Turn 2: INDEPENDENT FRIENDS ALLIANCE (IFA)
seeks to STEALTH INFILTRATE a planet by embedding a DENIABLE ASSET.
The Alliance is attempting to convert its SHIPPING COMBINE into a strike fleet of ARMED MERCHANT CRUISERS; it resolved a potentially dangerous industrial dispute in the orbital docks above Samaya by an appeal to common interests, toilet breaks and a generous pay rise of 76 ISD, earning the respect of Maxine,
>>5823417a militant labour protest leader who now no longer needs to urinate in her own spacesuit,
>>5822361although she remains employed under the attentions of a possibly perverted Moustache Overseer
>>5822364The Alliance then called upon an old friend from their adventuring days, the handsome but small-headed Expeditionary Reconnaissance Force leader Lars Lothbrok,
>>5823421to lead a team to investigate the distress call signal from Hohlraum at a mysterious unknown megastructure in the Sextans Sector.
>>5818634>>5818635The Alliance advised Lars to equip for precision, range and single shot accuracy with DMRs,
>>5823743 >>5824359trading off against raw firepower, suppression and the ability to engage multiple targets; to ensure they brought grenades and engineering / log-retrieval interface toolkits; the rules of engagement were set to prioritise information gathering over aggression, to rescue survivors if found but not at the cost of self-survival. Lars was supplied with 50 Haemolymph for medical recovery.
Finally, the Alliance science vessel
>>5817941 arrived at Bellemek in Hydra Sector
>>5823883 , a station that does not accept trade in Isonomy currency, or ISDwith CYBERNINJAS and Clara the Technical Researcher
>>5818642 attempting to decrypt incredibly valuable STAR DATA obtained from Vandenberg Aerospace, of the Vertigo Pact. The cyberninjas told the hackers of all the circumstances of data retrieval, and tried to disguise their affiliation with Samaya City and the Friend. They offered the promise of future cyberninja services.
>>5824359After hurling endless abuse and crude insults directed at the mother of the cyberninjas, the hacker Glitch Boy
>>5823889discovered hidden layers of data beneath the already valuable star colonisation plan; Glitch Boy believed at some level the data became self-aware, capable of thinking for itself. The Alliance could not provide Magenta with addictive Cocoon Sugar,
>>5823891but nonetheless selected her to attempt a complete data decryption.
