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Investigate Returned Abductees
Solution
Perform Surveil Location missions in areas with a suspected alien presence. Send councilors on Investigate Alien Activity missions when you discover evidence of alien influence on the populace or leaders.
Description		Resolution
Abduction victims are starting to resurface. Various media and political figures who should know better are celebrating this as good news. It is not. The aliens went to enormous trouble to kidnap these people – if they're returning them alive and (apparently) unharmed, there's a reason for it, and it won't be anything good. We should send councilors to investigate at once.		It's just as bad as we feared. Our councilors have independently confirmed that the returned abduction victims are now spying on local government, military, and police affairs. None of the returned abductees had any previous interest in or history of espionage. Now all of a sudden they're conducting surveillance, leaving dead drops, and cooperating with other abductees. We've managed to intercept and detain several abductees in the middle of these missions. Even when caught red-handed, they deny all involvement with the kind of intensity you'd expect from a hardened operative. Something has changed these teenagers, office workers, and farmhands into spies, terrorists, and agitators. But what?
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There's no doubt, Colonel. The monsters are at our gates.
Prerequisite Objective(s)
Research Alien Methods
Can be completed by Mission:		Investigate Alien Activity
Unlocks Project(s):		Alien Operations
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Investigate Returned Abductees
Solution
Perform Surveil Location missions in areas with a suspected alien presence. Send councilors on Investigate Alien Activity missions when you discover evidence of alien influence on the populace or leaders.
Description		Resolution
We have strange news. First one, then several of the missing humans have resurfaced. While their families are naturally relieved, it is hard to see why the aliens are acting in this way. Why go to so much effort to abduct human victims, then simply release them unharmed? Until we know more, I recommend that we send councilors to regions of suspected alien activity, and place all returned abductees under immediate surveillance. If these individuals have some part in the aliens' plan, we need to learn more ... and quickly.		We have news. It is not good news. Two weeks ago, the son of a senior diplomat in one of our targeted regions disappeared after leaving a party at a remote farm late one night. He reappeared 36 hours later, offering no explanation for his absence. His mother was of course overjoyed at her son's return, but was surprised when he proceeded to take a sudden and uncharacteristic interest in her political ties. One of our field teams received the report and placed the teenager under round-the-clock surveillance. A few days ago, our team followed the teenager to a derelict industrial park where they observed him placing a small package in a dead-drop location. Our team moved in, confiscated the package, and detained the teenager. Upon opening the package we discovered dossiers of information on various local political figures of national and international importance. The teenager offered no explanation for his behavior. This does not appear to be an isolated incident. Several of our other field teams have reported abductees behaving in a similarly suspicious manner, again with no apparent explanation. Although it is dangerous to draw conclusions too swiftly, our working theory is that the aliens are somehow exerting influence over humans they come into contact with, and using these thralls to gather information on human institutions and power structures with a view towards establishing control. If this is true, the aliens are not only clandestinely moving against us, but may already be deep inside our society. We need to know more, and quickly.
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Commander, we have learned something terrifying.
Prerequisite Objective(s)
Research Alien Methods
Can be completed by Mission:		Investigate Alien Activity
Unlocks Project(s):		Alien Operations
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Investigate Returned Abductees
Solution
Perform Surveil Location missions in areas with a suspected alien presence. Send councilors on Investigate Alien Activity missions when you discover evidence of alien influence on the populace or leaders.
Description		Resolution
A number of the "abductees" have returned. Some of our researchers have expressed their hope that this indicates that the "abductions" were a hoax – however, given the situation, we do not feel we can afford to be so optimistic. Have our councilors investigate more closely.		The "hoax" theory has now been abandoned by all but a handful of stubborn holdouts. Our investigators have confirmed that several of the returned abductees are engaging in espionage activities against local governments – in other words, spying. Unfortunately, the most likely explanation is that the aliens are somehow exercising influence over the abductees and using them to gather information. It seems we must re-task some of our research and intelligence capabilities towards investigating the aliens' plans.
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Director, it seems we must learn about the aliens and their technologies via means other than diplomacy.
Prerequisite Objective(s)
Research Alien Methods
Can be completed by Mission:		Investigate Alien Activity
Unlocks Project(s):		Alien Operations
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Investigate Returned Abductees
Solution
Perform Surveil Location missions in areas with a suspected alien presence. Send councilors on Investigate Alien Activity missions when you discover evidence of alien influence on the populace or leaders.
Description		Resolution
A new and significant development – abduction victims reported missing have begun to reappear. This is highly suspicious and the Council has agreed that they must be placed under immediate surveillance.		We now have multiple, independent reports that the returned abduction victims are spying on high-level government, military, and economic affairs. Countries are being targeted indiscriminately, without concern for political stance or alliance. None of the returned abductees had any history of espionage or political activity. With our assistance, local police have intercepted and detained several abductees in the middle of these missions. Even under harsh interrogation, they have without exception refused to divulge any explanation for their behavior. Their loyalty to their new masters is striking. The alien ability to control their human subjects – for they are clearly behind this – is both impressive and frightening. How are they doing it? Is this some function of their advanced technology? Whatever the answers, our position appears grim. We need to learn more, and quickly – who knows how far the aliens' influence has already spread without our knowledge?
