Network has a Traitor...

[Martin Cloneas]

Soonoba sat on his repulsor as he watched the show Charmed Life. He detested it immensely but the man got so much good information, and like any good Hutt would do also, distorts it for his own means, but he usually had good sources. His office was far too small for him and his size but his Boss always made sure Soonoba was made to realize he was worthless, and never his choice for the position. The smells were not so bad though coming from the chemicals being made in the plant which is why he tolerated it to begin with.

As he watched he coughed out loud as the clip was shown. Soonoba knew immediately where that was. Coruscant was right indeed and the skyline was right for his best spy to be working in right now. Continuing to watch as the person was shot and killed and the implications of him being a Jedi made him furious.

WHY THAT MONGREL. And threw his dessert into the wall and the tiny fish made a loud thud hitting the duracrete.

It was obvious to him that his spy had done his work and gotten the data he needed to find out who this spy was in the Ord Mantel organization. Also proved that he was not going to receive it either. Soonoba didn’t mind having a spy here but the fact was he had to know who it was before he could do something, or rather report it to his boss anyways.

Soonoba had been given the task of finding the mole and simply reporting it to the Boss. Problem was whoever it was had to be very well connected here to hide for this long and cause enough problems to arouse suspicion.

HO HO HO HO HO HO HO HO Sonnoba bellowed out a huge laugh as the riots played across the screen. Although it was never good that the Network suffered like this, but it also meant at this rate a planet boss may be opening soon. Turning off the holoscreen since he didn’t care about the rest he turned to his datapad and wondered how so many spies could be so easily found out. This one I sent myself by word of mouth and no other means.

Scans of the room were always negative even when people were speaking, just case they were sneaky enough to sneak a device that turns on when people speak. So punching some numbers into the datapad restricted the number of people on the list to 54. So it was down to 54 from the original 1578 he had a month ago. Not bad considering the problem at hand.

Everything from smugglers being caught in worlds that didn’t allow the cargo on board, to Chemical factories suddenly losing profits, whole areas with good slaves suddenly freed by some force of sentient, or and this really and Soonoba mad, was the lose of funds out of secret accounts. Everything said it was more then one person, but it wasn’t possible in his mind. Everything was telling him it was one person trying to make it appear as two. Using his comlinks he called to his aid who would do everything asked of him without hesitation. And having a good aid was crucial, not to mention who understood Huttese as Sien did.

Sien, get me a slicer and the best we have got NOW.

[Cyberguy]

(Whenever you want me to pop in, just let me know)

[Martin Cloneas]

Sien being a very good assistant went off and made the proper calls and with in an hour the expert slicer had arrived. Sien then opened the direct comlinks channel to the office and Soonoba, who was in the process of eating a meal since his earlier snack was so rudely interrupted by the news.

My Lord, the slicer is here as you ordered.

Soonoba merely touched a key on his chair and a buzzer sounded. Sien being a good Sullustan did not bother saying anything just waved the slicer to the door behind him. Then slowly his right hand went to a blaster that was under his desk as he always did in case someone came into the room unexpectedly.

Soonoba was not paranoid to the point of being obsessed with it, however he did take a lot of extra precautions as well. The door was sealed shut and magnetically sealed to prevent anyone breaking in. In addition to Sien being armed, although hidden from plain sight, there were cameras all over the inner and outer offices to help prevent attacks being a surprise. His office had another entrance for his personal guard to enter thru and it too was magnetically sealed and only opened when the alarm was hit. He had more security he wanted but alas his boss said he was not worth the extra expenses.

Soonoba was alone as he always was, with the exception of a translator protocol droid, and on his chair reading over some documents. He wanted to be alone to intimidate anyone who came in here, by simply being alone he knew most people would jump to the conclusion he could and would deal with matters on his own without any problems.

Soonoba didn’t even bother looking up from the screen as the slicer entered the office and heard the door shut and seal behind him. The room was dark for the most part, some light coming from the middle of the room and barely illuminated enough of the room to see the outer sides of it. The walls were by far as anyone could tell bookshelves for storage, fish tanks which were lit, and some odds and ends boxes or containers.

