Repression
23 Apr 2022Claude Lecardunoie
The ship's name is The Fall Of Earth City. It is a fleet carrier, apparently owned by the Commander Hawkstorm. I couldn't meet him on his ship, and I would have liked to thank him personally. Instead, I dealt with the crew.As my friends Ilia and Jorge said, onboard, they had a small cargo of personnal weapons to sell at a bargain price, and with the political climate in Veroandi, there would be no problem to sell it. I did four or five rotations between The Fall Of Earth City, Panshin Hub and Vardeman Gateway, the buyers were EG Union and the Revolutionary Party of Veroandi. They were preparing for something, I thought, but back then I couldn't imagine how bad the situation would turn for the Party. For each sale, I made a x10 profit. I think that I got more than 800000 CR overall, minus Ilia and Jorge's share.
On the day after, I left Veroandi. I had some courier mission to deal with. My first stop was Anekaliti. Then I flew to Gebel and Michell Port, the real purpose of this journey.
Michell Port
Michell Port is a small starport, but surprisingly well provided with top quality modules. I spent my benefits exchanging my old weapons with at least B or C class, same for my old shield generator and power plant and I also bought a new chaff launcher and shield cells bank. I stayed there for the night, sleeping in my ship.
I spent another day completing another courier, in Fjorgyn this time, at Harper Plant, for the Natural Fjorgyn Liberty Party, a brother party of Revolutionary Party of Veroandi. I thing that completing this job helped a lot the former, not the later, unfortunately. Again, I stayed one night in the station.
So, three days after my departure from Veroandi, I came back to Panshin Hub, and I soon realised that the situation had dramatically changed. The station was filled Federation police. all ships were controlled, mine included. They were looking for Revolutionnary Party members. I got through somehow. My guess was that I am quite a new comer in this system, and my activities for the Party went unoticed and also I was in good terms with EG Union. I have been trading with them after all! I went to the "Landing pad", a pub where Pary supporters would met but I found the place closed. I contacted Ilia, I had no answer. I called Jorge, he picked up the call. Just by the tone of his voice, I could guess that he was scared and close to panicking.
- "Ok, yes we can meet, but not in the level 51, they still search and arrest Party members there".
I met him 30 minutes later, in a commercial area, level 3. We sat on the bench of tramway stop of Panshin Hub Public Transportation, and he started his explanation on the last 2 days events:
- "We didn't see it coming!! None of us, not me, not even Ilia. What happened is that Blue Netcom Inc. is supported by the Federation. And until recently, the Federation didn't care about us, until our war started to have an impact on the economy here. Two days ago, they came here and started to arrest our main leaders".
- "Including Ilia?", I asked
- "Yes. She never hid that she was affiliated with the party. For her, we are not terrorists and we fight for our rights"
- "What about you?"
- "Well, I am too young, I guess. Not important enough for them"
- "What now? Were do they keep the prisoners?"
- "Oh, that went fast: all deported, out of the system, with no trial, of course. But they are the lucky ones. There are also 5 dead: accidents during their arrestation, that is what the police said. Fucking Feds!!
- "There must be something we can do?"
- "That is why we are meeting here. We take the tramway. I am supposed to meet Halle something, you know, the deputy of justice of the party. She's one of the few who managed to escape. And she asked me to bring you along", Jorge said, while buying a tramway pass for me with his pocket terminal.
After a 15 minutes tram ride across Level 3, we arrived in a residential area. People were walking along the station corridors like nothing happened. We entered a building, only low budget appartments. On the third floor, I recognised 2 party enforcers. As they saw us, one of them knocked 2 times on the door, while the other searched us. It was one of this old kind of doors, with a mechanical lock. Back then, they didn't equip such appartment with electromags lock.
Inside, we sat with Halle. I met her before as she assigned some missions to me, but I also forgot her name.
- "Commander Lecardunoie", she started "glad to have you back here. You know the situation, but its not over. If we can set free our leaders, that may have an impact on the population. We first need to figure out were they are detained. For that, we need to hack encrypted data. The first data bank is at Stevenson's base, in Fjorgyn. So go to your ship and fly there, we'll send you more information when you'll get there".
I went to the landing pad were my "Coby" was docked. I said farewell to Jorge who embarked on transport to Leighton Cultivation Center where he could hide. And I took off to Fjorgyn.
It took me two jumps to get there. On my arrival, I had a notification on my com terminal. It was the info promised by Halle on Stevenson's Base. The data bank was some 51km out of the base itself. The job was very easy. I extracted the data without any problem.
Revolutionary Party detention records extraction
On my way back, I sent the records to Halle via a protected chanel. There was the location of detention center of 32 Party members, unfortunately, Ilia was not among them.
- "There is still hope", texted me Halle. "There are two other data bank to hack. Location coordinates to follow"...