On the way to the station, Quinten passes you all his commlink. Unless you want to have a go at hacking it while he's looking, the device is pretty much locked except for its built-in biometric scanners: the device is capable of doing fingerprints and retina scans (among other things, no doubt). The elf explains that, according to his sources, the armory-safe in which your gear has been stored is an old model but it was a very good one. "Its biometric authentication system is supposedly nearly impossible to fool, certainly with anything we have at our immediate disposal. Far ahead of its time when it was built. It's also so well linked to the lock that commanding the thing to open without valid biometric input won't work. And unless we use some heavy tools and take a lot of time making a lot of noise, brute force is pointless.
BUT, luckily, the thing's firmware is likely to be very outdated. While we won't be able to fool the scanner into believing we match the sergeant's prints, it shouldn't be too difficult for Black Panther to insert new sets of biometrics into the safe's programming. Provided, of course, you make it accessible to hacking, for which we you have the tools."
