If he expects some balking, maybe it's even rolled into that shruggable, forth right tone that accompanies his answer without more than a seconds paused between Danny asking and it coming out. The way he looks at Danny, looking at Steve with startling surprised, head on, like it's already the plan.

"No. Long as I can get the sat connection working, I've got everything I need."

The last part which goes with firming a large hand across the back of the laptop and the spool of wound cord.

It's not true. Not entirely. There were a lot of things he still needs, but they are all plates in the air. Spinning. Waiting. For links, for calls, for the meet, for Sang Min, for Hesse, for any number of small things to come back to home with some new detail he hadn't yet examined every side of. Pieces sent away early. Some new detail Chen Chi or Duran's girlfriend might told anyone who was currently working with either of them.

As for the rest. It'd be faster with a landline, to get into checking on everything for the rest of the night, but given his father's hate of computers that wasn't a thing he'd find waiting for him there. A sat connection would be easy to piggy back off of. Access from the base or the governor, whichever one was faster. Probably back channel it, on private military global lines first, until either of those two decided which way was up which would take much longer.