>>5346264When you get back to base, one of the first things you do after the customary debriefing and after-action postmortem is to head for the communications center and spin up the hardened transmission backbone you had installed.
Money well spent, as it would seem.
With a little bit of tweaking, it’s more than capable of securely delivering the files you’ve gathered.
You give Gremlin a call, and he picks up after it rings a couple times.
> “Hey, Gremlin. How’s the snooping going?”“Well, look who it is! Heard through the grapevine that you managed to bust yourself out, congratulations by the way. Kinda spoiled the elaborate drone-centric escape plan I had been drawing up, but it was probably never gonna happen anyhow. You would not believe how shitty the battery is on commercial drones, you’ve practically gotta daisy-chain a bunch of them together to form something with enough juice and processing power to do anything useful besides recon!
Shit, I completely ignored your question. Sorry, it’s just hard to switch it off sometimes. Anyhow, I’m close to a breakthrough, managed to find an old copy of the specs for that nano-bomb. Been analyzing it for weaknesses, but no luck so far. Thinking of farming it out to a buddy of mine who’s big on demolition stuff, but I’ll probably keep it in-house like you asked.
What’s up with you, enjoying your hard-won freedom?”
> “Kinda. I’m back to my old tricks, trying to get spring cleaning done. Managed to dig up something I’d like you to take a gander at and keep safe.”“Cool, gimme a sec to look it over.”
He hums a bit of classical music as he pores over your findings.
“Jesus, you could get a real shitstorm brewing with this! What do you need me to do?”
> “Primarily, I want you to keep it safe. And…”You hesitate a bit, trying to figure out a diplomatic way of explaining the second half of your request.
“And….what?”
> “And you don’t hear back from me again within a week, I want you to leak it to every media outlet and imageboard out in the wild blue yonder. A deadman’s switch, as it were.”“I can handle that, but quit talking like that. You’ll make it, you always do. I’ve got faith that you’ll handle this; so give those bastards hell, alright?”
> “If nothing else, I’ll definitely make them work for it. Good talking to ya.”“Likewise, see you soon.”
