USS Cherokee 
The Heist, by Steve Weller, Part 8
11903.31

Starring_
Steve Weller as CO_Ayidee, Tour_Guide_Toby, and Producer
Dawn Freeman as OPS_Nash
Topper Loghry as CTO_LT_Q`ten
Jacob Houck as TO_Ens_Stoves
Zach Farland as CNS_LtJg_Daniels
Pablo Delsoglio as CIV_Capt_Marek
Absent
None
Leave of Absence
Trish Yarborough as CMO-McIntyre
Ship's Log, Stardate 11903.31, Captain Ayidee reporting.  The efforts continue.  I think we are making progress and are close to getting the information we need to make our plan.

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Host CO_Ayidee says:
::In personnel department, filling out final paper work.::

Host Tour_Guide_Toby says:
All: What you've so far are the bare bones vaults.  Secure, but not anything to make people excited, so to say.

CIV_Capt_Marek says:
Tour: Indeed. Just the basics I assume

Host Tour_Guide_Toby says:
All: What we have next is the mid level.  Big step up from the base.

TO_Ens_Stoves says:
Toby: I think we're ready to see the security that gives thieves a real run for their money.

Host Tour_Guide_Toby says:
CIV: Of course.  Can't exactly show everything and give just anyone access.  If we did that our security rating would be about equal to the trash can on the corner.

ACTION: The elevator doors open onto a room about 10 meters wide and 40 deep.  At the far end are a set of heavy, vault like doors.  All along the room are armed guards.

CIV_Capt_Marek says:
Tour Guide: I agree... I would not be logical to show your security measures.

Host Tour_Guide_Toby says:
All: This room is made for tours, the only part of the basement floors not dedicated to storage or security.  It is a kind of demonstration room.

CNS_LtJg_Daniels says:
Toby: Is this all we're going to see is rooms created for the tour?

Host Tour_Guide_Toby says:
All: The security is to prevent anyone from using the tour as a means past the early level security.  But here we have displays to show what the real rooms have.

Host Tour_Guide_Toby says:
CNS: Depends what you mean by "see".  If you mean interact with directly, yes, this will be all you will see.  But you will be able to see through the windows what the floor looks like.

CNS_LtJg_Daniels says:
Toby: I guess that's something.  I'm just curious about the stuff that isn't on the tour.

CIV_Capt_Marek says:
::thinks:: At least it gives us an idea...

Host Tour_Guide_Toby says:
All: The guards here have a secondary purpose to the security I already mentioned.  They show how the guards are equipped and, in a more compact version, to show how they deploy.

Host Tour_Guide_Toby says:
All: They have automatic weapons, body armor, all the kind of things well armed mercenaries are equipped with.  Anyone have any questions for them?  Or about how they are prepared?  I know you already talked to their department but still, questions grow as you go we like to say.

CIV_Capt_Marek says:
Tour Guide: Silly question. Hand to hand combat experience?

Host Tour_Guide_Toby says:
CIV: It is part of their training.  Most of them have military experience to start but they drill regularly in both hand to hand and "ranged combat".

CNS_LtJg_Daniels says:
CTO: Go ahead, see if you can take all ten.  ::Smiles::

CIV_Capt_Marek says:
Tour Guide: Very good. Hand to hand combat makes them more reliable than the equipment they could carry on. ::raises an eyebrow::

CTO_LTJG_Q`ten says:
::Smirks at the CNS::

Host Tour_Guide_Toby says:
All: At the end of the hall you see the actual start of the lower levels.  The first vault is the only way down past this point.  Regular vault with a combination changed at random intervals, but at most every 2 weeks.

CNS_LtJg_Daniels says:
CTO: What better way to test this bank's security?

CTO_LTJG_Q`ten says:
CNS: These guards getting pulverized would be no real test of this facilities security.

Host Tour_Guide_Toby says:
CNS: No offense to your friend, but don't forget.  If he tried to take all the guards, even if you did it as a group, they are equipped with radios to call backup.

CIV_Capt_Marek says:
::makes a mental note:: Get a signal jammer.

CNS_LtJg_Daniels says:
CTO: It wouldn't?  ::Thinks::  But, you'd have so much fun doing it.

CTO_LTJG_Q`ten says:
CNS: I have the feeling that I'm not here to have fun...yet.

Host Tour_Guide_Toby says:
All: The vault door is very thick, would require a major boom to get through it without the combination.  And even if you got through it, there is another just down the hall from it.  And another, ad nauseum, as well as similar locks on each vault.

Host Tour_Guide_Toby says:
All: Do you want to see what the vault floor looks like?  If so it is right through that window there.

CIV_Capt_Marek says:
Tout Guide: indeed.

CTO_LTJG_Q`ten says:
::Goes to the window to examine the floor::

CNS_LtJg_Daniels says:
::Looks through the window::

CIV_Capt_Marek says:
CTO: We better make a good observation of this vault.

ACTION: As the corridor goes off out of sight of the window the same scene repeats.  A 4 meter wide door with a large locking wheel, a 10 meter gap, then another door.  Guards walk at irregular intervals armed and equipped as the men in the room.

CTO_LTJG_Q`ten says:
::Thinks to himself:  anesthizine gas cannisters will disable the guards.  Someone with ultra sensitive hearing to pick the combination locks.  Perhaps even the use of a medical stethoscope::

CNS_LtJg_Daniels says:
::Sees a seemingly endless corridor of locked vault doors::  All: If this is mid-level security, I wonder what high-level is like.

CTO_LTJG_Q`ten says:
CNS: Harder

Host Tour_Guide_Toby says:
All: As the levels go down the guards increase in equipment.  There are means of countering certain "off world" technology that to me, honestly, sound like made up children's fantasies.  If you ask me, I think most of it is just talk to make people pay more for higher security, but over secure is far better than under secure, eh?

CNS_LtJg_Daniels says:
Toby: Of course.

CTO_LTJG_Q`ten says:
Toby: Has there ever been any attempted breaches in this security?

CTO_LTJG_Q`ten says:
Toby: And if so, then by who?

Host Tour_Guide_Toby says:
CTO: Not at this facility.  Other banks have been hit over the years, but no bank within 10% of our security rating has ever successfully been broken in to.

CIV_Capt_Marek says:
Toby: That does not answer the question. There has been attempts, right?

Host Tour_Guide_Toby says:
CTO: Oh, there are some great stories there!  Last one I've heard about happened 5 years ago in Vorteen City.  6 guys shut down power on the block and snuck there way in.  Word is they got to the 2nd level before the guards, using portable lights, surrounded and subdued them.

Host Tour_Guide_Toby says:
CIV: Which question?  As I said, other facilities have been hit but ours has not, as of yet.

CIV_Capt_Marek says:
Toby: Ok. Just making sure. ::raises an eyebrow::

Host Tour_Guide_Toby says:
All: If you want to talk about robberies we can do so, but I'd suggest the cafeteria level.  Far more comfortable, and refreshments are available.  Plus it is right next to the offices if you are interested in our facility?

CNS_LtJg_Daniels says:
All: I could eat something.

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