{"data":{"id":12850,"title":"ADVOCACY CASE FILE: Twor, Wynton: Smuggler","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/spectrum-dispatch\/12850-ADVOCACY-CASE-FILE-Twor-Wynton-Smuggler","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-links\/12850","api_public_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/comm-links\/12850","channel":"Undefined","category":"Undefined","series":"News Update","images":[{"id":247,"name":"AdvocacySmuggler_FI2.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/dvedm7gingk00r\/source\/AdvocacySmuggler_FI2.jpg","alt":"","size":1451575,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2013-07-19T05:26:18+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/247","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/247\/similar"},{"id":26463,"name":"source.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/media.robertsspaceindustries.com\/weozjmuuh3hwh\/source.jpg","alt":"","size":843046,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2019-09-19T15:49:32+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463\/similar"},{"id":27892,"name":"source.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/media.robertsspaceindustries.com\/w3o9r4zgppm77\/source.jpg","alt":"","size":900916,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2021-09-06T14:48:40+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/27892","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/27892\/similar"}],"images_count":8,"translations":{"en_EN":"Advocacy Intra-Agency Message\n\nTo: SC Norman Zendra\n\nSubmitted by: SFA Gannon Fields\n\nRE: CaseFile#bf234\nIncident Report: Suspect Wynton Twor (29 yo, origin: Croshaw System, Personal File: #CSW-5432_DW_212) was apprehended in the act of smuggling sentient cargo through the UEE systems. Suspect attempted to land on Kilian System using forged reg-tags. When confronted by local authorities, Suspect disengaged cargo hold and fled to the nearest jump-point (known as a \u2018dump and jump\u2019). Advocacy Agents intervened in Terra, disabled Suspect\u2019s vessel, and boarded.\n\nOnboard, they found copious data, modifications, and evidence of a life spent in the pursuit of criminal enterprise (specifically smuggling both cargo and sentient). Suspect was remanded to Advocacy Station Terminus until trial.\n\nNot ten seconds after I entered the holding cell, Suspect Twor wanted to cut a deal. He is desperate to avoid a criminal sentence of any kind and is willing to disclose everything he knows about illegal transport, his contacts, and criminal syndicate networks in exchange for leniency.\n\nHe claims to have intimate knowledge of the following subjects but refuses to comply further until he has a proper deal exonerating him from past crimes:\n\nSHIP CUSTOMIZATION\n\nTwor will explain the types of modifications the standard smuggling vessel will undergo, including but not limited to: dummy cargo holds and transport techniques as well as a list of mechanics that will make the conversions.\n\nApparently, there are very few specialty cargo holds designed and built for exclusively for smuggling. In order to elude detection, most smuggling holds are bought through legitimate dealers then converted to the smuggler\u2019s specifications. Modifications can include scan shielding and\/or the more expensive projection-shielding (making the contents appear as something legitimate on scan). For the smuggler elite, an underground engineer has been perfecting a new type of emitter that can actually dampen the effects of our scanners directly. Twor claims to have seen the tech in action but has not indicated whether he knows who this rogue engineer is or how to obtain his\/her services. If true, we should alert all Customs and Border Agents of this new tech\u2019s existence.\n\nFor a price, there are repair shops that can adapt almost any vessel for smuggling purposes. This process will effectively strip and rebuild the interior of the vessel creating hidden compartments and panels throughout the ship. While this operation cuts down on the overall cargo capacity, it does make it more difficult to find smaller contraband. Twor offered up one such shop as a token of good faith (Cass\u2019s Haul & Trunk Repair, Idris System, Personal File Attached) but claims to know at least six more.