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The Blood-Stained Stars: Shifting Foundations — Part I

Smuggling Hub

An Eye on Everything

Metropolis region — Barvigrard constellation
Hek system — Planet IV
Krusual Tribe Bureau

25 August YC 127

Security Agent Keita Eslin grimaced as if she had toothache and nodded at the guest chair.

After I made myself comfortable, she said wearily, “Captain Korff, I’ll be honest — I am not happy to see you. Our states are not at war but you are a citizen of a nation allied with our arch-enemy, Amarrians. Please don’t get me wrong — I do not hate you personally, I am not a racist — but you can appreciate how difficult it will be for me to engage you, a Caldari, for a security mission.” Continue reading “The Blood-Stained Stars: Shifting Foundations — Part I”

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The Blood-Stained Stars: Queens and Drones — Part IV

Coreli Spy

Planting the Body

Essense region – Peccanouette constellation
Arnon System – Planet IX – Moon 3
Sisters of EVE Bureau station

9 August YC 127

“What are we waiting for?” I asked Alitura. “If we can’t do anything for Burgan, can we try extracting Corin Risia?”

The agent shook her head, “As I said, there is no time for both missions. In 15 minutes you’ll be leaving the dock for the second part of Burgan rescue operation. I have just enough time to brief you. The DNA sample that you brought is being imprinted, as we speak, on a slab of human biomass — same material which is used for making capsuleer clones.”

“I was under impression that clone manufacturing took somewhat more than 15 minutes,” I said sceptically. Continue reading “The Blood-Stained Stars: Queens and Drones — Part IV”

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The Blood-Stained Stars: Automation Impediment – Part III

Serpentis Research Laboratory Explosion

Lair of the Snakes

Everyshore region – Chasnaye constellation
Harerget system – Planet V – Moon 1
CreoDron Factory station

27 April YC 127

When I entered Delphine’s office, she was nervously pacing up and down.

“Captain,” the agent cried as soon as she saw me, “you have to save her!”

“Save whom?” I asked, confused.

“Aspasia! I mean, Dr Aspasia Castille. She is one of CreoDron’s top minds.”

“Um… Save from what? Or whom?” Continue reading “The Blood-Stained Stars: Automation Impediment – Part III”

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The Blood-Stained Stars: Quality of Mercy – Part VII

Dead Drop Location

Delivering a Doctor

Essense region – Peccanouette constellation
Arnon System – Planet IX – Moon 3
Sisters of EVE Bureau station

16 March YC 127

I took a seat and looked at Sister Alitura expectantly.

She composed herself and said, “We didn’t really learn anything interesting from Mr Azil, but we managed to locate the ship’s doctor. Can’t say that Sisters can take credit for it as we found her by way of ransom demand.” Continue reading “The Blood-Stained Stars: Quality of Mercy – Part VII”

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The Blood-Stained Stars: Quality of Mercy – Part V

Alerting Alitura

Genesis region – Sanctum constellation
Tar System – Tevis Jak’s Epithal

16 March YC 127

“What’s that?” I asked.

“It’s a message from Sister Alitura,” said Tevis. “I sent her that weird datacore that you had found, but she was not able to decipher it.”

“We should have kept it,” mumbled Aura, who had a thing for mysterious memory devices.

“Anyway,” continued the agent, “she is very interested in consulting you.”

I raised an eyebrow, “About the datacore?” Continue reading “The Blood-Stained Stars: Quality of Mercy – Part V”

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The Damsel in Distress

Sergeant Aoki
Lonetrek region – Okela constellation
Tsuguwa system – Planet VI
Caldari Navy Assembly Plant Station

9 February YC 127

Today I received a message from Ozanero Voiras, Level 2 Security Agent, which requested my presence in her office at my earliest convenience.

“Earliest convenience, my foot,” I mumbled finishing my breakfast hastily.

In military parlance ‘earliest convenience’ was a polite way of saying ‘chop chop!’ If after such a message a capsuleer did not arrive post-haste, the agent’s attitude could become decidedly icy. Even if tardiness didn’t lead to a formal decrease in standings, the contractor could expect agents to give him the shittiest missions in their backlog. Continue reading “The Damsel in Distress”

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The Seven’s Brothel

Kaukokärki
Lonetrek region – Okela constellation
Tsuguwa system – Planet VI
Caldari Navy Assembly Plant Station

26 January YC 127

“Good morning, Ms Voiras,” I said, walking into Level 2 agent’s office, “I was getting bored and thought that maybe you could provide some entertainment in a form of a security mission to me.”

Ozanero raised her eyes from the datapad and for a moment something like disappointment flickered on her face. The expression was gone in a heartbeat and was replaced with professional friendliness.

“Good morning, Mr Korff,” replied the agent, “let me check my backlog.”

She tapped the datapad a few times and stared at it for a few seconds as if it offended her. Then she swiped the screen with a nervous gesture and glared at it some more. That continued for a couple of minutes after which Ozanero irritably moved the datapad aside and mumbled under her breath, “To hell with politics. I’ve got job to do.” Continue reading “The Seven’s Brothel”

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After the Seven – Idiot

Phenod
Lonetrek region – Okela constellation
Tsuguwa system – Planet VI
Caldari Navy Assembly Plant Station

8 December YC 126

Three days after the rescue mission Purkkoken Honuken invited me to his office.

“Mate, you have no idea how lucky we are,” said Purkkoken by way of greeting.

“I actually do – for one thing, we are still here,” I replied taking a seat.

“I didn’t mean it in a philosophic sense. Listen, when The Seven kidnapped the passengers from that unfortunate convoy, they got more than they bargained for. One of the prisoners turned out to be a brilliant cyber security analyst who managed to hack into their ship operating system. She wasn’t able to take control of it but she got access to their communications log.” Continue reading “After the Seven – Idiot”

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After the Seven – Company

Surenna
Lonetrek region – Okela constellation
Tsuguwa system – Planet VI
Caldari Navy Assembly Plant Station

2 December YC 126

After sorting out the Paragon debacle, I called Aura, “Have you found out how IRIS hijacked our Neocom interface?”

Aura winced, “I have good news, bad news, more bad news and more good news. In which order do you want to hear them?”

“Logical, please,” I answered curtly. Continue reading “After the Seven – Company”

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After The Seven – Replacement

Seven Plebe
Lonetrek region – Okela constellation
Tsuguwa system – Planet VI
Caldari Navy Assembly Plant Station

2 December YC 126

After the meeting with Lenka, Aura and I gave AIR Career Program some thought and finally decided to have a go at it. Aura reviewed the lengthy contract and confirmed that the information gathered by AIR would indeed be anonymised. I would be given a unique secret ID which only I could use to retrieve information about my progress and check the rewards. The progress would be tracked through so called career points. When a certain milestone was reached, a bonus reward would be allocated. Moreover, AIR also had daily goals and rewards which were used to focus capsuleer activity on a certain type of task which was of most interest for the researches at the time. On the whole, it looked like a cushy way to earn more kredits. As to my ethical concerns, the decisive factor which dispelled them was SOE’s support of AIR. I had huge respect for Sisters and trusted their judgement in ethical matters. So, to see the Career Program in action I decided to take a new mission. Continue reading “After The Seven – Replacement”

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