Mission #9 (EH)

Initial Voicemail | E-mail | Solution |
Excerpt From FA Kumba

Initial Voicemail:

Informant: Good day. I am an agent from EH Intel's Internal Organization Bureau. I regret to inform you that the clone we have been detaining and that you have been working with has been murdered. Last night, an individual managed to sneak into IntOrg's detention block. It appears he forced himself in to the clone's cell, and there was some struggle. We found a badge, probably the murderer's, which is being sent to you shortly. We also found a recording from the clone which may prove helpful. Please uncover the identity of the murderer and send an HT to darklord@intorg.ehintel.org. If you didn't get that, you'll see it written down in the 'comments' field in your voicemail box. This is urgent and requires immediate attention before we can send the Hammer's Fist in.
Computer Voice: Begin recording, 2314 hours.
Clone: Listen, I don't have time to explain. I think NIF may be on to me, they might know that I've been sharing information with you. I can't talk much, I'm pretty sure this cell is bugged. I'm working at my terminal to bust out of here. I'm afraid he's coming to get me, and get me good. If I don't make it out alive, I wish you guys the best of luck in destroying the stronghold and make sure you don't forget the clone that helped you out.
Computer Voice: End of recording.
*Transmission ends*

This is a transcript of the voicemail located at http://hawkeye.jedijawa.net/2A4F2A593658/mission9.mp3. The Informat is played by COL Darkfire, and the Clone by MAJ DarkHawk.

E-mail:

CPT Needa,

As a result of information you managed to obtain from the NIF spy, the Hammer's Fist troops are in place, and several TIE Corps squadrons are on their way to assist in the destruction of the cloning facility. However, as you will be aware from listening to your voicemail, the source of this information, the NIF agent, has been murdered. This is bad news indeed, as we are quite sure that continued interrogation of the traitor could easily have provided us with much more information, and the wherewithal to severely disrupt and sabotage NIF operations.

We are assigning you to the task of finding out who the killer of our informant was. It is of vital importance to the mission that you seek out this murderer so that we can bring him to justice. Once you have ascertained the killer's identity, communicate it to IntOrg via Hawkeye Transmission (darklord@intorg.ehintel.org). Do not fail.

{Salute}
GN Darklord
IntOrg Special Operations

Solution:

This required knowledge of previous missions and being very alert and aware. In fact, such missions will be more common in Hawkeye II, and they are fair game. In the previous mission's e-mail there was the following error code:

if my parent clone K~442dvw4rrERROR OCCURRED
acu348 8d28f8* 2uf8hnmc234 *0D650C7E1167* f28u4f 3jm309vvhs0vi38* f9wic h2cm2-0di2jv vj30vj8889900

Now, obviously this would be the key to completing this mission, but how on earth would you decipher such horrid machine code? You wouldn't. But if you were familiar with the Hawkeye Encoder/Decoder system, you would immediately notice that the 3rd string after "ERROR OCCURRED" is all caps and resembles hexadecimal. This is in fact how the Enc/Dec works - it gives output that looks like hex (it's really a complicated bitwise algorithm designed by R2b0t) and all in caps. Decode that and you get your answer: "Khirov" - the NIF High Commander.

Excerpts:


From FA Kumba:

I believe I have identified our killer. Xander, in his last message to me almost mentioned the name of his parent clone, however, an error occured and it fragmented that part of his message. He mentioned this clone might come for him, as it appears he did.

The error Fragment:
K~442dvw4rrERROR OCCURRED
acu348 8d28f8* 2uf8hnmc234 *0D650C7E1167* f28u4f 3jm309vvhs0vi38* f9wic h2cm2-0di2jv vj30vj8889900

The part of most interest is: 0D650C7E1167

Decrypted, we get one name: "Khirov". If I recall correctly, this is the leader of the NIF Himself, but I cannot cross-reference this, as the NIF Rosters have mysteriously disappeared.

--Kumba


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