Hope gets an appointment to speak with Alpha Pink/Ms. Pink, who heads up the Psych Ops but also is the chief councilor for upper-level agents -- it helps that as an Alpha she has clearance for almost everything.
Meanwhile, the group is informed that Mr. Silver, the head of public relations, will be issuing a press release announcing the takedown of Voderac, which will include a dossier of evidence regarding his activities from the information that he sent to your plane, supplemented by extra financial records.
Meanwhile, some early report's of Barrington's gifts start trickling in, as well as a statement by Barrington that far more will arrive in the future. News reports form several countries describe tall silver towers being installed in cropland, which are said to improve weather and send nutrients to crops, along with genetically-modified seed. They are especially located in sub-saharan Africa, with special consideration going to famine-ridden but despotically-governed Zimbabwe, in areas with considerable poppy and coca crops such as Burma, Vietnam, and Laos, as well as FARC-controlled regions of Columbia and partially-rebel-controlled Chiapas Mexico, and third-world major food importers such as Libya. Crop towers as well as ones that filter air and water have appeared in China. Factories of unknown purpose have appeared in developed parts of China, Vietnam, Iran, and in Pyonyang, North Korea. Desalination and water-purification devices are appearing throughout the mideast and Africa, tower-shaped like everything else. New oil drilling towers have also been sighted in Iran, Venezuela, Bolivia, Algeria, Libya, and Sudan. Speaking of Sudan, the necromancer Ubunga-Na and the supers who released him have routed United Nations and African Union peacekeepers in the West of the country, and has begun negotiations with the central government for formal power. Unconfirmed reports allege that the undead army was aided by mechs.
