[h3][color=fff200]Ganatoo Spaceport[/color][/h3][indent]So it was Toland, Sekula, Antares, HK-51 and Besk doing the sabotage, while others cased the security. Simple enough operation, but it required a delicate touch to find a disused terminal to hook into. Ganatoo, like so many spaceports on the Outer Rim, was a pretty corrupt place, and they didn't like the Empire all that much. The Core was treated with kid gloves, which made the number of Alderaanian dissidents a bit of a mystery to Besk, but places like Ganatoo were all too familiar -- the Emperor bled this place for recruits, putting strong levies on them for the Imperial Army, or repressing the labor to keep the quotas up.

Not a small number of the Alliance's recruits preferred the prospect of fighting with the Rebels to joining the Imperial Army, or they returned from their tours embittered and willing to fight. Many more were quietly sympathetic to the rebellion. Not enough to risk their skins, but certainly enough to look the other way.

And Besk never said, as he paid at least one comtech to take a break and leave a sleeping supervisor to take responsibility for the security breach, if ever discovered, that they were Rebels. The man didn't need to know that.

He didn't have much to say to Thanner, and he wasn't sure what to say to Toland about it, but he made sure the Sarge knew where he stood -- he would have never let the man along...except the Lieutenant said he'd be -useful- in this situation. On the other hand, if the betrayal was coming, he had a surprise for Thanner; a really nasty bit of Nar Shaddaa tech in the form of a disruptor pistol that Sola handed him as a 'don't get killed' sort of gift. It was a completely illegal weapon, but a brutal one. He'd also made sure to wear a thermal det and was completely willing to set it off in close quarters with an altered fuse; no counting down from five seconds, this one did the countdown beeping, but was set up with a motion-detection based detonator. The ide, of course, was a person would hear the thermal det counting down and do what came naturally -- dive for cover. He'd entertained the idea before as a booby trap, but this time he intended to make it a revenge weapon. Antares wouldn't survive the betrayal.

He'd been a grease monkey once, repairing the suits in the asteroid mining company and otherwise handling machinery and tools, he was a convincing repair guy. The group made their way through in an ambling manner, feigning a calm they did not feel as they hauled along heavy cases full of repair equipment that was legit -- no rifles, no heavy weaponry, because of the eyebrows it would raise if they brought that sort of thing along. Serossa was an experienced security professional, she knew where the gaps were, and Besk spent a lot of time as a guerrilla on Uslam. They managed to get through alright without even having to undergo a search. Besk, using hand tools that were, above all, quiet, carefully popped the access panel to the computer and communications system for traffic control; the attendant was having a 'medical emergency' and the supervisor was nowhere to be found, as he was sleeping it off at his desk.

Besk worked carefully, making sure to move things so that they weren't dinged or scratched, so that the screws weren't threaded and there were no pry-marks. He'd replace it just as he'd gotten it off, deliberate and slow.

"Alright, panel's popped. Toland, you handle the upload. Nice and easy, pal. Try not to tense up and look like you're trying to get this done and get to a cantina." He didn't trust Thanner one bit, not one jot, and if the defector had a problem with Besk making sure Toland, who was a capable programmer and slicer, take the lead on the slice, he could always complain to Lieutenant Byron after the operation was finished.[/indent]