After the four boys had finally settled into the briefing room, Mea nodded in satisfaction and stood up from the chair.  She had liberted her biosuit's armlet from her bag and strapped it onto her wrist, having pushed up the sleeve of her turtleneck to bare her hairless, suntanned limb.<br/><br/>"Welcome, everyone. Thanks for your promptness. I'm sure we're all hot to get into the thick of things, so I won't delay anymore." She touched a key on the armlet, and suddenly, the middle of the table split open and folded into itself, a large plastic and metal sphere rising from the hole. She touched another key, and a richly detailed holographic image flickered into life above the globe. It was a 3D map of Atlanta. Obscured only slightly by static, Gabriel's voice came through her wristpad.  "Is that image coming through okay, Major Van?"  Mea nodded, even though Gabe couldn't see her "It's fine, Gabe, thank you."<br/><br/>"This is the current Satellite image over Atlanta, Georgia." She stuck her arm in the hologram, splaying her fingers to twist the hologram to suit her purposes.  The hologram zoomed in past buildings, streets, and cars, focusing in on a nice condo in an upper-middle class neighborhood in the suburbs.  "This is 1511 States Ave, the current location of the Illuminati extop." The hologram flickered, showing a slowly spinning 3D image of a brunette, middle aged Italian man, with a rather large and severe nose.  "His birth name was Rosso Corsini, after graduating with an Engineering  and Software Programming degree, the Illuminati hired him up for his breakthrough extop software that he programmed for the Italian Army. He worked for them for about nine years, until he had a falling out. After escaping Milan, he went to the States and contacted the Federal Marshals to enter the witness protection program. He's now known as Jerry Goldstein..." her voice was touched with humor "I guess he's passing himself off as Jewish now. Anyway...according to Father Masino, the Illuminati have been planning on taking the Spear for some time now, approximately thirty years from what information we've gathered, and possibly longer. Because of Corsini's extop software program and satellite imaging programs, he was apparently the critical piece of the puzzle. The very -reason- why Strazzi was able to take the Spear."<br/><br/>She twisted her hand in the hologram, and it changed from Corsini's face back to his condo, only this time it was a 3D blueprint  "According to the email I received yesterday from Masino, the Federal Marshals have not heard from Corsini in several days, and it's suspected that he might have defected back to Illuminati ranks. We've been given permission to search his condo for any pertinent information we can find about the Illuminati, the Spear, and we've also been instructed to confiscate any paperwork or electronically stored information regarding the Illuminati."<br/><br/>She withdrew her hand from the hologram and touched another key on her wristpad, and the hologram flickered out. "A biosuit and VISOR and a brief training introduction will be given to you, Valentine, so that you can link up with our extops Harry and Gabriel back in Rome. All of the holograms and information will be available to everyone via your VISOR. Any questions?"