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Message: <blockquote data-quote="DM_Matt" data-source="post: 3700458" data-attributes="member: 1213">Ms. Red comes in late.Mr. Black calls the meeting to order.  "Welcome, Sigma Team, to our post-mission inquiry briefing.  Most of your briefings won't be like this, but since your initiation went FUBAR, there's a lot of splainin to do."" Sigma Team, meet Mr. Blue, our chief tech, Ms. Pink, chief humint analyst, and Beta Green, the head of our Mideast and South Asia division.  I might as well start the story.  Traditionally, new teams are thrown into their first mission without warning, to test their skills in difficult situations.  While we usually do not have a superteam on hand, Whitie and I monitor the situation with a tactical team.  In addition to a number of superteams, we have teams of soldier-types, usually ex-special forces types, led by an empowered individual such as myself.  We are prepared to intervene if things get out of hand.  Before I go on, I would like to say how sorry I am about how the battle went.  But I should be the first to defend my actions.  When Spirit got hit, we considered going for the ship, but we determined that a rescue mission would be infeasible.  We became aware that there were two known powerful supers, plus at least one other unknown super, plus heavily-armed guards on that ship, and a helpless hostage.  if we had attacked the ship directly, it was likely that they would have killed her, and the large force on the mainland prevented us from getting control of the situation.  We not only would have failed to save her, but some of my men would have been killed in the process.  Additionally, we did not know much about the true threat we were facing in that ship.  We hoped that they would keep her alive for questioning, and then we could either surround it once you had neutralized the main force, or we could slip in once you had them distracted.  We tried the latter, despite the risks, but they jammed our teleport somehow.  Of course, she was probably dead by then, unfortunately.Unfortunately, these things happen. The bad guys like to kill.  However, just because these things are statistically inevitable does not mean that we cannot do what we can to prevent them from happening.  And that is why we need this investigation.So, Beta Green, explain how we got into this  situation in the first place."Beta Green says:  We had sources in Afghanistan and intercepted communications from OxCorp that indicated that the Shiek himself would be brining materials that could be processed into over a million dollars in heroin, and trading it for a valuable secret product of OxCorp:  Lycan Serum.  We had known for some time that Numero Uno was in fact Oscar Cuetlachtli, Founder and CEO of OxCorp.  I guess OcCorp was too hard to pronounce.  Cuetlachtli in fact means "Wolf" in Nahuatl, the Aztec language.  He is in fact a born Lycan, from an ancient line of Wolf Totem Aztec warriors, who infected his entire gang."Ms. Red interrupts: "Infected lycans are weaker than born ones, and do not produce the retrovirus that creates the infection. The original lycan can command the loyal ty of the others through pheromones specific to the virus' particular mutation.  However, Using OxCorp resources, we believe that Numero Uno managed to enhance the retrovirus to create even more powerful wolves that do not change shape, but instead retain their human appearance.  He also developed another retrovirus that can actually create virtual natural lycan to leave them, which can produce the alpha male pheromones.  This virus could be used to greatly enhance an army or terrorist group, and the Shiek was going to get it.Beta Green takes over again.  "Fortunately, Mr. Black's team fished the briefcase with the serum out of the water after Nitro blasted him.  I admit that we did receive information that something else was being transported to Numero Uno that the Sheik was anxious to get rid of.  We assumed that it was probably a kicker payment.  Perhaps ome hot goods, traceable conflict diamonds or weapons, something like that.  We determined that it was not important.  Just another bit of contraband that we would get ahold of, anyway."</blockquote>

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