SHD Tech

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SHD Tech (pronounced “Shade Tech”) is a shorthand for "Strategic Homeland Division Technology".

One of the Strategic Homeland Division's biggest advantages in the field is its revolutionary smart technology. Linked together into an intelligent grid by the SHD global satellite network, SHD Tech provides high-value, real-time intelligence for Division agents engaged in field operations.

Developed either exclusively by the Division's Research & Development department or adapted from military or commercial technological prototypes, SHD Tech is actually a catch-all term for all proprietary assets and systems employed exclusively by the Division and its agents. These include some of the most innovative augmented reality (AR) systems ever developed for policing or military actions: pod launchers, turrets, seeker mines and portable stations, to name a few.

SHD Network is the agency's core technology. It links numerous dedicated assets directly controlled by the Division - drones and other unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), AWACS airplanes, and telecom satellites - and piggybacks their output onto existing civil, commercial, and military networking structures (cellphone towers, WiFi hotspots, NASA and GPS radionavigation satellites, and so on) to create a seamless global web of connectivity and data.

This redundancy ensures the SHD Network's reliability in case of catastrophic emergency. This reliability is crucial: the network connects agents in the field to Division HQ and to strategic government decision makers.

Technology Usage
Common examples of gadgetry employed by The Division and their agents are pod launchers, first aid tech, armor kits, turrets, seeker mines and portable stations employed in skills. Division operatives possess Contact Lenses, that lets agents view their augmented reality heads-up display (AR HUD), which is synced to ISAC, and the agent's Smart Watch, all Division agents also carry a ISAC Brick which also allows the agent to communicate with fellow agents, hack nearby communication systems and computers, scan their surroundings and objects and using nearby ISAC server nodes to process nearby surveillance cameras, satellite feeds and local evidence to produce an ECHO which allows a Division Agent to reconstruct an event in near-real time.

SHD Tech is also used to reference more large-scale assets, like the SHD terminals employed in Last Stand and SHD Nodes, large scale servers that are scattered across the cities of the United States and linked together by a military-grade satellite network. SHD Nodes are vital part of SHD Tech as they provide the raw processing power and information that ISAC uses to deploy field equipment such as Turrets. The term "Division Tech" is typically used interchangeably with SHD Tech.

Any active usage of SHD Tech in the field generally always means a Division agent is in the area, unless the tech was otherwise abandoned. SHD Tech has a unique signature identifiable by other instances of SHD Tech, meaning agents can always tell when SHD Technology is being used in some capacity by another agent or is otherwise present on the scene.

SHD Network Sabotages
SHD Tech is susceptible to sabotage as shown in Washington, D.C., the Black Tusk destroyed both the primary SHD Node hidden in a decommissioned Cold War-era nuclear military bunker below the Washington Underground Gallery and multiple secondary nodes scattered across the city, including one underground near the Lincoln Memorial as shown in an ECHO. This created a catastrophic failure in the SHD Network, which as noted by Agent Alani Kelso caused all SHD Tech in a 50-mile radius of D.C. to go offline, this also cut off all communication with Division Agents across the country. The effects this had on other Division Agents is unknown except for a cutscene which shows SHD Tech, activating with its unique orange glow in other cities, also Agent Faye Lau in New York City notices her Smartwatch, come back online. However, whether the D.C. failure affected them on the same scale is uncertain.

SHD Tech also been seen being operated by enemy factions like the Last Man Battalion since their leader struck a mutual deal with Aaron Keener and his fellow Rogue Division Agents. The LMB were given access to the rogue agents' SHD Technologies in return for resources and have learned to replicate some, such as Med-kits, Turrets, Seeker Mines and Support Stations.

Meanwhile, rogue agents in New York and Washington, D.C. have been shown to be able to keep control of their SHD Tech after going Rogue and being disavowed, by disabling their ISAC Brick, which causes their SHD Tech to glow red instead of orange, this has since been used to identify a rogue agent in the Dark Zone.

The True Sons, a jingoistic paramilitary organization faction in D.C. also managed to replicate some SHD Technologies due to the presence of Rogue Division Agents in their ranks because they chose to join Colonel Ridgeway's cause after the city's collapse. Examples of these technologies include Defibrillators, Deployable Turrets and Riot Foam.

Some SHD technologies are even used by the Hunters, the most, intimidating and most powerful faction the Division agents have ever faced. Examples of these SHD technologies used by the Hunters are Jammer Pulses, Medkits, Armor Kits, Seeker Mines, Deployable Turrets. Hunters in particular have shown they have the ability to hack SHD gadgetry to use against the said gadget's original owners through unknown means.

List of known SHD Technologies
Here is a list of known SHD Tech which are used by Division agents as skills; during their campaigns in Manhattan and then later on in Washington D.C.
 * Armor Plates
 * Drone
 * Ballistic Shield
 * Chem Launcher
 * Contact Lens
 * Audiometric Earpiece
 * Firefly
 * First Aid
 * Go-Bag
 * Hive
 * ISAC
 * ISAC Brick
 * Medkits
 * Mobile Cover
 * Pulse
 * Recovery Link
 * Seeker Mines
 * Smart Cover
 * Smart Watch
 * Sticky Bomb
 * Support Station
 * Survivor Link
 * Tactical Link
 * Turrets
 * Rope Ascender

Appearances

 * Tom Clancy's The Division
 * Tom Clancy's The Division 2