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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 4577524" data-attributes="member: 54707">Modern/Espionage/Military Mission/Superhero – HMS Valence: (I wrote this scenario as a combination mission for the games Enigma and Hammerstroke.) During the latter stages of the Second World War the British converted an older Destroyer/Convoy Escort vessel for a secret series of joint experiments in the North Atlantic to be undertaken alongside the US Navy. The stated purpose of this experiment, according to later declassified documents, was to produce a hybrid tracking vessel which would be able to combine both new Radar and Sonar advances into a single unified form of detection apparatus which could provide a floating shield wall of vessels that could intercept both airborne and seaborne threats long before they ever reached Allied territories. However there were those who believed the vessel, originally named the Sea Spritz, and later rechristened the Valence, actually had a far more impressive, important, and secretive function. Perhaps even an insidious one.While operating in the North Atlantic in 1944 there was a reported incident in which it was stated that a short-wave radio listening station in Hong Kong intercepted a message, supposedly from the Executive Officer of the Valence (officially operating on the other side of the world) that said simply – “Co-Valence confirmed, all hands lost until further notice… End transmission.”The Valence was found five days later, adrift in the Indian Ocean, by a colonial supply ship headed for Bombay. The Valence was completely intact, but there was no sign of crew aboard, and no sign a crew had ever been aboard. There was no fuel aboard ship. There were no stock or supplies for crewmembers of any kind. The only indication of human habitation was the fact that a note was found in the Captain’s private quarters, dated May 31st, 1916 on which was scrawled in an almost illegible hand, “The future is the past as yet unwritten.” The ship was towed to Bombay where it rested at port and under guard until after the end of the war. Then it was briefly remanned and sailed to England where an official enquiry was conducted and thereafter it was mothballed and the Admiralty sealed all prior records and logs regarding the ship and her mission(s).In December of 1951 the ship was supposedly refurbished and brought out of retirement by a private concern that many investigators later came to believe was actually a front for either an MI6 or a CIA operation. The ship was sailed towards the Antarctic according to official course plots but in August 1952 a transmission was intercepted that placed the ship near Eniwetok, still operating under the designation of HMS Valence. The ship was spotted for the last time approaching the Midway Islands when it supposedly disappeared from radar. Spotter planes were dispatched, along with several patrol vessels, none of which could locate the ship or any sign or wreckage, sabotage, or crew. The ship had simply disappeared. All hands were presumed lost, no one was ever recovered, and the ship was listed as lost at sea, officially declared a victim of storm, misadventure, or accident. The Captain was officially listed as John Davison, whom it was later discovered was really McDonald Ferguson former US Naval Officer and one time section head of Research and Development for the OSS in Asia.In early December 2012, the Space Shuttle Atlantis encountered problems while on a maneuver to re-enter Earth’s atmosphere during her final mission. After the flight she was due to be retired to make way for a new generation of reusable ramjet spacecraft. During the final orbit the Atlantis had faced thruster engine malfunction and an electrical systems failure that had caused NASA to redirect the orbiter for an emergency landing at Diego Garcia. It seemed the landing would be successful until the Atlantis mysteriously disappeared from USAF Space Command tracking stations 24 nautical miles from the emergency landing strip. A Search and Rescue Team that included both Air and Naval forces was immediately dispatched to the last known position, but no indication of wreckage of any kind was discovered. No recorder or marker buoys, no data recorders, no transmissions or emergency beacons of any kind. What the Navy did find was an uncharted and deserted island with a most peculiar feature. On the cliff face of the island, facing east by south-east was what appeared to be the hull of a ship, partially exposed lengthwise, but seemingly still intact. The remainder of the ship seemed to be encased in the volcanic rock of the cliff face. Both satellite imagery and Naval reconnaissance seemed to confirm that the ship was indeed the HMS Valence.The Pentagon, after investigating the matter has decided to dispatch the Hammerstroke Unit, along with a Navy SEAL Team to the island to see what can be discovered about the ship wreck, if it is indeed the Valence, and if so how the ship got there. At the same time the NSA, having learned of the discovery events from their ECHELON satellite communications stations on Diego Garcia, and their operatives within the Pentagon, has decided to dispatch the Enigma Group to the island, ostensibly to see if they can discover what really happened to the Atlantis, but also to see if they can discover what happened to the Valence, and why. Neither the Hammerstroke Unit and SEAL team, dispatched by submarine, or the Enigma Group, brought in by helicopter from Diego Garcia, are initially aware of the other operating in the same area.</blockquote>

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