\n\nBLACK MARKETEERS\/CRIMINAL SYNDICATES\n\nThe foundation of smuggling is deception. Just as the act itself is the transport of illegal goods\/beings under the veneer of legitimacy, the networks that profit from this transport are mostly hidden among \u2018honest\u2019 businesses and behind upstanding personas.\n\nSmugglers make their living by knowing which businessmen, politicians, and law enforcement can be bought or traded with. Knowing the difference is the first hurdle for the would-be smuggler.\n\nTransacting with \u2018unconnected\u2019 employers carries its own set of benefits\/dangers. There\u2019s always the chance that the employer is an undercover agent or that they could hire the smuggler to transport extremely dangerous or unstable material. Conversely, if the smuggler is unable to complete their contract, the ramifications are slight. Their employer might put a bounty on the smuggler but it will be small and avoidable. For this reason, most aspiring smugglers cut their teeth on unconnected businessmen in border worlds before elevating to career criminal status: The Syndicates.\n\nAccording to latest studies, Criminal Syndicates generate twenty-eight percent of their revenue from the sale and transportation of stolen or illegal merchandise. Working for a Syndicate usually pays significantly less than independent contractors but you can rely on the Syndicates established network of corrupt officials and landing parks. While this may sound preferable, egregious failure to complete a Syndicate contract will almost surely result in an execution order. Not to mention the legal penalties are significantly higher if you are arrested in the employ of a criminal organization.\n\nEVASION\/COUNTERMEASURES TECHNIQUES\n\nThe transport of illegal goods through UEE territory is fraught with potential dangers. In Mr. Twor\u2019s own words \u201cYour ship is your life. You make sure that baby\u2019s greased in all the right spots. Last thing you want is something mechanical to fail you when you need it.\u201d The employed smuggler will have to evade police, scans, even other pirates.\n\nIn keeping with smuggling\u2019s theme of deception, the average smuggler will employ breakaway hard-points to \u201cnot show their hand\u201d as the Suspect puts it.\n\n\u201cI might have three, four additional thrusters on my craft but I ain\u2019t gonna show \u2018em off. I\u2019m gonna hide \u2018em. It\u2019s all about perception. I want some skiff to think they got my number before I break out the show, you know?\u201d\n\nAgent Assessment: I would suggest that the Advocacy consider his offer. As we all know, smuggling is a fluid operation. For every advance or countermeasure we devise, they seem to adjust and carry on as normal. This would provide an opportunity to indict many of the rank-and-file smugglers, kidnappers, and fixers that operate throughout the systems as well as provide law enforcement officers with modern insight into the smuggler\u2019s mind.\n\n. . .END FILE","de_DE":"Botschaft der Advocacy Intra-Agency Botschaft\n\nAn: SC Norman Zendra\n\nEingereicht von: SFA Gannon Felder\n\nRE: Falldatei#bf234\n\nVorfallsbericht: Der Verd\u00e4chtige Wynton Twor (29 Jahre, Herkunft: Croshaw System, Personal File: #CSW-5432_DW_212) wurde bei dem Schmuggel von empfindlicher Ladung durch die UEE-Systeme festgenommen. Der Verd\u00e4chtige versuchte, mit gef\u00e4lschten reg-tags auf dem Kilian-System zu landen. Als der Verd\u00e4chtige von den \u00f6rtlichen Beh\u00f6rden konfrontiert wurde, l\u00f6ste er den Laderaum und floh zum n\u00e4chsten Sprungpunkt (bekannt als \"Dump and Jump\"). Advocacy Agents griffen in Terra ein, deaktivierten das Schiff des Verd\u00e4chtigen und gingen an Bord.