Chapter 1 - The Falu Four

Late in the evening each of your holo-messengers light up. Your contact, who hasn't been heard from in several weeks has plans for the latest ambush. As before there are maps detailing where the Resource Team will be arriving and a suggested location where to best lay your trap. Unlike the previous messages the contact's voice is quiet and rushed as if he's trying to avoid detection. The message ends with the voice trailing off, before abruptly ending: "This will be an unusual team from what I can gather. Their objective is unknown."

The location for the ambush is a block of residential flats that were in the process of being constructed before Cronwick arrived a few months earlier. Supplies and labor have been "redirected" to the Imperial site outside of town, leaving the flats as nothing more than empty shells. They are located on the southern edge of the city where the Resource Team is scheduled to arrive just before dawn.

Through her macrobinoculars Nell can clearly see the unfinished, two story rows of flats on either side of the narrow street on which the Resource Team is planning to traverse upon their arrival.

Her quick scan also reveals something else. Two of Falu's finest are slowly walking along the front of one the structures, stopping every six or seven meters for a few seconds before continuing on.

Carefully entering the message meant to mislead the FSF members Nell's attempt to transmit is greeted with the response: "FATAL ERROR: POWER SURGE ON NETWORK."

It isn't more than a few seconds later that the group can hear a couple of faint "pops".

Anyone with eyes on the two security officers have clearly seen two flashes, one originating from each, right at belt level. After a moment of hand waving and pointing, during which one of the officers throws their communicator to the ground, they both start to walk down the street towards town, away from the ambush site.