Starfield:Alternating Currents

	Help Louisa confront Zoe at the Trade Authority about the brownouts.
Given by:	Louisa Reyez
Location(s):	The Well Residential District
ID:	City_NA_Well02
Rewards
XP:	75
Credits ?:	Misc Medium
Additional:	None
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The hacker's setup.

Quick Walkthrough

1. Talk to Louisa Reyez.
2. Follow her to Trade Authority.
3. Wait for her to talk to Zoe.
4. Talk to Zoe.
5. Flip Junction Box 36B.
6. Flip Junction Box 45A or 47B.
7. Flip 101F topside, next to Athena Tower.
8. Access and download the files from the unauthorized computer.
9. Give the data to Louisa or Zoe.

Detailed Walkthrough

Trade Authority

Follow Louisa. If you lost her, you can find her outside the Trade Authority. You don't have to do this immediately after Tapping the Grid, she will wait for you.

You and Louisa traced back the power drain to the Trade Authority. She is afraid of Zoe, and asks you to back her up. Louisa has been to the Trade Authority three times about the power drains, but until now she never had any evidence.

When confronted by Louisa, Zoe excuses herself into her office for a moment. Zoe cunningly inserts herself into the investigation. She claims that it is not the Trade Authority that has been route electical power through her establishment, she has known about the power drain for some time, and wants to find out who is behind it. Zoe sends you to investigate the next junction box, while Louisa and Zoe stay at the Trade Authority.

Junction Box 36B

Leave the Trade Authority, pass Apex Electronics on your left, and the House of the Enlightened on your right, and turn left before you are at Kay's House. Go through the passage with the red exit sign above it. Go left behind MedBay, up the double stairs, and go right before Jake's. There is a sign that points to "upper level". Follow the stairs. You will end up in front of a locked door. Pass the door to the right, go through the corridor, and up another set of stairs. Go left into a room with a spacesuite workbench. Leave through the door on the other side, go right, and follow the railing left twice.

When you follow the path, Louisa calls you on the radio and Zoe chimes in. To your right is a hole in the walkway. Jump over it, open the panel door and flip the switch.

Now Louisa wants you to go to junction box 45A near Apex Electronix, while Zoe claims that you need to go to junction box 47B that you previously passed on this level.

Junction Box 45A

Turn back and jump down the hole in the floor. Turn around and go through the red door in front of you. If necessary, open it with the switch on the column. Go down the stairs, turn left, go down another stairs, and go right. Pass Apex Electronics on your left and Trade Authority on your right. Go ahead and through the passage with the yellow markings in front of it slightly to your left. Go up the staircase, around the bend, and up the second staircase. You are in front of a leaning fence. Go left, up another staircase, and turn right. Go right before the room with the four breakers, follow the railing to the left, and follow the corridor with the big generator to your left. At the end of the corridor, go right and down some stairs. Pass the door to your right and approach the door in front of you. Louisa will radio now. Open the door, open the panel box, and flip the switch.

Junction Box 47B

Turn back and jump over the hole in the floor. Turn left and follow the railing right twice. Then go left through the door into the room with the spacesuit workbench. Zoe radios now. Open the panel door, and flip the switch.

Topside

No matter whether you went to 45A or to 47B, Louisa and Zoe tell you via radio that the next junction box is topside. (The dialogue will be different at each junction box.)

As the next junction box is not inside The Well, it is technically no longer Louisa's problem. But she and Zoe want know what is going on anyway.

So leave The Well. Zoe will radio you, saying Louisa is away collecting blueprints. Zoe offers to pay you to bring whatever you find to her first instead of Louisa.

Go to Athena Tower in the Residential district of New Atlantis. Left of the entrance to Athena Tower's lobby is a small green patch and junction box 101F on the wall. Open the panel door and flip the switch. Louisa and Zoe conclude that the source of the power drain must be on one of the tower's upper floors.

Athena Tower

Take one of Athena Tower's elevators up to Floor 7. There is only one apartment on the floor. Its door is locked with novice-level security. Inside the apartment, access the computer on the small desk next to the electronic equipment. Someone called Dodgson has been stealing money from GalBank for someone called Newman. Download the files.

