New Jericho missions

Phase One

Before mission:

Abongameli Smith: Welcome to the team. Good to be working with you. If we're going to save the world, we'll need all the help we can get. At this stage, we've granted you low-level access to our network and set up a liaison office to work with your people.

But, as I'm sure you can understand, we need to take things slow at first. Your organization has a ... reputation. It's hard to know which side you'll take, and we need to know that you share our values.

At the moment, we're setting up a mission to recapture an old satellite control base. What for: Well, there's a saying in New Jericho: Tobias West always has a plan. And he has a plan for the equipment and the data we can get from that base. You'll find out more when the time is right.

So, are you up for it? We'd really appreciate your help. Site added to geoscape: Phase One. A new diplomatic mission has been received from New Jericho.

Mission briefing:

Tobias West's plan to save humanity involves gaining control of this old satellite control base. A small, surgical strike team should be able to eliminate the alien presence before the New Jericho scientists and engineers move in.

After mission:

Tobias West: I just wanted to pass on my personal thanks and congratulations to your operatives for their work at the base. Fortuna eruditis favet, as they say - fortune favors the prepared mind!

The intelligence we've retrieved is going to prove extremely helpful with all the projects we're working on, and the satellite control tech may one day help turn the tide of this war.

This operation may have seemed like a small thing, but the devil's in the details, and so is God.

Speaking of details, we'll now have to actually make all of this work with our hardware and software. We have limited resources, so we need our brightest and best focused on the job. It'll take time, but it'll be worth it in the end. You'll see.

Rewards:

New Jericho's attitude to Phoenix Project +5, TECH +200, MATERIALS +200, FOOD +200. Diplomacy status is changed to SUPPORTIVE if reputation is higher than +25%.

Phase Two

Before mission:

Sophia Villanova: The equipment you helped us recover from that satellite control base has been invaluable, but for the next part of West's plan, we need something a little more exotic: a pre-war AI capable of accessing and rebooting certain military satellites.

The kind of satellites that no-one was supposed to know about. In other words, precisely the kind of thing West pays extra attention to.

We have identified where one of these AI units is located - in an old Scarab vehicle, left to rust somewhere near the following coordinates.

Sophia Villanova: With the help of the Phoenix Project, New Jericho is going to stop the Pandorans forever. Tobias said as much to me, and he doesn't lie. He can be a difficult man to work for, a perfectionist, but he always tells the truth. Site added to Geoscape: Phase Two.

Mission briefing:

We have located an old pre-war AI unit that has the capabilities we require. We need to retrieve the AI from its current location inside an abandoned Scarab vehicle. Once this task is complete, the AI should be able to reinitialize the secret satellite network and provide us with access to the old missile systems that are still in orbit.

After mission:

Abongameli Smith: Good work! The progress we've made with your help has been tremendous. This is really encouraging.

I do wonder sometimes, though... do you think a weapons-based approach is the right solution? I had thought the Phoenix Project was looking for something more subtle. D you ever worry that a military solution to the Pandoran plague will leave us living on a dead planet?

Well, I hope you're right. And I do think West knows what he's doing. Sometimes it's hard, I guess, not knowing what the plan is. West talks a lot about reason, but sometimes we also need faith.

Rewards:

New Jericho's attitude to Phoenix Project +5, TECH +200, MATERIALS +500, FOOD +200. Diplomatic relations with New Jericho have changed to SUPPORTIVE if reputation is higher than +50%.

Union

Before mission:

Sophia Villanova: Did you know that a lifetime ago, I was part of the Phoenix Project? When the mist came, I waited and waited to be activated, but the call never came. I thought I'd been abandoned. I didn't understand how bad things were at Phoenix Point. But without Tobias, I would have died.

People think he's some kind of dictator. And I understand why. He has a vision and the means to realize it. We're not used to that kind of power. But power is exactly what we need in order to win this war.

Speaking entirely for myself, an alliance between the Phoenix Project and New Jericho would bring together everything I've ever believed in. Please think about it.

Player choice 1: New Jericho is the way forward. Player choice 2: We're still skeptical.

New Jericho is the way forward

Sophia Villanova: Then I'm sure you will accept this little contribution, from a former operative. TECH +150, MATERIALS +150, Disciples of Anu's attitude to Phoenix Project -5, Synedrion's attitude to Phoenix Project -5

We're still skeptical.

Sophia Villanova: You've come this far. You can see that Tobias has a plan. Please don't lose faith now. New Jericho's attitude to Phoenix Project -2

Launch Codes

Tobias West: Consider the individual human being. So much processing capacity, so much knowledge, all wrapped up in flesh and bone. Unique, inviolate, impossible to duplicate. We are remarkable, are we not? That is the source of power, and of my current headache.

I need access to a specific individual. Only this individual has the knowledge and abilities I need. His name is Ravi Chaudri, a former computer technician at Pokhran-III. My records tell me that he used to work with members of your organization, a long time ago. Perhaps you could retrieve him for me?

Player accepts mission: Tobias West: Excellent. I'm transmitting his coordinates as we speak. Site added to Geoscape: Launch Codes.

Mission briefing:

Ravi Chaudri, a technician from the Pokhran-III nuclear research project is believed to be hiding out at Bellamy. Chaudri is known to have critical information about his country's missile defense program. We need to find him and learn what he knows. Our team needs to deliver Chaudri to a secure New Jericho facility.

After mission:

Sophia Villanova: Congratulations on the success of this mission. As usual, the Phoenix Project is reliable and effective. Ravi Chaudri has now been safely delivered to our secure facilities and our investigator will begin his debriefing immediately.

Chaudri's knowledge of the Indian nuclear program is essential to the plan. Hopefully, we can convince him to assist us. It would be a matter of deep regret if we had to use force. Reason, as Tobias says, always has to be our first option

Rewards:

New Jericho's attitude to Phoenix Project +5, TECH +300, MATERIALS +400, FOOD +300. Diplomatic relations with New Jericho have changed to ALLIED if reputation is higher than +75%.