Chapter 4. - The unexpected ship heist Part 3 - The Howl of the White Wolf
11 Dec 2022Blasius Hayduk
OOC messageThis is part 3 of a trilogy story if interested what happened so far check out PART 1 and PART 2. Enjoy the finale!
System: Contii
Station: Sucharitkul Vision
Bar area
'C'mon, let's get out of here' - pulled Chris O'Neal Thunderbolt by the arm towards the hangar lifts. - 'We have no time to come up with new plans our time is nearly up, if we both go to prison noone can bust us out! Damn this Federal Bureaucratic System!'
'That's it! The Bureaucratic System will save us today!' - cheered up Blaise in a sudden Heureka moment! - 'Come I explain everything on the way!'
As the Golden Heart, Thunderbolt's beloved Cobra Mk3 jumped to supercruise Blaise got into details of his plan that was simple but also dangerous.
The facility where Federal Official documents were checked for autanticity was found here in Contii. And as Blaise served in the Federal Navy, he was well aware of the order of priorities of official matters. Since due to the Thargoid war there was an emergency situation announced all production and arms and goods movement enjoyed priority over documental verification.
This opened a new opportunity for Blaise and Chris, all they had to do is a little sabotage at Maiboroda Engineering Enterprise, and all hands in System would be ordered to fix the issue with highest priority, which means documents validations are dropped, and results of their forged warrant are reported automatically clean, not being able to be inspected within deadline.
System: Contii
Settlement: Maiboroda Engineering Enterprise
'Checking external guard patrol patterns' - reported in Chris on his new Dominator Suit's radio as they descended from the stairs of the Cobra.
'Great, I find a way inside for us, remember not touching anything until alarm system is still up and running' - repeated part 1 of his plan Blaise
'Copy that!' - acknowledged O'Neal
One of the local technicians with security level 2 just had something real important to be transferred from the habitat to the production building, and as such Blaise had no problem shadowing him in without any issue
'Oh Shit!' - Chris heard his friend on the comms - 'There is an armed guard with a personal scanner just around the production equipment! How are you feeling with your charms today?'
'What? I don't know what you mean?!' - asked Chris in a confused state.
'I mean I will need you to distract them otherwise if they spot me inserting the Pyrolitic Catalyst into the Synthetis Autmomation Unit, all hell will break loose!' - Explained Blaise in the simplest possible way
'You know I did not understand one single word about what you just said, Right?' - Came the vague but straight answer from Chris as stealth Infiltration was not on the list of his favourite activites.
'Just do some small talk with the Guard when I tell you to' - sighed Thunderbolt a tad nervously, althought this was not his first silent mission, it was the first one against his own Faction, but now higher things were at stakes and he knew it damn well... so he did his job in a very disciplined and focused way.
'Why don't we simultaniously neutralize the guard and the technitian so we can work undisturbed?' - Came the otherwise not bad suggestion from Chris, referring to their previous succesful double assassination a couple of weeks back.
'It is a sound plan, but These are my guys, from Hatchiman, don't know them personally, but I would like to avoid leaving a body count if possible.' - explained his concerns Blaise. ' Also the sabotage would immediately be spotted and we might not be succesful with our diversion!'
'Ok ok...let's try it your way first then' - agreed an uneasy Chris finally.
'OK Alarm is off, as well as security checks on the doors, you can go and have a couple minutes of small talk with our favourite guard' - came the confirmation shortly
'Ok I am on it, how long will this take for you?' - Asked Chris with some impatience in his voice now.
'Just 2-3 minutes but you really need to keep them occupied!' - replied Blaise just a little bit more worried.
Both of them knew the risk and the danger of this mission, they really needed to succeed at this point not only because of Chris's ship, or their reputation, but at the moment their freedom or even very lives were at stake, and time was not on thier side...
Thunderbolt could hear idle chat from the comms of Chris filtering in from his small talk with the guard, when the very technician who basically let him in just entered the room.
'Damn 30 seconds, but we have an unexpected visitor!' - updated the situation Blaise quickly.
O'Neal nodded nervously during his distraction conversation, checking from the corner of his eye what was going on.
'Ok they just brought in a new report and uploaded it quickly in the mainfraime, already left now, we are clear again'
Almost a minute went by after that, Chris even broke his radio silence somehow from his chitchat - 'Talk to me Blaise!' - sounded as the words squezed through his nervously closed teeth.
'Almost there... need a couple more seconds, the Catalyst just won't fit in!' - came the equally tense reply from Thunderbolt...
And then finally... 'Ok we are in the clear, sabotage is succesful, get out of here before they realize what happened...'
'I can't believe we did it, but are you sure this will work?' - asked the still worried Chris buckling up in the co-pilot seat of the Cobra!
'Don't know for sure just yet my friend we need to check in Sucharitkul Vision if we have fully succeeded!' - remained calm Blaise.
System: Contii
Station: Sucharitkul Vision
Federal Logistics Bureau
'...So we are all clear?'
'Yes Sir, no problems, sorry for the inconvenience with the CCR (Cost Coverage Report)!' - That is all that O'Neal overheard from afar as Thudnerbolt was approaching with a very wide smile on his face.
'I take it we are confirmed to leave with my ship now?' - Presumed the hopeful Chris
'Oh we are so much more than that' -smirked Blaise mysteriously - 'C'mon let's spring your ship free first!'
A few minutes later two simultanious Launch requests were permitted from Sucharitkul Vision, and a custom painted White Keelback and the Golden Heart - Cobra left the station and boosted to supercruise in seconds.
'Oh it is so good to finally be ablet to sit behind the stick of my ship' - came through the comms the sound of a very relieved Chris O'Neal. - 'Thank you Man, you are the Best!'
'I can imagine Friend Enjoy flying her once again!' - replied a content Thunderbolt to his friend.
'So what did you mean we gained more than my ship back?!'
'Well, during our little sabotage mission, while looking for the alarm disable overrides, I found some files and things, and managed to change the status of our previous purchase attempt as completed, and reclassify it as military purchase from Hachiman's side.' - started to explain Blaise.
'So... that would mean... ' - implied Chris as he was not 100% sure that he quite understood what that meant
'So when we returned, our good Friend in the Logistics Bureau saw on his little computer that the White Wolf was already paid for , and thus our 300 ton Silver delviery was a military sales order, of 50 Million credits , and a completed one obviously.'
- luaghed it off at the end Blaise.
'Wait What?!' - Asked Chris recapping in his head what have really happened there quickly - 'You mean to say, not only did we get my ship for free, but they even paid for the Silver in the end?'
'Exactly, check your balance when we get to the next starport' - reassured Thunderbolt - 'Just as you said, Federal Bureaucracy is truly a beauty!'...
'Well I believe it when I see it! But that would be something, and it would cover getting the White Wolf back into shape' - O'Neal thoughts started racing -
'But first things first, let's go to a far enough system from Hachiman jurisdiction! Then we need to spring my really good co pilot to make use of the Keelback' - as Chris already started to plan his next steps...
'Following you for now!' - said Blaise as they finally set course for Dorsey Penal colony in Mongria...
OOC message
This episode concludes the 3 part ship heist story we played in a preplanned manner in full roleplay otherwise. Missions lined up perfectly, and there were a lot of improv as well. Great fun, hope you enjoyed the story as well,
If you feel like joining our role play party, feel free to contact either of us: Cmdr Chris O'Neal, or myself Cmdr Blaise Thunderbolt here or ingame!
If you feel like joining our role play party, feel free to contact either of us: Cmdr Chris O'Neal, or myself Cmdr Blaise Thunderbolt here or ingame!