Operation Enigma
Operation Enigma
Written by TFSO Ryker
[SEC=LEVEL 2] MOBILE TASK FORCE OPERATIVES WITH LEVEL 4 SECURITY CLEARANCE MAY REQUEST UNREDACTED INFORMATION DIRECT FROM O4 COUNCIL.
Canada Raid
Stage 1
Situation
Excuse the informality of this briefing gentlemen but I have a fire lit under by arse by a very anxious O4.
For several months now highly coordinated and well executed strikes against secure sites have been plaguing the Foundation across the globe. So far three sites have been massacred to the last man and two more have suffered ~75% loss of site staff. These sites have primarily been lightly defended and relatively unimportant facilities, except for the most recently attacked one. Initially it was theorized that the attacks were being coordinated by the Chaos Insurgency, however while the Chaos Insurgency does, in general, desire the destruction of the Foundation; so far none of the attacks have resulted in a loss of any artifacts or technology.
It appears as though the only goal of the attackers is to eliminate foundation personnel. Ultimately these attacks are of no consequence as it is easy enough to replace people and has no impact on the overall operational status of the Foundation. It has however piqued the curiosity of the O4 council who believe something more is potentially at play here than a simple desire to terminate as many scientists and janitors as possible.
Until a few hours ago we had little more than surveilance images of the attackers, but a four man intelligence team has been following the situation since it became a concern and have been attempting to gather something of substance to bring to command. Their attempts have finally begun to bear fruit, having intercepted several abnormal sattelite phone calls from a location in Kimmirut, a remote area in North East Canada. A small facility dedicated to reasearching still water victims is located suspiciously close to the origin of these calls.
The content of these calls are of little use due to the usage of a currently untranslated code language, with much of the calls being entirely nonsensical but spoken in deliberate tones - suggesting intentional usage of code language. The calls did however provide an opportunity to triangulate a position. Which is where we come in.
O4 has given us the task of exploiting this intelligence as rapidly as possible, idealy within the week. Due to your recent return from Africa and no active tasking as of now, I am assigning Detachment one the mission.
Mission
Operation Enigma's mission goal is to locate, identify and destroy all involved in an ongoing, coodinated effort to undermine and damage foundation operations. This will be a combined operation between Mobile Task Force Tau-44 and Task Force Enigma, a 4 man human intelligence team.
TF Enigma has identified two target locations in Kimmirut, designated Compound South and Compound East. You are tasked with killing or capturing everyone within these locations and attempting to gather further intelligence on any additional cells, motive and origin of the attackers.
Both compounds are heavily guarded and defended by AA emplacements littered throughout the hills around them. Additionally horseback patrols of 8-10 men have been noted throughout the region, with reconaisance groups setting up across the water from Sheer Test Site to frequently spy on it from a distance.
Administration/Logistics
- Rules of Engagement:
- Universal ROE
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- Depending on the duration of the operation a secure location may need to be established until extraction can be organised.
- N/A, no reinforcement will be possible.
Greenland Raid
Stage 2
Situation
Your mission was ultimately a success, we did not learn much if anything other than the capabilities of who we are up against. It is obvious that there is more at play here than meets the eye. If it was not obvious, you came into contact with what we assume to be a type green coordinating with what proved to be a well coordinated and aggressive force - but you made it out mostly in one piece.
Until Taskforce Enigma comes up with something we are at a loss and currently have no further leads. However right now none of that matters as one of our own is currently being held captive.
As I am sure you are aware, Pilgrim went missing close to extraction and was spotted being loaded into a helicopter. That helicopter was tracked to a location nearby where we believe he was then loaded into a different aircraft before then being flown to a remote location in Western Greenland. His tracker, which suspiciously was never turned off, led us to a location high in the mountains at which point we lost connection to the tracker. We suspect that he was likely taken into a subterranean area.
Around the time of extraction all radio nets, including ours back at home were flooded by a message, very clearly intended to taunt us. That paired with the unexplained capture of Pilgrim leads us to believe that you are likely walking into a trap, but we look after our own.
Your mission, if it was not obvious, is to deploy to Greenland, locate Pilgrim and extract him.
Administration/Logistics
- Rules of Engagement:
- Weapons Free
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- If possible, take prisoners. Otherwise, not required.
- N/A, no reinforcement will be possible.
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Scotland Raid
Stage 3
Situation
Well gentlemen, some of you just made it out of there on time. About 40 seconds after your extraction we detected an 100 megaton detonation originating from the mines - rendering much of greenland uninhabitable for some time. An explosion like that has obviously caught the publics eye but O4 isn't concerned about it, current public story being spread is old US nukes gone bad with no one being aware they were there. Some of you wont have updated memory of the operation and likely never will, its been deemed too dangerous to retrieve the remnants of those of you who perished so refer to your team after action reports for some idea of what happened.
