Security Breach

[Adapted from "Pan-Galactic Security Breach" in the Star Frontiers Alpha Dawn Basic Game Rules by TSR, Inc. Adaptation by Layne Saltern]

You have been contacted by headquarters to investigate a breach in security at several top research centers. Someone has broken into these centers and destroyed valuable equipment. The raiders never set off any alarms and never were stopped by anti-intruder security systems. Your mission is to find out why the raids are taking place and to end them.

You have met at the Security Service building to discuss your new assignment and talk to some experts about why the security at the research centers failed. You are in the main computer room where data collection and analysis is handled. The chief of security and the head programmer, both Humans, are helping you. Also in the room are four technicians: a Human, a monkey-like Yazirian, an insectoid Vrusk and an ameboid Dralasite.

The programmer shows you a small computer cabinet containing thousands of crystal wafers. "The security information and command controls for all our research centers are stored here," he says. "We ran a thorough check of all the systems and couldn't find anything wrong. There is no way the raiders could have broken in." The programmer and chief seem puzzled.

What do you want to do?