Charles grinned at the girl's attempt to be harsh while also keeping the cover he'd forced upon her. "Oh, I'll find you later. Security's eyes are everywhere."
They went their separate ways, and he made his way up to his room. Private security paid better than most crew jobs on a ship, but this one was ridiculous even for private security. He pressed his thumb to the door's biometric lock. His gloves were one of the niftiest little gadgets he had, having many different functions, one of which was the ability to let him scan his thumb through them, while not leaving fingerprints on any surfaces he didn't want them on.
His room looked like an expensive hotel suite, complete with minibar. Any drinks he had would be automatically deducted from his paycheck, but really, the fact that they were paying him to be on the ship was laughable anyway. A suitcase was sitting on the bed, and a small crate was sitting on the desk. He opened the suitcase and quickly unpacked his clothes into the dresser, then slowly peeled open the hidden compartment underneath them.
He stashed the various pieces of equipment in his bandoleer, unfolded the crate's handles, picked it up, and set off down the hall. The fingers of his left hand tapped on his leg, scrolling the ship's blueprints across his glasses. Eventually, he found an empty pocket, not uncommon in these ships, and usually used by the owners for smuggling. However, given the nature of what these criminals smuggled and the funds with which they operated, any space smaller than a standard prison cell was useless to them.
It was one of these spaces Charles slipped into, disappearing into a thicket of pipes and wires, finding himself in a small, five foot square space, unlit, invisible from the outside, and rather well soundproofed by all the wiring and plumbing. He set the crate in the middle of the floor and pushed a few panels around its surface, then stepped back and watched it unfold into a small terminal and chair. He tapped his glasses to scan the wires of the room, looking for ones that carried information rather than power, and deftly spliced them into his computer.
All of this took less than an hour, well before the ship could get fully underway. Sure enough, when he brought up the public crew network, he saw messages being flung back and forth as they prepared for undocking. It took him about ten minutes to customize his usual data-filtering algorithm to extract and save any messages that seemed like they might be related to their job. Once that was set up, he finally scanned through the frequencies, finding one that was unused.
He could easily set up his computer to do the taps, but he didn't. As his eyes scanned over the screen, one finger tapped against a receiver, four beats and two rests. Dit-dit-dit-dit-pause-pause-dit-dit-dit-dit-pause-pause. His finger was steady as metronome, sending the agreed-upon signal over the comm.
They went their separate ways, and he made his way up to his room. Private security paid better than most crew jobs on a ship, but this one was ridiculous even for private security. He pressed his thumb to the door's biometric lock. His gloves were one of the niftiest little gadgets he had, having many different functions, one of which was the ability to let him scan his thumb through them, while not leaving fingerprints on any surfaces he didn't want them on.
His room looked like an expensive hotel suite, complete with minibar. Any drinks he had would be automatically deducted from his paycheck, but really, the fact that they were paying him to be on the ship was laughable anyway. A suitcase was sitting on the bed, and a small crate was sitting on the desk. He opened the suitcase and quickly unpacked his clothes into the dresser, then slowly peeled open the hidden compartment underneath them.
He stashed the various pieces of equipment in his bandoleer, unfolded the crate's handles, picked it up, and set off down the hall. The fingers of his left hand tapped on his leg, scrolling the ship's blueprints across his glasses. Eventually, he found an empty pocket, not uncommon in these ships, and usually used by the owners for smuggling. However, given the nature of what these criminals smuggled and the funds with which they operated, any space smaller than a standard prison cell was useless to them.
It was one of these spaces Charles slipped into, disappearing into a thicket of pipes and wires, finding himself in a small, five foot square space, unlit, invisible from the outside, and rather well soundproofed by all the wiring and plumbing. He set the crate in the middle of the floor and pushed a few panels around its surface, then stepped back and watched it unfold into a small terminal and chair. He tapped his glasses to scan the wires of the room, looking for ones that carried information rather than power, and deftly spliced them into his computer.
All of this took less than an hour, well before the ship could get fully underway. Sure enough, when he brought up the public crew network, he saw messages being flung back and forth as they prepared for undocking. It took him about ten minutes to customize his usual data-filtering algorithm to extract and save any messages that seemed like they might be related to their job. Once that was set up, he finally scanned through the frequencies, finding one that was unused.
He could easily set up his computer to do the taps, but he didn't. As his eyes scanned over the screen, one finger tapped against a receiver, four beats and two rests. Dit-dit-dit-dit-pause-pause-dit-dit-dit-dit-pause-pause. His finger was steady as metronome, sending the agreed-upon signal over the comm.
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