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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Insight" data-source="post: 3593166" data-attributes="member: 11437">[sblock]It doesn't take long for you to find relevant information about Freedom City Airport.  You even have access to FAA servers, given your security clearance.  You can see real-time arrivals, departures, flight vectors, etc.  You can get somewhat delayed satellite footage of the area of the airport, but none of the COMSAT satellites are anywhere nearby, so you won't be able to get granular "street-level" information that way.  Besides, even if you did try to access COMSAT, you've heard tales of some sort of AI that lives inside COMSAT that doesn't like intruders.But you are able to get reasonably good intelligence about the airport and the surrounding areas.  Nothing is terribly surprising, the normal stuff.  There is one hangar that appears to be reinforced with military-grade materials and armor.  You can't find any information about the hangar, and whatever electronics are inside are shielded against intrusion.  You also see that the Freedom League has a special hangar at the airport.  It is currently unoccupied.Accessing the airport's blueprints (dated Oct. 17, 1962), you see that quite a few improvements have been made since the airport's initial construction.  Some of this is most likely due to the Terminus Invasion.  You recall that much of Freedom City was destroyed at that time.  Some of the improvements that are obvious to the naked eye are registered with the local planning office, some not.  You can't find anything unusual in any of the official sources.You already have quite a bit of anecdotal information about the Brotherhood of the Yellow Sign from your mission dossier.  Essentially, culled from a variety of sources, you know that some organization known as the Brotherhood of the Yellow Sign has been in existence since at least Victorian times.  No known documents explicitly declare the organization to exist, but it's fairly obvious from rumor and innuendo that such an organization most likely does exist in one form or another.  Most sources describe the Brotherhood as a religious organization.  Rumor has it that they worship Dagon, an ancient Babylonian sea god sometimes depicted as a serpent.  The majority of the Dagon-related theories come from a series of short stories and novels written in the 1930s.  Only one person has ever been linked to the Brotherhood of the Yellow Sign, Sir Edward Norrington, a British ex-patriate who has lived in Boston and Freedom City since leaving Great Britain in 1987.  Norrington, once a promising British astrophysicist, worked for Astro Labs here in Freedom City from 1988 - 2004 as a consultant, but has since retired to parts unknown.  Information about Sir Norrington's alleged ties to the Brotherhood surfaced in 2003, hastening his departure from Astro Labs.  As soon as Norrington left Astro Labs, all further investigation of his link to the Brotherhood ceased and vanished.[/sblock][sblock]Based on what you've found thus far, it seems fairly obvious that if a base exists, it must be hidden, even from within the computer networks you've been able to access.  There's nothing large enough to show up on radar (and you have to be careful using the radar that you don't interfere with the air traffic control).  All that shows up underground on any of the blueprints are the normal maintenance walkways, water, gas, and electrical pipework, and some fuel storage.[/sblock]</blockquote>

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