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#FreedomFalls – November 14, 2014
Jasper cusses loudly. "And now they want me to swing back around and pick 'em up once I've dropped you folks off. Couldn't have just had me pick 'em up when I was on my way to the hospital. No. That would've been too easy!" (Jason_Wolfe)
Mendez ignores Jaspers bickering. "I doubt they'd just let you waste your time on it. Might be a good idea to ask Vasquez about it if you think your time could be better used elsewhere." (Jason_Wolfe)
Renala ponders it for a moment. "I suppose there's not much else I could be doing right now," she says, "for them, anyway. I could always work on my own stuff."
Mendez gives a slight shrug. "I just do what I'm told. They sign my paycheck, so whatever they need me to do, pointless or not, makes no difference to me in the slightest. They tell me to put my chair in the corner of the room and stare at a wall for eight hours, then I'm gonna put my chair in the corner of the room and stare at the wall for eight hours. It's just a job. Doesn't have to
Renala nods. "My job isn't over when I go home, though," she says. "There's always a way to improve my tech to give us an advantage in the field."
Mendez continues to stare straight ahead as he speaks, although a slight grimace shows through as the shuttle takes a particularly sharp turn, "And that's why I'm glad it's your job to keep up with that and not mine, princess." (Jason_Wolfe)
Renala chuckles. "Most of it is fun, but encryption... yeah, not really my thing," she says. "The hardware that does that well is both complex and expensive."
Mendez raises an eyebrow. "Expensive? Redrock comps you for everything, though, right?" (Jason_Wolfe)
Renala smirks. "I think they've got better things to use their money on right now," she says. "And it might put us on a watchlist, or a couple. AIs run on that kind of hardware too."
Mendez furrows his brow. "Watch lists? The shit you mess with is that serious?" he asks, almost sounding genuine in his interest. (Jason_Wolfe)
Renala shrugs. "I don't know, I've never dealt with quantum computing myself," she says. "I'm just guessing getting something like that shipped here ought to give us some attention we don't need."
Mendez gives a short shrug. "You really think authorities would waste their time traveling all the way out here to look into something like that?" (Jason_Wolfe)
Probably not, but I'm thinking of the people sending encrypted information that they don't want us listening in on.
Renala sighs. "And I don't know how to work that kind of hardware, so it'll take a lot of time for me to start decrypting the data on it."
Mendez glances towards the cockpit but doesn't respond to Jasper. "How close do you think you are to decrypting what you're working on, anyways?" (Jason_Wolfe)
Renala considers the question for a few seconds. "It's hard to tell," she says. "Right now I can just throw as many keys at it as my computer can and hope one will work. It could take days, or even years."
The hangar is a small one, with shuttles entering from above. This one has been used to store both Redrock shuttles as well as whatever could be salvaged from the ruins of the Redrock base. The equipment is spread out in crates along the walls. The only non-aerial access is a fairly large door along the western wall.
Jasper whistles to himself as he slowly maneuvers the shuttle through the aerial entrance and sets it down softly. "Well, here we are. I'm-'onna let you folks out here and pick up the head honchos." (Jason_Wolfe)
Renala stands up and moves over to the entrance. "I'll leave it to you to push our friend out," she says to Mendez with a chuckle before opening the door and stepping out of the shuttle (if she can).
Mendez actually flashes a smile. "My pleasure." he says as he removes his harness and stands up. He grabs the salarian by the arm and jerks him to his feet. "C'mon. Get movin'." he instructs as he nudges him. (Jason_Wolfe)
Jelvan has been quiet throughout the trip, just listening to what the others had to say. He does have a harder time getting out of the harness while Mendez is pulling him, though, but gets up. He starts moving towards the shuttle door to get out.
Mendez follows right behind Jelvan, exiting once the salarian has. "Take a seat." he instructs, pointing towards a closed crate, "Touch anything and I'll break your fingers." (Jason_Wolfe)
Kim opens the large door and steps inside. She is wearing a pair of black pants and a black long-sleeved shirt, and has her hair pulled back into a braid. Her Carnifex is strapped to her hip and the modified Mantis on her back. She glances towards the group through her glasses before walking over in a slow, yet purposeful way.
Mendez tenses up and reaches for his sidearm as the door opens, but relaxes as soon as he sees who it is. "Eh... Might wanna announce your arrival. Just about gave me a heart attack." he grunts. (Jason_Wolfe)
The shuttle's doors slide shut and it begins its slow ascent back through the bay door. (Jason_Wolfe)
Jelvan complies and approaches the crate, not too happy about walking barefoot on the hangar floor. When there, he sits down on the crate.
