Patron Encounter: Vax Datas CEO of Psziz Autonomous Autos

 Noble / Executive    Required Skills: Computer, Investigation    Required Equipment: None

System Requirements:  High tech (TL B+), High Law Level, Moderate to High Population

Target group: traders, 2-6 players. Rewards could be adjusted for non-traders: substitute a military vehicle perhaps as the reward for a more mercenary group

Players Information The group was beat to the sale of a lucrative contract for shipping  autonomous vehicles to a neighboring system at a huge profit. The CEO, Vax Datas, brings the players to his expansive private offices to proffer a deal that may even be better. He will give them up to 4 vehicles, and, depending on how well they do in their job, fill their passenger roster with high passage-paying sales team to go to the next system to start a sales group there. 

The job: fearing that a rival company is doing industrial espionage, he would like the group to gather evidence. His legal alternatives are slim: the high law level is working against them with a large set of laws limiting access to other corporations, and needs a group that is unknown to the other company. There is a safe on the 33rd floor of the office that has the information he needs.

Referee's Information

1. All is as it seems: there is industrial espionage, and the safe does have physical evidence of this. 
2. There is no evidence in the safe, but a more careful analysis and searching will turn up evidence. The reward will be higher if the players find this other evidence.
3. The safe only has the normal legal hard-copies and no evidence. There is no industrial evidence.
4. The safe actually has plans for the rival's vehicle, and Datas is performing his own industrial espionage. How the players handles this should provide a number of possible outcomes. 
5. The safe is empty and is actually a honey-pot trap: the players will be captured upon attempting to open this. There are larger plans between the companies and they have become pawns in the game.
6. There is no safe. Nor cake.

Other information: being a high-tech system, there will be all sorts of high-tech security devices. Due diligence before attempting any sort of break-in should be taken: floor plans, alarm systems, guard routes, etc. The high-law level also means probably jail time should they be caught.