The snooping prescence within the network had disappeared...and the old man smiled.
The counter measures had been effective. The fake blueprints of the armor that he had put out on the web would confuse the hell out of anyone... But...he realised, the adversary they were facing was not any ordinary Joe, so it would probably notice the faults quiet soon as soon it had time to look over it.
He looked at the monitors that gave him all the telemetry on the Ameristar armor. All of it´s systems were burned out...amazing. They would have to build a counter measure against that.
That is...if the crystal complied...he was worried...it had showed signs of awakening...and that could be dangerous...