>>5298402Not long after killing the rest of Cadmus’ operatives, you notice something concerning.
The jamming signal hasn’t dropped yet. Whatever’s broadcasting the transmission is still fully operational and presumably within the Devil’s Corridor.
Considering that you barbecued every other vehicle and shredded everything on two legs, the device or equipment responsible has to be stashed in the tank somewhere.
And if it is, but it must be pretty goddamn powerful to project such a wide-reaching signal through a foot or some of steel armor.
It’s a long shot, but it’s not like you have a whole lot else to do for the time being.
On a hunch, you carefully inspect the interior of the tank, looking for anything that doesn’t quite mesh with the post-industrial look the T72 is rocking.
You hit paydirt after sniffing around the tank commander’s station, and extract your prize with gusto.
Lodged under his chair was a slim white case.
Looks like it got thrown around a bit during your little brawl with the driver, but it’s still in good condition.
You clear some space on one of the few available surfaces, gently place the case down, and open it.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AhRNBBSxi_IJudging from the electronic screen, built-in keyboard, and GPS data it’s spitting at you, this has to be the device responsible for smacking your comms down.
You’ve never been a sig-spec or an expert in the various other flavors of secret squirrel shit, but this has to be what you’re looking for.
Thanks to Gremlin’s pointers and the lessons you learned from trashing the Venezuelan militaries supply chain, you’re able to bypass every security program that rears its ugly head.
Sure wasn’t easy either, whoever programmed this thing really wanted it to be as tamper-proof as possible.
Once you’re through the main layers of security, you start delving through the file path, looking for anything that may be of interest to the Squad.
At first glance, there’s a metric fuckton of data to sift through. It’s almost like the damn thing was programmed to keep a backup record of its movements.
Maybe as a security / retrieval measure, or maybe it helps propagate the signal. Either way, it’s a potential goldmine for the eggheads back at Belle Reve.
And that’s not counting how they’ll salivate over having a bonafide piece of enemy tech to pick apart and potentially reverse-engineer.
Just as you start to pat yourself on the back in celebration of your find, disaster strikes.
A security alert pops up, notifying you of an imminent EM pulse that’ll purge of all system data and fry the jammer beyond all repair.
A mental timer starts ticking down in your head and you curse loudly.
Looks like Cadmus got the hint, decided to cut their losses, and are well and truly pulling the plug on this little caper.
