Case File #5 - Exogeni "Cleanup”
Executor Palin
C-Sec Case W4-99p-SPK-LEE-2006
Perpetrator: Fomer Exogeni Employee Mr. Sato
Victim: Hostages inside Exogeni Building, Ekklos Combine
Officers involved: Clark, Aldrin, D’Tang, Dronak, Frikus,
Overseer: Executor Palin
Warrants Issued: 1
— Details —
A C-Sec Intern received a threatening phone call from a hostage taker within the Former Exogeni Building. Exogeni recently declared bankruptcy and was bought out by Ekklos Combine.
As a software crew was going into the old headquarters, was taken hostage as they entered the building.
C-Sec officers arrived on scene to secure the area and to make contact with the Hostage Takers. It was determined most likely that the criminals were themselves former Exogeni employees. Judging by how well they knew the layout of the building and were able to access the building intranet.
The hostage takers seemed to make impossible demands of C-Sec but did release a few hostages in a food exchange.
Albert Martins, of Ekkloss Combine Security joined C-Sec. Announcing the greatest wish of Ekkloss to preserve the digital property with the ExoGeni Headquarters. While C-Sec could make few promises to satisfy Martins, they did gain useful information from his cooperation. The suspicion of the criminals as former employees was correct. C-Sec officers were able to match up the voice of the lead hostage taker to a former Employee, Mr Sato.
Officer Dronak and Aldrin decided to stay at the Exogeni Site, while D'Tang and Clarke went to learn about Sato.
Officer Dronak and Aldrin decided to stay at the Exogeni Site, while D'Tang and Clarke went to learn about Sato.
D'Tang and Clark were able to trace a vehicle owned by Sato back to some familiar locations. They returned to a free Clinic they had recently visited, and to an "abandoned warehouse" (which is Really an illegal factory).
From the Clinic they learned, that Sato makes regular deliveries as a courier. Providing much needed Insulin to the Quarian Clinic.
Returning to the warehouse, they met again with an illegal factory Foreman. Threatening information from him under the penalty of shutting down his knock-off assembly line.
The Foreman confirmed that Sato made deliveries to the Factory, but denied much other knowledge. C-Sec officers suspected that the unknown "Mule" is connected to Sato's deliveries. The Foreman told C-Sec everything he knew, but denied direct involvement with "The Mule."
Meanwhile, Officer Dronak and Aldrin considered how to get surveillance inside the ExoGeni building. They discovered that the Criminals used the in place security of Exogeni to cut it off from the wider internet. To explore more inside, they'd have to connect a physical line into the building.
A plane was drawn up to break Exogeni, but was called off by Albert Martins who guessed that the hostage takers would notice on cameras. As the criminals were already able to access all the security of the Exogeni building already.
By the time Clarke and D'Tang returned with their findings, the Hostage takers forced C-Sec's hand. They executed a hostage, and raised their demands.
As C-Sec sprung into action to enact their breaching. All the officers were blindsided by a 2nd crisis. Elsewhere, at another property recently acquired by Ekkloss Combine, armored trucks broke into and stole experimental technology from the old Double Helix building. Thus the assembled C-Sec officers split off into two directions, to chase down trucks, and to enter Exogeni and rescue the hostages.
Officer Dronak and Clarke mounted their breaching plan and entered Exogeni. They met little resistance from the criminals, but did discover that the hostage takers had deliberately set the building on fire! Smashing data banks, and short-circuiting electrical conduits. Quickly the effort shifted to an evacuation and everybody was ushered to safety.
While the fire raged, Aldrin and D'Tang joined a SWAT team on a high speed pursuit. Racing between the towers of the Citadel. With D'Tang's biotic assistance, Aldrin was able to magnetically attract himself to the armored vehicle. It was a simply matter then to slice into the truck computer and take control. He landed it safely without any casualties.
As C-Sec's attention was split in the dual crisis, it is unknown what all was stolen and who may have gotten away... Something C-Sec spent a long weekend sorting out.
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