\n\nAn Bord fanden sie reichlich Daten, \u00c4nderungen und Beweise f\u00fcr ein Leben in der Verfolgung krimineller Machenschaften (insbesondere Schmuggel von Fracht und Empfindungen). Der Verd\u00e4chtige wurde bis zum Prozess an die Advocacy Station Terminus verwiesen.\n\nNicht zehn Sekunden nachdem ich die Arrestzelle betreten hatte, wollte der Verd\u00e4chtige Twor einen Deal abschlie\u00dfen. Er ist verzweifelt, um eine strafrechtliche Verurteilung jeglicher Art zu vermeiden, und ist bereit, alles, was er \u00fcber illegale Transporte, seine Kontakte und kriminelle Syndikatsnetzwerke wei\u00df, im Austausch f\u00fcr Nachsicht offen zu legen.\n\nEr behauptet, \u00fcber intime Kenntnisse der folgenden Themen zu verf\u00fcgen, weigert sich aber, sich weiter daran zu halten, bis er ein angemessenes Abkommen hat, das ihn von vergangenen Verbrechen befreit:\n\n\n\nSCHIFFSANPASSUNG\n\nTwor wird die Arten von Modifikationen erl\u00e4utern, denen das Standard-Schmugglerboot unterzogen wird, einschlie\u00dflich, aber nicht beschr\u00e4nkt auf: Dummy-Lader\u00e4ume und Transporttechniken sowie eine Liste von Mechanikern, die die Umbauten vornehmen werden.\n\nAnscheinend gibt es nur sehr wenige spezielle Lader\u00e4ume, die ausschlie\u00dflich f\u00fcr den Schmuggel konzipiert und gebaut wurden. Um der Aufdeckung zu entgehen, werden die meisten Schmuggelr\u00e4ume \u00fcber legitime H\u00e4ndler gekauft und dann in die Spezifikationen des Schmugglers umgewandelt. \u00c4nderungen k\u00f6nnen Scan-Abschirmung und\/oder die teurere Projektionsschirmung beinhalten (so dass der Inhalt beim Scannen als legitim erscheint). F\u00fcr die Schmugglerelite hat ein Tiefbauingenieur einen neuen Emittertyp perfektioniert, der die Auswirkungen unserer Scanner tats\u00e4chlich direkt d\u00e4mpfen kann. Twor behauptet, die Technologie in Aktion gesehen zu haben, hat aber nicht angegeben, ob er wei\u00df, wer dieser abtr\u00fcnnige Ingenieur ist oder wie er seine Dienste erhalten kann. Wenn das wahr ist, sollten wir alle Zollbeamten und Grenzbeamten \u00fcber die Existenz dieser neuen Technologie informieren.\n\nF\u00fcr einen Preis gibt es Werkst\u00e4tten, die fast jedes Schiff f\u00fcr Schmuggelzwecke anpassen k\u00f6nnen. Dieser Prozess wird das Innere des Schiffes effektiv ab- und wieder aufbauen und versteckte F\u00e4cher und Paneele im gesamten Schiff schaffen. W\u00e4hrend diese Operation die Gesamtladekapazit\u00e4t reduziert, erschwert sie es jedoch, kleinere Schmuggelware zu finden. Twor bot einen solchen Laden als Zeichen des guten Willens an (Cass's Haul & Trunk Repair, Idris System, Personal File Attached), behauptet aber, mindestens sechs weitere zu kennen.\n\n\n\nSCHWARZH\u00c4NDLER\/KRIMINALSYNDIKATE\n\nDie Grundlage des Schmuggels ist die T\u00e4uschung. So wie der Akt selbst der Transport illegaler G\u00fcter\/Wesen unter dem Deckmantel der Legitimit\u00e4t ist, sind die Netzwerke, die von diesem Transport profitieren, meist unter \"ehrlichen\" Unternehmen und hinter aufrechten Pers\u00f6nlichkeiten versteckt.\n\nSchmuggler leben davon, zu wissen, welche Gesch\u00e4ftsleute, Politiker und Strafverfolgungsbeh\u00f6rden gekauft oder mit welchen gehandelt werden k\u00f6nnen. Den Unterschied zu kennen, ist die erste H\u00fcrde f\u00fcr den M\u00f6chtegern-Schmuggler.\n\nDie Zusammenarbeit mit \"unverbundenen\" Arbeitgebern hat ihre eigenen Vorteile\/Gefahren. Es besteht immer die M\u00f6glichkeit, dass der Arbeitgeber ein Undercover-Agent ist oder dass er den Schmuggler mit dem Transport von extrem gef\u00e4hrlichem oder instabilem Material beauftragen k\u00f6nnte. Umgekehrt, wenn der Schmuggler nicht in der Lage ist, seinen Vertrag zu erf\u00fcllen, sind die Auswirkungen gering. Ihr Arbeitgeber k\u00f6nnte ein Bounty auf den Schmuggler setzen, aber es wird klein und vermeidbar sein. Aus diesem Grund haben die meisten aufstrebenden Schmuggler unverbundenen Gesch\u00e4ftsleuten in Grenzwelten die Z\u00e4hne ausgeschlagen, bevor sie sich zum Berufsverbrecher erhoben haben: Die Syndikate.