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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 4577561" data-attributes="member: 54707">Modern/Espionage/Military Mission/Superhero – In Through the Out Door: (I also wrote this scenario as a combination mission for the games Enigma and Hammerstroke.) Somali pirates intercept a cargo vessel moving from Africa to an unknown port in Asia. They hope to take grain, oil, and electronic components for sale on the Black Market. What most of the pirates don’t realize is that the ship has been under surveillance by US intelligence operatives for some time, because the ship, officially flying under the flag of a commercial firm from Hong Kong is really under the control of North Korean military forces. The ship has supposedly been selling missile components to customers in Africa, Asia, Pakistan, and certain parties along the borders of the Russian Federation.Aboard the ship is a US Agent working undercover, and the hidden hard copies of most of his discoveries (he was taken by surprise at night when the pirates attacked and overwhelmed the ship and had no time to destroy his findings, but he did have an opportunity to alert US forces that the ship had been captured). The US is not particularly worried about retaking the ship from the pirates until it is discovered that an Al Qaeda weapon’s expert, also having discovered the North Korean smuggling operation, is actually covertly directing the pirate operation and has had the ship rigged with explosives and had suicide agents planted secretly within the pirate crew. The AQ weapon’s expert wants the missile components for himself, plans to smuggle what he desires off the ship, then blow it up as a diversion and cover after US forces attack to retake the ship.Fearing a possible heavy loss of life and the unraveling of their entire eleven-month anti-smuggling operation the Pentagon decides to try and emplace the Hammerstroke Unit into the ship surreptitiously. With a stated mission assignment of recovering the Intel on the Korean smuggling operation, extracting the US Agent, and if possible, freeing the ship and evacuating the crew before the ship is scuttled. If all else fails they are to sink the ship so as to prevent Al Qaeda operatives from gaining possession of dangerous long-range missile components. If Hammerstroke cannot recapture or sink the ship within twelve hours then a US submarine will destroy the vessel and all aboard. But the Team can find no real means of entry to the ship that would seem worth the risk, and/or that would not alert the pirates to the fact that the ship has been boarded. Not, that is, until they join forces with the Enigma Group. Because the Enigma Group has a man, and a new piece of equipment, that might just do the job.</blockquote>

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