The hostiles encountered were highly organised, motivated and clearly fanatical. The current working theory is that they are linked to the Templars, however we pounded them into the dirt leaving not very much behind so it makes it hard to be sure that its them. I have heard ruminations regarding Arthur, he is not behind this. Eggheads have confirmed that figments of what remained of arthur are embedded within SCP-8007, manifesting whenever zones are tampered with. You personally experienced this phenomenon recently. This is definitely something or someone different.
Additionally, Pilgrim has been thoroughly interrogated, we are sufficiently positive he is of sound mind and he will be returning to active duty. Its likely he was amnesticised so he has no recollection of any information he divulged. What he does know is this: jester mask you encountered in canada was present in greenland and was likely onboard the helicopter that left the mine, he was also responsible for potentially extracting information from pilgrim - apparently through oneiromancy of some kind. To prevent further leaks of information via this method, standing orders are to commit suicide rather than be captured - by any means nessecary.
In other news, your next mission:
While following up on a lead in central london, taskforce enigma discovered the presence of several hostile fighters in an adjacent hotel room to one they had commandeered.
Hacking into the hotels network, Agent Deacon was able to remote access the phone of one of the assailants, granting him access to his private messages amongst other information. One such messaging application being used provided an IP address which agent deacon capitalised on and began the process of tracing it. The ip address was being spoofed however he was able to find the origin of it, leading to an internet cafe in a town on the mull of kintyre of scotland.
Immediately upon tracing the intel, a foundation long range reconnaissance drone already orbiting the nearby area was dispatched to monitor the internet cafe. An individual with a laptop exited the cafe and was picked up by a black SUV with two armed individuals driving the vehicle.
The vehicle was followed to a nearby wooded area where the drone lost visual before then picking up three separate vehicles leaving the area. Unable to trace all three, an additional nearby drone was dispatched to follow the second vehicle. The third was however lost and unable to be relocated.
One vehicle was followed to a nearby town where 8 masked individuals exited the vehicle and entered the house where they currently remain and have remained since initial discovery. Using onboard LIDAR scanning, the drone was able to discover the beginning of an underground area below the house but was unable to penetrate beyond a few metres underground.
The second vehicle was followed to an agricultural compound, with the vehicle being deposited in a barn. Prior to waving off for refuel, up to 20 individuals were spotted moving in and around the compound. As well as several more vehicles entering the compound before then leaving, including several trucks laden with supplies.
While the third vehicle was unable to be followed, it was spotted heading east towards Stewarton. However this has not been confirmed.
Mission
Your mission is to conduct raids on both compounds with extreme violence. With the intent of eliminating all occupants and obtaining whatever possible intel from the compounds. You will be deploying via the local airport and arriving on a civilian aircraft, at the airport you will be provided with vehicles as well as the location of a safehouse where your requested equipment will be available.
The Agricultural compound and Drumlemble are to be hit, additionally Stewarton is to be searched for the presence of the third SUV.
Administration/Logistics
- Rules of Engagement:
- Weapons Tight
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- N/A
- N/A, no reinforcement will be possible.
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- Urban Terrain surrounded by open fields and relatively sparse trees.
Scotland Infiltration
Stage 4
Situation & Mission
Good job gentlemen, you absolutely wreaked havok across the Scottish country side and single handedly kickstarted martial law in Scotland. Lets just say my superiors aren't thrilled, by comparison a nuclear detonation in Greenland is significantly easier to cover up than the mess you caused.
On the other hand, we have concrete evidence on who is behind our recent ass pains. The Templars seem to have reencarnated themselves to come back and haunt us. What we still do not know is why and what for, but we think that there is still a way to find out. While you were spelunking command dispatched another drone to monitor the entrance to cave and observed Templars loading the robots into urals before taking off to the south. We believe the other containers left behind also contained robots but they were unable to be loaded and were subsequently scuttled by the explosive that got left behind.
The robots that weren't scuttled were split off to various locations, all within range of a port. We believe that they intend on shipping them out of Scotland but martial law put a crimp in that plan and inadvertently has granted us more time to intercept them.
Four urals have split off into three locations, one is located at an abandoned farm north of Southend, another is located at a farm south of Achnabraad Glen and the final two are located in a small compound adjacent to a military base at Oitir Mor. The first two should be easy enough to strike, however the third target is a bit of a predicament. O4 does not want the situation to worsen and be harder to cover up so try your best not to engage with Scottish Armed Forces, however if you are pushed into a corner you are cleared to fire back.
