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Albrecht arrived a few years before 1999 and jumpstarted their technological levels with technology from the far-off future + contributed to spreading the Techrot via a “cure” that turned people into silent carriers.
That tank isn’t even fully technological. It’s heavily implied Scaldra used Techrot into designing it while foolishly believing they harnessed it. Which is a common practice pre-1999. Which is why it has a Techrot phase with Arthur mocking Viktor for “what he had been downloading”