Zone-H 4th Cyber Comic- Private Investigations

8/14/2019 Zone-H 4th Cyber Comic- Private Investigations

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august 12th, 1983,,,

a jet airliner isflying over thepacific ocean...

captain,we have anelectricalsystemwarning


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theengines are

shuttingoff!

what thefuck?

prepare toditch


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back to our timeBerlin, 15 days before the 22ndchaos communication congress...

hey, lookover there

divineshadow!

it'sone of the

blinkenlightsbuildings!

gaius and evilarrived

yesterdayevening

The plan is:hotel, shower,a quick dinnerand then wereach the CCCguys at the

blinkenlightsbuilding


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the nextdays aregonna beexciting!

very muchindeed! first theblinkenlights,

then the shuttlelaunch andfinally theconference

later on, in front ofthe blinkenlights...

oooh...awesome!

interesting,veeery veryinteresting


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oh yes,we have somenew ideas for

the

blinkenlights.

i heardthat the chaoscomputer clubis working on

a newblinkenlinghts

project...

whatkind ofideas?

actually theyare more than

ideas, wealmost finishedthe prototype

whatis it

exactly?

oh...something

nice...


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mmhh...something...

childish!

childish?what do

you mean?

c'mon!we are

curious!

oh, don'tworry... we'll

see it soon. i seta meeting with

gaius and evil, wemeet in front ofthe new project

building

we aregoingtherenow


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welcome tothe new

version ofthe

blinkenlights

hey, it'sevil and

gaius overthere...

yeepee!


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this is an evolution of the originalblinkenlights. the building facade isused as a screen by controlling itslights and it integrates andinteracts with the squared floorlocated on the street in front of it.people can jump on the floorcausing an interaction with thesoftware . they can playvideogames, they can dance, theycan create light motives...

imagine to have two of such

buildings in two distant cities..teams of players of the twodifferent cities could even playagainst each other from remote...

the blocks on the streetare spring mounted. peoplecan jump on them, changingthe status of the light andcausing game interaction

as you see, both adults andkids love to play with it...

yeeaaah!you are a

lameloosergaius!


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Yourwordshere...

ahnf ahnf!shit, i can'tbelieve i'mloosingagainst awoman...

yes!yes!we

won!

hey, ms.angelica,you arereally a

coolplayer!

excuse memister, how did

we loose?weren't youthe "king ofthe games"?

#@!

grrrr...


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helloboys

congratula-tion gaius! youmanaged to bedefeated by a

woman and youmade a young

girl cry!

fuckyousys

well guys,

nice tohave youall here in

berlin

the pleasureis ours. areyou excitedby the nextdays events,

bad prit?yes! tellus about

theshuttlelaunch...


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sure I am! tomorrowmorning i'll have tosign in to theheisenberg launch padlocated north westof berlin.i'll be ready for thepre-flight medicalchecks. the shuttle isplanned to leave the

day after tomorrowat noon...

i'll board the first ofthe two twinshuttles, the ESA-Asimov while thesecond shuttle,named esa-hawking isplanned to belaunched after 48hours...

the shuttles are madeby five main sections,

built in differentcountries.The command sectionhas been built ingermany, therecreational/lodgingsection in spain, thecargo/storage inengland, the engineunits in france and initaly where the spaceobservatory has beenbuilt under thesupervision of margussisask, the specialist

of the estonian spaceobservatoryfoundation


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the fourth section ishosting the propulsionunits: two twin saunier-caproni engines, eachone the size of a 12stories building....

they are extremely revolutionary engines working on the quantum-decayprinciple, developed by mr. saunier and mr. caproni, french and italianentrepreneurs in the avionic industry that will be aboard the asimov

the final section is the spaceobservatory/experimental area

overall, the asimov and the hawking measure a staggering590 feet. we call them shuttles but they are truestarships, the first recreational starships ever built...


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but tellus, how didyou get theinvitationto board

theshuttle?

it'ssimple, for the

inauguration of thefirst and secondtourist space tripever they invited a

bunch ofpersonalities...

i wishi couldgo aswell...

given thatthe chaos computer club

helped saunier and caproni,the two guys who inventedthe shuttle quantum-decay

engines, to study and deploythe computational

supercomputers grid that theyused to calculate the

quantum physics dynamics

of the engines...

