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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Jack7" data-source="post: 4577809" data-attributes="member: 54707">Operation Golden HornModern/Espionage/Military Mission – Operation Golden Horn: (This mission was written specifically for Hammerstroke, but could be played as a Single Agent Enigma scenario.) <a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gerald_Bull" target="_blank">Gerald Bull</a> helped the former Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein build a prototype <a href="http://www.globalsecurity.org/wmd/world/iraq/supergun.htm" target="_blank">Supergun</a> during the Iran-Iraq War for a project codenamed, Babylon. The continued development of such guns and artillery pieces was considered a danger to the security of a number of different nations and interests and Bull was assassinated in March, 1990. Unknown to many people however was the fcat that Bull had a brilliant and innovative undergraduate student at the time who was one of his direct research assistants during his career as a freelance weapon’s designer. This student was of mixed Romanian and Czechoslovakian ancestry, and his name was Tessai Koblenski. Those who knew Koblenski often called him Bull’s “Little Horn,” or his “Golden Horn.” After Bull’s assassination Koblenski fled to the United States for asylum and agreed to help the US Navy develop an electromagnetic railgun for use on next generation warships. Koblenski and Bull had disagreed on the basic principles upon which a supergun should be developed, Bull promoting launching warheads into orbit by means of chemical explosives, Koblenski believing that <a href="http://www.onr.navy.mil/emrg/electromagnetic-railgun.asp" target="_blank">electromagnetic superguns</a> would be far superior and more versatile guns, if also far more difficult to develop and build.The US Navy established Koblenski with a new identity and a secure location from which to work. He worked for and with the US Navy until 1998 when he mysteriously disappeared.In June of 2005 he apparently resurfaced (according to CIA reports) in Bogotá, Columbia. Some believe he had been in the private employ of a Columbian Drug Cartel seeking his expertise to develop microguns that could shoot down US and Columbian military aircraft. Others believe he had been kidnapped by either a cabal of Columbian Drug Lords or perhaps even by the FARC looking to sell his expertise to foreign governments for their operational, logistical, and financial support. Koblenski disappeared again in early 2006, and no Western Intelligence agency was again able to successfully track him.Recently however a State Dept. employee who was traveling in Sousse, Tunisia received an encrypted message with instructions on how to establish a dead drop at a particular location in the capital city of Tunis. After decrypting the message analysts came to the conclusion that the message likely originated from Koblenski. Dead drop arrangements were made and a series of exchange communications were undertaken. The CIA learned that Koblenski (supposedly) was being held captive and forced to work for an unknown client who wanted to continue Bull’s work of developing an indirect fire supergun, but this time in an electromagnetic form. A prototype had already been developed and had shot a 12-kilogram warhead with spent uranium encased inside into a sub-orbital trajectory. The gun itself was buried underground at an unspecified location in Tunisia, only the barrel pointing upwards, (which was also buried except for the tip of the muzzle) which was ordinarily covered and camouflaged when not in use. Because of the unique ammunition developed by Koblenski the fired projectiles will be able to “self-direct” once in orbit, meaning they can land anywhere within effective orbital range once repositioned for reentry. The gun is not a direct fire gun as with most railguns, but is rather an indirect fire gun that will use very specialized and very dangerous warheads. It is speculated by US gun experts that very sophisticated targeting computers would be needed to assure targeting accuracy and proper calculations for effective employment of the gun.The contact has alluded to the fact that the gun, since it uses electromagnetic energy to fire the warheads, will be practically untraceable, even at the moment when fired, that the warheads employed are specifically built to produce an extremely low profile radar and detection signature (appearing as small as a single bird on a tracking screen – though often the projectiles move too fast for normal tracking methods anyway), and that in some way they are self-directing and self correcting as to targeting (details are vague). Add to this the fact that the gun itself can be built and housed underground and you have a very dangerous stealth weapon of enormous destructive capabilities. The contact has alluded to the fact that the ultimate aim is to produce an underground super-railgun with dirty-bomb and chemical and biological warheads on the order of 30 or more kilograms, that can be launched into orbit, repositioned and that will strike as silently and as stealthily from above as the user desires. It would be nearly impossible to stop such projectiles via means of a current “Shield Defense Program.”Despite the fact that the dead drop has been under constant surveillance by the CIA and several exchanges have been made no identifications of any contacts has been successful. Indeed the CIA has never even seen a human being make any exchange at the agreed upon location, yet outgoing messages are taken and incoming messages are left for later interception. The unknown contact however has made many indirect and coded allusions to both Bull and Koblenski that make Intel analysts reasonably certain that the contact could only be Koblenski. The contact apparently wishes rescue and to assist with an operation designed to find and/or destroy the prototype super-railgun he supposedly has been helping to develop.The Hammerstroke Unit is sent in to try and find out how messages are being left at the dead-drop, and by whom, to find Koblenski if he is still alive, to gather any real evidence about the super-railgun (assuming it really exists), and to discover any other information that might be useful to both the CIA and the Pentagon in this case.</blockquote>

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