PP victory

Road to PP victory. Link to all base game video cinematics: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kbnIKBPVUxY&list=FLQhAicnrnoNbs48sv4Vtpjg&index=1&t=1s

Tutorial

Mission 1

My name is Randolph Symes. I am the last leader of the Phoenix Project. If you are hearing this, I am most likely dead. But in happier news, a Scarab has been sent to pick you up and its artificial intelligence will take you to Phoenix Point. Get to it, quickly and safely.

Mission 2

If you are hearing this message, an alert has been triggered and you will need to clear out the enemy forces. There may be others who received this signal - help them if you can It's all up to you now. Good luck, operatives. Symes out.

New game

The Phoenix Project was founded on October 24th, 1945. The second war to end all wars was over but there were those who understood that we could no longer afford to think in terms of nations and empires. For a time, the Phoenix Project successfully navigated the political conflicts of its era. That was our Golden Age. Phoenix Project operatives scoured the world for clues. We had bases in two dozen countries. Even the heavens were not off-limits. But out there, on the far side of the Moon, began our downfall. The failure of the Phoenix-2 mission exposed us to our enemies in the UN. Stripped of resources and scattered to the winds, we were reduced to a secret... a memory.

When the Pandoravirus woke up, we should have been the first line of defence. When huge clouds of mist appeared over the sea, when people started vanishing, we should have figured out what was going on. And when those people started coming back, changed, hostile, alien, we should have been ready to fight. But we failed.

The ecosystem started to change, imperceptibly at first, then faster and faster. Three factions arose: New Jericho, trying to restore order and purity; Synedrion, hoping to build a world without hierarchies; and the Disciples of Anu, a new, syncretic religion dedicated to adaptation and biological change. At war with the world and at odds with each other, these factions cannot find a way forward. Now the mist is returning, and armies are rising from the sea. Without the Phoenix Project, humanity will fall. It's time to rise from the ashes.

Research The Phoenix Archives

Cinematics are played:

Randolph Symes was the last leader of the Phoenix Project. His great-grandfather had been there when it was founded, and he was there to witness its end. When we took back Phoenix Point, we found his notes. In his final days, as the world collapsed around him, he had been working frantically to understand the Pandoravirus.

Somewhere in the complicated history of the Project, in decades of missions and investigations, there had to be an answer. His notes were damaged, too many of the files corrupted. But perhaps, if we could retrace his steps, we could figure out where his journey had taken him... and what the answers he had discovered would mean for us.

Randolph Symes III's notes indicate the existence of a private retreat owned by the Symes family, used as a place of meditation and research. It may contain information that could help us understand what Symes was trying to achieve in his final days. We should send our operatives to investigate.

Site added to Geoscape: The Symes Retreat

The Symes Retreat

Eliminate enemy forces to gain access to the Symes Retreat.

Mission briefing: Our operatives have reached Randolph Symes III's private retreat, where we may be able to find additional information that may help us decipher his notes and make sense of his activities. However, our scans indicate the enemy presence in the area.

After mission: Our operatives have retrieved a big batch of documents from the Symes Retreat. These should allow us to better understand what Symes was doing and what he discovered. Analyze the documents.

We have identified 3 key sites that Symes singled out as particularly relevant to his research into the history of the Phoenix Project and previous outbreaks of unusual diseases. It is imperative that we send operatives to investigate these sites as soon as the strategic situation allows. Cinematics are played:

As the world fell apart around us, it was difficult not to feel guilty. Some chose to be proactive and fight, but not me. I came here instead. My best weapon is my mind, and I need silence to put it to work. The history of the Phoenix Project is a complex tapestry. In Russia, Turkey, Britain, Spain... not one unbroken lineage, but a tangle of organizations, each passing the torch to the next, with only one goal: to protect the human race.

But protect it from what? Did they know about the Pandoravirus, and if so, how? The answers are out there. So much has been investigated and collected and analyzed. But it’s all scattered… lost. I don’t know if it’s possible to track it all down, but I have to try. There’s only one thing I’m sure of: I can’t stay here anymore.

Rewards: TECH +100, MATERIALS +300, 3 Sites added to Geoscape: Frozen, Prisoner of Ice, Rise by sin, by virtue fall.

3 sites

Player needs to visit all of them.

Frozen

Our operatives have reached a defunct research station in northern Siberia identified in Symes' notes as a significant point of interest. The doors stand open and there are no signs of life. Investigate.

The scientists who worked at this station are all long dead; their mutated bodies lie frozen in strange, demoniac poses. It's easy for our operatives to retrieve the samples they were researching, which Randolph Symes came all this way to examine. Ok. Cinematics are played:

In 2022, a group of researchers investigating an Anthrax outbreak caused by melting permafrost in northern Siberia went missing. The Phoenix Project tried to find out what happened to them but our resources were stretched too thin and our allies in the Russian government were losing influence. So we let it go.

All these years later, looking at these samples, I wonder... is this where it started? Is this the first outbreak? If we had done more... could we have stopped it? The genetic material I have recovered might hold the answers, but I'm not sure I want to know.