... they thoughtto invite a ccc

representative as well.caproni and saunier

will be also aboard thefirst shuttle


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but younever

know...younever

know...


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good morningfrom theeuronews

newschannel

two days later...

t minus 5minutes from

the asimovshuttle

launch, thefirst spacetourist ship

ever

after passing the last medical checksthe first crew of the two shuttleshas boarded the asimov ship

the ship is meant to orbit 5 timesaround mars in a journey that, thanksto the saunier-caproni engines, isplanned to last only 20 days


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captain

thomas juddis the missionleader. thecurious thingis that thesecondshuttle, thehawking willbe under thecommand ofcaptain judd'swife, lt.Janet manson

the second pilotis captainanatoly balaev,the currentdirector of therussian baikonurcosmodrome

the special guest of the mission willbe bad prit, the member of the chaoscomputer club who helped the othertwo members of the spacetrip to setup the virtual stability test of theshuttle's quantum-decay enginesprojecting a supercomputing grid

the last two crew members aremaurice saunier and antonio capronithe two scientists/businessmenbehind the development of theshuttle's revolutionary engines.these engines could be developed ina short time into civil powerreactors, that could cut off ourdependance from the traditional oil

and petroleum industry


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saunierand caproni, during their

return to earth, are to beparticipating in a bid for thebiggest energy reactor in

europe. members of variousecological associations seem

enthusiastic about the

possibility to deploy theexperimental saunier-capronitechnology for theproduction of clean

energy

three secondsto the ignition...two...one...


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ignition!the shuttle slowlylifts from thelaunch pad...


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...and quicklydisappears fromour eyes,pushed by thetwo powerfulsaunier-caproniengines

12 minutes later...

the shuttle has reachedthe gravitational

boundaries of the earth...we will cover the asimovmission with a specialedition of our newstonight at 23 gmt...


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... and we welcome you tofollow our news channelcoverage of the secondshuttle launch, takingplace after exactly 48hours from now...

hey,wouldn't

you like to

go into thespace aswell?

in theoryyes but in

reality i hadenough

stress withthe north

koreanstunt! (*)

(*) see episode 1 : war games


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sirs,we are now

at the middlepoint

betweenearth and

moon

everythingis

proceedingas per theschedule

12 hours later...


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are youguys

enjoyingthe

experience?

oh yes,it's a dream

that'sbecoming

real

saunier,don't lie,you are

justproud of

yourengine

hehe!

whataboutyoubad

brit?

oh, itis a

wonderfulexperience


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allthosestarsout

there...

ehhh..be honest,

you would liketo include all

of them in yourblinkelightsproject...

hehe,yes!

...UH? WHAT

IS THAT?

THERE

ISSOMETHNGFLASHING

OVERTHERE

uhmm...maybe a

supernova?if it is so, thenwe are lucky,

they are reallyrare

events...


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charliezeroready

charlieone ready

sir

time togo!

let's rockand roll!


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over

there is thesecondarycargo bay


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let'sopen it!

easy asa pie

thestolen

transpondercodesworked well,

sir


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captain,i read

somethingstrange

thesecond

cargo baydoor... it

seemsopened

...what?is this asensor

anomaly?

i don't

think so.moreover, allthe audio/videocommunicationchannels seems

jammed...

theenergy scanner

shows a focusedhigh energy

microwave beamirradiating our

ship

yes, thisis probably thereason why ourcommunications

are jammed

?!?hey,

what'sgoingon?


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there'ssomething

fishy here. youguys keep

checking thesensors, i'll go

down to thecargo bay tocheck that

door

uhm...

i hopeit's not

what i amthinking...


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i didn'twant to alarm ourguests but when isaw the cargo bay

door alarm i also sawthat the pressure ofthe cargo chamberdropped and then

raised back tonormal...

...butthat's

impossible!

!?!

!

don'tmove


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sir,we found

three of them,two are still

missing

i got one ofthe two. bringthe prisonersto the rear

section of thelower deck

aye sir


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whatdoesthis

mean?

noquestions,just walk

to the rearsection

meanwhile...

quietcaproni,

quiet...

hey, whatdo youwant

from us?


