This is the situation:
You were recruited by a group called the Trust, and incidentally, your first mission turned out to be related to an earthshaking supervillainous event.
The villains captured much of the Freedom League and their orbiting base, and destroyed all of their bases on the surface. It thus falls to you to stop them from continuing with their plan.
The villains apparently have backing from China and Iran, making government action difficult.
The ability of the supervillains to get other groups to attack and the serious damage they are doing to the economy combine to further strain the resources of the proper authorities and the world's heroes, as well as cause further suffering.
The bad guys just made their opening moves, but they have revealed themselves on numerous fronts. Now you must choose the best way to stop them.
Known Villains On The Loose:
Barrington/Barrington Prime/Krieglock/Seth/Henry The 88th/Johnny Jihad -- Has access to advanced technology and magic.
Doc Otaku -- Apprentice to Daedalus. One of the best inventor's out there.
Control Freak -- A technopath, possibly the best hacker in the world, with extensive machine control abilities
Britzkreig -- Nazi speedster / lightning guy
Captured Villains:
Numero Uno -- leader of the Cholos, a Mexican werewolf gang, secretly CEO of OxCorp.
Heroin Shiek -- Afghan drug lord
White Knight -- plasma-contorlling American neo-Nazi
Faust -- powerful immortal sorceror who sold his soul
Nekropanzer -- giant Nazi technozombie
Villainous Resources:
Unknown but large amounts of money
The services of a powerful global law firm, Wolfsohn, Shepard, and Doe
The Lighthouse, an orbiting base with a database of everything that the Freedom League knows, including the technologies that Daedalus created or found on his travels around the galaxy.
Connections to numerous terrorist groups worldwide.
Doc Otaku's high-tech base in China, defended by the Chinese military.
An unknown number of vehicles and robots owned by Doc Otaku
An unknown number of followers of Barrington's various personas
Connections of an unknown nature with China and Iran.
Several members oft he Freedom League as hostages.
The scarf of Al-Halar, of unknown powers, but decorated in a pattern seemingly to be made of human bodies.
The Eye of Hell
The next stage of their plan is unknown, but the following matters seem to be important:
Who is choosing the ultimate goal? Is it Barrington? If so, is it Barrington Prime (the unnamed, multi-themed battlesuit form you saw recently, and a catchall term for underlying goals of Barrington not associated with his other forms)? Is it Kreiglock (the Nazi sorcerer)? Seth (The Egyptian sorcerer)? Johnny Jihad (The IRGC persona)? Henry the 88th (Anglican anti-catholic persona)? Is it really Control Freak? Or Doc Otaku? Is it not an individual, but it a government? China? Iran? Some other shadowy organization, country, demon, supervillain, etc?
The demands being made are, at the moment, as Johnny Jihad, but are those their true goals?
What is known about that goal?
It probably involves the Eye of Hell. It is not magical, but supposedly can allow the user to somehow view or communicate with or even travel to Hell.
It may involve a large object made of exotic metals that they have commissioned from the foundry
It may have something to do with ancient Aryan legends, but Barrington could have been lying to White Knight.
It may have to do with strange cash transfers to the Wolfsohn, Shepard, & Doe office in Zurich
Possible Missions:
Make a move against Doc Otaku's base in China
Investigate the big purchase from The Foundry in FC
Go to Jordan and investigate the scarf and the warlock who created it.
Find what that money to Wolfsohn, Shepard, & Doe in Zurich was for, and stop whatever they are doing.
Try to get info out of Wolfsohn, Shepard, & Doe regarding the whole situation, somehow.
Go find terrorist groups that Barrington hired in the Philippines, Sri Lanka, Lebanon, Israel, or Columbia, and try to find out what they know
Look into the currency speculators who the villains may have coordinated with.
Check into OxCorp some more.