1: Harley Ferris - Energie

A mission involving a high-stakes heist in the Upper Spires.

A thin man with wires trailing from his temples jumped, nearly knocking over a canister of coolant. "Ferris! Look, I’m almost there. One more day and the data-mine pays out. I’ll double what I owe the Syndicate." Harley Ferris - Energie 1

He reached into his trench coat, but instead of pulling his pulse-pistol, he withdrew a small, jagged bypass chip. He slammed it into the primary terminal. The screens flickered, then turned a steady, calm blue. "What did you do?" Jax whispered. A mission involving a high-stakes heist in the Upper Spires

"I just reported a catastrophic transformer failure," Harley said, turning back toward the rain. "The grid will show zero consumption for this sector for the next forty-eight hours while they 'investigate.' After that, you’d better be gone." "Why help me?" Look, I’m almost there

Harley stopped at the door, the neon light of Energie 1 reflecting in his synthetic iris. "Because sometimes the dark is the only place where things actually get done."

"Please," Jax stammered, backing into a rack of humming processors. "The whole block depends on this link. If you pull the plug, the life-support in the hab-units goes dark."

Harley walked toward him, his metal hand glinting under the strobing lights. "The Syndicate doesn't do payment plans. They do shut-offs."

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