\n\nNach neuesten Studien generieren kriminelle Gewerkschaften achtundzwanzig Prozent ihrer Einnahmen aus dem Verkauf und Transport gestohlener oder illegaler Waren. Die Arbeit f\u00fcr ein Syndikat zahlt sich in der Regel deutlich weniger aus als die Arbeit unabh\u00e4ngiger Auftragnehmer, aber Sie k\u00f6nnen sich auf das etablierte Netzwerk von Syndikaten aus korrupten Beamten und Landeparks verlassen. Dies mag zwar vorzuziehen sein, aber die unerh\u00f6rte Nichterf\u00fcllung eines Syndikatsvertrags wird mit ziemlicher Sicherheit zu einem Ausf\u00fchrungsauftrag f\u00fchren. Ganz zu schweigen von den deutlich h\u00f6heren Strafen, wenn Sie im Auftrag einer kriminellen Organisation verhaftet werden.\n\n\n\nAUSWEICH-\/GEGENMA\u00dfNAHMENTECHNIKEN\n\nDer Transport illegaler Waren durch das Gebiet der UEE ist mit potenziellen Gefahren behaftet. Mit den eigenen Worten von Herrn Twor: \"Dein Schiff ist dein Leben. Du sorgst daf\u00fcr, dass das Baby an den richtigen Stellen eingefettet ist. Das Letzte, was du willst, ist etwas Mechanisches, das dich im Stich l\u00e4sst, wenn du es brauchst.\" Der angestellte Schmuggler muss Polizei, Scans und sogar anderen Piraten entkommen.\n\nIn \u00dcbereinstimmung mit dem Thema der T\u00e4uschung des Schmuggels wird der durchschnittliche Schmuggler abtr\u00fcnnige Hardpunkte einsetzen, um \"seine Hand nicht zu zeigen\", wie der Verd\u00e4chtige es ausdr\u00fcckt.\n\n\"Ich habe vielleicht drei, vier zus\u00e4tzliche Triebwerke an meinem Schiff, aber ich werde sie nicht zeigen. Ich werde sie verstecken. Es geht um die Wahrnehmung. Ich will, dass ein Boot denkt, dass es meine Nummer hat, bevor ich die Show ausbreche, wei\u00dft du?\"\n\nAgentenbewertung: Ich w\u00fcrde vorschlagen, dass der Advocacy sein Angebot pr\u00fcft. Wie wir alle wissen, ist Schmuggel eine fl\u00fcssige Angelegenheit. F\u00fcr jeden Fortschritt oder jede Gegenma\u00dfnahme, die wir planen, scheinen sie sich anzupassen und normal weiterzumachen. Dies w\u00fcrde eine Gelegenheit bieten, viele der Schmuggler, Entf\u00fchrer und Fixer, die in den gesamten Systemen operieren, anzuklagen und den Strafverfolgungsbeh\u00f6rden einen modernen Einblick in den Geist des Schmugglers zu geben.\n\n\n\n\n. ...ENDEDATEI","zh_CN":"Advocacy Intra-Agency Message\n\nTo: SC Norman Zendra\n\nSubmitted by: SFA Gannon Fields\n\nRE: CaseFile#bf234\nIncident Report: Suspect Wynton Twor (29 yo, origin: Croshaw System, Personal File: #CSW-5432_DW_212) was apprehended in the act of smuggling sentient cargo through the UEE systems. Suspect attempted to land on Kilian System using forged reg-tags. When confronted by local authorities, Suspect disengaged cargo hold and fled to the nearest jump-point (known as a \u2018dump and jump\u2019). Advocacy Agents intervened in Terra, disabled Suspect\u2019s vessel, and boarded.\n\nOnboard, they found copious data, modifications, and evidence of a life spent in the pursuit of criminal enterprise (specifically smuggling both cargo and sentient). Suspect was remanded to Advocacy Station Terminus until trial.\n\nNot ten seconds after I entered the holding cell, Suspect Twor wanted to cut a deal. He is desperate to avoid a criminal sentence of any kind and is willing to disclose everything he knows about illegal transport, his contacts, and criminal syndicate networks in exchange for leniency.\n\nHe claims to have intimate knowledge of the following subjects but refuses to comply further until he has a proper deal exonerating him from past crimes:\n\nSHIP CUSTOMIZATION\n\nTwor will explain the types of modifications the standard smuggling vessel will undergo, including but not limited to: dummy cargo holds and transport techniques as well as a list of mechanics that will make the conversions.\n\nApparently, there are very few specialty cargo holds designed and built for exclusively for smuggling. In order to elude detection, most smuggling holds are bought through legitimate dealers then converted to the smuggler\u2019s specifications. Modifications can include scan shielding and\/or the more expensive projection-shielding (making the contents appear as something legitimate on scan). For the smuggler elite, an underground engineer has been perfecting a new type of emitter that can actually dampen the effects of our scanners directly. Twor claims to have seen the tech in action but has not indicated whether he knows who this rogue engineer is or how to obtain his\/her services. If true, we should alert all Customs and Border Agents of this new tech\u2019s existence.