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0.3 - The Investigation Begins
Topic Started: Aug 21 2015, 12:34 AM (34 Views)
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"What am I looking at here?" Temple was not in a good mood; two SECT investigators had been gunned down the day before and she had half her department on the job of hunting down the perpetrators, but they had no leads and the stress was starting to tell. She flipped through the holo-wafers in the folder, the augmetic eyes flashing pale blue as she engaged her neuroptic interface to sift through the contents more directly. "A report from the LMCPD; it would seem a pair of construction crawlers were stolen from a construction site about a month ago, but they've not been able to track them down, much less get to the bottom of it." Temple looked at her Subaltern with a look on her face close to apoplexy, but she calmed herself and a cold glare set in, in place of the hot rage; she put the folder down, perhaps a little too fast, causing a couple of the holo-wafers to fall out and slide across the table. "Okay and why is this even remotely close to something we should be investigating? Last time I checked we weren't a supplementary force to the PD - I have enough to worry about and am short handed as it is without sending trained investigators out to fix the PD's problems for them."

"Ah, yes however the circumstances surrounding this crime are... shall we say indicative of supernatural involvement. The two crawlers, which weigh somewhere in the order of 60 metric tonnes each, disappeared from the site in the space of about ten minutes without anyone hearing or seeing anything." The Subaltern collected the scattered holo-wafers and straightened out the file; retaining a calm and polite tone throughout; he had every respect for Caroline Temple, but he had even more respect for her rage when it was piqued - now was the time for tact and diplomacy. "What's more none of the site's security systems detected any intrusion; I checked the reports and records intimately before bringing this to you and... well what's bizarre is the complete lack of any hacking footprint. I - well what I mean to say is that..."

"That its obvious the systems were hacked by the way they behaved; but that there was not even the slightest trace of forced unauthorised entry to the system." Temple finished the sentence for him as though she'd known all along precisely what he was going do say. She straightened out her uniform and composed herself further, the cold glare was gone and her tolerance for the conversation was growing markedly by the moment as it became clear that this was indeed a matter for serious consideration by the SIU. "We've seen this before. Case Bravo 240; a government facility's security systems shut themselves off allowing a group of unknown individuals to enter and clear out the security armoury. There has to be some explanation for this; networked systems don't just act in a non-standard way for no reason, these events are more than coincidence."

They both went silent at that point for several minutes as they both mulled over the possibilities. It could of course be that a subversive hacker had found some way to break into secure systems using a method that they didn't know how to trace or detect; but as in Case Bravo 240 and this one there were absolutely no system discrepancies; no passwords or user IDs had been used to order them to act as they had, they had simply acted as though with a mind of their own. It made no sense. When consulted over the previous case the Camarilla ambassador had assured SECT that no such individuals within his own organisation had abilities which would enable them to pull something of this nature off; not happy to take his word for it they'd even gone over his head to the 'Prince' who'd assured them that Cutting was telling the truth - to the best of their knowledge no-one among their number existed who was capable of manipulating technology in this manner. This of course left two possibilities; that the individual or individuals responsible weren't members of the Camarilla, or that they were an UPB (Unidentified Paranormal Being). Either way it posed a significant problem; the Camarilla were notoriously tight lipped on the existence of other PBs, particularly the ones SECT had yet to identify; getting them to admit that lycanthropes and other undead beings existed had been like trying to herd cats and even once they'd come clean they had been reluctant to share what they knew.

"Put Dvurov in charge of the case and give her a team as well as priority one on this. We need to track this person down before they can strike again. Though it doesn't make sense - why steal construction crawlers when they took enough munitions from the armoury to level a city block?"
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