Welcome to CryptNet

[Lysle of the Hydian Way]

"It is only the inadequacy of the criminal code that saves the slicers from very serious prosecution."​

The Red Ravens is not without their own means of communication. Once initiated into the criminal syndicate, you will find that many thugs, smugglers, bounty hunters and mostly notoriously slicers will be found on the CryptNet. An encrypted, restricted, near-instantanous communications grid that spans the entire galactic quadrant of Hutt Space, with nodes and satellites across hundreds of systems. If you're looking to find a slicer, you're likely to find one here. Read below to find more out about slicers.

The term "slicer" is used to describe computer experts, often self-taught, who excel at working within a complex computer network, and are able to extract information from this network with great skill. Often, this information was secured by any number and manner of encryption and lockout systems, and a skilled slicer was able to circumvent these systems without triggering alarms.

Slicers often use specialized computers, many built by the slicers themselves, to eke out a living in the digital world. These computers are carefully guarded and constantly modified and upgraded by the slicer, who rarely discussed its specs except with like-minded individuals. Complex access codes and even self-destruct mechanisms are often used to prevent a slicer's computer from falling into the wrong hands.

Slicers essentially usually have two, or sometimes more identities. In place of their true identity, slicers generally used code names; even regular business associates would not know a slicer's true identity. Keeping their true identity a secret is very important to successful slicers; they would rather not have to spend their time evading law-enforcement personnel, bounty hunters, and fringers with personal vendettas.