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Dust. Dust everywhere. A storm of debris crumbled all around him, the adamantine compound falling apart in flurries of smouldering blazes as though on the Day of the Last Judgement. The old man curled into a defensive position, protecting his grey-white head within his arms and knees as the world came to an end.

Suddenly, he was grabbed roughly by the collar of his prison uniform.

"Dr Albert Hirsch?" the voice asked of the aged toad-like face that stared back with unnerving stolidity. One did not become a 45 years' CIA veteran cringing at the face of death. In some ways, this was blissful relief for the 75 years old fated to spend the remainder of his life caged by four walls...

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SECRET CIA PRISON COMPOUND BREACHED
February 2nd, 2007 -- BETHEL, AK -- Last morning around 4:00 AM, two locals waging a dogsled race witnessed what they described to be a series of "mighty fearsome explosions" some miles away across the Kuskokwim River. The authorities were immediately alerted and an investigation which followed exposed a clandestine prison system owned and operated by the Central Intelligence Agency. It is unclear as to exactly what caused these explosions or if any casualties have been reported. Details related to the case are expected to remain classified until the completion of the investigation. However, reliable sources suspect that at least three inmates have escaped the confines and five unknowns perished [...] continued on A-4

2008. Three years have passed since the exposure of Operation Blackbriar. The former CIA Director Ezra Kramer resigned voluntarily following an inconclusive investigation into the extent of his involvement in Operation Blackbriar. Deputy Director Noah Volsen and Dr Albert Hirsch were each taken into custody, the latter tried before a private tribunal and sentenced to lifetime imprisonment with parole eligibility after ten while the former vanished on bail.

The black ops kill squad, by Treadstone, Blackbriar or any other name, was no more. At least, not for three years - and not on American soil.

The world was terribly ill. Crime was on the rise. Penitentiaries overflowed and the judicial power had proven itself indeed fallible. The legacy of the Cold War had bestowed upon humanity the power to utterly destroy themselves and the great blue marble along with them. International relations were precarious. Environmental problems went overlooked in blissful ignorance. The class dichotomy had long established itself to be a perpetual reproduction. People died because they did not share common religious beliefs, because they did not share common political stance, because they were simply unlucky.

The solution? A global governance, an invisible yet ubiquitous presence composed of like minded leaders of diverse ethnic, cultural and professional backgrounds. Together, they toil to achieve geopolitical stability, to bring the world one step closer to Novi Orbis - the New World. Ezra Kramer was inaugurated as a member of the board in this highly reclusive vigilante organisation to represent American interests and in February of 2007, an elaborate scheme saw to it that Dr Hirsch's finely specialised services became available once more.

True to the former DCI's vision, Operation Terracain was up and running within matter of months. Assets from its predecessors were carefully filtered, profiled and contacted. Impressionable youths eager to make a difference in the world were recruited fresh out of academic institutions, of military, of the streets. Where they came from did not matter, for once training was over, their only origin would be The Facility, of which there were several and were distinguished by division numbers. 415 71st Street, the Genesis that started it all, was Cell-00.

People say that the third time is charmed. For those few who occasionally wonder, 'whatever became of that Ezra Kramer?', the answer is hardly simple. But the question to be answered is no longer why or how. Rather, one must ask: will it last?

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