Originally Posted by
FGRSentinel
You know how there's random items scattered around the planet/station and how a bunch of stuff has a serial number on it? As far as I can tell, it's basically the same as with the paper scraps onwards: you read a paper scrap and it tells you a folder of color X with label Y is in location Z. You collect the folder and search through it, revealing that Disk/Terminal A is in location B and that the decryption code is C. You get the disk and decrypt it and, I think, there's a chance that it reveals that an item of type D in location E with serial number F is important, so someone has to get it and bring it up to Almayer for the full DEFCON points reward. This is going off the fact that in one test a disk was retrieved and decoded, then ARES reported that a "new lead" was discovered, informing the Marines that they needed to locate a health scanner in Big Red's hospital with a specific serial number.