»INTRNL: Leviathan

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So, Leviathan. What's our next move? We're going to need to evaluate sooner than later, because I'm willing to bet that news will travel fast that there's a new weapon in play.

We'll need to get a team into Thuringia ASAP. As soon as it's livable. Did we get any estimates on how much radiation was released in the explosion? It should dissipate quickly without a medium to cause fallout, but the debris from the battle will probably hold a lot for a while, and I'm not sure what kind of psychic noise might still be lingering. I recommend simple probes first--they're disposable and not susceptible to that kind of feedback, so if they go down then it's not the end of the world. And we need to see what's left before someone else beats us to the punch.

As far as internal affairs go, I'm going to propose that information pertaining to the event be classified as zeta for now, until we have a better idea of what's going on. The last thing we need is more leaks at a sensitive time like this.

We're also going to need to figure out what to do about Lazurith. He can't just keep sitting on Honshu forever, and he's too valuable to send out into the field like he did today. Caliban and Viper singled him out in that fight--I'm sure they were hoping to do the same to us that we did to them. This also suggests that Viper is on the level, though we can't jump to conclusions about that. Have you spoken with our other contact yet about that?

Let me know. You know how much I hate sitting idle.

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