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We should take care they don't attempt to penetrate our organization.
Prerequisite Objective(s)
Research Alien Methods
Can be completed by Mission:		Investigate Alien Activity
Unlocks Project(s):		Alien Operations
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Investigate Returned Abductees
Solution
Perform Surveil Location missions in areas with a suspected alien presence. Send councilors on Investigate Alien Activity missions when you discover evidence of alien influence on the populace or leaders.
Description		Resolution
Significant numbers of our members have broken away from our organization to join groups more oriented to serving or resisting the aliens. Despite my attempts to stabilize the situation, our ranks continue to thin. In the meantime, we have more bad news: some of the abductees have returned. While this would otherwise be a positive development, early reports indicate that their behavior has drastically changed. This, combined with the aliens' previous behavior, suggests many possibilities. Few, if any, are good.		Our security forces have been particularly hard-hit by our drop in support. Soldiers are inclined to fight, not to wait and see; many have abandoned us for groups aiming to resist the aliens, if not destroy them utterly. Still, a few have stayed loyal, for which I am grateful. It was one of those teams that was able to solve this particular puzzle. A middle-ranking civil servant with no prior history of violence or political extremism was discovered gathering information on the residences and personal security of his superiors; from context, the information was clearly for the purposes of kidnapping, if not outright assassination. Two similar cases in the same country were also detected. The civil servant was a previous abduction victim, and to all appearances, he is now assisting his former captors. Why? And more importantly – if we were able to catch these three, how many more are taking place without our knowledge? Our theories and debates now seem woefully outdated. The aliens are, in all likelihood, in the middle of advancing their influence and control over Earth.
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Our inquiries have uncovered more disturbing information, Chancellor.
Prerequisite Objective(s)
Research Alien Methods
Can be completed by Mission:		Investigate Alien Activity
Unlocks Project(s):		Alien Operations
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Investigate Returned Abductees
Solution
Perform Surveil Location missions in areas with a suspected alien presence. Send councilors on Investigate Alien Activity missions when you discover evidence of alien influence on the populace or leaders.
Description		Resolution
We have uncovered evidence that some of the "abducted" humans have resurfaced. This could be an opportunity to prove to the world that cooperation with the aliens is the best course of action. We should investigate immediately.		Events have gone ... somewhat badly. Our agents tracked one of the returned "abductees" and uncovered evidence that they were engaged in some kind of espionage activity with links to the aliens. We hoped to continue to monitor them from a safe distance. Unfortunately, our operation was interrupted by anti-alien extremists who made wild claims implicating the abductee in some sort of kidnapping plot. They attempted to arrest the abductee, our agents attempted to protect the abductee, and unfortunately, despite our attempts to negotiate a peaceful solution, violence broke out. Several people were killed in the ensuing firefight. The abductee managed to escape in the confusion, but apparently, from what we have been able to gather, traveled straight from the firefight to the residence of a local government official, and proceeded to kidnap her. This behavior is totally out of character for the abductee, who according to all that we have gathered has no history of violence or political extremism. Unfortunately, accounts of the event have spread rapidly. Anti-alien media sources are already attempting to paint us as "collaborators." Our allies are providing a more balanced picture, but anti-alien sentiments are on the rise across the world. We may soon be a lone voice of truth in an ocean of misinformation.
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Commissioner, we are finding humans working on behalf of the aliens in some capacity. We must investigate further.
Prerequisite Objective(s)
Research Alien Methods
Can be completed by Mission:		Investigate Alien Activity
Unlocks Project(s):		Alien Operations
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Speak with the Chosen
Solution
Perform Surveil Location missions in areas with a suspected alien presence. Send councilors on Investigate Alien Activity missions when you discover evidence of alien influence on the populace or leaders.
Description		Resolution
When a populace settles a new land, they work to change it, to mold it, using their technology and traditions. At the same time, however, the land, far more subtly, works to change its new owners. Sometimes the land bends to the colonists' will, but far more often what happens is a fusion, a symbiosis, where what evolves is something entirely new. The settlers are the masters of the land, yet they in turn are shaped by it.		We have, at last, been able to meet with some of the humans chosen by the emissaries. Contacting them has been difficult – many unfriendly eyes are upon them, and some have disappeared once again, perhaps for good. We have learned to be extremely cautious upon a first meeting, and only later, in a more secure location, to speak of more sensitive subjects. The Chosen are of course careful not to give away their emissaries' secrets. They listen, but do not speak. Earning their trust, and convincing to place us in contact with the emissaries, will be a long and slow process. But hard as it is, it will be a mere dress rehearsal for the task that lies ahead.
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Patience led us to the Chosen, Superior. Faith will guide us to the emissaries.
Prerequisite Objective(s)
Study Their Methodology
Can be completed by Mission:		Investigate Alien Activity
Unlocks Project(s):		Alien Operations
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