Eve looks into selling the data from ClimaStat’s servers while the information is still valuable, but the fixer is not able to find a buyer the first day.

Yusuf is working on the servers more and suddenly jumps up and starts tearing things out of one of the server boxes. He doesn’t speak for a few moments but then says that the box had a hidden wireless point on it and also the “Shitstorm” spam virus. It activated and infected his system but he was able to shut everything off before it spread. It will take him a few days to fix the damage.

Stitch asks if he will be safe at his lab, and Yusuf says that he is not sure. We offer him passage on our ship for a while until the situation blows over. He agrees and we load all of his equipment on board. He uses Cam’s workshop as a temporary lab.

Eve’s fixer finds a buyer for the info we have, but we can only get $2500 for it. We agree

Eve contacts Raptor and says that we are going off-world. He asks if Stitch will be on board, and if so there will be violence. Eve says that we will make sure he’s on the other side of the ship. Cam is volunteered to pick up Raptor and takes a shuttle down to Mars to get him.

We continue on to Vesta and meet with Bengal. Eve introduces Yusuf to Bengal and he is pleased to meet the hacker. Bengal suggests that we go to Pallas to look for the hacker behind the attacks. We agree and set off to get some supplies.

In the local area we look for explosives and detonators, in order to stock up before we continue. At the second place we are able to find 5 kilos of rating 10 (very high grade) explosives. After we have stocked up we leave Vesta for Pallas. The trip takes one day.

Stitch takes up surveillance of Domino Systems, the place that we have tracked the current spamming route through. He records everyone that he sees and then gets out.

Eve is asks around about Freewire and Shitstorm to a hacker named One Over Zero, but he says that he left several years ago after he finished his software. Apparently he sold his software to several people and there is no way to know who got the Shitstorm program. There is a hacker named Sliced IC who purchased quite a few of his programs and he went to St. Gregory a while ago, and someone else named Overclock purchased some as well. However One Over Zero does not know much else because he did not like Freewire or his friends.

During this time, Cam is continuing to work on the system core on the ship.

Eve has us visit a coffee shop that is a supposed hangout of Overclock, the female hacker. The barista says that she hasn’t seen her for at least a week, but normally she is there every night. Eve listens around and overhears two people talking about Overclock and that she is working on something. They seem concerned about her.

Raptor suggests that he get as much information as he can from the two guys who were talking about Overclock. He comes over to their table but is angered by the way they are looking at him and decides to attack them. Raptor slams the first guy into the wall and stabs him, killing him almost instantly.

Everyone scatters from the bar, including the guy’s friend. Raptor calls for Eve to stop the other guy from leaving the bar. She shoots the Stick ‘n’ Shock at him and knocks him out. Cam jumps through the crowd and grabs the guy, pushing him against the wall so he doesn’t get trampled.

The crowd is pushing their way out the door and suddenly we hear loud footsteps coming down the stairs in the back. Cam pulls his pistol and hunches down next to the unconscious hacker. Eve jumps under a table. Raptor immediately turns and draws his weapon as two cybed-up spooks run out and start firing. Raptor doesn’t seem damaged by the hits he’s taken and fires back, killing one of them immediately. Cam and Eve fire on the second one and drop him.

Raptor asks what is to be done with the second guy since he is still alive; Eve says just to leave him. Raptor walks up and machine guns him in the face. Cam drags the hacker out to the van and the others take one of the dead thugs each with all of their gear. They take off and go back to the ship.