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Overview

Crimson is a hero contact in Peregrine Island. Crimson is a Mutation origin contact. His level range is 45-50.

Introductions

Contact Introduced By

New Contact(s)

Information

Wetwork agent

If Indigo is the velvet glove than the agent code named Crimson is the steel fist. His heightened senses help him follow the trails that his partner scouts and then his skill with weapons covers the rest. He is totally committed to ending the threat presented by the Malta group.

Initial Contact

Store

• Inspirations
• Level 45 Mutation Single Origin Enhancements (?% base costs)
• Level 50 Mutation Single Origin Enhancements (?% base costs)

Badge Mission

Story Arc

Missions

Stop the Malta Group raid on the Crey science facility

Briefing

If you've worked with me before, you know the ground rules, but I'm going to take a minute out and repeat them, just in case. You are not working for me, you are working with me. This is an important distinction, because it bases our working relationship on trust and mutual benefit. I will never send you to do anything distasteful or wrong, and in exchange I ask that you respect that the sources of my information are confidential. I will never steer you wrong, but I am under no obligation to tell you what's going on or how I know about it. That doesn't mean that I won't, but sometimes that's how this kind of work need to happen.

All of that said, I have just a situation right now that needs to be taken care of. Malta Group operatives are up to something nasty in a Crey science facility, and it wouldn't be a good idea to let them finish that raid.

Crey and Malta may work together from time to time, but that does not make them friends. They just often have similar ends they wish to achieve, and see the other as a good means toward it. So this kind of thing isn't that uncommon. Your goal is to find out what Malta wanted and to defeat any and all opposition at that location. I trust that you can handle this. When you're done, meet with Indigo in person. She may have some information for you.

Mission Objective(s)

Though the high tech machines and computers of this lab all hum with power, the entire lab is deathly quiet.

• Defeat all Malta in lab
  • Discover Malta goals
  • Find the Key

Debriefing

Missing Debriefing

Missing Mission name

Briefing

A young fellow by the name of Robert Able has been targeted for capture by the Malta Group. I know that they've been watching this kid for about a decade, and if I'm right, then more than his life is in danger. I think it would be safer if Robert was out from under their watchful eye and under our protection.

Robert's out on a little camping trip right now along with his folks. You'll need to rescue the whole family, or else Malta will use them as leverage. Once you've handled that situation, you'll need to meet with Indigo. She'll have more information for you at that time.

Mission Objective(s)

• Unknown

You rescued the Able Family from the Malta Group.

Mission Objective(s)

• Talk to Indigo

Briefing Indigo

The Able family's been under surveillance by our 'friends' for several years. They get visits from Malta operatives, usually twice a year, even though they've moved several times. Other than that, they're completely unremarkable. He's an mechanical engineer specializing in air conditioning systems, she's an administrative assistant with a degree in English, they vote conservatively, and have excellent savings. They've never had marital counseling and neither of them have any criminal record. Robert is a good student who used to have a weight problem until he hit a growth spurt two years ago. He'll probably be joining the army to get enough money for school, unless he gets some student aid. Nice enough people, but not the sort of folks Malta would be interested in.

Except that Robert was conceived en vitro at a clinic called Genrove Fertility. Shortly afterward, agents of our 'friends' started visiting the Able family. I have the feeling these two events are related. The Genrove clinic itself was destroyed in the war, but their records are being kept by the company that owned them. That company is Falcone Pharmaceuticals, a front for our 'friends' from Malta. I'll give you the location, you'll need to find the file on what makes the Ables special. After you get them, take them to Crimson. If we're right, then he should have the net step ready for you.

Mission Objective(s)

• Find the Able's files

You found records that explain the reason for the Malta Group's interest in the Able family.

	Unknown clue
	Missing clue

Mission Objective(s)

• Talk to Crimson

Briefing Crimson

This is some serious bad science you've uncovered here, and it gets worse. I've traced all of the orders concerning Robert, and they all come from the same organization within the Malta Group. These guys are a part of Malta, but they seem to have been operating semi-autonomously since the early 90's, and have been running some extra operations on the side. One of these side operations was the Able family and the production of Robert. They've also recently ramped up another project, and I want to make sure that this second project does not come to fruition. That's going to be your job.

You'll have to accomplish two objectives in order to do that. First, you'll need to take out the operative in charge of the place, a Malta agent called Helix Black 0-9-0. Secondly, I want you to find their mainframe. Destroyed or taken, they cannot be allowed to have it.

Mission Objective(s)

• Defeat Helix Black 0-9-0
  • Find Malta mainframe

You shut down the Malta lab. The words of Helix Black 0-9-0 spoke after his defeat still echo in your mind.

The old guard

After his defeat, the Malta operative called Helix Black said the following to you: 'You're taking our future away from us. When the Cold War ended and the Berlin Wall fell, that's when it all went wrong. Younger agents asked what we were supposed to do now, and we didn't have an answer. So they made up a new one. There weren't any communists left to fight, so we'd help expand democracy and capitalism. Expand them by any means necessary. That was the new guard. That's when Malta started to change. 'Before, everything we did we did to protect the Western world. The new guard, they say they're doing that, but they also want wealth and power and even more control. If we could just have gotten Roger back. Re-made him in Robert. He'd run Malta for years. He'd get it on track. He would have changed everything! It all would have been right again!'

	An old tape back-up
	This large spool of magnetic tape weighs nearly 20 pounds. This kind of computer equipment hasn't been used in decades. It's labeled: 'Personality Recording 'Subject: Roger Vrabel 'Date: 1981'

Debriefing

You just averted a pretty tragic fate for Robert Able. That kid's going to have enough trouble dealing with the knowledge that he's not his parents' biological son, but at least he won't have to worry about getting his brain overwritten by a copy of a long-dead CIA spook and conspiracy founder.

I lived through the period when the change between the new and the old guard within Malta took place. Trust me on this, whatever Helix Black told you about the old Malta Group being all high-minded and great compared to the new one, they both looked like the same bunch of jerks from the outside.

This kind of mind-transfer stuff crops up ever few years when someone gives some mad genius too much discretionary research money. Getting an accurate copy of a personality or getting it copied over correctly is usually where these things fall down. These guys were probably pulling strings within Malta to get their hands on Crey's Revenant Hero equipment so they'd have a way to put that copy of Vrabel's personality into Robert's head.

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