"Okay. In order to hijack a mouce without raising suspicion, the operators in Nexus need to believe something disastrous happened to it, by accident." Valence said.
"Yeah. We can assume they'll review logs, and video and audio recordings leading up to the 'accident' too." Juniper added.
"Right. Any more intel on the vulnerability you found?" Valence asked.
"Yes, actually. After monitoring their signals, it looks like I can inject a payload to run a command that will take it off the Nexus network. To them it'd be no different than losing one. I'm still working out how to override their phone-home programming. I'm sure they lose connectivity to members of their nest often enough. When that happens, they must have a built-in wander protocol they default to, scanning for their network until they reestablish connectivity."
"That's great! Assuming you can figure all of that out, then we just need to determine how to obtain one without leaving any indication that we have it, and that it was done purposely."
"I'm sure you'll come up with something creative. And dangerous."
Valence smirked, silently conveying probably.
Valence paced the base for some time, while Juniper tinkered. They needed to understand the myce's behavior better. Their patterns, their schedule. Simply observing them would immediately raise suspicion, though. Residents in the Sink simply pretended they weren't there when they noticed one peering from a corner. It was best to act normal and make sure they didn't think you were up to mischief.
Not that anyone in the Sink was any threat to Nexus. Why did the myce even care about the residents down here? Surely there was nothing of interest all the way down here?
Anyway, they needed to keep up the facade that there was nothing suspicious going on. That meant the two of them would have to create a way to collect information about them, without revealing they were doing so.
The amount they'd already been discussing these ideas was careless. Their base was hidden, but not invisible. What if a mouce had been sneaking by listening in on their conversations? Their patterns were predictable enough too; they both came down this alley quite often, and if Nexus was suspicious of anything, they'd know to look down here. Hopefully that wasn't the case, their plan would be over before it was even solidified.
So what did this mean? A code. Like juveniles. . . A secret code they could use to communicate with each other, without revealing the true meaning of what they were saying to anyone else. It also meant they'd need to be hyper-aware of their behavior, what they said, and anything they did.
"Any progress?" Valence asked.
"Yes. you?"
"Yes."
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