Intel Update - Oct. 31 - Black October

Hello again, everyone, and welcome back to the Underground. This is the intel update for October 25th through the 31st of 2026. Just a few days before the midterms, things have gotten quite busy, so let's get right to it. This week, the preparations continue for war in the Middle East and in Europe, while Europe itself remains tumultuous with everything from mass cyber attacks to political unrest contributing to the spicy times around the continent. Within the homeland, more deliberate and serious planning efforts are underway to prepare for large-scale combat operations of the future, preparations which are making quite a few people nervous due to the scale at which certain efforts are being undertaken. Many of these preparedness efforts are proper and genuine, but a lot are also probably intended to stoke up fear and panic, so we'll try to discern which is which. This is also the last briefing before those midterms on Tuesday, and yesterday's stock market volatility has started to indicate that possibly, maybe, the market is beginning to undergo a period of correction. We'll have to see how the opening bell on Monday works out, though. Otherwise, on an admin note, I myself have been developing a few plugins for ATAC, which is the app that I use to brief off of most of the time, so I will talk more about that at the end. Just wanted to mention that up front just in case you see some overlays that are new as we go along. Starting off with the strategic movement for this week, keeping an eye on the major military assets and deployments around the world is a helpful indicator of where things might be headed, particularly in the Middle East. This week has witnessed a sharp increase in logistical movement into the region, and most of the movements continue to indicate preparations for a return to the war. On the high seas, the USS George H.W. Bush is still operating in the Arabian Sea after returning from her short R&R to Thailand a couple of weeks ago. The USS George Washington is also in the Arabian Sea with the Boxer Amphibious Ready Group, both of which have been on station for some time. The USS Miguel Keith Expeditionary Sea Base 5 is somewhere in the region, as CENTCOM has listed her as part of the vessels taking part in the current conflict, but I haven't seen her on satellite imagery for a while, so I'm not sure where she is. The USS Theodore Roosevelt and the Makin Island ARG are still inbound to the region and are not yet on station. The Roosevelt took a brief pit stop in Japan, allegedly to participate in an exercise, but she also just so happened to pull into Yokosuka Naval Base, which is the port where the US has one of the largest logistical depots on that side of the world. As a result, there is speculation, it's not confirmed, but there is speculation that the Roosevelt picked up a lot of bullets and bombs and was essentially turned into a large floating FedEx truck so as to bring a lot of cargo to the other two carriers on station or maybe even to supplement the efforts to build up Diego Garcia in the Indian Ocean. There aren't that many cargo ships and merchant marine vessels that can transport explosives and all the things you'd need for war. We just do not have that maritime capacity anymore, so maybe they thought that the carrier itself would actually need to top up her supplies before heading into CENTCOM. Estimates place the timing of the Roosevelt and the Makin Island getting on station by mid to late November, which is obviously a bit too late if operations in Iran are expected to kick off any day now. There is also speculation regarding the Roosevelt's mission. The US Navy has not stated if she's going to replace one of the carriers on station already, or if the Roosevelt is going to be the ever-dreaded third carrier in the region for a bit. This has been theorized for a few weeks now, and we still don't have a clear idea of what she's going to be doing, so we'll have to keep an eye on that. As far as aviation assets, it's been a busy week for both the United States and for the Gulf states around the region. Rattling the cage on our coal mine canary, Al Udeid Airbase in Qatar is still operating as usual, with a couple of dozen refuelers and cargo aircraft parked on the apron as of yesterday. At this base, we get a satellite shot about twice a week, sometimes three times a week if we're lucky, one time a week if we're unlucky. So these aircraft can obviously take off between satellite shots, but this is still a good indication that as of yesterday, everything was pretty much normal, and they haven't started to evacuate yet. If we recall from last time, it took almost a week for Al Udeid to empty out with this many aircraft, so at least that is a planning factor. However much weight you wanna put on that is up to you, but this is the raw data. There were a bunch of aircraft there yesterday. Over in Israel, the Patriot battery that the US has deployed from Texas is still being transported and in place and should be set up somewhere, wherever it's going to go. My guess is that it's probably going to Ovda Air Base, because I don't think they