IC Thread (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=208156.0)<br/>OOC Thread (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=208157.0)<br/>Dossiers (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=208158.0)<br/>Interest and Recruitment (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=206965.0)<br/><br/><hr/><hr/><div align="center"><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 18pt;"><strong><span class="bbc_u">BRIEF</span></strong></span></div><br/><br/><div align="center"><strong>WARNING: EYES ONLY, TOP SECRET<br/><span class="bbc_u">VIOLATION RESULTANT IN CONSIDERATION OF NATO PENAL CODE A-9912, IMMEDIATE TERMINATION</span></strong></div><br/><br/><br/>There has been an incident.  Your timetable has been accelerated accordingly.  0000.06072014 ___ 78.28S106.48E<br/><br/><br/><strong>PLEASE REFER TO:</strong><br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 7pt;">[1]</span>"Scientists Find Life in the Cold and Dark Under Antarctic Ice" (http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/07/science/living-bacteria-found-deep-under-antarctic-ice-scientists-say.html?_r=0) -- New York Times, Civilian Journalism<br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 7pt;">[2]</span>Vostok Station Geographical Review (http://www.aari.aq/stations/vostok/vostok_en.html) -- Russian Government<br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 7pt;">[3]</span>Data Packet VOK-20140613-094 (http://www.enterprisemission.com/images/ant2.jpg) -- Vostok Transmission.  Attached Text: "ARCTICA"<br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 7pt;">[4]</span>"International Space Station Gets Life Extension Through 2024" (http://www.space.com/24208-international-space-station-extension-2024.html) -- Space.com, Civilian Journalism<br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 7pt;">[5]</span>"Chelyabinsk Airburst, Damage Assessment, Meteorite Recovery, and Characterization" (http://www.meteorites.ru/menu/publication/popova_ea_2013_science.pdf) -- Scientific Publication [doi: 10.1126/science.1242642]<br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 7pt;">[6]</span>Soyuz TMA-12M Touchdown (http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/MSNBC/Components/Photo/_new/pb-121119-soyuz-da.photoblog900.jpg) -- Aerial Photograph, 20 km. N [REDACTED] Kazahkstan, 0201.19062014<br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 7pt;">[7]</span>American Meteor Society Events (http://www.amsmeteors.org/members/fireball/browse_events/?year=2013&state=&num_report=0) -- Attached Text: "600% increase in [REDACTED] events between 2005 and 2013 over continental America.  Assumed representative of global rates.  Indicative of geometric increase in global meteor landfalls per year."<br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 7pt;">[8]</span>"Abrupt climate change at the end of the last glacial period inferred from trapped air in polar ice" (http://icebubbles.ucsd.edu/Publications/Bolling.pdf) -- Scientific Publication (doi: 10.1126/science.286.5441.930).  Attached Text: "Bølling Transition, 14.5 ky B.P.  Suggest measurements may be off due to ARCTICA and [REDACTED], adjust +5.5 ky B.P."<br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 7pt;">[9]</span>Summated Post-Analysis Representation of Data Packet ISS/ARC-06212014-00019897 (http://www.taubaauerbach.com/images/static9.jpg) -- Attached Text: "Final Transmission: 'Everything is going to be alright.  She found us.'  Language: Russian.  Security: Null encryption.  Risk: HIGH."<br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 7pt;">[10]</span>TUNG-01 (http://cdn.ghosttheory.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/11/tunguska-500x330.jpg) -- Attached Text: "Original photograph, Tunguska, Russia, 07011908.  2.1km from [REDACTED].  Note: impact force considerably greater than the Rona Event, likely due to terrain shielding in the latter instance."<br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 7pt;">[11]</span>"Was there a Prehistoric Civilization in Antarctica?" (http://www.stevequayle.com/index.php?s=103) -- Pravda, Civilian Journalism.  Attached Text: "Controlled release of information, careful control of public media, and rapid internal responses to infosec breaches allow us to marginalize and 'conspirarize' leaks.  [REDACTED].  It's easier to swallow a pill than it is to swallow air, and there's no need to shoot the pharmacist." -Czar<br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 7pt;">[12]</span>Modified SR-71, 2nd Generation Spaceplane Mk. X-9,<em>Ao Qin</em>(http://fc07.deviantart.net/fs70/f/2011/318/f/0/tripping_the_stratosphere_by_freelancah-d4cgshw.jpg) -- Attached Text: "Recently commissioned, [REDACTED] manufactured the<em>Ao Qin</em>in a remarkably short time.  This specific craft was then used in a successful trans-Kármán mission less than two months after closure of the testing phase, crewed by [REDACTED].  While some mission objectives were not met, the<em>Ao Qin</em>nonetheless performed far above our expectations."<br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 7pt;">[13]</span>Sketch from Field Notes of Dr. Aimes (http://i934.photobucket.com/albums/ad186/Option2401/image_zps0881d8f5.jpg) -- Attached Text: "Some kind of formal prayer?  Certainly possesses spiritual meaning, but what is the message?  How are these cities and Monolith related?"<br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 7pt;">[14]</span>"Summary of After-Action Personnel Report for ISS Incident (Operation: DERELICT)" (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=208159.msg10228929#msg10228929) -- Attached Text: "Some amateur stargazers have already noticed discrepancies in the orbit of the 'ISS'.  We may not be able to keep this hidden for much longer."<br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 7pt;">[15]</span>"Meteor" (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=208159.msg10242312#msg10242312) -- Attached Text: "IAMTHESEEKERINTHEDARKIAMTHECOLDFLAMEBURNINGTERNALIAMWITNESSTOEONSIAMTHEWATCHEROFTHECONDEMNEDIAMTHEKEEPEROFTHEDEADIAMTHESEEKERINTHEDARK"<br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 7pt;">[16]</span>Mock-up of Mk. VI Tactical Engagement Suit (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=208159.msg10249718#msg10249718) -- Attached Text: "Urban configuration, light kit.  Note the AIR-20 rifle and holographic HUD.  Currently in regular use by ARCTICA Peacekeepers."<br/><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 7pt;">[17]</span>"Summary of Operation: ENDGAME Directives" (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=208159.msg10311015#msg10311015) -- Attached Text: "As T.S. Elliot once wrote: 'I will show you fear in a handful of dust.'  I always thought he meant that we fear desolation and ruin, but I've been reconsidering this stance.  What if we are the dust in the hand, only so many grains plucked from an endless desert, each one infinitesimally insignificant?  What inevitable fate will befall us?  More horrifying yet, who owns the hand on whose whim we persist?  This is awfully depressing, so I always come back to the humorous thought that Elliot was actually referring to holding a handful of TICA... fear in a handful of dust indeed!" -Czar<br/><strong>NEW FILE --&gt;</strong><span class="bbc_size" style="font-size: 7pt;">[18]</span>"The House of Dust: Over the darkened city, the city of towers" (https://elliquiy.com/forums/index.php?topic=208159.msg10319393#msg10319393) -- Attached Text: "Early twentieth century poetry of a decidedly morose nature.  I do not feel that this is a threat; given the tense, I think, somehow, impossibly, that it is a lament." -Czar