Part 1: Happy Hour

Aditi - as you quickly check Simon over for vital signs you note two unusual things. On his belt is an SEA (Space Elevator Authority) ID badge with Simon's photo but identifies him as "Systems Analyst First Class Borgman Jones" and he also has a strange looking comm device that seems a bit more elaborate than a normal PAD.

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Whilst the rest of you are puzzling over the situation Tam drags the thugs together and quickly restrains them all with a few snap-locks. Hearing Aditi pronounce Simon dead Tam swears profusely before turning to the rest of you "Look, we made quite a bit of noise here so I expect the NAPD are already on there way. I can probably spin this that I took these guys down after they offed Simon hoping there'd be an outstanding warrant on at least one or two of them but the rest of you should make yourself scarce pretty quickly....well, unless you can think of anything to ask these fuckers before you ghost it that is"

You quickly discuss things amongst yourselves and come to the conclusion that heading back into the bar or to any of your apartments might not be the best idea. You head a bit away and duck off the street into a Happy Panda Noodle Bar. Inside the brightly lit chain restaurant, the proprietor dishes up steaming bowls of what charitably could be considered ramen, then seeing your faces, moves down the bar to give you some privacy. You duck into a booth and take a second to catch your breaths whilst Zoey plugs the memchip into her portable rig and begins studying it.

Zoey quickly works through the code and although there is an annoying lack of commenting throughout it soon becomes quite clear why it seemed familiar as she finds the program was created by the SEA and is designed to run on the SEA’s systems.

For the advantages - As with any large project it is obvious several people were involved with writing this program and Zoey is pretty sure at least some of it was written by a programmer she is somewhat familiar with, Jane Tompkins. It is clear the code is very complex and would have been a nightmare to program. At this point Zoey realise she has gleaned everything she can from the memchip here. The only other place that she can think of to get any further information would need access to SEA's internal systems.

As you are contemplating your next move Aditi begins feeling a buzzing coming from the strange comm device that Simon had. It seems that someone called 'Zhang' is calling....