have a Patriot down there at the moment, and the US has a large presence there. But based on the photos that CENTCOM has been producing and publishing openly on the internet, Ovda Air Base is the main base, at least for this round. We'll talk more about the wartime indications and warnings in a moment, but these are the tangible details that are present within the Middle East itself. Transitioning over to Europe, last night, an attempted coup broke out within Poland as factions led by Prime Minister Tusk and his opponent, President Karol Nawalski, battled it out in the streets. Due to the complexity of what's happening, a bit of backstory is needed to explain what is going on. As a reminder of Poland's complicated government structure, Poland has a president and a prime minister. The prime minister runs the government, cabinet positions, and handles national policy, and he is held accountable by the lower house in Poland's parliament. The president, on the other hand, holds veto power, makes some judicial appointments, and handles the military and national security powers. The president is directly elected by the people and can be overridden on decisions by a three-fifths majority in parliament. Against this foundation, Poland has been struggling with a bit of a constitutional crisis for a few years, mostly centering around the gaps in what the prime minister has the authority to do versus the president. No one involved has the authority to dismiss the other, and recently these disputes have become more serious, sparked by recent judicial appointments. Judicial reforms going back 10 years or so were reformed again by Prime Minister Tusk, who took office in 2023. Tusk started ignoring and/or rejecting the judicial branch's constitutional tribunal, as he does not recognize their authority. On the other side, President Nawalski did recognize their authority while also not recognizing the authority of the parliament to fill some judicial appointments. In March, the president refused to swear in four judges, so they held their own swearing-in ceremony themselves, granting themselves their authority. Cutting to yesterday, the complicated web of authorities gets kinetic. Parliament says the judges are legitimate and must be allowed into the council building, but the president and the court itself says they're not legitimate and that they have no authority. This devolved into a riot, and so far, there has been no real solution put forward as the standoff continues. This is effectively a fight between Tusk and his pro-EU factions who want to pack the court with their people and the president and judicial factions wh-Which are not fans of the EU issuing orders to tell Poland how to handle their own internal affairs. This has also devolved into a game of you're fired, you can't fire me on both sides, as there are legitimate holes in how the law is written. As it stands, it's really hard to say who's in the right due to these legalities, and as of this morning, the situation is developing. Poland will be important to watch over the next few days, and I hope to have more information on how these various factions in government are aligning. Right now, it's still too kinetic to figure out exactly how this is going to shake out. Apart from the chaos in Poland, preparations also continue throughout the continent as the war in Ukraine has continued to increase in scope and severity. This week, Ukraine has continued hitting Russian refineries hard, along with logistics depots and other targets far behind the lines within Russia. Zelensky has apparently chosen to disregard the White House and has continued hitting Russian energy infrastructure. On the other side, Russia has responded in kind, with Kiev being hit hard as well over the past few days. The mayor of Kiev disclosed at least three Russian drone strikes on electrical and water infrastructure within the past few days, which resulted in more power outages. Over the past few weeks, massive waves of drone attacks have become extremely common on both sides of the war, as not that much damage is being reported within the front lines on the ground. For several months now, a drone blitz of sorts has been underway around the region, with both sides launching massive waves of drones, sometimes in the thousands, every single night. Against the backdrop of the war continuing in Ukraine, a lot of European nations are more openly preparing for hostilities with Russia. Most of these efforts lie within the realm of civil defense, which we've talked about quite a bit before already, with many different nations now urging their populations to prepare for generalized threats. In short, the past week has resulted in quite a few nations around the world telling their populations to stock up on food and water and prepare for electrical blackouts. Most nations who have issued these warnings have done so very vaguely, without specifying a specific threat. Some nations, however, have clearly stated the preparedness goal. Japan, for example, is urging their population to prepare for earthquakes and other non-combat-oriented emergencies. On the other hand, some nations have been focusing