Mendez mutters. "Did the Chief tell you what's going on? Rest of us aren't even really sure why we're here." (Jason_Wolfe)
Renala steps away from the shuttle, also staring at the door as it opens. She recognizes Kim after a few seconds. "Evening," she says once she's near the group.
"Sounded serious enough for me to want to hurry through what I was doing, but otherwise I got nothing."
Mendez sighs. "Not sure how up to speed you are about everything, but this little shit-..." he nods towards Jelvan, "Is a guest of ours. His friends seem to want him back real bad. They're the ones that destroyed half our HQ. Anyway, they gave us a deadline to hand him over. Don't know much else." (Jason_Wolfe)
Mendez nods. "Hopefully, anyway. At any rate, stay on your toes. I doubt they would've given us a deadline unless they planned on acting if we don't meet it." (Jason_Wolfe)
Kim walks over to the nearest crate and parks her butt on top of it, then leans back onto her hands. She looks somewhat bored at the moment.
Victoria walked over to the group wearing her standard gear and weapons ''Hey guys, how are you all?''
Mendez glances over at Vicky as she enters the shuttle bay, not quite as startled as when Kim entered. "Not sure. No clue what's going on. So somewhere between 'fine' and 'royally fucked', I'd imagine." (Jason_Wolfe)
Mendez glances over at Jelvan and grunts. "Torture device can imply a lot of things. I've been attached to this asshole for a while now." (Jason_Wolfe)
"What, has he been talking your ass off? That's just about all Salarians can do to threaten someone by themselves."
Mendez snorts loudly and gives Jelvan a hard stare. "It's enough to make me want to kill myself. Doesn't mind running his mouth, but refuses to say a single useful thing." (Jason_Wolfe)
Renala chuckles, but stays out of their conversation. She nods to Victoria. "Good to see you, Vicky," she says. "How have you been?"
Mendez lips curl into a bit of a sneer. "I can make a pretty compelling argument for silence." (Jason_Wolfe)
He's pretty much been quiet since I suggested we talk encryption keys, so I suppose I can take credit for that.
Renala smirks and steps towards Victoria. "I'm fine. I've been working on the data we grabbed," she says. "Oh, and I ran into Zaylus at the Respite earlier today. That guy seems to have gotten into some serious crap...."
"Jason did a fantastic job of finding quality people for this company. We can barely go a week without someone being in serious crap, it feels like."
Mendez shakes his head. "Hopefully he doesn't intend on involving us in his shit. He's already flaked out on us how many times? Two? Three?" he groans. (Jason_Wolfe)
Renala frowns. "I told him to go to Jason with it," she says. "I don't know what he's up to, but someone told me he was approaching me as if he was going to shoot me."
Victoria looked at Renala with a blank face ''Why would he do that? That seems as smart as fighting a krogan.''
Renala raises an eyebrow. "Do what? Talk to Jason?" she says. "Depends on what it's about, maybe Redrock can help him. Or at the very least, he can explain himself."
Victoria shakes her head ''No, I meant approaching you like he was going to shoot you.'' She said correcting herself.
Renala frowns. "Goddess knows how many others he'll be a threat to if he's that bad at telling me apart from others vaguely like me."
The shuttle bay door opens once again, and the Redrock shuttle begins to descend through it. (Jason_Wolfe)
Renala nods. "Come to think of it, the girl who told me--" she looks up as she hears the shuttle bay door opens.
Vasquez lets go of the handle, stepping out of the shuttle and taking a quick look around, her gaze settling on the salarian and looking him over as if to confirm he's there.
Kim looks over to the shuttle and waves half-heartedly, only allowing a small smile to show her interest in what's going on at the moment.
Jason unharnesses himself and climbs out of the shuttle behind Vasquez. "Hey." he says, looking over the others. His gaze stops on Victoria, "Didn't expect you to show. I appreciate it."
Steve climbs out after the other two. His gaze stops on Renala and a smile crosses his lips. "Ren." he offers, "How you doin'?" (Jason_Wolfe)
Renala takes a few steps towards Steve. "Hey," she says with a smile. "I'm doing fine. Glad to be taking a break from the data. How about you?"