Soonoba was lit by the light coming from the screen on his display so he was seen fully and almost set out above everything else in the room. His droid was standing behind him near the display as well, within arms reach in fact. His chair had numerous panels on it that controlled everything in the room and outer offices.

Soonoba said nothing letting the silence fill the air, and make it seem as though what this slicer was about to do was not really important. Every Hutt knows the secret to being successful is the fact the people who do your work never really know how important it is to you.

[Martin Cloneas]

Soonoba cleared his throat loudly and spoke in Huttese and the protocol droid quickly would translate into basic.

Welcome young man, and thank you for being so quick to my summons. I have a small task for you. Nothing special really just routine checking and cleaning of all my systems. The adjustment to this task though is that no one else will know about this and I want verifiable proof of anyone behind anything that may be in the systems. Is this understood perfectly clear my good man?

The slicer simply stood and nodded knowing what happened to the last person who betrayed this Hutts orders. Simply put he didn’t want to be hunted down and burned to death and the vid is still on record on somewhere.

Yes Sir it will be done as you order My lord. He paused thinking about this next statement but he wanted or rather needed to be perfectly clear as to his orders or face the dire consequences of not being done properly. Is there a time Frame here that I must also be finished by?

HO HO HO HO. Of course my young man Of course there is. You’re by far and away one of the best young slicers we have I’m sure it won’t take you longer then a day to finish, should it? The last was a statement more then a question and even the boy was young he knew it and just nodded.

Soon he was back and had all his gear and working hard to finish. Soonoba took the time to trigger is intercom to his assistant in the outer office remembering he should receive someone soon for that errand he needed done.

Sien I’m expecting a visitor sometime today, please when he shows up let me know immediately no matter what, understood?

Yes My Lord, it will be done as you order.

[Martin Cloneas]

The young slicer was at work all night and day. Soonoba couldn’t believe the stamina the young man had and his passion as well. Many a time the kid would shout in joy or scream an obscenity at the screen. Soonoba wasn’t sure if the boy knew he could understand him speaking, but Soonoba like it that way. Every advantage you can get and use was that much better in the world of doing business.

Soonoba was woken by the kid cheering in glee in the early morning hours. The protocol droid came out of its downtime immediately sensing his Master move at the sounds.

WHAT is going on over there? Soonoba’s voice was anything but pleasant.

The kid turned and bowed his head and spoke in a very soft voice. The totally subservience of the kid was very pleasing to Soonoba.

Sorry My Lord, I finally found the precise program that was hacked into your system. This cheer was the fact I got it isolated and no longer harmful and now all I have to do is delete it.

Do you know who it was that placed it there or who is using it? Will this person know what you have done right now?

No My lord I do not know who put it here. That’s not possible, however, I can attempt to trace who using this program and where they are using it from, if you wish it My Lord. And yes I believe they will know if the program no longer functions, since it is hooked into your link with all your bank accounts. In other words it only works when you are working on your accounts and otherwise it is inactive. It really was quite a good job took me hours to find it buried in amongst the numerous protocols you use for protection. Took a special type of slicer to make this. He split it up so that it wouldn’t be traced unless you actually….

YES! YES! good job young man. Now this is what you will do understand. Leave the program running, I do not want anyone knowing I know about it. Second you will trace the source now and provide the proof on a datapad for my personal use. On this datapad it will be allowed to be opened once and once only before destroying all its contents without exception is that understood? Make no mistakes, no one must be allowed to see what is on this datapad. I want this datapad used. GOOD, then you will set up a program that will ensure the program can be deleted or secured by my choice of passwords understood?

The slicer nodded as Soonoba gave him the instructions and said yes at the first question. His look became more and more puzzled as the last instruction went on. Why could he want that done? He didn’t care though he enjoyed finding this program it was the first real challenge he had in some time.

After Soonoba was done speaking, or at least he thought he was he turned back to the screen and started looking for the person who was using this information. Once that programmed was launched he went to work on the special datapad Soonoba wanted.

The Slicer began working on the datapad and was curious as to its use. It was a DNA datapad. It could only be opened by a specific person(s) DNA pattern. The thoughts of what it could be used for briefly went thru his head and he decided it was better to not think about it. Just do what you’re paid to do and move on to the next job. This thought kept going thru his head over and over.