their civil defense efforts around a Russian invasion, such as Sweden or some of the other Northern European nations. From a more wave top level, these dire calls for citizens to stock up and prepare might also not just be due to fears of the conflict expanding on the more kinetic front. This might not be due to the Russians, but due to the follow-on effects of Black October. Transitioning over to the cybersecurity space, many different random events have transpired since the PHP Shell vulnerability and the Emudra certificate scandal last week. Many of these incidents are very hard to attribute to one source or origin, and in many cases, the details of these breaches and vulnerabilities, they're not gonna be made public for a while. Nevertheless, it has been a very busy week within the world of cybersecurity, and many different sectors have been affected. In the financial sector, two days ago, a cybersecurity incident was reported at Binance, the largest cryptocurrency exchange in the world. This hack resulted in the breach of crypto wallets and the theft of almost six point three six billion US dollars worth of cryptocurrency. Separately, the gambling hub Polymarket reported a hack of their systems as well, which resulted in a halt of betting two days ago. Polymarket did not say what the exact issue was, but they did confirm it involved a security breach and that they would refund customers. In the world of big tech, yesterday claims emerged that Jensen Huang, the CEO of NVIDIA, had been targeted by a Chinese honeypot intelligence collection scheme over the past few years. The New York Times claimed that Huang had been targeted by Alice Huang, who was working with the Chinese Communist Party. Also, despite the same surname, neither Alice nor Jensen are related to each other. Both are married to separate people. Allegedly, Alice had been dispatched by the Chinese government to get close to Jensen through the Megaspeed Corporation out of Singapore, which side note should be a clue there's a lot of intelligence run out of Singapore. But anyway, everyone involved of course denies any malign activity. However, since NVIDIA is a holder of major US military contracts, concerns are obviously focusing on the CEO of the second-largest company in the world possibly leaking military secrets to China. Once again, NVIDIA denies all of this, but it's worthy of note anyway for future investigation. On the national security front, earlier this week, claims emerged stating that the recent targeting of critical infrastructure in France also affected the US military. If we recall, two weeks ago, several grocery store chains throughout France suffered a cyber attack which specifically targeted the internet-connected temperature sensors within refrigeration units in stores. The hackers were able to get in, turn up the temperatures in the refrigerators in grocery stores, which caused the food to spoil. This affected hundreds of stores throughout the continent, and millions of dollars of damage was reported due to the spoiled food. Well, two days ago, US Cyber Com stated that the same thing had happened at six commissaries within the US back in August. A malign actor was able to get into the IT systems used by the stores and overrode the temperature sensors to thaw out food at six different sites on six different US bases. The investigation into this latest incident is ongoing, so very few details are public. But in terms of the defense sector, the cybersecurity threats have had more tangible real-world impact this week. In terms of other more real-world impacts within the homeland this week, several fortification efforts are underway around the nation. And since we're trying to be a little bit more proactive and forward-oriented, many of the events within the US this week have strongly indicated what threats might be on the horizon looking into the future. One of the most high-profile preparations that has captured media attention this week is Project Fortress, which is actually an acronym that stands for Federal Operations for Resilience, Troop Resources, Energy, Supply, and Survivability. As with most acronyms that come out of the Pentagon, I guarantee you they started with the word fortress first and then tried to figure out what would sound good to make that an acronym. But anyway, this program was initially announced back in August or September, along with a handful of other modernization programs announced by the Pentagon. Back then, very few details were announced. We really didn't know what this was. But this week, we now have a more clear picture regarding what this program is all about. In short, this is a program to turn every military base within the United States into an island unto itself, so that every major military installation can be capable of operating independently of society in the-In the event of an apocalyptic level disaster. This plan would mandate bases being able to function for 90 days, three months, without outside electricity, water, fuel, food, medical, and other resources. This project is obviously expected to take years to get underway as the sheer scale of what is required to achieve these