Helicopter Disappears Over Downtown
February 5th, 2057
Seattle, UCAS: Yesterday's mysterious disappearance of a Renraku owned Ares Dragon cargo helicopter has both Lone Star Air Traffic and Renraku officials completely stumped. The Dragon was carrying unspecified cargo from the temporary landing structure at the top of the as yet unfinished Renraku Arcology to SeaTac when, inexplicably, it seemed to simply vanish. Sources from Renraku Air Control and Lone Star Air Traffic confirmed that the helicopter ceased all communication before disappearing completely from all radar and sensor screens. Visual confirmation on the Dragon then became impossible as the 600,000 nuyen helicopter simply vanished from sight, along with its mysterious cargo.
According to Seattle Lone Star Air Traffic Chief Michael DiMartino, the disappearance is "completely outside of the norm for Seattle. It's usually very safe to traffic people and equipment over the city. We have our best men working on the Dragon case. Obviously, magic was involved, and we have mages on the job. We've also got Wasps scanning the surrounding areas looking for wreckage. " So far, says DiMartino, no wreckage has been found.
Renraku officials, other than a prepared statement that, indeed, the helicopter has been lost, have remained quiet about the disappearance. Top brass at the Arcology have been avoiding reporters since the incident. Rumors of proprietary computer technology on board the Dragon remain unsubstantiated.
"We have our own people working on this,"Renraku Security representative Annie Togusa told NewsFax, "we'll take care of it."
According to Seattle Lone Star Air Traffic Chief Michael DiMartino, the disappearance is "completely outside of the norm for Seattle. It's usually very safe to traffic people and equipment over the city. We have our best men working on the Dragon case. Obviously, magic was involved, and we have mages on the job. We've also got Wasps scanning the surrounding areas looking for wreckage. " So far, says DiMartino, no wreckage has been found.
Renraku officials, other than a prepared statement that, indeed, the helicopter has been lost, have remained quiet about the disappearance. Top brass at the Arcology have been avoiding reporters since the incident. Rumors of proprietary computer technology on board the Dragon remain unsubstantiated.
"We have our own people working on this,"Renraku Security representative Annie Togusa told NewsFax, "we'll take care of it."
18 comments:
Six Hundred Thousand Nuyen? Frag, maybe a brand-new, current-model Dragon. The Dragon's been around since, like, the twenties. Most in service are over ten years old, and resale on a chopper, especially a cargo chopper, ain't great.
My God. Is this a sign of things to come?
Yes, Nanny. The rapture is coming, and the helicopter was the only pure one left on Earth.
Frackbrain.
This was obviously some sort of magical experiment. Maybe Renraku mages were working on some kind of high altitude spell? Some kind of backlash might have occurred, obliterating the chopper.
Platters: I assure you, that chopper was full of sin.
Actually, I had heard rumors about this job. Word had it that the Ren was trying to move some fairly large para-biologicals out of the Achology. I heard rumors of condor-sized pricuricu...but that seems far-fetched to me. Seems some security experiments had gone wrong and needed to be transported to another location, or maybe disposed of.
Anyway, word on the streets is that some high-roller was looking to acquire some very new, very dangerous pets. Was trying to hire someone to get them before they disappeared.
My guess? Either the runners that took this gig somehow used the paranimals' powers to disappear the chopper--which is some daring drek, for my money--or the Ren decided that the best way to keep important people from stealing the things was to pretend that the things had been stolen.
I mean, if anyone could make Renraku's house-sized helicopter disappear over the middle of downtown, wouldn't it be Renraku?
Two words, drekheads.
BUG SPIRITS
Paranimals? No way, fraggers. Only a free spirit could have done something that big. My guess is that Renraku had something the spirit wanted, and it took it, straight to the metaplanes.
So close to the TRUTH but still you remain BLIND. There was no helicopter that day, friends. The helicopter was a GREAT SPIRIT OF MAN, hidden to human eyes. Its purpose...is sinister.
Lone Star doesn't seem to think so. They've been shaking down local awakened/environmentalist groups. Why environmentalists would steal a helicopter though, I don't know.
Larry: There was a big save-the-pricuricu protest outside Boeing field that day. A little checking and, guess what? The helicopter that disappeared was housed in a Renraku-rented hangar out at Boeing. It looks like it left there just before it went to the Archology, where it picked up a cargo container and then *poof.*
Kinda makes The Colonel's theory sound more plausible, doesn't it.
Interesting observation: Some of the most magically powerful people in the UCAS were present, astrally or otherwise, at that protest. Who could make a Dragon disappear? What about a Dragon?
Someone blew that helicopter right out of the sky. Renraku thinks it's better from the PR side of things to have a missing helicopter than to admit someone could get away with firing a heat seeking missile so close to the arcology. With the sheer number of drones and security mages that are based out of there, it's simply impossible for something as large as a helicopter to go missing without Renraku's specific say-so... and you know it wouldn't be getting this sort of press coverage if they had given the OK. On the other hand, with a little hard work it's more than possible to shoot something down and get away without losing a combat drone or two at most, and that's exactly what they don't want you to be thinking about air space around biggest and baddest Renraku toy in Seattle. If an aircraft goes missing, you can blame the pilot as an inside man... but if things are getting shot down, then people fly somewhere else.
Jonesy, I think you're forgetting a little something called "wreckage". Sure, making a helicopter disappear from over downtown is tricky. But making big flaming hunks of twisted shrapnel raining from the sky disappear is just a little bit harder.
By the way, haven't seen you since Ankor. I've got a bit of something in Lagos in the works that would be right up your alley. Ring me up if you're interested; I could use your help.
I'm sorry, I thought this was NewsFax, not the personals site. Use your own dollars to talk, don't take up bandwidth you haven't paid for.
It's amazing how fast "wreckage" becomes "construction debris." The whole thing went down right on an extraterritorial girder forest. Anything that isn't company approved won't be seen on the 10 o'clock news. Oh, and Kwan Yin... Off_the_wagon left that message here because she knew that the datatrail on my post is about as unreal as the chances of Yeats pulling off reunification... and if you were even the slightest bit financially savvy you'd realize that bandwith wasn't worth drek anyway. In order to help you out in that department your parents are going to be audited next year. You're welcome.
This is truly a travesty. If Renraku is not safe, then I just don't know what is anymore. It is sobering to think that helicopters could just disappear. I am comforted in this dark hour to know that Chief Michael DiMartino has his best men working on this Dragon case. I know I won't sleep well until I know exactly what happened.
Also, for the record, it's only April 4th right now, and the incident happened on the 1st.
School's in nubes. A copter disappears above Seattle. Hm, how do you vanish a chopper on a typical rainy/overcast Seattle day? Answer: Move it in any direction! And how on earth could flawless computers be fooled? Answer: If any of you gang banger nubes have to ponder this one out, better get back your "Renegade"-butt back to the Barrens.
Want to know what the cargo was? See which Reny shows up on the Ares payroll in a month.
I gaurentee you at least one of those deckers got permafried by some black on those hosts.
Word to the wise: Go freelance before you get iced to get some corp drekhead a raise.
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