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Fintan nodded at the Liason since he got the answer he asked for even if it's a mixed blessing. They wouldn't be short the odd part with that much variance lying around. A regiment that might go AWOL might stockpile their valuables in the field hooray for having to fish out shiny oddballs. Corporate always knew who was selling what to whom it was their job after all. All the corps had their own set of booby traps so deep a department of intelligence must keep track of them all. He knew how to find them with some direction on what was in play and the corporation appreciated their discretion. Tank crews didn't appreciate shut downs because some part in their rig went turncoat. The corp 'appreciated' that all the neat stuff he was obligated to take from his techs were packaged and vetted to not burn out in research systems. Fintan took out his dataslate to record the data on the screen as well as his thoughts for the commander.

A note taking space posted to his commander accumulated notes as he listened. The ear to Alwyn added quite a bit to his initial thoughts, "Inventory is going to be oversize with a pile of factions bringing who knows what plugged into who knows where and a rogue trader to fuel yet more nonstandard modifications. Better to assume enemy forces are tinkering with the salvage in production-class facilities which would be extreme-value targets after they lose logistics load from the rogue trader. I think driving the trader out would likely cause disconnected forces to sport a raging hunger for the locations when we pressure the area if they aren't already aiming to be on top of one. I suggest aiming high on storage space wherever we put down stakes the combinations of incompatible tech has a good possibility of piling up until we can dismantle resources from them properly. Once I get the corp capability intel I'll come up with two IED profiles for vetting salvage and level of interest for field units. One with the assumption they've taken at least one factory to make high-value explosives. I'll have to refine it with field data later."

So there were captured manufacturing plants in the field and a lot of spare bits of communication technology in the hands of people that might be used to improvisational rigging. Not to mention all kinds of things might pop up in the field if a whole regiment planned on going awol. Or even if they didn't plan on it that's a whole lot of class III soldiers.

He added another addendum to his notes, "The amount of varied parts and salvage communication equipment doesn't instill in me the greatest of confidence that a hostile force won't be able to resurrect some small-scale form of orbital data. Or that engineers somewhere won't already be working on something for a backup plan if they are of the opinion they might not be able to hold the dish. I'll let the tech know to keep a lookout for the important bits of scaled comms hardware that's already scavenged."

Fintan knew if the commander had something else for him to do he'd make it known. Options were Fintan's forte nonetheless.