goals is not something that's going to be possible anytime soon. As one might expect, major infrastructure projects like this are going to cause a little bit of concern, especially considering that most people seem to be asking the question of, "Why is the military preparing for 90 days of no power, and should I also be preparing for 90 days of no power?" This is a very good question, and these concerns are valid to some degree. But we're going to have to wait until more paperwork comes out to figure out just how significant this is, because right now we don't really have more information beyond what the Pentagon has stated. Obviously, many people are a little bit concerned that the military is preparing themselves for 90 days of no power, but there isn't any effort to make sure that the citizenry also has 90 days of power in the event that things get crazy. So there's definitely a little bit of concern there, and I don't really know what to tell you. At the wave top level, at the very end of the day, preparedness is a good thing in the modern era of asymmetric warfare, and this effort should have been conducted decades ago. Uh, American bases should indeed be some kind of fortress, right? And capable of keeping the lights on, even under the worst possible conditions. You would kind of expect that. That's just kind of a national defense thing, right? However, in the context of current global events and the current concern that the major wars underway around the world might be expanding, the timing and PR campaign on this is suboptimal. Americans are concerned that the war might be brought to their homeland, and officials stating that the war might be brought to the homeland could make people think that the war might be brought to the homeland. On a more practical front, telling the American people that the military is planning for the civilian power grid to go down for three months is not exactly great news when most Americans are having trouble affording groceries right before election day. So I don't know what the Pentagon's thinking. I don't know why they felt the need to release this now, but that's what they did. This is also compounded by the other development within the Pentagon this week, when the Pentagon announced Operation Dragon Covenant, which is a large scale exercise to simulate the battlefield logistics of sustaining heavy casualties in combat. This drill kicked off this week, and the only purpose of this drill is to test out the ability for the army to dig mass graves and manage the mortuary affairs of roughly 2,400 casualties per day under combat conditions. So a lot of guys have been out at Fort Bragg out in some of the training areas with bulldozers digging mass graves and practicing, uh, learning that skill. Once again, this is a rather concerning development because the US Army has not done this kind of training operation since the Korean War. Of course, these things unfortunately need to be practiced, and it's a good thing that training is occurring on a topic that hasn't really been field-tested in decades. On the other hand, this is going to freak out a lot of people because the Pentagon is either unwilling or incapable of reading the room. A good portion of the country is concerned that we are poised on the edge of a major conflict, so getting a lot of soldiers to go out to a vacant part of Fort Bragg and practice digging mass graves is not exactly a great look timing-wise. All of these efforts are rather important to consider when we add in the recent firings within the Pentagon. Since the war began eight months ago, the higher echelons of the Pentagon have been gutted either by deliberate and public firings or by senior leaders taking an early retirement. Likewise, some of the firings and resignations have been legitimately needed for a long time. But on the other hand, other people have been fired and/or resigned due to the mismanagement of the war. It will be up to individual personal opinion to determine which firings were needed and legitimate, and which ones were political in nature and intended to get someone out of the way who opposed the war. The latest firing makes this discernment much more difficult. Earlier this week, the J5 for the joint staff, Lieutenant General Brett Sylvia, was immediately fired under unclear circumstances. General Sylvia was the head of the planning department for the Pentagon, which handles the more strategic planning for how wars are fought into the future. It is unclear as to whether or not this was related to the war in Iran, as the plans department at the joint staff level, that way up there at the top, is more strategic, planning for things like 20 to 30 year defense strategy. Something like the war in Iran would not be handled by the J5 at that level. This is planned down at the level of the combatant commands like CENTCOM. So CENTCOM is running the war in Iran. However, the joint staff would obviously be getting briefings, and being the J5, Sylvia would indeed be getting briefings on the impact of the war and how it's going to affect readiness over the next few years, such as our interceptor stockpile. That was Sylvia's department, and