Dead. The only contact for his one in a million contract was dead.
This human was the only reason Railick had come to Omega in the first place. He had seen him alive and well only 2 hours ago.
"Well?" Said Aria. With ruthlessness in her voice that showed no compassion for the dead man at her feet. "I tried to run an I.D. match on him but he's not a local, and he has decent enough tech. So I'm guessing he's either a merc, or an info broker. Care to shed a little light on this subject for me?"
Aria slid into a chair making herself comfortable for the event s that she knew she would hear.
"He's a contact for my current contract." Railick said with a more confidence then he actually had.
"Oh come now. We both know that this has to be more important than a regular merc mission. Why don't you tell me the whole story? Starting with who the fuck he is." Aria's eyes locked with Railick. He knew that he was going to have to tell her the entire story if he wanted to get out alive.
Railick sat forward in his seat and reached for a Holo-Pad in his armors pouch.
"We were contacted by an agent from a private sector company called Olex. We were told that they were a mining corporation in Outer Rim planets. The agent said that Olex had just found a large paladium deposit in some small time solar system. They recently developed some kind of hard-drive system that was very important to their dig site of paladium."
Railick passed the Holo-Pad to the interested Asari. It showed the body of a ship with scorch marks littered across it.
"This ship was the one transporting the hard-drive to the dig site when it was hit by teams confirm that they took the Hard-drive." Railick pointed to the dead man still at their feet. "This was my contact. Olex wanted my team to intercept the pirates and get the Hard-drive back. He gave me the last know location of the pirates."
Aria examined the Holo-Pad then looked up. "Bull shit. Why would pirates waste time on a Hard-Drive, and most of all why would Olex even want to waste money on you getting it back? They must have backed up the info before they shipped off the damn thing."
Railick let out a small chuckle.
"Well we already knew that. I had my pilot look into Olex. Extra-Net sources show nothing about them except a few small mining deals. Their profits don't add up either, so there's on way that they would be able to sustain any business on their own. They have to be a daughter company under a higher one."
"And we also looked into the Hard-Drive. If they do need us to get it back it must have data on it that can't be backed up on a regular server. This means that whatever is on the Hard-Drive it's the only copy of it. We havent been able to figure out exactly what it could be though."
Railick looked back down at his former contact. "I'm guessing this whole mission is way bigger then Olex is letting us know. But we were able to get the info from the contact before he was killed."
"After we meet with the contact we headed back to the ship when, what I'm guessing are the same thugs that killed him, attacked us."
Aria took a moment to think of the complicated story, seeing if Railick was lying or not. She stood up and walked to the rail looking out at Afterlife. "So even though you knew that Olex ' giving you all the info, and this was way bigger then you knew you still took the job?"
Railick leaned back into his seat and a very subtle smirk appeared on his face. "Well the pay was very good. Besides that I think that stupidity had alot to do with it."