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i foundone of the

twomissingcrew

members

one isstill

missing,where didhe hide?

we have noidea, we

split as wenoticed thecargo door

alarm

we havethe two

crewmembers,saunier ecaproni

here


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the missingone is the

guest calledbad prit

i'll go

andlookafterhim

you stayhere with

theprisoners

30 minutes later...

we arein a tight

schedule, ihave tofind himquicly


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fuck!what isgoingon?

here youare!

stand up


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what areyou

going todo tome?

i ambringing youwhere we areholding the

otherprisoners.

don't give usthe reason, to

hurt you


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why didyou

assalutour ship?

noquestions,i am justfollowigorders

theseare the

coordinatesyou have to

move theship to

but...this will

take us toland the

other partof themoon...

there is

nothingthere...

just followour ordersand

everythingwill be fine


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despite thefact that the asimov seemsto have diverted from its

original trajectoryapparently disappearing

behind the moon, the spaceagency has confirmed thatthe second launch will takeplace as scheduled, but hasnot disclosed details about

the missing shuttle

a few hours later, our friends are back to the room watchingnews coverage about the shuttle with one of the ccc guys...

guys, iam

honestly

worriedaboutprit

uhm, i thinkthat if the

situation wasdangerous thespace agencywould have

revealed moredetails

i hopeyouare

right,

gaius


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I wonderwhy are you

always sitting onthe floor... is itcomfortable?

uhmm...not

really

... but itbroadens

yourviews!

... especiallythose

related toyour niceunderwear

while sys isgetting lost

after myunderwear, whydon't we try to

get moreinformationabout prit's

shuttle?


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guys!i was in the

roomwatching tv,did you hearabout theshuttle?

yes, wealso sawthe newscoverage

i hopethat badprit isfine up

there...


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yes?Uh? what

messages?it's

impossible!

uhmm... yes Iam coming to

see

guys,i have to leave

you, somestrange

messages

appeared on theblinkenlightsfacade

uhmm...don't ellme you

got"defaced"

defaced eh?hahaha, weare comingwith you!


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a few minutes later, in frontof the blinkenlights building... strange

indeed it shows:"shuttle

hijacked helpme please"

probablysomebody hackedthe light control

system and posted

that message tomake fun of youafter hearing the

news onthe tv...


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but,that's

impossible! ourinstallation is

not on theinternet, it canonly be reached

through atelephonegateway...

nothing isimpossible

withcomputers

divineshadowis right,

better to gothere andcheck theequipment

uhm... iguess youare right,let's gointo thebuilding


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theequipmentis in thecellar,

follow meplease

here wego, this is

the main controller,it is attached to thattriac power unit onthe right. a singlemodule controls

16 floorsall the

equipmentwas custom

made

from thislaptop, wecan telnet

to the phonegateway and

check thelogs

why doyou needa phone

gateway?

we useit to let the

people on thestreet interact

with theblinkenlightsthrough their

cellphonekeyboard


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do you mindif I sit at thekeyboard? I

am theforensic

goddess ...

eh? sure,everything for atrue goddess like

you! maybe later onwe could go

together to havesome bratwurstwith sauerkraut?

bratwurstwith

sauerkraut?i'd love it,

sure!

bratwurstwith

sauerkraut?is that it? oh

my god...


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grrr...

bratwurst andsauerkraut,

i am a genius!

soon...

well, guys, it'sinteresting.somebody

reprogrammed thelights connecting to

this gateway fromanother phonegateway...

the interstingpart is that the

originatingphone gatewayappears to be a

x.25 node


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x.25?what

joke isthis? it's not

a joke,it's bad

prit

uh?

you haveto know that thex.25 network is a

rather oldnetwork but still

used by banks,government and

aerospaceindustry...

aerospaceindustry?


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yes,including nasa's

and esa's shuttles. iremember long timeago a dc10 aircraftcrashed because its

electrical systems gotshut down from

remote by an unknown

hacker throughits x.25

connection

yes, iheard it. the

on boardsystems werenot separated

from thecommunicationones

then it'sreally possible

that thecommunication

was sent bybad prit fromthe shuttle

he wantsus torescuehim, buthow can

we do it?

some privateinvestigations

?


