Talking biz here chums. Been brainstorming a hijack job on a ares big rig with a lot of chems as the target in the cargo trailer. The target has been hit a couple of months ago so no doubt are going to be ready. We've already come up with some pretty good ways in and out and how to pull it off. Just looking for some suggestions that i might have skipped over. We have drone support, a man in the trix, & two sams.

>>>Best ways to go are either the quietest way, or the most unorthodox. Quiet ways will guarantee Lonestar doesn't drop on you as soon as you pull the Drek off, and the most unorthodox . . . well no one has a plan for that stuff, so it has the highest chance of success.

If the vehicle is fit for rigging, and if you got yourself a hot-as-drek hacker (or technomancer) you might just be able to stop the rig, de-couple it, and hook up your own rig. Drive it out to the barrens for a while, and let it cool down. If you are in Seattle, then that's pretty nice, air there is so polluted that Satalites can't pick you up through all that smog. Have a mage to make sure no one is following you astrally.

If that isn't the case, I would say that you need to find out this truck's route. Park your own big-rig-tractor with emergency flashers on, like it's been stuck along the route (preferably in an isolated spot, like a tunnel), then Hijack, hook the trailer up to your big rig, sabatoge his tractor, then drive out. Just a couple of suggestions, man.<<<
-Posted by Everyman

>>> I've heard that a lot of long range shipping is automated. If that's true for your target, then you can spoof the system into thinking one of your vehicles is the rig in question and switch them en route. Grab a copy of whatever information it sends back home then swap it under cover of a jammer. Boot your drone and send it on, getting it to follow the same phone-home procedures as the rig you nicked. 'Course you got to seize control of the dronerig, give it a new set of credentials and lead it off the route at some safe location.

If you've got a good face, get him to grab a buch of people out the Barrens and raid the truck. Calls to stick it up "the man" and pay back the people who left them behind are probably going to work. 'Course you'll probably want to give them something for their troubles, so grab a bunch of MilSurp ration packs - I hear electronic currency doesn't go down well with those less fortunate. Need a disguise, of course.

Alternatively, you could try pretend to be a group of local bastards. Get AKs and explosives. Put a pothole ahead of the cab and spray it with an AK to show you mean business. <<<
- CJD, 12 karma, 3 metakarma, 1 hyperkarma

Well were probably going to hit them before the Seattle border. No doubt theres gonna be armed personel a rigger and a hacker for back. Target was hit for it's chems a couple month prior. Most likely same group is gonna do it again and we gotta beat em to it. The plan so far is to set up a day or 2 prior to their passing threw and set up some cut charges on trees to make a road block , maybee a zapper strip. The 2 sams were thinking of trying to strap themselves to the undercarriage at a refuel location. Once the system is hacked by the rigger and hacker maybee they set off some smoke grenades to pour out. If that doesn't make em stop so we can engage we'll have to take the road block option. Just want to have a plan b incase the hacker doesn't cut the mustard. lemme know what u guys think

>>>What do you know about the group that pulled off the job before? It might be possible to let them pull the job off again and intercept them, taking the prize. If you kill them all off and make sure to dispose of all the bodies, no one will ever know. If you have research time, find out where the rigger and hacker will be. Sometimes it is easier to counter them with a bullet to the head rather then going over the matrix.

My biggest suggestion for you though would be to get your own rig, a scanner & tag eraiser, several area jammers and a grenade launcher loaded with EMPs. Ambush in an out of the way place, hit their rig with several emps until it dies, use the jammers for coverage while you kill everyone, fry anything electronic your not taking, hook up your rig and haul butt to somewhere secure from wireless. Scan and zap every tag, sell, profit!<<<
-Watcher in the Dark <"Never run from a sniper, you just die tired">

>>> EMPs will kill the motors. You don't want one of those things to drop a few wheels, they're horrible to handle to begin with and if it goes out of control then everyone is screwed. Your shipment is officially toast - nobody wants goods that have been thrown around inside a big metal box - and you're probably going to get run over.

Even if you manage to avoid shorting the motors, you might kill some important electronics that's keeping the package conditions stable. Who knows what's in the rig? Chems could mean "unstable explosives". Actually, that's another reason you don't want to risk crashing this thing. A lot of chemicals getting mixed together under "rough" conditions might create a runaway exothermic reaction. Not only do risk wrecking the parts of the shipment your J wants, you risk wrecking the bits of you that your fixer likes to advertise.

