Veino Garn
Saaraai-Kaar
Following No Ignorance, only Knowledge
TERMINUS
EXOGOTH NETCAFE
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It had been a news alert that caught Veino's attention in the small rundown flat he was staying in down near the surface of Terminus. It was the ORION headquarters on the far end of the Outer Rim, more or less. They kept a close eye on the Eternal Empire and the Brotherhood of the Maw from there, as well as the rest of the First Order. But it was a holonet news that caught his main attention, not an intelligence briefing.
Someone had leaked a bunch of Jedi files from... the New Jedi Order? Was that right? It was hard to tell with how many Jedi groups were there in the galaxy. He frowned and headed out of the flat, nodding to some of the Huntsmen who lounged around the step on the street as picked his way across the city, winding through the labyrynthine streets and building foundations until he stepped inside a Netcafe.
Veino paused for a few moments to adjust to the pulsing electronic dance music that hammered through the cafe and the flashing strobe lights that filled the cafe while youths who didn't get enough sunlight and wore too much dark make-up used the terminals for things that even Veino would probably find seedy and questionable. He made sure not to access any of their minds or catch a glimpse of their screens out of the corner of his eyes.
He paid a few talons for access to one of the terminals and a questionable cup of caf before sliding into a corner booth and pulling the privacy screen over. He booted up a burner datapad first before accessing the terminal and sliding a dataspike into the access point. He sipped at the caf as the dataspike went about its business of worming through the terminal's security and establishing a virtual computer within the terminal, isolated from the primary drive. It was a slow process as his eyes followed the process and he listened to the repetitive music from outside the booth. It made his head ache, but that might have been the spice haze.
It finished finally and he set to work on the actual job. He tapped a few keystrokes in and activated a secondary buffer network and rerouted his connection through a wide number of datasets, bouncing across the galaxy. It made the connection slow, but backtraces would end up on Korriban, Kashyyk, Utapau, Rendili, Denon, and Kuat. Another long pause for the connection to stabilize and he went to the dataleak. The contents of the files didn't interest him. Jedi weren't usually privy to truly valuable information for external espionage agents. He was far more interested in the SIA files and, more importantly, whoever outside the GA might want the files. A second datachip that he connected through the virtual network carried his true goal- an ouroboros worm.
It was a virus that attached itself to the files and embedded itself in each of the documents. If anyone downloaded the files, it would also download the virus, and activate it, although it was a simple virus. It auto-generated a new version of the virus and deleted the old version, to try and stay ahead of security software. The virus tracked the location and source of the downloads before replicating itself into the downloading system and hibernating until activated to open access to an agent.
He finished the first cup of caf and ordered a second one as the virus initialized and Veino ran a software diagnostic to ensure it functioned. He wasn't sure how long it took, but he fed a few more talons into the terminal to keep it running. The caf was cold and the day late, although the crowd had only grown bigger outside the small booth, before it recognized itself as ready. Veino nodded, hit a button, and then waited as the virus spread out through the leaked files and hid itself among their contents.
Someone wanted the knowledge of the Jedi to go out and that was too tempting of an opportunity to pass up. After another fifteen minutes, it was complete. The virus was there and waiting. All they needed to do know was wait for people to access the information. One by one, he terminated and erased the security measures and wiped the terminal clean until only the datapad had any residual information. And for that, he peeled open a panel and poured in a small vial of acid that burned and melted the interior components.
Star Destroyers could level cities, Super Star Destroyers could level planets, and when wars were waged with unkillable behemoths, subtlety was often far more deadly. It was something he intended to use to the fullest of its capacity, even before war came to the Outer Rim and the League.
And he'd just fired the first shot.
TERMINUS
EXOGOTH NETCAFE
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It had been a news alert that caught Veino's attention in the small rundown flat he was staying in down near the surface of Terminus. It was the ORION headquarters on the far end of the Outer Rim, more or less. They kept a close eye on the Eternal Empire and the Brotherhood of the Maw from there, as well as the rest of the First Order. But it was a holonet news that caught his main attention, not an intelligence briefing.
Someone had leaked a bunch of Jedi files from... the New Jedi Order? Was that right? It was hard to tell with how many Jedi groups were there in the galaxy. He frowned and headed out of the flat, nodding to some of the Huntsmen who lounged around the step on the street as picked his way across the city, winding through the labyrynthine streets and building foundations until he stepped inside a Netcafe.
Veino paused for a few moments to adjust to the pulsing electronic dance music that hammered through the cafe and the flashing strobe lights that filled the cafe while youths who didn't get enough sunlight and wore too much dark make-up used the terminals for things that even Veino would probably find seedy and questionable. He made sure not to access any of their minds or catch a glimpse of their screens out of the corner of his eyes.
He paid a few talons for access to one of the terminals and a questionable cup of caf before sliding into a corner booth and pulling the privacy screen over. He booted up a burner datapad first before accessing the terminal and sliding a dataspike into the access point. He sipped at the caf as the dataspike went about its business of worming through the terminal's security and establishing a virtual computer within the terminal, isolated from the primary drive. It was a slow process as his eyes followed the process and he listened to the repetitive music from outside the booth. It made his head ache, but that might have been the spice haze.
It finished finally and he set to work on the actual job. He tapped a few keystrokes in and activated a secondary buffer network and rerouted his connection through a wide number of datasets, bouncing across the galaxy. It made the connection slow, but backtraces would end up on Korriban, Kashyyk, Utapau, Rendili, Denon, and Kuat. Another long pause for the connection to stabilize and he went to the dataleak. The contents of the files didn't interest him. Jedi weren't usually privy to truly valuable information for external espionage agents. He was far more interested in the SIA files and, more importantly, whoever outside the GA might want the files. A second datachip that he connected through the virtual network carried his true goal- an ouroboros worm.
It was a virus that attached itself to the files and embedded itself in each of the documents. If anyone downloaded the files, it would also download the virus, and activate it, although it was a simple virus. It auto-generated a new version of the virus and deleted the old version, to try and stay ahead of security software. The virus tracked the location and source of the downloads before replicating itself into the downloading system and hibernating until activated to open access to an agent.
He finished the first cup of caf and ordered a second one as the virus initialized and Veino ran a software diagnostic to ensure it functioned. He wasn't sure how long it took, but he fed a few more talons into the terminal to keep it running. The caf was cold and the day late, although the crowd had only grown bigger outside the small booth, before it recognized itself as ready. Veino nodded, hit a button, and then waited as the virus spread out through the leaked files and hid itself among their contents.
Someone wanted the knowledge of the Jedi to go out and that was too tempting of an opportunity to pass up. After another fifteen minutes, it was complete. The virus was there and waiting. All they needed to do know was wait for people to access the information. One by one, he terminated and erased the security measures and wiped the terminal clean until only the datapad had any residual information. And for that, he peeled open a panel and poured in a small vial of acid that burned and melted the interior components.
Star Destroyers could level cities, Super Star Destroyers could level planets, and when wars were waged with unkillable behemoths, subtlety was often far more deadly. It was something he intended to use to the fullest of its capacity, even before war came to the Outer Rim and the League.
And he'd just fired the first shot.
