previous agent will make it appear that your offline PDA hadn't had a chance to clear itself.
The Psychological Reform Committee's successful re-insertion of the drunkard did make your own re-insertion easier. We've had your confirmation of your re-insertion and guild bank loan prior to sending you this PDA so we are very pleased things are moving forward as expected.
Henceforth, the agent will be our primary means of communication with you. Further instructions will be forwarded to you at a later date.
Your second assignment is to get up to date with the second subject of your previous assignment. She's probably ready to undertake the second phase of your operation.
--General Rudlio
PS
My wife extends her gratitude for your constant supplies of fresh solanum roots. They will be missed while you are on your tour of duty. Be safe.
Gyp Nage proceeded in removing the log entry and waited a while for the agent to manifest itself. The console remained blank for a while and then came to life on it's own. A number of status lines scrolled on screen and then a single prompt blinked.
Initialisation done.
Agent online.
sMogul$: Awaiting connection...
"awww shit..."
Aww shit indeed. :)