Encrypted Infiltration Plan Report

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[File Code]: PI-NA-4 T2
[Recorder]: Strike Team Leader
[Recorded]: 1:30 AM, the night before the fourth operation
[Clearance]: Strike team and Fortune Chip outpost personnel only

Objectives:
Rescue the people trapped in Project Ark
Retrieve Project Ark's core intelligence
Infiltrate the core zone of Ark City

Team Composition:
Recon Team: 2
Strike Team A: 4
Strike Team B: 3 (including 1 new recruit)
Support Team: 3 (including 2 relatives of the fallen)

Plan:
Using critical intelligence recovered during the third operation (may the fallen rest in peace), the strike team will enter Ark City through an old drainage line on the outskirts of Sector 7, bypassing the main gate and transport routes.
Rescue is no longer the primary objective. The team must reach Project Ark's central information level and recover files, footage, or communication logs that can expose the truth about Ark City. If the core data cannot be extracted, leave behind coordinates that can be accessed from outside.
The team will split into three groups. Recon will clear the route and verify safe checkpoints. Strike will copy the data and leave coordinate markers along the way. Support will remain at the edge of Sector 7 and keep the extraction route open. If any group loses contact for more than twenty minutes, no one is to turn back and search for them. Continue the mission or withdraw according to the contingency plan. This order is absolute!

Timeline:
R-120 Strike team assembles
R-90 Operation begins; enter the perimeter
R-70 Enter Ark City through the drainage line
R At sunrise, enter the central information level
R+10 If the data cannot be extracted, deploy an encrypted beacon
R+30 Withdraw
R+120 Sector 7 gate closes; no further waiting

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...Mainframe-encrypted data detected...
...Decrypting...

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The first three failures cost us most of our people and shattered what little trust remained. This fourth attempt will probably be our last.
We've abandoned the rescue objective. I know now that it can't be done. All three failed operations did was bring us closer to Ark City's central information level.
I was second-in-command during the third operation, so the responsibility now falls to me. The survivors look at me with such trust that I can barely meet their eyes. They don't know I'm leading them to their deaths!
I'm sorry, Morande. The infiltration plan was your dream, but I know I won't be able to finish it. Your death bought us only one name—Elias—and I don't even know where to begin looking.
If any of you make it out alive, head for Prometheus Camp. It's the only place left to go. Once you're there, carry on our mission.