The First Age

Sage had received a reply from Danjou he requested three things the collective could help him with. Each of with Sage was perfectly capable of doing himself. But time was probably of the essence and Sage would prefer to hand the tasks off to people who would be more excited to do such things. Chronicle enjoyed history - current events even better. What better place to stick the search for proof that two country's leaders were evil bastards.

This was simply a search, they weren't planting anything, they weren't faking or incriminating - it was purely to find information and pass it along to the right people. In this chase Danjou himself.

Maybe not. Sage would have to clarify where the information once found was supposed to go? To him? To news outlets? What would be the best course of action for the man's agenda. Sage made a mental note to ask this question in his next message to Danjou.

Sage had never physically met chr0n1cl3. They had shared many conversations with one another, but that was the extent of their relationship. It was how Sage preferred things.

Ph435r: chr0n1cl3 I have a job for you.

chr0n1cl3: Sup?

Ph435r: I need you to find proof that Liberia has hired mercenaries to destabilize Sierra Leone, to justify their occupation of the resource-reach south-eastern reaches. Proof that Nigeria is providing weapons and ammunition to General Katlego. Proof, nothing faked, nothing planted - the truth.

chr0n1cl3: I never give you anything but the truth.

Ph435r: I know, it's why I like you. You in?

chr0n1cl3: of course. I'll get on it right away. You want all the info I go through?

Ph435r: of course.

chr0n1cl3: righto - silly question.

And then the conversation ended just as abruptly as it had started. Sage smiled. One task down. Only two more to start.

There were two tasks assigned to him. Two digging tasks. Ones that would likely not leave paper trails and if he was lucky the digital trail would be difficult to find. It was precisely what he loved to do and was best at. Digging deep.

First was to find the mercenaries that had set up shop in Sierra Leone and caused the destabilization. Which really wasn't that difficult. Keeping cash was all well and good, but someone had to fund them.

Searching was fun. He was getting all sorts of dirt on all sorts of people in Sierra Leone. Ph453r was going to love sifting through the data! He started sending information to the server.

It hadn't been hard to track down the name of the organization behind the Sierra Leone incident. The Regional Operations and Evaluations Security was linked back to training foreign military units. People think that when they delete things they just disappear automatically. Even a deleted hard drive can still house the data if you know how to find it. But these were merely emails and electronic documents that had been deleted from a users account. Not from the server, or the precipitants computers, just theirs. Careless mistakes is usually what the hackers take in to account.

REO Security wasn't just trying to destabilize Sierra Leone, they had their hands into many nasty little secrets that Chronicle found. All the information was sent to Phaser's server encrypted so only the b0rg would decrypt it. It was a sad thing he couldn't use the information he could make so much trouble with it. All those little pies...

REO Security also had close ties to a few high-ranking South African politicians, political parties, and several privately owned companies. They might have the resources to track down an individual hacker, but he doubted they'd have the power to track down the collective.