speculating a bit, he would be one of the main players that would be upset about arms depletion due to the war in Iran and in Ukraine. As it stands, we don't know what the reason for the firing actually was. Some claim that he was a leaker. Others claim that he was fired due to his, um, lack of concurrence on orders to go through with the war. Right now, no one really knows what the truth is, but the timing is exceptionally important. If you are on the eve of a major escalation of a war and your plans department head quits or is fired, that's not a great look. Of course, we must consider that all of this stuff, from the firings and mass grave digging to the podcasters trying to sell their sponsor's product, everything is filled with a combination of both genuine threats and concerns, and also attempts to stoke up fear so that you're gonna buy stuff. Figuring out that balance is going to be hard to do, especially if we want to make good decisions. More information is going to be handy, but I personally think that a lot of the Pentagon's efforts this week are intended for concerns that we're going to have way down the line, and it's not exclusively stuff that's going to impact the war in Ukraine or in Iran. What the Pentagon is doing this week does indeed make me a little nervous, but not right now. It's gonna make me nervous in the future, and I can handle that later on. And speaking of nervous, wrapping up with the Middle East for this week, the grand question remains: Is the war going to kick off again, or is this all an elaborate attempt to come to another quasi deal? At this point, I don't know for sure, but most of the indicators we have trend toward the war restarting soon. Although the window of when that might be- Is debatable because the US would be better off waiting until the end of November for reasons we'll get into. But as always, we have to remember the caveat that the US can always cut a deal and avoid military action, and that decision will happen at the drop of a hat, just like the memorandum of understanding. That happened really quickly too. The caveat to that caveat is that we ripped up the MOU 10 days later and started bombing once again, likewise with a little notice. On the Iranian side, they are preparing at a breakneck pace for the war to resume. Diplomacy is still continuing, and Foreign Minister Araghchi and Speaker Qalibaf have been going around trying to keep diplomacy on the table, but this week negotiation efforts seem to have faltered quite a bit, at least from what we can tell from the outside. Iran is still pretty much saying the same thing they're, uh, they've always said, "Go back to the MOU that you already agreed to," and the US does not really seem particularly interested. Around the Gulf, most Gulf States are preparing too. To say that the Arab states are panicking would be a bit of an understatement at this point. Many government officials in Saudi Arabia, Qatar, Kuwait, Bahrain, uh, the UAE, and Oman are freaking out regarding the potential for the war to resume. Diplomats from all Gulf states have been rushing to Iran to cut their own private deals to avoid getting targeted during what they think is the next round of escalation. Uncertainty is most certainly the flavor of the week, and due to the constantly shifting rhetoric from the White House, it's been rather difficult for everyone to predict what is actually going to happen. And in the absence of that certainty, everyone is getting ready. For what? They don't know, but they're getting ready. It is this uncertainty combined with the lack of a clear military strategy at this stage, we're eight months into the war and we don't really have a f- a clear strategy of where to go from here, along with other political factors in Washington, which make the war even more difficult to predict than before. If we remember back to the beginning of this, when the war kicked off, we had it down to nearly the day that the attacks would begin. This time, it's not that easy because we have eight months of elapsed time. We have eight months of expended ordinance, eight months of crew and airframe fatigue, eight months of trying things that haven't worked, and more importantly, eight months for the Iranians to prepare for what's coming. All of this means that we don't necessarily have the luxury of planning an operation from the most ideal footing, and here's what I mean by that. Let me illustrate this idea with a plugin for ATAC that I built this week, which I had to build from scratch because nothing else would get the job done in the way that I wanted. This plugin for ATAC shows the lunar illumination levels for any place on Earth. When planning military operations that are intended to take place in the dark, such as maybe an invasion or some kind of targeting effort, this is an absolutely crucial planning factor. We need to know how bright the moonlight will be on any given night so that we can more effectively plan for the use of night vision goggles. Contrary to popular belief, night vision goggles don't actually work in the total darkness. They need some ambient light to function. Moonlight is the best source of