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>"If I have to choose between the remains and the equipment, which is more important? Who's remains or which equipment is most valuable to the client?"
"Hoooh. You will not have to choose; the extraction pack in your assigned equipment has more than enough charges to secure the entire team and all else that remains. In fact, that same pack will be your method of personal exfiltration. <span class="mu-b">All that is required is the time and safe space to calibrate the pack before you can send things back to the Urban layer.</span>"
"But. If you are forced to secure only one corpse, try to find that of <span class="mu-b">Captain Axel.</span> He will have the most sophisticated equipment out of the entire team as well as a backup of the collated data from the expedition." A heavy pause. Then he's muttering, more to himself than you. You can't quite hear it but...
<span class="mu-i">"... always was the truest, stanchest old chap in the world... shame I found out this way ..."</span>
...
Figures that the old man has his own reasons for seeing this through.
Maybe that's why he called you down for the Mission, someone to get it done and done right. Heh.
>"Were last known coords included in those final comms? I can't investigate if I don't have a location."
"Naturally. The team's final coordinates will be provided on your assigned navigation system."
>"Is a spare NVG pair included in that depth diving kit?"
There's silence on the line at first. Then a snicker.
"... You're a <span class="mu-i">moth,</span> LEAD," SILVER drawls. "And weren't you the one bragging about your 'superior sense of night vision' at the last Company party? Yes, indeed! That was also when you got stuck on the flypaper while you were half-drunk! Ha-ha-ha—" You are struck by the sudden need to fly right into a bug zapper and die. Of course SILVER would fucking remember that; he's got all the dirt on everyone in this Company, the sly bastard. "— ha-hah."
You hang up, you're real getting sick of this long-winded prick.
