"Sir," the pause was unintentional, but the technician overlooking the data had to restrain the fear in his tone. "That's the third combat droid team we've sent down there into the Access Tunnels what if there's no response from them?" The sweat began to bead on the young mans face as he looked to General Spriggan. The General looked at the man and chuckled, his hands crossed in front of his chest in amusement "Well, if that team doesn't report back soldier, we're going to try another approach."<br/><br/>"This is containment. No specimens at location. Evidence of habitation. Breaches in exterior plating at junction B-33. Breach at jungle perimeter.  Likely specimens have broken containment. Advise on mission parameters Alpha." The robotic, tinnny voice came over the comms, Spriggan's lip curled into a snarl as he turned to Kodiak Delta's commander Kendra Maertz. "Maertz, you're up, androids will meet up with you at the perimeter, you take your team and you shred these fucking things, get me?"<br/><br/>Lizker stepped forward as if to interject and Spriggan shot him a look, "sit down Dr. Lizker, this is now firmly out of your hands. This is my wheelhouse now boy. We're going to quell this little problem..." Spriggan suddenly had a far off look in his eyes as he recalled something. Operation Lightning had been flawed because they had been in the crosshairs of their target the whole time. But now he knew how he could reignite a long shelved objective of Weyland Yutani. He quickly picked up the comm and reset the encoded frequency, an excited, dangerous look in his eyes as he spoke "Zulu, Kilo, 9, 31, Red, Anvil, Mars." The comm crackled and hiss with seemingly insignificant white noise, Spriggan continued on, "Ice. Operation Zeus." As he paused suddenly a voice came over the other line. "Spriggan, this had better be damn good, Zeus has been in the freezer for a long time and for good reason."<br/><br/>Spriggan nodded as if the voice on the other end was in the room with him. "You can't hunt a hunter when you're upwind sir." The comm went silent, "What in the hell are you talking about Spriggan? Speak in normal fucking language and make sense or I will have you packed up and mining ice somewhere on Pluto if I don't just have you killed for enacting Alpha classified information for a basically dead project from when you were still in the USCM!"<br/><br/>"Operation Zeus, it was flawed because we tried to capture a hunter when we were the only ones it had to keep its eyes on. We have an asset out of containment, but if we let it dig in, we can lure a hunter in, all of our research shows that they always managed to pop up in our war zones."<br/><br/>"...You're risking a valuable research station here Spriggan...But, if you fail, you'll already be dead so I don't suppose it matters. The technology employed by the hunters is worth the risk, and of course General, if you succeed you'll be rewarded handsomely." The comm went dead and Spriggan looked to Maertz, "Combat Androids, Kodiak Delta and an APC are your resources, I need you in the field to give me a sit rep on how far the Assets may have spread. I want this kept in check, but we need enough to lure in the hunters."<br/><br/>Maertz nodded, she, like General Spriggan had been in numerous missions since the creation of Kodiak, she'd killed 2 Hunters, but they'd never been able to capture them. That would change with this mission she knew. "Roger that," she spoke with a sharp european accent, her figure was feminine, but judging by how defined her muscles were she was a hardened combatant. Also detracting from her otherwise appealing looks was a series of scars that ran from her right jaw under her ear all the way across her neck to her clavicle. Maerts was certainly no stranger to combat.<br/><br/>"In 40 minutes, cut the power to the colony. We need to offer something up to our guests." Lizker now decided he needed to speak "You can't just use my specimens in any manner you choose General, we've spent a great deal of time creating a bond with the Queen in the Hive and-" Spriggan cut him off, his left hand clenched around Lizker's throat, "Dr. Lizker, I can do whatever the hell I want. Those Assets belong to Weyland Yutani, and its yielded minimal results. The boys upstairs have been wanting this tech for a long time, and I'm gonna deliver, you try to stand in my way and I'll throw you in with your pets, and we'll see just how well you can really communicate with them."<br/><br/>Lizker's eyes went wide at the threat, scanning the room to notice that he was almost solely in the presence of Kodiak operators, his own staff simply carried on like nothing was out of the ordinary, after all, they were all paid by Weyland Yutani and not Dr.Lizker. "Of- Of course General, you have my full support in any way needed." Spriggan nodded, releasing the man from his grip "Stay out of my way and I'll make us both rich."<br/><br/>"38 minutes, cut the power, Kodiaks on me, we need to make sure this facility is secured." his Kodiaks immediately fell in line as he exited. "Maerts, you've got 30 minutes to check the jungle perimeter and then get your ass back here for lock down, this city is gonna go dark, copy?" Maerts responded, knowing what she had to accomplish, see where the Assets were, make sure that they weren't at a size that would be overly threatening to the research installation.<br/>-----------------------------------------<br/><br/>Major Jameson shot up to full attention at the phrases "Lightening, Zues and Phoneix. He knew what those mission parameters had been when he and Spriggan had served together in the USCM, but that was ages ago. Surely now as a PMC Spriggan wouldn't even have access to those files, they'd been burned to the ground. Everyone close to those operations had gone underground they'd been such massive failures. The kinds of failures that made people choose between a self inflicted bullet to the head or a long and drawn out military trial that would end in their execution. "Moore, show me everything you were able to pull on Operation Zeus!"<span style="font-style: italic">it's gotta be a call sign for some new mission protocol, Spriggan can't still be chasing those ghosts, we were all damn near wiped out...That crazy prick</span><br/><br/>"Omega, form up on me at the East Gate on the double!" Jameson did not reveal his motives, only what his orders were. He suddenly had a deep gnawing fear growing in his stomach. Spriggan's presence meant that something shady was going on, but if it had anything to do with the Zeus operations from over a decade ago things could turn to shit real fast and he wanted his squad ready.<br/><br/>--------------------<br/>Moore, you've been cracking at the security measures that Kodiak has been using, you seem to have struck some major information. A lot of the files are redacted, but the phrase "Hunter" appears numerous times, along with casualty lists, and a list of seemingly innocuous colonies some of which you've never even heard of. This may or may not be part of the information Jameson is looking for you to find. One extremely blurry picture of these so called "Hunters" reveals very little, but could be of importance to Jameson.<br/><br/>Rico, you're on patrol with Hendricks when the call from Jameson comes in. As you make your way back you step in a black ooze of sorts, it smells acrid but seems otherwise inconsequential. Make your way back towards the Star Port.