CONTRACT: LA-SD-04-01

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Location: Hesperus II, Skye Region, Lyran Alliance

Description: Security Duty

Duration of Contract: 4 months (4 weeks in RL)

Employer: Doering Electronics / Defiance Industries

Forces: 1 Company (12 players)

Enemy Forces: Unknown

Contract Payment: 9,000,000 C-Bills

Bounty Per Post: 40,000 C-Bills

Minimum Bounty: 960,000 c-bills (24 posts within a 1 month period)

Maximum Bounty: 2,760,000 c-bills (96 posts within a 1 month period)

PLANETARY DETAILS:

Terrain – Mountainous

Star Type – B3

Hesperus II has been characterized as having about as much physical appeal as an 80-year old lady of easy virtue. Approaching the planet, the visitor immediately notices the innumerable mountain ranges and canyons crisscrossing the four major continents like wrinkles or the grids of some warped game board.

And a game board it has been, for Hesperus, with its huge BattleMech factory in the Myoo Mountains on the planet's South Whitman continent, is the crux of the Commonwealth's military strength. It has been attacked 14 times by enemy Houses, but all attempts to destroy the factory have so far failed. The terrain of Hesperus is unforgiving and has proven to be as much an obstacle to foreign attackers as have the planet's defenders.

Not much can grow on Hesperus II, except in the Melrose Valleys or in the terraced mountains just outside of Maria's Elegy, the largest city on Hesperus II. Due to the planet's lack of arable land, the population has always been small, consisting mainly of employees at the 'Mech factory.

MISSION DETAILS:

Doering Electronics has developed a new sensor array that contains cutting-edge technology and is highly secret.

Defiance Industries has developed a new recon BattleMech, one of the design specialties has something akin to the lostech Null Signature System.

Duke Brewer and Mr. Doering have decided to merge these two cutting-edge units together and develop what could be the ultimate stealth BattleMech. Now, there are dozens of industrial spies around the place (as well as other terrorist groups, House units and the occasional couch warrior..) who would want to get their hands on the prototype sensors or the ‘Mech. Your first job, should you choose to accept the contract is to escort an unmarked civilian vehicle carrying the prototype sensor array from Melrose Valley, down south towards the Defiance Industries factory at the Myoo Mountains.

Due to the secrecy of this mission, we’re willing to pay a little extra for your silence.