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Difficulty: Medium Supervisors: Executive Officer, Commanding Officer Rank: Ensign Duties: Collect intel and decrypt it. Lower the DEFCON level. Guides: Defcon Unlock Requirements: Six hours as any squad role. Detailed Description: Your job is to assist the marines in collecting intelligence related to the current operation to better inform command of their opposition. You are in charge of gathering any data disks, folders, and notes you may find on the operational grounds in order to decrypt any data in order to further the DEFCON status. |__________| |
"Military Intelligence is a contradiction in terms." - Groucho Marx
Overview
Good job Intelligence Officer (IO). Seems you're now in the position of scouring the Area of Operations and securing any intelligence you find for the brass! Got yourself the rank of Ensign, a nice sidearm, some fancy equipment and have gotten the job of collecting all the incriminating evidence, sorting it all and decoding everything you find. High Command wants you to collect enough intelligence in the area to warrant them to lower the DEFCON threat level to give your battalion some extra fire power. Stay in communication gathering Intelligence on the Intelligence Channel (:z) to better organize your search. Get to it Ensign, that threat level isn't gonna lower itself!
Intelligence Officer Area
The intelligence officer has their unique area where they decode and catalog all the data they have. Whether it would be an item, scrap of paper or folder, you'll need to process them and put them into storage to be safely accounted for.
In this area you'll be greeted with your information finding equipment in your locker, the computer lab where you'll decode disks and a place to store all that precious information. Those computers will need disks and passwords to be decoded and you are the prime candidate to search and retrieve them.
Intelligence Officer Equipment Vendor
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Documents/Data retrieval.
Listed below are the items of importance hidden about the Area of Operations. You're gonna need to find them and more then likely bring them back to the ship's storage for safe keeping.
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A piece of paper located somewhere on the map. It can be found on the ground, on tables, inside filing cabinets, or inside lockers. Paper scraps take about 2 seconds to analyze while progress reports take about 5 seconds, providing you with the location of a folder. You will be indicated whether it should be returned to the Almayer. Once on the Almayer place them on the racks in the computer lab. |
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A folder located somewhere on the map. It can be found on the ground, on tables, cabinets, or inside lockers. It takes about 10 seconds to analyze, providing you with the location of a data disk and its encryption key. You should return it to the Almayer.Once on the Almayer place them on the racks in the computer lab. |
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A floppy disk located somewhere on the map. It can be found on the ground, on tables, or inside lockers. Return it to the Almayer so that someone with the disk's decryption key can decrypt it in the universal disk reader, potentially providing you with an item to retrieve or a console to analyze. Once the data has been scanned place them on the racks in the computer lab. |
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Scattered around the Area of Operations will be technical manuals. Once read through, will lead directly to an item retrieval clue. They, along with all data items contribute to DEFCON and should be stored in the Computer Storage area. |
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A computer located in certain areas of the map. They can be found in rooms of importance and require a password from a decrypted Data Disk. Once the correct password is used, information from the terminal will be sent back towards the ship, increasing the intelligence gathered. |
Item Retrieval
Sometimes when uploading data disks or data terminals, ARES will occasionally ask you to retrieve items with specific serial code numbers. You can examine items to see what their serial code is.
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An item that ARES may ask you to retrieve with a special serial code number on it. Simply secure the item in the computer storage area for it to contribute to DEFCON. |
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An item that ARES may ask you to retrieve with a special serial code number on it. Simply secure the item in the computer storage area for it to contribute to DEFCON. |
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A disk of data containing one of the administration authentication codes necessary to lift the lockdown. Typically found in administrative areas and must be used in a pair at the lockdown override terminal. Found on CORSAT. |
Retrieval of Research Assets.
The Company has promised to pay High Command to lower the DEFCON threat level, if your researchers manage to identify any lost research assets from the colony.
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A research note left behind by a scientist from the colony. Bring them to the researcher on-board the Almayer. |
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A box containing up to six vials. These might contain the results of chemical research from the colony. Bring them to the researcher on-board the Almayer so they can identify it. |
Search & Retrieve
This is a very simple task. You search for documents, you retrieve the document and you store them into storage. Sounds easy right? Well it is. The hard part of this job is that you're gonna usually be alone out there, with little to no support if you're hunting for Intel alone.
Documents and objects of interest will be scattered all over the area of operations. Whether they're in lockers, on the floor or anywhere in buildings, it's up to you to find them all. Your trusty data detector will help you find these items with ease. It'll help you detect anything worth bring back to the Almayer for processing and storage.
Items in safes can not be open with C4 or Thermite.
Cataloging and sorting data
When you've been gathering folders, scraps of paper or anything in the field that is considered valuable to DEFCON. It is important to sort out what you've read through and what needs to be read through.
It is recommended that all intel items requiring processing be put in Storage and processed intel items in the High-Sec Storage.
Disks should also be sorted into encrypted and decrypted piles so as not to waste efforts on finished tasks.
If you have lost track of what is left to retrieve, open the IC > View objective clues tab.
A key objective is to find decryption disks in order to reduce the DEFCON. In order to do that,
1. Read all the scraps.
2. Check if you have the folders ship-side already. If not, broadcast the clues to the Intelligence chat to any planet-side IOs to retrieve them.
3. Once the right folder is retrieved, read it and the decryption disk will be revealed along with its decryption key.
4. Check if you have the disk on ship-side. If not, broadcast the clues to the Intelligence chat to any planet-side IOs to retrieve them.
5. Load the disk onto one of the ARES terminals, enter the decryption key and continue with the cataloging.
Your Skillset
Resources
- A Supplementary guide to Intelligence Officer (In-Depth) by Seabass390 on 26 January 2020
- How To: Intelligence Officer by Soapbar on 18 September 2019