5 minutes earlier.
[ Bryce: This is troublesome. Their cyberware data was wiped. The changes were made at the driver level.]
[ Bryce: Find a way to figure out who hired them.]
Even the Sandevistan came equipped with an invisible "black box" that technicians could read to make Braindances. The auxiliary cyberware used by ACPA pilots and fighter pilots was even more advanced.
The corporations continually upgraded their War Machines during wartime, and records of their pilots' cyberware data were an important source of information.
But because these systems were so complex, people capable of decoding the data and using it to improve the design were basically never available on the "job market."
As a Network Watch agent, Bryce's corporation naturally had the technical resources to extract the relevant information. But that was precisely where the problem lay.
The drivers in all this cyberware had been overwritten. Everything they decoded was gibberish-someone had modified the equipment.
Bryce could only turn to Lier and use more direct methods to get the information out of the deepest part of him.
When the name "Masamune" came out of Lucas's mouth, Lier returned:
[ Lier: Is that name enough?]
[ Bryce: Professional. Keep going.]
"Good. That's a great start." Lier placed the guns they had confiscated from them earlier on the table. "So how did you bring these weapons here?
As far as I know, these are all controlled weapons. There's basically no way they could get through security."
Most mercenaries' identities wouldn't withstand scrutiny. Getting on a plane might take only a little effort, but bringing along heavy hardware was a real problem.
Take the Malorian 3600 Super Submachine Gun, one of Scorching Knuckles' current ranged weapon prototypes, for example.
This gun was a typical Cyborg weapon: unless the user had undergone cyberware