Report M.Dashwood
Upon arrival at Fort Leon, a team was dispatched to scout the area. The team encountered tribes-people wearing bomb collars, which were found to be controlled by Bunker Fortitude. Recons also found potential bedded in enemies, and learned of a force headed towards some of the farmland used to feed the 500.
During the evening the relay dish was attacked and temporarily disabled. The enemy forces were dealt with and the dish repaired. Engineers have noted that the relay dish equipment was old and in need of updating.
The situations were discussed and it was decided to send two missions out the next day, one in the morning, there was an area that the scientists wished to recover samples from, and the second would meet the incoming enemy force, which was on course to arrive in the afternoon.
The team left in the morning and headed towards map reference M9, in an irradiated area. The sample retrieval was successful. During the mission FEF operatives encountered enemies found to be using 10 year old bunker tech, which it was discovered had been provided by the individual known as Gideon.
A machine was also discovered which was sending date from the outside, into the bunker on an unofficial channel. It seemed that Gideon had been in contact with someone on the inside, which we believed to be traitors. The FEF forces were able to ascertain where the signal was being sent to, and the co-ordinates were sent to the bunker, who dispatched security to the location and dealt with the matter internally.
It was learned that Gideon was an AI, possibly created by AICE. With what we learned about Dictate 24, which will be described later in this report, Gideon would have been created to counter the council’s decision to suppress the Dictate.
A reporter had been sent to the surface with the FEF to document surface activities. On Saturday the reporter, Sophie Jones, divulged the real reason for her presence, dictate 24.
Dictate 24 declared that a council member could only hold office for 18 months. This was in order to prevent councillors from using their positions to further their own interests. This dictate had been suppressed, and the FEF, learning the truth, agreed to assist the ASCII reporter in divulging this information to the bunker. In order to offer some stability after the disruption this revelation would cause, a timeline for council elections was proposed and the FEF also put operatives forward for the council positions.
The FEF also learned that Lucas Miller, the Medic Council Member had been kidnapped by Fortitude. On Sunday a large team was dispatched to rescue Surgeon Miller. Whilst this operation was underway Fort Leon was able to listen in to the bunker’s internal security radio, and discover that troops were being dispatched to that location. Some of the rebellion was also witnessed through this channel.
The FEF were ultimately unsuccessful with the rescue attempt of Surgeon Miller, with Fortitude willing to murder him rather than risk losing their captive.
The rest of the FEF forces were allocated to deal with what they called a Witch. This mission was successful and the Witch was effectively dealt with.
Addendums
Fortitude
On the 2nd night of the operation 2 residents of Fortitude were discovered and captured. The tale they told was very grim. The details here are as was told to the bureaucracy but the Fortitude citizen had only old notes and rumours quietly learned from a very careful, small underground rebellious faction.
Around 70 years ago Fortitude was led like Ascendant, with the 5 council members and an AI overseeing the bunker. Strangers visited the bunker, and with them they brought the idea of change. That Bureaucrats and Scientist were unnecessary, that democracy was detrimental to the running of a bunker, that only strength mattered. After a short conflict of around a week, the council had been removed, and instead the Military Councillor stood as lone leader of Fortitude. This has continued, with the appointment being held for life, and the successor being a solider. Science and bureaucracy have been banned, the only professions allowed are Military, Engineering or Medic. People who can not work are evicted. A citizen has 5 days to recover from an illness or injury. If they can not return to work after this they are put onto reduced rations. If they cannot work after an additional short period then they are evicted on to the surface with no assistance. Residents are not paid. They work or they are left outside to die.
There is a small, cautious group of dissenters who have heard that Ascendant do things differently, that feed, care for and pay their workers. The aim for this particular escape was to reach the FEF and to hopefully send back word that the rumours were true.
An additional story was that the visitors had been from another vault, where the Military led, and that they had visited other vaults and changed their government structures too.