NationStates Jolt Archive


The Dagger Moves... [closed, ATTN ADK]

Allanea
09-08-2005, 17:45
Qaaol-Krista

The three men came from Mangala. They wore no uniform, they had no tatoos, and carried only such weapons as would be locally used - beam rifles donated by some ESUS nation to fight Tyranids, probably. The men where Khristians by race, and their accents - trained for hours back home - did not give away their true heritage - that of the people of ADK Earth of old. Their accent had all the inflations and ‘corruption’ of the dialect of Martian Khristians.

They were walking towards a point to which they were guided by GPS devices implanted inside their brains - with a small dose of high-explosives capable of scrambling those brains on command. Their pockets were crammed with hidden weapons - and money. Reichsmarks, Allanean Dollars, Taraskovyan Franks and Menelmacari variable-value credchips.

The people were walking their separate routes, pretending to be unaware of each others very existance. It would only become known otherwise when they met at their point of rendezvous - the Federal Warehouse Complex. One of the men also carried something looking like a heavy grenade launcher’s tube - again, not new in the age of Tyranid Wars.

New Zion Starport

A strange man walked off the refugee freighters from Mars, blending into the monstrous crowds. Metal detectors would beep frenzily when they passed over his body, showing an internal alloy ribcage replacing bone - results of what his medical history showed was a freak accident which demanded the replacement. Inside the size of his boot, he carried a ceramic knife, invisible to metal detectors. His boots where of a high military type, with long, thin laces.

A woman, dressed in rags, snuck out of the Colonel Travis military facility. Like the first man, she was a Khristian - strangely, she has apparently underwent the same ribcage replacement operations in her time. She was carrying, underneath her rags, several different weapons - a plethora of knives, half a kilogram of Black Irishman Ultra-High Explosives, and a folding type submachinegun, that, when folded, looked like a small plastic box. Unfolded, it was a beam weapon - a laser pistol holding only ten shots, but each of those would tear a man’s body in half. It was non-reusable.

Another man, an old Khristian with a long, grey beard, walked off a plane from Allanea. He has apparently had been a victim of a railway accident at some point that required a metallic pelvis. He was unarmed - save a traditional hunting knife and a steel cane. Pretty unusual for someone who lived in Allanea for a long period of time.

All of them were carrying credit cards and legitimate-looking documents. The credit cards were charged to bank accounts in Tarasovka. The trail would die there.
Abu-Dhabi Khristatata
09-08-2005, 18:10
It was not unsual to see silent, heavily armed men wandering the streets of Qaaol-Khrista. People didn't really much pay any attention to them. Even if they caused trouble there were pleanty of other Khristians who were equally armed to take care of them.

At the Federal Warehouse complex the men were greeted by the gaurds there.

"What are you looking for?" One of them asked.
Allanea
09-08-2005, 18:15
The oldest-looking man smiled. "First of all, we need to be let in." He moved his hand strangely. By some sleight-of-hand, an ounce of gold, stamped with it’s value of Allanean Dollars, appeared on the table between them. The man did nothing to indicate his ownership of it. "Let us in to somewhere we can talk… in private. I have an offer to make."
Abu-Dhabi Khristatata
09-08-2005, 18:18
The gaurd eyed him suspciously. Only about 5% of Khristains owned any precious metals or jewels and tthe value of gold was incradbly high.

"Okay, come this way." The gaurd took the gold and placed it in his knapsack.

The gaurds then took the men behind one of the rarely used Warehouses, Warehouse 751 which contained an old LO-4 Miroku fighter.
Allanea
09-08-2005, 18:22
The other Khristian smiled grimly. "I need something you have no use for - and yet something which is unbelievably valuable to me. I need Rudolph Corbelli’s personality records. Surely you know who that was. How much money would it take that you would agree to give them to me?" - he said it with an absolutely inflectionless tone - as if the text was written down and read by a machine.
Abu-Dhabi Khristatata
09-08-2005, 18:25
"You mean General Rudolph Corbelli? The General Rudolph Corbelli? The man who led the final Khristian resistence in the League? It'll cost you five more ounces of gold, to be split up between me and my friends here and you can have it. No one will miss it."

The gaurds escorted the men over to Warehouse 355 which contained the genetic records of the (I)Corbelli family.

"It might take awhile to find the right one." Stated the gaurd as he opened up the door.
Allanea
09-08-2005, 18:32
The Khristian agents smiled internally. Then, the oldest man of them all, moved - soundlessly, emotionlessly, soullessly. Like a machine. Like death itself. He counted out another ounce of gold - and each of his assistants counted out two more. Now, six priceless - to the Martian-Khristians - were in the possession of the guard. "Move, now. And don’t dare double-cross us. You will die if you do that."
Abu-Dhabi Khristatata
09-08-2005, 19:07
"Yeah, whatever." The gaurds were just happy they got their gold and moved to let the three Khristians in. they stood outside of the warehouse waiting for them to come out so then they coul close the warehouse and go back to their little booth at one of the roads coming into the FWC.
Allanea
09-08-2005, 22:03
A while later, the men left. They carried a box - probably containing the DNA sample - and each a strange silvery capsule on their necks - a copy of the personal records and the DNA key. The guards did not know it - but soon, those seemingly useless objects would change the fate of ADK.

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A week later

The old man who walked off the plane a week ago now rented a cheap hotel room in New Zion. On the third day of his stay there, he asked the hotel receptionist: "Excuse me, young lady - where is the Ikatori family mansion in this city?"