View source for Missions:Melvin and the Mysterious Malta Group - Attack the Malta computer lab for information

==== {{UL|Attack the Malta computer lab for information}} ====

'''Briefing'''

[[Crimson]] really sets me off sometimes. Now that we have a list of possible sites where our 'Friends' could be keeping Melvin Langley, he tells me about a government computer research lab that our 'Friends' have taken over and have been using illegally to move information and money around. He's known about this place for months and only now does he even mention this to me. It makes me so mad. The important thing, though, is that the information stored there could be the key to figuring out which of the detention facilities you located Melvin is being held in. {{green|Just tell me when you're ready and I'll tell you where the computer lab is.}} Keep on your toes, though, this probably won't be easy.

* {{green|Attack the Malta computer lab for information}}

I've marked the spot for you. The place should be full of computers with all kinds of interesting information and bad guys guarding them, but your goal is to find information on Melvin. Any other work you do won't be wasted, but isn't necessary. I'm sure you'll be able to handle this, but try to stay safe. Our 'Friends' are sure to have some heavy firepower around to protect the place.

'''Unnecessary Solicitation'''

The lab should be full of computers with all kinds of interesting information, but your goal is to find information on Melvin. Any other work you do won't be wasted, but isn't necessary.

{{Mission Objective|Entrance=This extensive computer lab has been completely taken over by Malta Group operatives. You shudder to think about what happened to the men and women who might once have worked here.|Primary=Find location in lab|Secondary=Find a clue about Melvin's location|Additional=|Completion=You located solid information on the Malta Group's activities and gained more information about Melvin Langley's possible location.}}

'''Enemies'''

{{Enemy Malta Operatives}}

{{Mission Clue|Name=Malta data disk|Text=This disc contains partial records of Malta Group activities for the past year. Not enough detail is given to make absolute connections, but the sheer volume of the files is unimaginable. From all around the world, the records list atrocity after atrocity committed in the interests of unethical governments and corporations, or for the Malta Group's own ends. There are records of assassinations of protesters in developing nations, of small governments toppled and larger governments intimidated, of hundreds of people illegally detained. Real democracies  destroyed by blackmail and murder, non-cooperative businesses destroyed for competing with the Malta Group's corporate sponsors, and record after record of young meta-humans taken by threat, blackmail, or mind control and forced to work in Malta Group. All of this, this nightmarish tangle of illegal spying, blackmail, and assassinations, all of it carried out in the name  of 'freedom' by people who've forgotten what that word means.}}

{{Mission Clue|Name=Controlled heroes|Text=This disc contains partial records of Malta Group activities. There are many names of meta-humans who have been persuaded or forced to work for Malta. The listed methods of persuasion range from bribery to blackmail to all-out mind control. The list of names from around the world numbers in the hundreds, and you know that it is only a partial list.}}

{{Mission Clue|Name=A report on Meta-human Assets|Text=You found this report on a computer in a Malta Group data center. It's a primer of sorts, for new agents who are assigned to handle meta-human assets. In other words, to help people who are in charge of super-humans under the Malta Group's ruthless control. It encourages handlers to use any tactic necessary, from bribes and threats, to brainwashing, mind control, and kidnapping loved ones. The techniques described are brutal and inhuman, but the rationale is even more chilling. Since these people are citizens of their governments, so the thinking goes, it is their duty to use their extraordinary abilities to defend those governments. Therefore, since it is their duty anyway, those powers rightfully belong to those governments, and should be used to the best interest of those governments. And it falls to the Malta Group to come in and take control of those abilities when a government fails to do so. All in the interest of freedom, of course.

The implications of this twisted logic are chilling.}}

{{Mission Clue|Name=Paragon personnel transfers|Text=The data you found here lists transfers of Malta Group personnel and prisoners. Though all are identified only by code names or numbers, someone with sufficient knowledge of Malta activities could probably figure out who was sent where and when.}}

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:Perimeter watch commencing.<br />
'''Combat Start:''' <br />
:Perimeter breach confirmed. Prepare to initiate combat.}}
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'''Before Combat:''' <br />
:Location secure. Watch commencing.<br />
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:Perimeter breach confirmed. Prepare to initiate combat.}}
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'''Before Combat:''' <br />
:End room secure. Watch commencing.<br>
'''Combat Start:''' <br />
:Perimeter breach confirmed. Prepare to initiate combat.}}

'''Debriefing'''

I'll take all the data you've collected, {{Character}}. This is certain to be very interesting.

Hmmm...

This doesn't quite give us an exact lock on Melvin, but it's more than I hoped for. I'm going to consult with [[Crimson]] and see if we can find a way to decipher this. We're finally close to freeing poor Melvin Langley, and it's all thanks to you.<noinclude>[[Category:Indigo Missions]]</noinclude>