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Kerenkov, Solaris Sector, SinTek Colonial Development HQ
All was right with the world. Edward Limpkin knew his place in it, and he'd rather be here, down in the basement of the CoD building, than anywhere else.
He'd checked in, so that the CI in charge of the company's computer systems knew he was here. He walked briskly down the office corridor, smiling to himself and whistling a happy tune, as impersonal cameras tracked his every step. He pushed the door labelled with the name of CoD's network administrator - more like a psychologist and programmer rolled into one, as all he did was handle problems which arose with the department's CIs - and said hello to the person sitting there, behind an unassuming metal desk, plugged into a computer terminal with a opto-jack.
"Hi!", Limpking said cheerfully and shot the admin in the face with his own personal pistol.
As alarms started blaring throughout the building, Limpkin pushed the slumped body from its chair, and used the hardware override to cut the building's CIs from the building's system - a failsafe built into the network during times when CI engineering was still primitive and people feared the inevitable robot uprising. With a whine, all terminals in the buildings shut down.
Still whistling, Limpkin connected the datacube to the administrator's terminal and with a few quick keystrokes, began uploading its contents onto the main server.
He kept whistling, even as security charged the room and mercilessly gunned him down.
Kerenkov Datasphere
Through the neon lattice of the CoD Dataweb, a red ink flowed, as the sophisticated expert program seeked out and attacked all servers related to the division's activities. Offsite backups were attacked and defended by autonomous daemon programs, using codes pulled from the mainframe. Computers of customers, contract enforcement services, transportation and logistics companies and even private employee machines were sought out using logs and other data found on CoD's central servers. Even despite SinTek's security CompInts hunting the program package down, stopping data wipes and recursively reconstructing documents, the damage was too widespread. It wasn't irreversible, of course, but rebuilding the databases, cost simulations, client correspondence and logistical arrangements meant that CoD would be unable to compete in several important frontier tenders that were just about to close.
At the same time, prearranged webmail messages were released from several servers, alerting several dozen news agencies of a shootout in CoD's offices,and trading programs began attacking SinTek's stocks on the Solaris Exchange.
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SinTek Galactic Main Officer, Kerenkov, Solaris Sector
"We have identified the body used during the attack - it's a Maitabtsu Type 23 Assault Frame, though modified somewhat. Unfortunately, no Maibatsu transponders were registered at the location, which means the local police had to resort to image tracking through monitoring cameras, with less than stellar results...", a CEID officers droned on about mundane details of the investigation into untimely interruption of living for Edward Limpkin, director of colonial development, "...we know the perpetrator split upon exiting the building, and also had several auxilliary drones with him. Judging from the behavior of the two main bodies and the auxilliarz swarm, we seem to be dealing with some sort of distributed CompInt, since there were no control transmissions detected and..."
The man was rudely interrupted by a flood of information reaching everyone at the boardroom through the Datasphere. He received it, too, and instantly connected to CEIDs servers, requesting situational updates. Within seconds, he managed to ascertain the situation - he's seen such things done before. Unfortunately, he wasn't sure the people inside the room could hear it.
Fortunately for him, the first move of the day belonged to the building's security team, which charged into the meeting room and began evacuating SinTek's leadership to a secure location.