The Callutrax Breach

The Callutrax Trade Guild, a subsidiary distribution corporation that worked with both Miig and Digo to facilitate interplanetary arms trade was a significant economic player about 100 years ago. With a tremendous fortress arcology in Sector 8, its influence and power were on plain display, a testament to both Enclaves' booming fortunes at the time. Callutrax itself had begun to spread its influence into planetary politics and had spent considerable resources on a public image campaign that made it a financial darling. However, the burgeoning success drew the eye of the Heiromats and a covert infiltration was staged to investigate its dealings, particularly with newly discovered human cultures.   SOC deployed a two man team to embed in deep cover at Callutrax and discover what institutional malfeasance was behind the too-good-to-be-true performance of the corporation. As they delved deeper, the operatives planted a series of sophisticated data siphons to extract incriminating evidence. However, their presence in the network didn't go unnoticed. A group of mercenary netrunners, monitoring the corporate data streams, discovered the vulnerabilities created by the intrusion. Seizing the opportunity, these hackers launched a massive cyber-attack, exploiting the breach to exfiltrate a vast trove of sensitive data. This data included not only details of the illegal arms trade but also a catalog of corporate secrets, strategic plans, and private communications of top executives going back decades.   Realizing this critical error, SOC scrambled several Rapid Response teams to eliminate these netrunners but failed to identify all of the deadman switch failsafes they'd rigged to the cache. The release of this data had catastrophic consequences. It revealed the extent of Callutrax's tangential but deliberate involvement in global crime and its manipulation of markets as well as shaming several Captains with allegations of smuggling and brokering trade agreements with aliens, a high crime even for such exalted figures. The exposure led to a massive loss of consumer trust and investor confidence, triggering a market collapse of interstellar trade that rippled through the economy. The Callutrax Breach also had far-reaching political implications. The widespread corruption required to facilitate the illegal weapon profiteering caused public outrage and demands for accountability. Hundreds of government officials were impeached, forced to retire, or murdered (many under the suspected guise of suicide), destabilizing Sector 8 even further and creating a lingering logistical bottleneck to transatmospheric and interstellar trade that depressed markets for a decade.