Black Tusk Comms: Deep State

## Deep State

### Description

Kelly "Dancer" Kay shares her growing belief that the Black Tusk are being set up to fail by their employers.

### Speaker(s)

Kelly "Dancer" Kay
Izabelle "Callistano" Netzke
Jared "Bodies" Durst
Michael "Patriot" Barkley

**Callistano:** Come on, Kay...

**Dancer:** I'm not crazy, guys.

**Bodies:** Nobody's saying you are.

**Patriot:** *(murmurs)* Not out loud, at least.

**Callistano:** Barkley! Anyways, listen Kay. Think about what you're saying here. Look around you. Employing all of us for this long, all this equipment and firepower, the development of our drones alone. It's got to be a multi-billion dollar operation. Who in their right mind would throw all that money, all those resources, into an operation set up to fail?

**Dancer:** You guys don't think it's slightly suspicious that a group of what, four or five agents, decimated the most elite special forces on the planet in two weeks? They're not nearly as organized as us, as well as trained or equipped as us. Yet they always seem to show up at just the right time, to know exactly what we're planning and when. How the hell do you think they manage to do that if they don't have someone within inside knowledge into our operations?

**Callistano:** Kay, are you sure this isn't about Aurora?

**Dancer:** Of course it is. She was my sister. But it's more than that.

**Patriot:** Fine, let's say you're right. Why do you think it's our employers and not some spy who leaked the intel?

**Dancer:** Because if it was someone in our ranks, they'd just be making themselves a target. And what would they gain from selling us out?

**Callistano:** I don't know? Maybe try to get amnesty?

**Dancer:** Ha! Izzy, you and I both know the Division doesn't take prisoners. Even if the traitor handed Schaeffer's head on a platter, sooner or later, the Division will turn their sights on them. No, it has to be someone who's aiding the Division without letting either us or them know they are. Besides, the Division's been trying to project a "savior" image about them. It'd be a lot easier to make them out to be the heroes than black-clad mercenaries.

**Patriot:** A puppet master behind the curtains pulling the strings? You realize how crazy you sound? You sound like those crackpots online that talk about the "Deep State".

**Dancer:** You're a patriot, Barkley. It's your freaking callsign. You really don't think there are forces behind the scenes that put their interests before that of the country?

**Bodies:** Mmm. I'm sorry, but she's starting to make sense.

**Callistano:** Oh come on, Jared. Not you too.

**Dancer:** Finally, someone listens.

**Patriot:** Okay, okay. Again, let's assume you're right, that a shadow cabal is setting us up to be the fall guy. What the hell are we supposed to do about it?

**Dancer:** I don't know. I've spoken with a few others already. I'll put some feelers out, see if anyone else might agree. We can put together an 'unofficial unit'.

**Callistano:** And if you do? What then?

**Dancer:** We get answers. I don't care if the freaking lizard people that rule the universe from the hollow fucking earth want to set us up to die to fulfill their twisted agenda. I'm not about to let that happen.

**Patriot:** Are you talking about....

**Dancer:** Yeah, I am. We're gonna kill the Division and take over this country like we came here to do. But first, we're gonna kill those deep state scum.