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From WXLM-News broadcast, 11/30/06
Police continue to investigate the bizarre murder case of Herbert Wa, who was beheaded in the middle of the Thousand Miracle restau- rant last Sunday. Although the restaurant was apparently at peak din- ing hours when the murder occurred, the police have yet to produce a cooperative eyewitness. As a further outlandish wrinkle, Mr. Wa’s head
From a DeVries briefing letter, dated 03/24/08
Jeffries:
If you’ve looked over the contract, you’ve probably already noticed that you’re looking at a hell of a lot of money for a simple extraction. Well, don’t be fooled — this is no simple extraction. Things are never simple where the Nakato are involved.
I expect you to spend some time doing research on the flight over. You’ll need to know everything you can about these people to pull off this mission. I hope your chameleon skills are up to the task; Japan’s still fairly xenophobic after all these years.
Of course, it doesn’t help that you’re up against one of the major organized crime forces in the world, and going after them in their own backyard — where half the zaibatsu in Osaka are likely in their pockets. I’m sure you’ve heard all the stories about the Nakato — amphet- amines and spike dealing, vice crimes, money laundering — seems like pretty tame stuff when you compare it to some of the other jobs, right? Wrong. The Nakato are bad, bad news. I’m serious about doing your research; you won’t have a chance in Hell otherwise. For one, you know that smuggling of Utopia-banned technologies they do? Don’t think for a minute that there aren’t any gimmicks with military appli- cations in their inventory. Some of those might even be capable of dropping Geryon.
For another, you’ll have to watch out for the whole neighborhood; in Japan, the Nakato have popularity and approval ratings that are through the roof. The number three comic in Japan is a “true life” rag about a nova who serves his Yakuza masters, helping out the little guy and tweaking the noses of foreign authorities. They’ve made a damn cartoon out of it, too; and the thing’s been exported around to American and European markets, where we can only presume it’s stepping up their approval ratings as well.
Finally, you can bet that they’ve got a nova or two up their sleeves, and we have no idea what sort of powers they’re packing. That comic shows somebody with superspeed, but there’s no reason to believe it’s based on real life; probably just bankrolled by some kobun. So be ready to expect anything.
Full dossier’s on the chip. Good luck, and watch yourself. If you pull this off, I’ll buy you the cognac of your choice, deal? Khalif
has yet to be recovered; one source at the coroner’s office admitted that “it was if his head was bitten off and swallowed.”
Excerpt from report filed by Yukiko Takemitsu; 08/09/07
Telepathic scans on the subject are difficult and still not fully con- clusive. I have difficulty penetrating the layers of his mental defenses; to do so causes him great pain, and I experience some feedback. As such, I would like to request a prescription of adrenocilin before our next session.
The subject, Ma Yuo, is a lifetime resident of Hong Kong. He was recruited into the triad-sponsored Yellow Silks tong at the age of 13; he killed his first man at the age of 15. This much is easy to discern.
However, it is when I pry behind the door painted with the words “Heaven Thunder” that the defenses become very thick. Either he has been psychologically conditioned to resist telepathic inquiry, or he is holding me out with emotions even stronger than a survival instinct. The threat of something worse than death is very real to him.
The images I receive are fleeting. Ma was apparently only lightly involved in any heroin dealing or use, for it is not a primary motif at all. He does touch on images of fan-tan cards and paigow dominoes, lead-
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ing me to believe that he is indeed a ranking soldier in the triad’s gambling ring, as Investigations reports.
It is as I attempt to go deeper that the other imagery rises up. I catch the repeated chant of oaths of loyalty, many oaths of loyalty. In all, a gruesome fate is promised if he reveals the secrets. The chanting is accompanied by shadowy images — demons with the smiles of sharks, a man on fire, a gout of green smoke with the lips of a woman. At this point, the pain becomes too great, and I am forced to withdraw.
I can only conclude that these final images are how the subject chooses to acknowledge the nova enforcers that we know the Heaven Thunders keep on retainer. There is no evidence to confirm that their chairman is a nova himself. I will attempt to pry further tomorrow, if that is your wish, but I fear that the subject is in very real danger of death if I pry further. His emotional state is such that dying of fright is quite possible. I await your decision.
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From a Team Tomorrow Americas trainee briefing; date 01/10/07
When it comes to organized crime, we have three real concerns in the Americas. The first is the trouble with various gangs, a few of whom now have nova leaders. You’ve probably heard enough about the rise of the Crips and the Spangler Posse, and how their leaders have turned them into something much deadlier; however, these are moderately localized threats, and not the subject of this lecture. Secondly, there’s the stateside versions of the Nakato, Camparelli-Zukhov and Heaven Thunder — but these are largely United States-local, and small stuff in comparison to their hometown versions. The real lords of organized crime across two-thirds of our protectorate are the Medellín cartel.
The Medellín are virtually unchallenged for their position as kings of the cocaine market. Not long after the Galatea explosion, the other Colombian cartels began suffering crippling hits on their farms, processing plants, even households — you name it. To nobody’s surprise, this swath of destruction had novas behind it. These novas — two of them at first, although we believe there are more now — turned out to be hired agents of the Medellín drug cartel. The Medellín slaughtered all their rivals and set up their own household as the unquestioned rulers of the South American cocaine and cocaine variants trade. Currently, we suspect that one of these novas is the head of the cartel, and the other serves as his lieutenant; files for both are available on the database.
Ultimately, there’s good news and bad news about the Medellín. The good news is that they’re pretty localized; they can be found where the cocaine market is, and not much of anywhere else. The bad news is that because they don’t really compete with any of the other criminal cartels, there’s not much chance of them going to war with, say, the Nakato. They stick to the cocaine business because it’s hugely profitable for them, and they’re in turn guarded by not only their own nova enforcers, but their layers of contacts. They make more money than they can easily spend; as a result, a lot of their funds are tied up in various Caribbean banks. This “investment” has given them a lot of allies among the appropriate nations, to say nothing of the various Central and South American governments they have in their pockets. So as you can see, they’re a real problem for us. We can’t go in after them guns blazing, because they have too many allies that might get us in legal trouble. We can’t easily set them against rival syndicates, because they’re not in competition. That’s why it’s one of our primary objectives to continue our goodwill efforts in the Americas; every field we terraform or power plant we set up makes us look a little better to the governmental high-ups. If we can convince the various heads of state that Project Utopia is a better and more valuable friend to have than the Medellín, then maybe we’ll get the sanctioning and help we need to remove these parasites once and for all.
Until then, it’s going to be very tenuous going. So if you wind up crossing a Medellín in the course of your duties, hold back and play it safe. Let us know. We can still oppose them, but we have to be careful about it.