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i havean idea... the

next shuttlelaunch isscheduled 36hours from

nowright?

oh, no...please , no

moretroubles...


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in the meantime, the asimov meetsthe dark side of the moon...

proceeding with theapproach maneuvre

captain, the radar isshowing a kind ofsettlement at thegiven coordinates...


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landing procedurecompleted, reversingthe the quantum-magnetic flux...

captain, a decompressionfinger is approaching ourleft cargo hatch


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c'moncaptain,open the

gate


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welcome

t0 thedark sideof themoon...


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are yousure it'sa goodidea?

sure!it will work,

but youmust be

confident inyourself

why don'tyou recapyour plan?

I stillthink it'scrazy...

well,everything isbasically abig social

engineeringtrick, based onthe "pinkertons

test"

pinkertonstest...

interesting,veery veery

interesting, iheard about

it...

meanwhile, down to earth...


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pinkertons isa famousprivate

investigationscompany thatinvented such

test

big corpsinsure their key

employeesagainst

kidnapping andother threats...

our planis to fake a

pinkerton test,kidnapping one of the

guards at the esa launchpad gates, forcing him totake us inside, then we

will release himexplaining that

it was a pinkertonstest

i alreadytargeted the

right man, i knowwhere he lives

and he will headto work in about

30 minutes

insurancecompanies put a

clause in the policycontract saying

that the beneficiarywill be subject to

kidnappingtest. the purpose is

to check thesecurity controls

in place


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pinkertontest uh?gaius, weare all

going to getfucked!

oh, c'monsys...

i've donemuch worsein my life...

uhmm....it socrazythat itmightwork

don'tworryhoney,

everythingwill be

fine

gaius, ifyou touch

me onemore timei'll punch

you


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ehm, evil....can you

drive a littleslower?

c'mongaius,it's

only 85mph!

hey,what'sthatnoise

behind?

eeviiiil!

holyshit!

action!


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that's ourman evil, turn

around the

block andlet's wait himat the end of

the street

getreadyguys!

old tricks always work...

damnhatch! whenyou need a

man you neverfind one!


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i see youare in

troublemadam...can i help

you?

oh, thatwould

besweet...

oh, itwasn'tso

diffic...?!?

ahnf!

welcomeon

board,plasticboy!


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now listencarefullymy bright

ass...

we are holdingyour family

hostage. you aregoing to do

whatever we'll

ask you right?

did youhearwhat

the bigbosssaid?

uh, yes!i will do

whatever youwant... he is fromthe mafia, right? iunderstood it by

his suit...


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esa launch pad facility,service gate south...

hi jack,what are

youdoing

here withthis van?

the bossasked me to

bring a truck tomove some of hisold stuff fromthe office to his

home

'mkay,move your

ass,my shiftwill finishwithin 10

minutes andi want to go

home to

sleep


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thedoor to thepreparationroom is justbehind you,what shouldI do now?

nothing,you cango home

oursecurity companyhas been hired by

esa to runsecurity checks on

personnel andprocedures

we fakedyour kidnapping in order tocheck your reaction and thebehaviour of the guard atthe gate. You behaved wellwhile the guard at the gateis in serious troubles as he

shouldn't let you in

this isa diploma attestingthat you passed thepinkertons test, youalso have 24 hours ofpaid vacation, you can

go home and restfrom the kidnapping

stress, it's written in

the union's laborcontract

pinkertonstest...

diploma...vacation...cool!

soon the van reaches the entranceof the preparation room building


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yourcollegue will probablyget fired, so will you ifyou'd tell to anybodythat you attended thepinkertons test. did i

make myselfclear?

yes sir.crystal

clear. I'll goimmediatelyhome and iwon't tell

anyone aboutthis test

ihihihi!

LISTENTO ME, WEARE STILLIN TIMETO GOBACK

UHFF...he's right,

we aregetting

intoserious

trobules

inside the building our heroes have reachedthe pre-launch preparation room...


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well...i am

goingin!

uhf!

hello!did youcome to

help me tountie myshoes?

?!?What?

MOONWALKERS' RESTROOM...