this, and for anyone who's been outside on a really, really dark night when there's no moon or it's overcast, chances are that even with night vision goggles, it's going to be pretty hard to see things, and depth perception is gonna be pretty bad too, which might be a problem for, I don't know, flying helicopters really fast and low to the ground. So generally speaking, military planning doctrine has a sort of stoplight chart approach to this problem. Green illume, or illumination, means good, and there's plenty of light for night vision goggles to function well. Red illume means that you're going to have a hard time with some tasks, and amber illume is the transition period between the two. You may or may not have a good night, depending on the time of night that it is. Of course, the illumination level is a very rough planning guide, and it's not gospel itself. If the US military could only conduct operations during a full moon, we would not be that effective, now, would we? So this is merely a planning factor for risk management. If you've got red illume, overcast skies, and you're flying down a canyon, this is going to present more risk than doing the same thing under green illume conditions, if that makes sense. Of note, green versus red illume is not just based on the moon phase. It's actually a computation based on rigid standards of the lux available to a night vision tube at a certain point. The moon angle and shadow length are also a factor, along with a bunch of other stuff. I went a little further and added the feature to factor in terrain as well, so if you're way down deep in a deep canyon, that will obviously be a lot darker based on the moon angle not reaching down into that canyon. So now that we know about illume, we can come back to Iran, and we can see that we're trending down toward a red illume cycle right now. In a few days, it's going to be pitch black for a few weeks in Iran, and if cloud cover rolls in like it does this time of year, targeting operations are going to be a lot more difficult. Obviously, things like weather and illume don't really matter too much if we're dropping bombs through the clouds up at, you know, 60,000 feet, but you get the general idea. However, if something more direct is planned, such as the seizure of one of the islands in the Strait of Hormuz, which has been theorized publicly by Pentagon officials for months now, the illumination factor is going to be very important. If you are looking for an indicator of the US not exactly being in a super great spot for operations to begin, this is one of those indicators. So if you wanna red team this or, you know, play devil's advocate with this idea, this is, uh, something for you and your favor. Lunar illumination is not great within Iran for the next two weeks or so. In fact, if we take a look at the calendar for when the next green cycle should be taking place, it's at the end of November, which is right around the time that the Teddy Roosevelt is supposed to arrive on station. I don't know if that's coincidental or not. I'm inclined to think that it's not really related, but just in case, it's worth mentioning. The Teddy Roosevelt should be getting on station right during a period of green illume, which is going to matter for the Macon Island as well, especially if there's going to be any kind of ground component to this. Once again, all of this can be thrown out of the window pretty easily, though. Looking back to the start of the war, I was also manually number crunching this illumination data to figure out when the operation might begin, and I was actually technically right. February 28th was indeed host to a green illume cycle. However, I was also completely wrong because the bombing started during the daytime because that's when the Ayatollah was at his compound in Tehran. So the war kicking off was trigger-based. Everyone was in position and waiting for something specific to happen instead of being allowed to pick the most opportune time for bombing to begin, which would have been at night to minimize civilian casualties, which was, at least a few years ago, a major consideration. As we can see, this is kind of an unplanned fire hose of information sh-Showing that planning operations is hard, and reverse engineering a military operation to figure out what is going to happen so that we can prepare for it, that's even harder. Tracking moonlight is just one factor among dozens, all of which help us get a better picture of what the plan might be. This process is made even more difficult because we like to think that the US is going to plan a military operation that has the highest chance for success. But there are other factors, too, which we might not be able to see from our perspective. Everything from weather and the moon phases to ego and emotions are part of the operation planning cycle. How much each factors in, well, that's gonna be up for others to decide. Down here among nerds like myself with our PowerPoints and plugins, all of this makes it really hard to have a firm grasp on what the future will bring. And in that case, we certainly have to hope for the best but prepare for the worst, whatever