The mission text only says a trooper needs to spend a short skill to collect a beacon. It doesn’t mention a need for a specialist. Later on in the mission description it identifies which specialists may accomplish the objectives, but this is the basic boiler plate specialist preamble that’s in almost all the missions. So, do you need a specialist to initially collect the beacon? Sent from my iPhone using Tapatalk
Back at ITS8 you needed an specialist to activate a console so the beacon could be grabbed by *any* troop. At ITS 9 they removed the console... I assume it's an artifact (as usual)