Steve gives a shrug. "Nice to be out of the Respite for a night." he says with a wink. (Jason_Wolfe)
Jasper looks to Victoria with a nod as he slowly climbs out of the shuttle. "I can get behind that idea." he says, "What's goin' on, Chief?" (Jason_Wolfe)
Vasquez lets her gaze wander around the room for a moment. "You're all probably wondering why I have called you here on such short notice. Rellis Darennon has demanded the immediate return of his brother. We will not be returning him. Not before we have received compensation for the destruction of our base. You're here to make sure they don't try to take him by force again."
Mendez gives a nod. "They caught us off-guard last time, Chief, and still couldn't finish the job. We can handle this." (Jason_Wolfe)
Jason gives a shrug. "I don't think we can really know for sure. But they did attack our base. Rellis obviously has deep pockets, considering how much he paid us for the assault on Kalus Security..."
Kim leans back forward to allow her hands freedom. She folds them over her chest and scowls slightly.
Vasquez nods and brings up her omni-tool, realizing time is running short she starts typing. "Polner, I'd like you out in the corridor keeping an eye out, in case they come here. I doubt they'd dare confront us inside the spaceport, but still. I'm going to send a message to Rellis asking for the money."
Renala looks around the room, checking how much cover there is were there to be a firefight in this hangar.
Kim nods and jumps off the crate with another two-finger salute. "Roger. I can't guarantee I'll be able to hold them long if I see them, though."
Mendez raises an eyebrow. "So... We're basically just playing the waiting game right now is what you're saying?" (Jason_Wolfe)
Vasquez lowers her omni-tool with a sigh, the holographic interface fading away. Her expression is grim but frustrated. "It's sounding like they might try something stupid. I want everyone to pick out a position in case they do. Maybe move a few crates. I've given them three hours. That's how long we'll wait before we get rid of the salarian."
Mendez nods and goes right to work moving crates. "Any way we can keep them out of the shuttle bay door?" he asks, "If so, they'll have to funnel through the front door. I can use these crates to set up some makeshift cover. It'll turn the door into a great kill-box." (Jason_Wolfe)
Renala walks over to the door, and inspects the panel. "I'm not sure," she says, enabling her omni-tool and scanning it. "I can probably do it, but we need to cut the wires to make sure they can't activate it again from the outside."
Jason frowns. "Okay... Is that something you can do? And, if we do it, is it something you would be able to fix after? I'd like us to be able to actually get our shuttle back out one day..."
Vasquez shakes her head. "You do realize we could just lock the bay doors? And... I'm still hoping they won't be stupid enough to confront us here."
Jason gives a shrug. "What makes you so sure that they don't have their own Renala that could just hack them back open?"
Vasquez seems to hesitate for a moment. "They'd have to attempt an air assault to get in through the roof anyway. And then the militia will get them."
Renala chuckles. "Exactly," she says. "No such thing as a unbreakable lock. At best this place has a VI or security team ready to sound an alarm if the door acts up." She looks over the panel again before turning back towards the others. "I didn't bring the tools for the job, though," she says. "Is there anything in the shuttle I can use?"
Mendez grunts as he lifts another crate. "Air assault... They seemed to have some pretty heavily armed shuttles last time we ran into them. I don't doubt that the militia will do what they can, but I'd rather not leave my life in their hands." (Jason_Wolfe)
Jasper gives Renala a nod. "Nothin' too fancy. Some basic tools are in a box tucked under one of the seats, though. Might wanna check it out 'fer 'yerself." (Jason_Wolfe)
Renala looks the panel over for any make and model before walking over to the shuttle. "As long as I can turn it off first, anything that can cut a wire is fine," she says. "My specialty is software, but I'm sure I can find the right wires with a schematic and some time." She enters the shuttle and looks around for anything resembling a toolbox.
Renala grabs the toolbox and starts walking back towards the panel, rather wanting to have it all available there rather than walking back and forth if an unexpected tool is needed. When there, she opens it and checks if it has what's needed to get the panel open and cut a few wires.
The toolbox contains your standard run-of-the-mill tools, so it more than likely has some generic tool that could be used to remove the panel. (Jason_Wolfe)
Jason takes a deep breath. "Here's hoping you're worth enough to your brother that he's not in such a rush to risk your life." he says, glancing at Jevlan.
Steve stands from the crate he was seated on and cracks his neck. "We have any sort of intel on the type of numbers we may be dealing with?" (Jason_Wolfe)
Renala frowns. "Fuck, remember when I said schematics and time?" she says. "I can cut every single wire until it stops moving, but I can't guarantee I'll be able to fix that." She grabs one of the tools and gets to opening the panel with haste.
Renala opens the panel and looks around for any kind of model number to look up. She enables her omni-tool and tries to simply shut it off.