I decided that, considering that I've had god knows how many people ask me this recently, that I'd put up all that I know/been told about Hovercraft Scanline. From searching the boards, I don't notice that anything specific has ever been written all in one place on this so here goes.
Oh and thanks goes to this site I was sent that has been holding the transmissions.
HOVERCRAFT SCANLINE
The basic story here is that a number of operatives who were sick of all the lies being told on all sides during the initial stages of the Truce, stole a ship from Zion and did a runner. For a while after that they were never heard of again, until operatives within the Matrix started hearing from these operatives saying that they were members of Hovercraft Scanline and asking them if they wanted to see the real truth.
Their truth comes in the form of a pirate transmission into the Matrix, through which anyone who's managed to get themselves a Scanline Receiver can view.
As they're always on the run from pretty much everyone, both in the Real and the Matrix, Hovercraft Scanline tries to keep themselves as low key as possible while having a disturbing knack of finding out many dirty little secrets that one might want to keep.
THE SCANLINE CREW
From what I've been told, Scanline has crew members on all "instances" of the Matrix. Each of them run things in their own way while trying to find out information from you and see if you're deserving of a Scanline Receiver. Now, I'm not going to give a list out of their supposed "active operatives" as such, as half the challenge is meant to be finding these guys when they're jacked in.
((a note on this is that the characters are all LESIG members, so they'll be jacking in at mostly US times I'd guess but there are meant to be some EU players in it too))
SCANLINE RECEIVER
Because I've been causing a stir with these little things, people have been asking me specifically what they do. I hope the above has explained that well enough to you. However, to go into more detail, here is the information I've taken physically off the Scanline Receiver.
