Operation 1.0: Ghosts and Machines

Mission directives

Mission directives:
[X] When you accept the mission, mark experience.
[X] When you reach the subterranean facility, mark experience.
[X] When you find out what happened to Team Bellatrix, mark experience.
[X] When you get your hands on the data core, mark experience.
[X] When the mission ends, mark experience.

Secondary directives:
[X] WE ARE WATCHING
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Mission briefing by Smith-of-Souls

Outside the Hive proper, accessible only by transport across Epho's cold and unfriendly desert surface, lies an underground facility registered under the Stellar Progress Institute, a shell company of unknown ownership. The employer wishes to obtain a specific data core from one of the facility's internal systems. Expect light-to-moderate security supported by automated emergency systems.

Now, a team of Ghosts was already dispatched to retrieve the core. The team, designated "Team Bellatrix", successfully breached into Asteria, but contact with them was lost shortly after. The facility itself does have jamming countermeasures that make it impossible to fully ascertain the situation inside, but Team Bellatrix has missed their deadline by several hours already. This leads us to believe that they have either betrayed their contract or been captured, trapped or killed. In all of these cases, a rapid follow-up response is our best course of action.

Your task, Smith explains, is twofold. For the mission to be considered a success, the following objectives must be completed:
1) Find a way into the facility and acquire the data core specified by the client.

2) Find out what happened to Team Bellatrix. If alive, assist or deal with them as necessary.

Finally, ongoing dust storms are making movement and remote reconnaissance difficult in the area. You will need to find a way to navigate the storm, wait it out or arrange sufficiently robust transportation to get to the site of the entrance shaft.

Ghost Tracker

	Arkusta	Kur	Zeus
Status	1200	1500	1800
Cred (Staked)	0 (3)	2 (2)	3 (2)
Resources (Intel/Gear/Hold)	[gear: Ditmah]	None	None
Modifiers	None	+1 forward: Login	None
Mission XP	7	7	7

Corporation Tracker

	Satyrus Housing	Sunny Orchard	Needlepoint	Thruster Galactic
Status	1500	1200	2300	1200
Ties	Zeus (+owned)	Kur (+owned)	Arkus (+hunted)	None

Mission Clocks

	Legwork Clock	Action Clock
1200	Everything is fine.	Everything is fine.
1500	There are unconfirmed rumors about the SPI facility having been compromised.	The SPI security forces are on guard.
1800	Rumors confirmed. Additional satellite resources are assigned to survey the area.	The facility is locked down, complicating movement through conventional paths.
2100	???	The environmental systems are shut down, flooding the ventilation system (and more slowly, the facility) with CO2.
2200	???	The Needlepoint strike team arrives at the facility and begins their hunt for the intrusion.
2300	???	Reinforcements are deployed.
0000	Your intelligence is compromised. Increment the Action Clock and begin the Action Phase immediately.	Overwhelming forces are deployed. Escape immediately or be destroyed.