White says "Sorry to put you guys back to work so quickly, but we have some options here. Grant has both delayed and expanded his product launch -- into a three-day series of parties, meetings, and product launches -- thats launches plural -- starting in another week. Chi Violet here -- Skylark -- is a scientist who will come in handy on that mission...and probably a preceding one...and hopefully on a permanent basis depending on how things go. Beta Green 8 here is saying that Grant has been laying a lot of financial groundwork for this, some of it quite suspicious. He'll be working on getting you what you'll need.
But first, there's a mission that you might consider beforehand. Mr. Black?"
"Yeah. We have heard that the CIA has an informant in Barrington's largest factory complex, located in Tianjang in China. We know that they are not only producing tower components and mechs, but pieces of Barrington's hyperdrive. The problem is that they aren't going to do anything. Something about not messing with China. Probably wise for the government, but we're not the government, no matter what that bastard Shepard says. Blue, show them the intel."
"Gladly." (images pop up on the screens at your seats). Here we see a satelite image of the factory. You'll notice that its heavily guarded, and located at the outskirts of the city. Its workers live in town though, and they regularly send and receive shipments." The map pans out "here you can see the paths that goods have taken. It seems that this factory takes in parts from many others and assembles them for final shipment, as well as adds the finishing -- and more powerful -- technological touches. It is also the only site in China that ships directly to Dr. Otaku's base."
Black picks it up again "Our suggestion is that you find this contact, and use his information to disable the facility. We have a problem, though. We don't know who the contact is. We know who his handler is...here is his personnel file. His name is Dick Markum. 42 years old, African-American, 6 feet tall, MIT grad, moved on to the Marines, recruited into the CIA from there, top US field agent in China....oh, and he was in the same government enhancement program I was. They spliced in some Grue DNA. He has limited shapeshifting and mind reading powers...and we don't know where he is."