that might be. We can do the best we can and try to stay ahead of the curve and stay as ready as we can. If you are anything like me, you may be incredibly fatigued with staying ready and staying prepared all the time. I know I'm certainly quite tired with it all. But the good news is that I think that even as Western civilization goes through tough times, it's still not as bad as the Internet makes it seem. And even so, as times get more tough, that gives us more opportunities to do the right thing, which is always a good thing. So wrapping things up with the Ghost Net reports for this week. It was a little bit sparse from my location this time around for some reason. Maybe I had antenna issues. I don't really know. But I did manage to keep in touch with many of you throughout the week. Once again, I am really focusing on off-grid comms during this heightened state of tension and possible wartime escalation, and I've been rather tied up with working on some projects that should hopefully make life a little bit easier in the long run. Some of those projects have involved the creation of plugins for ATAC, which I have released this week for those of you who want to try them out and see how they work. I needed to build all three of these plugins for my own personal use, and since I was already most of the way finished, I figured I would do it properly and offer these plugins to all of you. The first plugin I already mentioned, the Illum plugin, which provides lunar illumination data for a particular point, which is very handy for those of you who need to do that sort of thing. I don't know if there's a similar plugin on the mill side of TAC. Maybe there is. I'm not sure. But this is my own version that's available to all of us on the civilian side. The next plugin is really simple. It's called Quick Search, and it's a simple search bar for ATAC. Surprisingly, there is no search bar that's handy to use within ATAC, so I had to build one. Also, this search bar will allow you to cut and paste coordinates much faster than the built-in go-to tool. So if you're on social media doom scrolling the war and you see some coordinates for a missile impact or something, you can really quickly cut and paste those, uh, coordinates to your clipboard and then paste them right into this plugin to snap your, uh, location to that site if you're using ATAC for, like, mission planning or something like that. It's very simple, but I think it was very handy, so I built it. And the last plugin is going to be quite helpful for those of you who want to take advantage of all of the mapping data that you see here, or at least most of it. This is the Ghost Maps plugin, and its sole purpose is to quickly and easily load in my KMZ files that I host on GitHub. You know how we get to the end of the day and I always say all my KMZs are available for those who want them? Well, that's a little bit of a hassle if I've got a couple of dozen KMZs. So now you don't have to go through the trouble of downloading each file separately every time there's an update. You can manage all of my KMZ files right from within ATAC itself using this plugin. You don't need a server or anything. I actually built this specifically so that I don't have to set up a server for everybody. So, so if you want to get started with mapping and understanding what ATAC can do for you but you don't have any data to start with, all you need to do is go to the Play Store, download ATAC, go to my GitHub page for the plugin, load it in, and you're done. You can pick and choose which layers you want from within the plugin. As one might expect, all of these plugins are experimental at the moment, and they will probably be updated over the next few days or so, especially as bug reports come in. But I wanted to share what I've been working on so it's less confusing when I bring up the, say, Illum chart for a particular area during a wire report. Once these plugins are more stable and have been out in the wild for a little bit longer, I'll do a deep dive on each one and show exactly what it does and also why I needed to build it. I have at the moment three more plugins in the production pipeline right now as well, and once I get to a good stopping point, I will have dedicated videos on most of these plugins showing what I'm trying to use these for. More to come on that front though. I'm not building tech plugins just for the sake of it. I'm working on some other larger goals and trying to streamline and modernize my own equipment and such. So stay tuned for that and give the plugins a try if you like. They're all free. And for all of my other research, all of my source material is on Obsidian as usual, sorted by each daily report. If you're more into simplified and resilient communications, my reports are also on my Nomad Net page, which might be handy to have in the event that Black October continues into Black November. Otherwise, thank you all for your support. I really do appreciate it. I could not have done or built what I've done so far without all of you, and I'm really thankful for that. So thanks again, and I will see you next time. And as always, fight in the shade.