The people on the rig mean you can't do a quiet replacement. Instead of trees, I'd suggest setting up a crash. That way, it's less suspicious if they see people hanging around. Be sure to practice your arguing. <<<
- CJD, 12 karma, 3 metakarma, 1 hyperkarma

Play dress-up. Get some characters in Lone Star uniforms, do up a vehicle to look like a cop car, and pull the truck over. Bust the truck driver for some made up "license regulations", or tell him that the truck is showing up as stolen in the vehicle database. Tell the truck driver that he'll need to be detained, and while this is happening, "investigate" the contents of the truck. Once you've got the truck driver out and controlled, you can do whatever you want with him (knock him out, drugs, whatever), and then have some people make off with the truck. Then just leave the truck driver there for Ares to pick him up as soon as they get some forces over there

>>> What kind of escort will truck have? If you can strap to men to bottom of truck you may as well hijack truck. Tried that when young when smuggling girl out of Kyrgystan. Girl go unconscious from heat, bleeding all over her body. Luckily border guards find her, hurt her only little, found her in bordello. Client not happy.

Is truck armored? What is it carrying? I recommend strike robbing team when arriving back to base. No one have guard up. Easy to kill, maybe find some better prizes too?

Well the situation is kinda tricky. My whole team is from the barrens low life gangers that have pulled a few serious run and are done with the ganger and mob running scemes. In the process we have been an extreme thorn in the shoutazumi yakuza's side...a serious thorn. Killed two leaders and hand fulls of Sapporo sucking goons, destroyed their drug operations in the barrens and eliminated there humanis lap dogs who were playing lackeys. We staged a raid on their last Kram factory in Tacoma and knew that after it was done they would kill our gang our families and contacts if we didn't disappear. So we leveled the factory and set up to fake our own deaths good bodies and forensic setup to boot. They were stealing chem shipments from an ares courier rigs to manufacture the dope. Our hacker got more pay data that MCT who runs Seattle's grid was giving them the rigs route. This being one of the main reasons we have to hit the rigs outside of Seattle probably in NAN. From the data we have It's gonna be a convoy of 3 rigs all rigged by the same rigger but we know there gonna be ready due to being hit like 2 months ago. If we can pull this down and off load the chems to our old mafia contacts...we will have the funds to disapear and set up a secure safehouse to run the shadows full time. Their is some background for u guys wish us luck and keep up with the input it's all really helpful.

>> I recommend the use of a... missile with shaped charged warhead. Kill the rigger and the trucks will turn to the side of the road and stop. Kill security in the cars as they dismount. Replace rigger. Easy as candy from baby.

>>> That works well. And I just happen to have a nice little Mitsubishi Yakusoku MRL, along with a dozen AV missiles. The biggest problem will be finding out which tracter the rigger is in. Of course, a high powered sniper rifle with AV rounds or a gauss rifle might be more efficent and cause less damage to the tracter if you plan on selling it after. You'll still need several scanners, erasiers and jammers to cover your escape to a wifi free area and clean the haul. <<<
-Watcher in the Dark <"Never run from a sniper, you just die tired">

>> That is easy. Rigger is in last truck. First truck hit mine. Rigger die. Second truck boxed in by first and second truck. Third truck still have chance of escaping. Rigger pick last truck.

Seems simple enough. Locate three similar sized tanker trucks. Put a vacuum pump on top of each truck, and a tag eraser and fine mesh screen on each tank's inlet.

Hit all three convoy trucks with zapper rockets, then roll your trucks up, connect hoses between the convoy trucks and your trucks, pressurize the convoy tanks, evacuate your tanks, and let the pressure differential pump the chemicals from one truck to the other, through the screen to filter out security tags, and the tag eraser to kill any other RFID tags floating in the liquid.

Drive your three tanker trucks were ever you want them to go. Destroy the three hijacked trucks with a crude, obviously home made large bomb. Call it a day.

while they are chems they are in barrels in the cargo area. We have Intel the riggers in first truck with the expensive load.

>>> First truck is easy. Just find a straight stretch of road with a pair of curves. You wait just past one curve with your rifle/missile launcher/what have you, hidden in the brush or stealth suit. Target comes around other curve and you pop him. The curve will cause him to slow down and the straight length of road will give you a clear shot. Also all the support vehicles will have to come around that curve mostly single file since the rigs have all stopped. You just pop them too. <<<
-Watcher in the Dark <"Never run from a sniper, you just die tired">

>>> If you're planning on using an explosive on the rigs, I hope you bought shipping insurance. Momentum mean anything to you? <<<
- CJD, 12 karma, 3 metakarma, 1 hyperkarma

Thats the main problem we cant destroy the trucks without going threw the proccess of smuggling our own replacement rig over NAN borders. It's gonna be a single rigger convoy of 3 rigs with 3 trailers each. We just need the number 1 rig it has the most expensive cargo and were gonna have enough issues simply smuggling out that amount of goods. My plan this far is to sneak over borders with our team. Find a suitable stretch of road an area of up to 10 kilometers. The team will follow closely behind but out of sensor range, while our hacker and riggers do their deal if they can take over and we get our ground forces in we'll be on. Take out sec personel slave the rigs over o our rigger take them to a secure location and call in our smuggler connection in their lavs split the cargo up and meet back for beers @ the safe house. That's if things don't go pear shaped as they always do.