Resolution

Return to the Trade Authority in The Well of New Atlantis. You now have to decide who to give the files. Rewards in XP and Credits are the same for both options.

Louisa

IF you give the evidence to Louisa, she will give it to MAST for analysis.

Zoe

IF you give the evidence to Zoe, she will keep some valuable information to herself and give an abbreviated version to MAST.

Notes

• The slate obtained from the unauthorized computer is named after a Ryujin cryo project. The unauthorized computer is stealing fractions of each transaction on ATMs in New Atlantis. This appears unrelated to the Ryujin project of the same name. The connection is unknown.
• The scheme to steal fractions is the same scheme at the end of the real-life movie Office Space, in which they steal fractions of each transaction their company performs.

Mission Stages

Alternating Currents (City_NA_Well02)
Stage	Finishes Mission	Mission Entry
0		(DEBUG)
1		(startup) Louisa Reyez is still working on the power drain in the Well. She wants backup before talking to the Trade Authority.
10		(Talked to Lousia, haven't agreed to help)
20		(Agreed to help Louisa) I've agreed to help Louisa Reyez confront the Trade Authority in the Well in New Atlantis. I need to make sure she stays safe.
30		(Initial convo with Zoe done, she goes in to back room)
40		(Zoe returns from back room, scene with Louisa starts.)
45		(Zoe/Louisa 2nd scene done, Zoe forcegreets player)
50		(Conversation with Zoe done, pointed to 1st junction box) Louisa Reyez is now working with Zoe Kaminski of the Trade Authority in New Atlantis to track down the origins of a power drain. I need to help them by shutting down certain power junction boxes.
60		(near 1st junction box)
65		(Junction Box 01 Scene done)
70		(1st box done, pointed to 2 & 3)
80		(near box 2)
85		(Junction Box 02 Scene done)
90		(box 2 done, pointed to box 4)
100		(near box 3)
105		(Junction Box 03 Scene done)
110		(box 3 done, pointed to box 4)
112		(For tracking purposes - all Well boxes done, player has been told to head topside)
115		(Out of the Well, directed to residential district)
120		(near box 4)
125		(Jucntion Box 04 Scene done)
150		(box 4 done, pointed to apartment) I've traced the source of the power drain in the Well to the Athena Tower building in New Atlantis. I need to investigate further.
151		(player has arrived at apartment door)
152		(Player mentioned door to Louisa, she hands over digipicks)
160		(arrived inside apartment, pointed towards evidence)
170		(done with terminal, pointed back to Lousia/Zoe) I've found proof that someone is drawing huge amounts of power to hack into GalBank's system in New Atlantis. I need to decide who should get the data: either Louisa Reyez of MAST or Zoe Kaminski of the Trade Authority.
180		(Evidence given to Zoe)
190		(Evidence given to Louisa)
200	Finishes quest	(Quest Complete) I traced a power drain to an apartment in New Atlantis, where it seems someone was running some kind of hacking operation into GalBank's system. I've handed over the data in the hopes that the culprit can be found.
1000		(All content done)
2000		(Shut Down)

Notes

• Any text displayed in angle brackets (e.g., <Alias=LocationHold>) is dynamically set by the Radiant Mission system, and will be filled in with the appropriate word(s) when seen in game.
• Not all entries may appear in your log; which entries appear and which entries do not depends on the manner in which the mission is done.
• Stages are not always in order of progress. This is usually the case with missions that have multiple possible outcomes or missions where certain tasks may be done in any order. Some stages may therefore repeat objectives seen in other stages.
• If an entry is marked as "Finishes Mission" it means the mission disappears from the Active Mission list, but you may still receive new entries for that mission.
• On the PC, it is possible to use the console to advance through the mission by entering setstage City_NA_Well02 stage, where stage is the number of the stage you wish to complete. It is not possible to un-complete (i.e. go back) mission stages, but it is possible to clear all stages of the mission using resetquest City_NA_Well02.