BlasTech Espionage at Umgul

The BlasTech Espionage at Umgul was a covert operation undertaken by Illix Shah-El and Kyle Koduul against the SoroSuub Corporation for BlasTech Industries.

The two mercenaries successfully infiltrated SoroSuub's offices on Umgul and covertly disrupted the company's weapons demonstration.

Pretending to be delivery agents for the crates of faulty weapons they intended to provide SoroSuub, they were able to gain access to the building.

Once inside, they were able to stun several of the guards and take their uniforms and security credentials, then make their way to the storage vaults.

Though their unauthorized presence in the vaults was discovered, they were able to bluff their way out of the situation and escape the building.

They were rewarded with a substantial sum of credits.

The Job
On Umgul, BlasTech Industries and the SoroSuub Corporation were in competition for a lucrative contract with local security forces. SoroSuub planned to win that contract by using faulty copies of BlasTech weaponry in a public demonstration to prove that their own weapons were superior. Learning of this plan, the local BlasTech executive began looking for mercenaries to sabotage the demonstration.

Kyle Koduul and Illix Shah-El, who had split off from the rest of their group to look for the credits they would need to repair their starship before the Empire found them, were approached for this job. After agreeing to take it on for the substantial sum of sixty-thousand credits, they were supplied with a crate of faulty SoroSuub weapons and a crate of functional BlasTech weapons to reverse the demonstration.

In order to be paid the full sum of credits, the pair would need to make the switch without being detected. They would have to make their way through the SoroSuub office building and down to the vaults beneath it, locate the correct vault, and slip past the patrols with their crates, then escape with the SoroSuub crates.

Getting Inside
After scouting the SoroSuub offices with Koduul's Eye in the Sky droid, Wunvee, the pair decided that the best way in would be through the landing pad at the top of the building. Using the speeder truck BlasTech had supplied them, they approached the landing pad and entered through the top door with their crates.

When confronted by the receptionist, they managed to convince her that, despite their lack of uniforms and the fact that no delivery was scheduled, they were there to deliver supplies to the vaults. She allowed them to enter the turbolifts after reminding them that their SoroSuub identification would be required to descend to the bottom levels, where the vaults were housed.

The ID Problem
Since they lacked a SoroSuub ID card, the two mercenaries were forced to make a new plan. They descended to the medical level, which was just above the vaults, and attempted to enter the vaults through the air ducts. After discovering that the ducts did not connect for security reasons, they once again reevaluated their plan and decided to try to capture some of the guards without raising an alert.

Koduul was able to hack into the facility's mainframe and loop the security feed of the checkpoint at the medical level, at which point he and Shah-El were able to lure the guard away from his post at the checkpoint, stun him, and hide him on top of the turbolift after taking his uniform. They repeated this process with the patrolling guard, gaining a second uniform and avoiding raising the alarm.

Using their newly-captured ID cards, the two then descended into the vaults.

The Switch
Despite lugging the heavy crates behind them, the two were able to avoid the patrols in the vaults and access the inventory console, determining where the supplies for the demonstration were being kept. They then managed to access this vault, but discovered powerful security measures: an alarm would sound, and the door would seal, if any difference of weight in the crates was detected.

Though Koduul was able to defeat the security on the first crate, and the two replaced it without incident, the second one provided more difficult, and the alarm was triggered. Two full security teams rushed to the area. Koduul hid among the crates, hoping to convince security that it had been a technical glitch, but Shah-El was much too large and bulky to hide himself effectively.

Though more known for his endurance and capacity for violence than his quick tongue, Shah-El astounded Koduul when he managed to convince the security patrols that, despite the fact that he was in a vault security was not allowed to be in, they had never seen him or anyone that looked remotely like him before, and he was robbing them before their very eyes, he was expressly permitted to be there and had merely made a mistake moving crates around.

The patrols then departed, unaware of the deception until it was too late.

Escaping the Building
Conscious of the fact that they might now be discovered at any moment, the pair took the crates they'd been hired to remove back to the turbolift and returned to the top level. In their haste they walked past the receptionist who had let them in while still in their security uniforms, but she assumed that they had merely gotten properly changed and did not challenge them as they left.

The two then sped back to their rendezvous with the rest of their group, transmitting word of their success to BlasTech along the way.

Aftermath
The deception was not uncovered until, as planned, the demonstration went badly awry as the BlasTech models performed better rather than worse than their SoroSuub counterparts. As SoroSuub's internal security agents attempted to trace what had gone wrong, they found the stunned guards trapped atop the turbolift as well as the looped footage. Although BlasTech involvement was obvious, it could not be proven.

Eventually, the receptionist was questioned about strange visitors. She mentioned Shah-El, who was matched to his description in the bounty placed by Sonuu Ythiae. SoroSuub subsequently added to this bounty, nearly doubling it in value and drawing in even more bounty hunters. Agents of the Ssi-ruuvi Imperium who were also hunting Shah-El would later use this information to track his movements.

The credits earned by Koduul and Shah-El were more than enough to buy the needed replacements parts on their own, but were not transferred to them until after the demonstration. This forced them to stay on Umgul far longer than they would have liked, leading to a second encounter with the Woman in Red.