[dragoon500ly]

Last time I got into this, there was a serious flame war in PM...

IMHO, Damocles would have been hooked up to only receive downloads from NORAD, I sincerely doubt that any experimental computer would have been allowed to transmit over secure communications, especially with any connection to nuclear forces.

I have never been happy with this module. Don't like it, feel that it's premise is weak and lacking a realistic basis. Your views may vary and all power to you.

The issue, as I see it, is how Damocles would be used to give orders to Project/Snake Eaters in the field, the only way I can see this is if Damocles is provided encryption keys and passwords to access the team's security commo. Provided the correct protocols are provided, then Damocles can be used to give orders to the field teams. However, these orders would have to follow the established format, hence the orders directing the team to search for a nuclear warhead at a certain lat/long should have warned the team that their commo was comprised since the team's AutoNavs do not provide lat/long info.

If a newly awakened Snake Eater team, tried contacting their B-Team and had no response, but someone identifying itself as the C-Team comes up on a known freq, with matching encryption, provides a correct password to 'confirm' it's I'D and advises the ODA that SIGINT reports a possible Morrow team at grid xxx/nutty, and orders the ODA to conduct a reconnaissance, but not to contact, why would the ODA question this order? It's been authenticated, and matches the ODA's pre-War planning.