Sam Lonnigan
Sam Lonnigan was a hired gun representing Samura Heavy Industries.[1] Edison Trent met Sam Lonnigan for the first time in Sigma-17 shortly after Trent purchased a large quantity of Boron from a disgrunted Republican Shipping captain.[2] Lonnigan was angling to purchase a shipment of Boron from Trent for a cool million credits, a deal which Trent failed to get paid for when Freeport 7 blew up. Lonnigan was hit in the head by a collapsing bulkhead during the attack and Trent carried him to the life pod. Lonnigan remained unconscious for several days during the journey to Planet Manhattan.[3]
History[]
Trent saw Lonnigan conscious for the first time on Manhattan at the beginning of Mission 2. It's possible that his incoherent jabbering was the result of the head injury and/or drugs from his hospital stay. However, Trent's later comment to Juni implied that Lonnigan may not have been too bright in the first place.
He later appeared again on Manhattan, this time appearing much more focused and determined (not to mention angry). He was holding a gun on Trent for the entire conversation, and claimed to have killed a man to escape custody. He stated a desire to escape Liberty entirely, and warned Trent that he should do the same.
We never got a chance to find out what Lonnigan's original angle might have been, because at the beginning of Mission 2, he was shot by security guys and Trent got smacked in the chest with a stun baton and was left on the landing pad. Lonnigan did not appear again until his face showed up on a newscast claiming that the LSF has confirmed that Lonnigan was Orillion, and that he was shot and killed trying to escape Liberty. Trent scoffed at the idea that Lonnigan could have been Orillion, telling Juni that Lonnigan "wasn't smart enough to be a terrorist, let alone lead them". He instead considered this announcement to be just one more piece of evidence of conspiracy in Liberty.
It is likely that the deal with Samura that Lonnigan was fronting was a scam, as the best price on Boron is 960 credits per unit, and that's at LD-14 on the other side of Sirius Sector.