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are you esa'spromised

attendants? i can'trisk breaking a

fingernail trying tountie my shoes....

sure man (?),we are hereto untie your

shoes...

divineshadow,sys...can i go

for it?

absolutelyevil...

youdefinetlyhave to...


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butplease, whenuntying myshoes, be

careful notto hurt my

skin as it'svery

delicate...

arggwwrrr!


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who'sbad?uh?

talk to

me!who'sbad?

...!?!


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i loveyou, i

love youall...

there aresome

changes inthe launchplan. you

have twooptions

optionone: you

let us lockyou in thebathroom.

option two:we unleashthe tiger


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welcometo the live

coverage ofthe

hawkingsshuttlelaunch

despitethe loss of

contact with thefirst shuttle, esaminimized the

episodedowngrading it tosimple technicaldifficulties and

decided to proceedwith the launch of

the hawkingsshuttle

in a matter of minutes, fromthe upper bridge the twopilots will reach the hawkings'cockpit while from the lowerbridge the guests will reachthe launch chamber in theirlodging compartments

we'd like to remind you that among the four guests there is also a famous americanpopstar who declared that a space trip was necessary in order to expose his skindirectly to the moonlight.the case has been commented by the american psychiatric association as an exampleof "reality dissociative behavior" but as we know. money can buy everything, fromthe public indulgence to a space trip...


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we aregoing toget intoserious

troubles!

shut up sys,this is a

once in alifetimeexperience

yes, butusually

suchexperiencesleave you

dead.

intersting,veery veery

interesting...

aspacetrip!yeepee! we are

fucked!the

pinkertonstest... i am

cool!


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fuck! fuck!fuck! uhm..

interesting!

shit !shit!shit!

argh!argh!argh!maybe

sys wasright!

cool!cool!cool!


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a few minutes later...

captainmanson,

wereached

zerogravity

excellent!

set engines to1/5 power ,plot aroute to the

lagrangian point,this vector iswhere we can

benefit from thesun's gravitational

push

i willgo to free

the guests from thesecurity launch seatsand their launch suits.

keep an eye on theroad, i don't want a

damn roadkill incidentwith some space

rabbit...

hehe,aye sir


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well wellwell, seems

we havesome

misplacedpackages on

board....

soon the captain discovers the substitution...

the realityis a mereshadow,

nothing isas it

appears...

...andyouare? if you

free us fromthis stuff we'll

be glad toexplain you,

madam

captain

yes, madam,ehm captain


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better foryou if it's aconvincing

story...

soon the captain is aware

about all the facts...

if it'slike you are

saying then thethings arecompletely

different fromhow they

appeared...

believeme

captain,it's thetruth


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now fromthe legal

standpointeverythingchanged as

well...

beside havingyou on board, i have

the authority toconsider this a rescue

mission, as it was

through you i learnedof the asimov's

request for help

internationalnavigation laws

forbid the captain of a shipto refuse help to shipsthat launched the s.o.s.oh, and by the way... my

husband is asimov'scaptain, so you can

understand my feelingstoward this whole

issue

yes, captain,

we heard itfrom the tv,we are truly

sorry...

ok, i will inform esaabout the facts andabout my decision

which is to abort the

mars mission and tolaunch a rescuemission.

we willdivert our currentroute to reach thehidden part of the

moon and we'llsearch for the

asimov. we can bethere in just a few

hours

great!let's hope

to findeverybody

alive!


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later on, the hawkings reachesthe boundaries with the hiddenpart of the moon...

captain,there were no

signs of the asimovon the lunar orbitso i checked with aradar scan on the

ground and... ifoundt it

on theground???how is itpossible?

seems itlanded on a

kind of

base... butthere shouldbe no base

on themoon...

suggestions?

i don'tsee any reason

to land thehawkings there

when we could gothere just by

using the rescuevessel


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enginesready


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targetpoint

acquired

we willland a few

dunes besidethat base, i

alreadyspotted the

perfectlanding

area


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touchdown!nobody was

waiting for us soi guess nobody

spotted us.the base is about

400 metersaway

landinghatch

lowered

i will wait foryou here, remember

that your extravehicular

suits have very limitedrange. the oxygen will lastonly 45 minutes and despite

the special thin greyinsulating layer coveringyour body, you will start

to feel cold probablyjust after 20...

i toldyou wewere

going todie...

shutup, sys

you cango out,

good luck!remember that

i will looseyour radio

signal as soonas you will

pass the firstdune...

roger


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are youcounting

theminutes?

no, ican't

even seemy

watch!

great!

