I just improvised my characters into taking another Run., What kind of security are the Vory likely to have on something mobile? Options

[ShadowDragon8685]

Okay, here's the situation. My group needed guns for reasons those who browse my threads out of boredom should know. Basically, they need to arm the Plastic Jungles' denizens. Rather than (as I had feared) coming up with some hare-brained scheme to home-build cheapass machine pistols, they decided to do the sane thing and contact their Friendly Local Ancients Captain. (One of the characters was an Ancient some forty years ago who parted ways with them amicably when they started to become more militant and he just wanted to smuggle goods and make money.)

They passed along word that they wanted to buy or, preferably, trade goods (produce from the Jungles; though they were ambiguous about the source, they gave enough clues to the Fixer who made the connection that the Ancients put two and two together,) for guns and ammunition.


Anyway, the Ancients captain offered them a good deal: 18,750 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nuyen.gif) for a pallet (50) AK-97s, 28,125 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nuyen.gif) for a pallet of 50 Colt M23 rifles, or 37,500 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nuyen.gif) for a pallet of 50 AK-98s. He also suggested that he'd be willing to trade 20 AK-97s for a pallet of produce, 15 Colt M23s, and 10 AK-98s.

Then he revealed the McGuffin in the fourth crate: An AK-147 that came to him 'by way of Bogota'. He explained that an AK-147 Nanofax was also coming to Seattle 'by way of Bogota', but was not coming to him: rather, it was being smuggled in by the Vory, along with some tagless feedstock. He explained that if they acquired the nanofax for him, he'd be willing to crank out a production run of guns and ammo - using regular, tagged feedstock - that he believed would be 'adequate for their application.' He also said he might see his way to knocking out a few for their own use - out of the untagged, clean, military feedstock - and would also owe them one.


I was expecting this to trip all of their 'too good to be true' senses, and that they'd just trade food for AK-97s. Silly me, of course they want to knock over a 600,000 (IMG:style_emoticons/default/nuyen.gif) piece of hardware that's basically a printing press that prints guns and give it to the Ancients.

Arguably they'd be doing more good than harm in the world, too, since the Ancients will just sell them to random bangers, whereas the Vory were probably preparing for a gang war with the mob or something. Still, they're planning to rip off a Vory shipment in transit now. What kind of security would a syndicate have on something they're moving that would need roughly a tractor-trailer to move? Obviously the tractor-trailer and it's going to be customized, probably a security hacker and a mage with bound spirits.

Can you have a Possession spirit possess a mage and issue orders to that mage's spirits? Hrm...