A Desperate Rescue

A Desperate Rescue

Level	2 Storyline
Type	Courier
Objective	Deliver 10x Civilian SIGINT Contractors (300 m3)
Rewards	37,000 ISK

Mission briefing

Earlier today, a small, unknown group of frigates attacked one of our remote signals intelligence (SIGINT) communications outposts, causing catastrophic damage and killing dozens of our personnel. This station belongs – or should I say belonged - to a small Caldari corporation with a poorly hidden contractual link to our military intelligence services. Fortunately, the survivors managed to escape, via their high-speed emergency shuttle and are expected to arrive at a nearby station within the hour. As you might expect, we are working hard to determine the identities of the aggressors, but as yet we have no solid leads. Of course, this is not your concern. What is your concern, should you choose to help us, is a report we just received indicating that the surviving team of SIGINT contractors have been targeted for immediate assassination by the same mysterious organization behind the outpost attack. Apparently, someone does not want these individuals to provide us with whatever information they must have obtained during the course of their recent duties. Within the last few hours, we intercepted a poorly encrypted communication indicating that a covert hit squad is en route to the station aboard an unspecified vessel – or may actually be at the station already! This station's security force, while well armed and highly trained, is insufficient to detect and defeat the kind of lethal operatives that we believe intend to kill our contractors. Therefore, we need you to rescue this team immediately and bring them back to us for an emergency debriefing and to ensure their safety. After running a check of qualified pilots in our office database, your name was near the top of the list. We estimate there will only be sufficient time for this one rescue attempt before the assassins strike.

Lore Blurb: Caldari SIGINT Outpost Network

The Caldari Navy, much like the military services of other races, operates a covert network of signals intelligence outposts along the borders of the Caldari State. The specific, primary mission of these stations is to provide advance early warning of any hostile incursion by the Gallente military. Beyond this vital mission, however, the outposts are also tasked with gathering intelligence on a wide variety of other targets, both military and civilian. Of particular interest is the regular provision of information on the movement of the commercial and industrial fleets of other races, given the competition between the Caldari corporate system and foreign companies. In this way, the outposts not only provide an essential early warning system for any hostile forces, but also provide data of immense economic value, thus better enabling the Caldari private business sector to better compete in the merciless realm of interstellar business.

A Desperate Rescue is a Caldari storyline mission, which can be given by completing Level 2 missions. As a distribution mission, one only needs to pick up the contractors at the agent's station, and deliver them to a different station for completion. The mission can be completed remotely.

Mission accept text
Thank you for agreeing to attempt the rescue of our civilian contractors. You must leave very soon if we are to have any hope of reaching them before the hit team arrives.

Mission completion text
Your skillful handing of your ship in this vital rescue mission has saved the lives of many civilians who would have otherwise surely perished in the damaged outpost. We knew we could count on you and we will now move you to the top of our list for future missions.