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The most common installation is the Team Supply Cache.

Each Project Team has several resupply caches scattered throughout their operational area. Each cache is stocked with a variety of equipment, including ammunition and spare parts, as well as items of potential assistance to any survivors that the Team may encounter. The Supply Cache is intended to provide a minimum of basic supplies that will allow the team to function until contact is made with their Regional Base.

For security reasons, the team is not given specific locations for their cache other than that the locations can be called up on their AutoNav by pushing the CACHE LOCATION button. The team has been instructed that, to locate the cache, they simply drive to the point on their map and start looking for the cache. It has been hidden/disguised in some manner that would only have meaning for the team.

The cache is usually buried and once located, the team will have to dug the entrance free. The entrance is a stainless steel hatch assembly located on the top. Next to the hatch, underneath a protective cover, is a card reader (power for which must be supplied by the team vehicle). Insertion of a MPID card will unlock the hatch.

The hatch itself is a simple concrete cube, of varying sizes, but can measure from 2-8 meters on a side. There is no internal power. Like the bolt-hole, the cache is filled with an inert gas at a slight overpressure. This gas must be vented before personal entry and it cannot be replaced without special equipment. As a safety note, once the hatch has been fully opened, allow ten minutes to pass to allow any residue cyro gas to escape before personnel entry.

A manifest of the cache’s contents is located on a clipboard located by the ladder next to the hatch. Due to the limited amount of space, locating a specific item requires unloading most of the cache in order to find it. In addition to the team’s supplies, there will often be some team member’s personal effects, such as CDs, books, or items such as skis or SCUBA equipment.

The cache will also provide supplies needed by survivors, such as seed grain, farming and general construction tools and supplies, textbooks, how-to-manuals, spare parts for equipment such as generators and phone systems as well as medical supplies.

Finally, each team has access to 2-4 Emergency Resupply Caches. These contain issues of personal equipment and weapons, basic ammunition loadouts as well as heavy weapons. The Emergency Resupply Cache is intended to provide only combat-orientated and basic survival equipment.