Scenario 2.2: 5 Days Til Judgment
The next few days are frantic as the Team begins to make preparations in defense of their trial.
Day 1
JR is looking for indications of being framed, and along with Taylor's help, they manage to find out that a group calling themselves the
Winzeeger Machinenlief ("The Machines Shall Save Us") have had us and a number of locations in
Minos Base under surveillance; they are chiefly hiding behind the Minos Base Port Authority surveillance systems. There are not many of them, but their cybercraft is effective. Taylor and JR decide to listen in on them instead and stealthily deploy listening devices while continuing to be aware of the existing surveillance.
Day 2
Continues surveillance by Taylor provides information that
Elle Meyer and
Kestra are now the target of a kidnapping attempt, possibly in a couple of days.
Nora, since she's the only one of the team that's available and not under ship arrest, goes to meet Elle and Kestra in disguise, taking a bottle of Taylor's Homemade, and warns them of the situation. On the way back, Nora stops to see an old friend - Paige Maur and invites her over to the ship to see page.
Day 3
Paige comes to visit Nora and after the pleasantries and awkward "where have you been all these years," Nora opens up to her that she's now psionic and that an AXE contact - Alex Casino - left a psionic training crystal which Nora has been reluctant to use. Paige checks out the material and excitedly points out that her brother, a telepath, actually wrote some of this material, hinting that Alex Casino
could be her brother before realizing she's possibly blurted out too much and tries to cover up after very poor fashion.
Day 4
Taylor discovers that the ship's computer is being hacked and she has to use her cyberdeck to defend the computer. While in the Cyber realm she discovers that a hard-wired router has been embedded to the ship's hull. Extremely difficult to remove, the ship's evacuated and Taylor and Nora go to disarm the device. While attempting to disarm it, a Scurry Grenade (basically a grenade which scurries after its target) pops up and heads for the girls. JR throws himself on the grenade and it scars him arm - it could have been much worse. The bomb's very tricky and the girls do manage to disarm it... only to realize a moment too late that disarming the first device sets off two other devices - one in the bay and one on the bay door. Because the original device had been removed from the hull, only minor damage occurred to the hull, but a little more damage occurred to the door.
Meanwhile, during the pandemonium that bomb situations cause, Elle and Kestra are successfully kidnapped, and the Team can't even go after them - both due to their ship not being able to leave the hangar bay and the fact that tomorrow, there's court.
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