200 meters

spareyour

oxygenguys

the baseshould be

behind thatdune.

guys, i feelrealy

unconfortablein thissuit

themoon's

temperature variesfrom minus 153 toplus 107 and youreva(*) suit is not

built formoonwalks

(*) Extra vehicular activity

100 metres


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hey guys,we could

try to enterfrom that

finger

loookdivineshadow!

it doesn't seemto be a building

built byhumans...

uhm, yessys. let'sfind an

entrance


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evil, canyou try to

see if you canconnect to anywireless lan andsee if you can do

something?

yes, liker2-d2 in

star wars

uhmm...let me

concentrate...no,

i sense nowifi signal, theremight be some but

the radiationshield of the base

is blocking all

the waves hey,where are

yougoing?spareyour

oxygen!

i'll beright back,you guys

don'tmove


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OK, here we go...

finally, the secret defendedfor longer than humanexistance on earth isbecoming the only one way,the final weapon, the ultimatesolvent knowledge to thefight against those forceswish for darkness and pain tobe the rulers of things...

humorously enough not even the evil onesknow what they are playing with... what itwould mean for the destiny of everythingthe breaking of the delicate equilibrium thatkeeps the real horrendous danger in chain...and they don't even know that every singlemovement of theirs comes from theinfluence of those forces that were foughtand defeated millions of years back...

my mindrefuses thethoughtthat thelloigorswouldsucceed inmasteringthosestupidpuppetsinto givingthem a wayout of the

prison wehave builtfor themwaiting tofind a wayto destroytheirimmortalitydefinetly...

and now i realize that

soon i will have toshare this secret withmy new friends, inthe hope their mindcan be strong enoughto master the filthyinfluence of thelords lloigor...only one of them iwas able to immunizefrom the radiationthat destroysthought andarbitrium... thatbeautiful woman that

was dead for amoment that goes byname of evil. enoughfor thoughts, nowit's time for actionand the show of aglimpse of the realpower that will winyet another battlefor us... but will thisend one day?

uhmmm,this

should bethe fingerjunction

and thisshould be

themechanism

moving thatdoor


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i have tohurry, we

have only afew minutes

left ofoxygen...


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holyshit!,

better togo back...


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did you findout why

divineshadowwent away?

uhm...no!

well, i guessthe game is

over, i alreadyexperience

difficulties whilebreat.... uh?

what was thatnoise? (*)

(*) evil has the backpack attachedto the door, so she can hear thenoise while the others cannot

there canbe no soundin space evil,i guess you

are justmissing

oxygen...


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hello,i am selling

freshoxygen... doesanyone want

to buysome?

divineshadow!

...anequalizingchamber...

yes, stayaway from

the door evil,i'm closing

it


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fortunatelyi was lucky

enough to find asecondary entrance...in a few seconds therecompression cycleshould be finished sowe'll be able to take

off thehelmets...

...suredivine

shadow...sure

be careful,we don't

know what'sbehind these

doors...

somemore

troublefor sure

fresh air!


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uhm...a ramp! well,let'sgo up!

seems acontrol

roomfrom those

windows youcan see akind of

laboratory

uhm,nice

console


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uhm...there

are somebad

news...it's a

quiteintuitivepanel...

what badnews?

thismonitor

shows thesurveillance

camerasshots

the badnews is

"a heavilyarmed guard

wearing a forcemultiplier suit"

...is it badenough?


95/112

hey,the cam shows

what lookslike asimov's

crew in a sortof prison

yup, we

are alsopart of

theshow...

hey sys, you arenot transparent... shit


96/112

call somemore guards,

we haveintruders!

yessir

ehm.. youmight be

interested toknow that we

have justbeen spotted.

erhm...meactually

great!

shit

right!greatshit


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if theywill come,they can

only comethrough

that door

true, letme try

something,i just hadan idea...

uh! asynoptictable

showing thebase

structure!

yeah, it's aquite intuitivesystem, verywell done...

foolproof i'dsay so that itcould be used

even byyou


98/112

we canselect the

laboratoryarea...

foolproof...even you...

argh!

