Ghost could head the extra added emphasis on his rank.  Oh.  She was a stickler, was she?  He mentally sighed.  Should have expected that.  Most officers were sticklers, especially when it came to rank, they thought it made them more important or something.  A good officer, in his opinion, knew that he didn't know everything, and that the guys on the ground were usually capable at getting the job done when it needed to be.<br/><br/>Plus, he'd had<em>four</em>years of experience, and in his opinion, she'd gotten in because of her father and her willingness to be heavily cyberized.  Not many men would do that.  "It's your prerogative, ma'am," he started.  "Though in my personal opinion, working with each other by codename starting now will make it easier to do out in the field."<br/><br/>Once he confirmed that she didn't know anything, he pressed a few buttons on his commlink and brought up from a table in the corner a display.  He moved over to one side of it.  "Alright, here is what we know."  The map of the nation of Egypt appeared on the display.  "Ten days ago the UCAS sent a pair of agents attached to the Joint Committee on Technomancers into Egypt.  JCT had gotten word that a bag of Irish nasties - our old friend the IRA - were about to get their hands on a powerful Technomancer."<br/><br/>"Moment of background.  Since the Technomancer Emergence in late '70, Egypt has been a haven for them in that part of the world, thanks to the Coptic Pope.  You'll find a lot of Technos and hackers in the nation, especially in Cairo."  William explained.<br/><br/>"Now, those agents worked much as business as normal for the first week of their stay, regular reports filed, yadda yadda.  Then, starting three days ago, nothing, like they dropped off the face of the earth, and trust me, for these guys, that's pretty much impossible."<br/><br/>He pressed a button on the table.  "Our mission is this.  Primary objective is to discover what happened to the JCT agents.  If they've failed in their mission, then our job is to pick up where they left off and finish the mission."