Your mission is to strike all three URAL locations and attempt to hack as many robots as possible, command is hoping that the bots are preprogramed with a target and can be used to ascertain where we will be hit next. Once you have gathered what intel you can you are to scuttle the robots and ensure any Templars are left to rot where they stood.
Administration/Logistics
- Rules of Engagement:
- Weapons Tight
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- N/A
- N/A, no reinforcement will be possible.
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- Urban Terrain surrounded by open fields and relatively sparse trees.
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- SCUBA Gear + Wetsuits
Aurora Labs Raid
Stage 5
Situation
All I will say on your prior mission is that we need this next one to be a home run or we are seriously looking at dissolution. There is only so much that can be blamed on terrorists and rogue anomalies. Despite the damage left behind, on a positive note it appears as though you have prevented a plot to attack our homebase before it came to fruition. Obviously they saw us coming as they prepared two decoy locations for us to stumble into, don't think they expected you to make it out of them. We managed to grab the audio messages left for you from some helmet cam footage and clean them up. Attached below for you to laugh at.
Amongst the intel gathered by Taskforce Enigma in London was plans for an attack being titled Operation Crusade. Along with the operation plans was an elaborate plot to secretly ship roughly 1000 newly manufactured warbots from the Aurora Labs manufacturing facility in Norway, to Scotland through the Faroe Islands, Iceland, Greenland and then onto the western shore of Zone 51.
The robots you found in Scotland were what we believe to the the first 115 delivered from Aurora Labs. Of which only about 20 survived the initial scuttling and then were subsequently destroyed by you. The data you retrieved from the bots before destroying them reinforced TF Enigma's findings as the location programmed into the bots led to the same coordinates (71.5595234,-5.4843957), which leads to an empty portion of sea in all publically available web mapping platforms but is the location of Zone 51.
What is ultimately most concerning about all of this situation is the fact that the warbots are coming directly from Aurora Labs, not from a blackmarket or outside dealer. Its both scary and pretty dumb, very little attempt to cover their tracks which has led us right to the source. TF Enigma has also given us the name of the individual responsible for siphoning the bots off of the production line straight to the Templars, however we are not sure if this is confined to a single individual within the company as we are talking about roughly £230 Million British Pounds of robots being siphoned away so far.
For those of you who are unaware who Aurora Labs are, they are a defence technology company specialising in artificial intelligence and robotics intended for combat applications. They supply various nations and organisations including us, the foundation. Due to this fact our raid has been OKed by Norway considering the implications of Aurora Labs dealing with an extremist group such as the Templars.
Mission
Your mission is to execute a raid on the Aurora Labs research and manufacturing facility in Norway, this mission has full clearance and cooperation from the Norwegian Government and the O4 Council - you will be going in hard and fast with whatever support is nessecary. The Norwegian government has allowed us to utitlise a military base located near the facility, you will be deploying from there.
Your primary objectives are as follows:
- Locate and deactivate Aurora's Artificial Intelligence Node.
- Transfer Artificial Intelligence to Foundation servers remotely.
- Terminate Manufacturing of Aurora Warbots
- Locate and arrest Doctor Steven Trengrove the head engineer of Aurora Norway
Your secondary objectives are:
- Secure Aurora Tower.
- Secure Aurora Manufacturing Compound.
- Seize computer data for examination.
- Install Keylogging and monitoring software on mainframe within Aurora tower.
- Investigate sensitive storage.
Target Layout
The 5th, 7th and 8th floors are designated "low importance" storage floors and share identical designs to the 4th floor minus the offshoot high security safe rooms. Each has a crew of 6-8 guards present at all times with rotating staff responsible for archiving things into storage.
The facility is guarded by 60 men on the exterior equipped with Aurora's standard issue security equipment. This consists of full body armor rated to stop most pistol caliber threats and a P90 equipped with soft target munitions.
A majority of the security officers employed by Aurora are former police officers of the nation they are operating within. They receive no additional combat training upon receiving employment with Aurora.
Within the facility is a staff of roughly 40 guards of which 20 are considered "Special Security" officers. These officers are all former military and are equiped with multithreat full body armor, designed to stop rifle rounds as well as protect from some anomalous threats. The standard issue weapon weaponry of these guards is typically some form of 5.56 Rifle.
Administration/Logistics
- Rules of Engagement:
- Weapons Tight
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- All non-combat staff are to be restrained and gathered in the lobby.
- Any combat staff who surrender are to be restrained and gathered in the lobby.
- Where possible attempt mediation and non-hostile means of clearing the tower.
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- Smoke Artillery.
- Reaper Drone w/ AGM armaments.
- Via Helicopter from local military base.
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- Dense industrial area with central 10 floor sky scraper.
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- Medium-Heavy Protection
- Heavy Hitting CQB Weaponry
- Non-lethal equipment.
- Medium-Heavy Protection