...andlockthe

door

cool!nobody

canenterhere!

yes!it

worked,it's

locked!


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meanwhile...

what'shappening?

whothehellare

you?astro-pizza

deliveryservice! didyou order a

double cheesepepperoni?


100/112

we arehere to

negotiate

negotiate?there is

nothing tonegotiate

in a fewminutes ourguard willbe up thereand you will

be dead...sir... the guardsreport that the

upper floor door iselectronically

sealed, and it isnearly impossible to

brute-force it...


101/112

dead?on the

contrary,you will be

dead in afew

minutes...

evil, youknow what

to do

gotchadivine

shadow

sir, thedoor has

beenclosed...


102/112

sir, theyare

suckingout the

air...

angggh

aaarrgh

evil bad girl in action...


103/112

exactly!we are

sucking the air,not only the

oxygen, from allcompartmentsexcept this oneand the prisoncell holding

asimov'screw

in this waythe pressure

is lowering as wellwhich means that whileyour guard can survivewith his armor, you will

just pop like afirecrack due to the

difference of pressurebetween your body

and the vacuumoutside

can you feelyour eyes

popping outfrom your

skull?

aargh,stopstop!

now i amsure you are keen

to negotiate.let's start from thebeginning... i saw the

emblem on your shirt,what is the chinese

biggest energycompany doing on the

moon and why didyou hijack the

asimov?

cough...the chinese oil

industry was afraidof the new saunier-caproni reactor, wehave been investing

so much in oilinfrastructures that

we couldn't risk toloose everythingdue to this newtechnology...


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kidnappingsaunier and caproni

allowed us to win thetender for the new

reactor as they couldn'tparticipate. the chinese

government discoveredthis alien base during oneof the past missions on

the moon.

airplease...air

ok evil,givethem

some air

not toomuchthough...

we modifiedit and have beenusing it since 10

years. we decided thatthe best time to kidnapsaunier and caproni wasduring their trip on theshuttle as it would havebeen easy to catch themonce in space and to put

in disgrace the newreactors

did hesay

alienbase?


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whatdo you

wantfromme?

i'll tellyou whatwe are

going todo...

we willopen the prisoner cellfrom this console. we

will keep all of your mentrapped by closed doors.the air pressure in those

room will veryunconfortable...

we willdrive the

prisoners hereby opening the

doors one by onere-equalizing thepressure in therooms as they

pass.

if yourmen will try to stopthem we will consider

them lost so we will dropthe pressure to zero inall the base. you will be

killed instantly, theguards with the armors

will just die becausewe'll lock them in

forever...

did imakemyselfclear?

yes

pressure "almost"re-equalized...


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proceedevil

withgreatpleasu

re

alienbase?

soon the prisoners reachthe upper floor entrance

sys, divineshadow,

gaius! whatare you

doing here?

it's the

samequestion ikeep askingmyself...


107/112

'cmon,you cameall overhere tosave us?how didyou do

it?

i thinkyou

shouldask thecrazyone

guys,i hate to ruinfamily meetings buti already moved the

finger to theasimov...i think it's

better to leavethis place as fast

as we can


108/112

home, sweet home...


109/112

...andthis ismy sideof thestory

captain, who were

the 4 guys whobeat to death the

popstar, locked theoriginal guests into

the restrooms,diverted the hawkings

and freed you up?they disappearedjust after the

landingon earth...

at their return, badprit and captain juddanswer to the press...


110/112

actuallynobody knows it,

they managed to hidethemselves into the

hawking's wastecontainers escaping

from the landcontrol.... nobody

knows how they wereable to leave the

base oncelanded...

nobodyknows...he he he!

gaius!

well,sorry but i mustleave, i have an

important

meeting i don'twant to miss...

we alltook anoath notto reveal

that


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finally bad pritreaches his friends...

well,it has been

anothergreat

adventure

yeah,i'd like tothank you

all!

what betteroccasion to

cheer up? but...divine shadow,when you'll

have a minute i'dlike to talk to

you...

uhm...


112/112

three,two,

one...

happy22c3(*)!

happy22c3!happy

22c3!

happy22c3!

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