\n\nFor a price, there are repair shops that can adapt almost any vessel for smuggling purposes. This process will effectively strip and rebuild the interior of the vessel creating hidden compartments and panels throughout the ship. While this operation cuts down on the overall cargo capacity, it does make it more difficult to find smaller contraband. Twor offered up one such shop as a token of good faith (Cass\u2019s Haul & Trunk Repair, Idris System, Personal File Attached) but claims to know at least six more.\n\nBLACK MARKETEERS\/CRIMINAL SYNDICATES\n\nThe foundation of smuggling is deception. Just as the act itself is the transport of illegal goods\/beings under the veneer of legitimacy, the networks that profit from this transport are mostly hidden among \u2018honest\u2019 businesses and behind upstanding personas.\n\nSmugglers make their living by knowing which businessmen, politicians, and law enforcement can be bought or traded with. Knowing the difference is the first hurdle for the would-be smuggler.\n\nTransacting with \u2018unconnected\u2019 employers carries its own set of benefits\/dangers. There\u2019s always the chance that the employer is an undercover agent or that they could hire the smuggler to transport extremely dangerous or unstable material. Conversely, if the smuggler is unable to complete their contract, the ramifications are slight. Their employer might put a bounty on the smuggler but it will be small and avoidable. For this reason, most aspiring smugglers cut their teeth on unconnected businessmen in border worlds before elevating to career criminal status: The Syndicates.\n\nAccording to latest studies, Criminal Syndicates generate twenty-eight percent of their revenue from the sale and transportation of stolen or illegal merchandise. Working for a Syndicate usually pays significantly less than independent contractors but you can rely on the Syndicates established network of corrupt officials and landing parks. While this may sound preferable, egregious failure to complete a Syndicate contract will almost surely result in an execution order. Not to mention the legal penalties are significantly higher if you are arrested in the employ of a criminal organization.\n\nEVASION\/COUNTERMEASURES TECHNIQUES\n\nThe transport of illegal goods through UEE territory is fraught with potential dangers. In Mr. Twor\u2019s own words \u201cYour ship is your life. You make sure that baby\u2019s greased in all the right spots. Last thing you want is something mechanical to fail you when you need it.\u201d The employed smuggler will have to evade police, scans, even other pirates.\n\nIn keeping with smuggling\u2019s theme of deception, the average smuggler will employ breakaway hard-points to \u201cnot show their hand\u201d as the Suspect puts it.\n\n\u201cI might have three, four additional thrusters on my craft but I ain\u2019t gonna show \u2018em off. I\u2019m gonna hide \u2018em. It\u2019s all about perception. I want some skiff to think they got my number before I break out the show, you know?\u201d\n\nAgent Assessment: I would suggest that the Advocacy consider his offer. As we all know, smuggling is a fluid operation. For every advance or countermeasure we devise, they seem to adjust and carry on as normal. This would provide an opportunity to indict many of the rank-and-file smugglers, kidnappers, and fixers that operate throughout the systems as well as provide law enforcement officers with modern insight into the smuggler\u2019s mind.\n\n. . .END FILE"},"links_count":0,"comment_count":77,"created_at":"2013-01-09T00:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"13 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-04-28 05:18:51","valid_relations":["images","links","translations"],"prev_id":12849,"next_id":12851}}