This brotherhood of the Russian mafia formed in the late 1980s around a core of Afghan War veterans. During the conflict, a platoon of the 40th Army accidentally entered Leng. The survivors emerged with a
deal: live humans in exchange for emeralds and rubies. The paid-off FSB assumes the Tadjbegskye are trafficking girls into China, but then it also assumes the 50-year-old combat vets are still in their 20s. Travel in Leng freezes much about humanity, including the aging process. They tattoo lighthouses and winged hounds on their torsos, horns on their heads and widened mouths on their faces.
“London, England” or just “London” is their code for Leng, and they use empty oligarchs’ mansions in Mayfair as impromptu safe houses. Scotland Yard’s SCD9 suspects the Tadjbegskye in the 2014 robbery of gems and antiques (including a jade amulet in the shape of a winged hound) from Christie’s.
Delta Green has run across the Tadjbegskye during missions in Af- ghanistan, and in more than a few trucking yards worldwide.
» 9 APR 2010: Digivideomagic, Inc., announces an “exciting evolution” in the history of long-running UFO exposé
Phenomen-X. It would no longer be produced as a weekly web series, but would instead become the PX Penumbra, an umbrella brand for any and all contributors who wanted to share their own recordings of strange phenomena with the
Phenomen-X stamp of authenticity. The PX Penumbra shares advertising revenue with contributors, who are a mix of conspiracy theorists and mocking hip
- sters. In-house production costs drop to zero and viewership increases, ensuring the brand’s survival.
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» 20 APR 2010: An offshore oil rig run by Transocean for BP,
Deepwater Horizon, explodes in the Gulf of Mexico. The accident kills 11 and injures 17. A resulting oil spill causes the largest environmental
disaster in U.S. history.
» 4 MAY 2010: Aided by a suborned guard, former MAJESTIC director Gavin Ross escapes the Program’s custody.
» 6 MAY 2010: A trillion-dollar Flash Crash lasts 36 minutes, shock- ing the stock markets. Investigators later blame a trader for using
spoofing algorithms to automatically place and then cancel thou- sands of orders.
» 6 MAY 2010: Researchers announce the completion of Neanderthal genome sequencing. Analysis suggests that humans and Neanderthals interbred. » 20 MAY 2010: Researchers announce the creation of Mycoplasma mycoides
JCVI-syn1.0, a self-replicating, synthetic bacterial cell.
» 27 MAY 2010: Bradley Manning is arrested in Iraq and charged with leaking classified information. Further charges of espionage and aid- ing the enemy follow.
» 21 JUN 2010: Funded by Cho Chu-tsao’s companies, Tcho-Tcho entrepre- neurs launch a medical marijuana cultivation center in Colorado. Fu- eled by unnatural additives, their product is robust, flavorful, po
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tent, and popular. Tcho-Tcho cultivators spring up in a dozen states and Washington, D.C., over the next few years.
» 15 JUL 2010: Journalists report a Belarus digital security compa - ny’s identification of the flash-drive-delivered computer worm Stux- net. Later reporting and research suggests the worm was developed by the NSA’s Tailored Access Operations unit, the CIA, the Mossad’s Unit 8200, and GCHQ. Stuxnet is blamed for the sabotage of up to 1,000
uranium-enrichment centrifuges in Iran’s nuclear program, which set the program back by a year.
» 10 AUG 2010: The World Health Organization announces the end of the swine flu pandemic that began in early 2009.
» 19 AUG 2010: The U.S. withdraws from Iraq its last brigade official -
ly assigned to combat missions. New brigades, deployed ostensibly as advisors, continue to face combat.
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» 24 AUG 2010: Mexican soldiers find the corpses of 72 undocumented im - migrants from Central and South America, executed by Los Zetas after they refused to work for the cartel. The police chief investigating the massacre is later murdered by suspected cartel members.
» 13 SEP 2010: Delta Green agents investigate strange contaminations and mutations in a town outside Houston, Texas. They come into con
- flict with a splinter cell of the infamous MS-13 gang. The gang mem - bers had adopted a bizarre green statue of a dragon or lizard, remi
- niscent of Aztec designs, as their personal idol, and had become more and more depraved over months of praying to it. After one of the Del
- ta Green agents sends their superiors an encrypted text of only one word — “LLOIGOR” — an inexplicable explosion levels the gang’s head
- quarters, killing all the agents and most of the gang members. The statue is never recovered.
» 12 OCT 2010: Columbia graduate student Michael Wei murders Malcolm and Dinah Ridgeway and their six children in Alliance, New Jersey. A Delta Green investigation discovers that a mathematical equation seemingly affected Wei’s mind. Several other murders are perpetrated by mathematicians with whom Wei shared his discovery.
» 17 NOV 2010: CERN announces that it has produced and trapped anti - matter for the first time, maintaining 38 antihydrogen atoms for 1/6 second in a powerful magnetic field.
» 28 NOV 2010: Wikileaks releases the first of 251,287 classified American diplomatic cables, dated between December 1966 and February 2010, provided by Bradley Manning.
» 17 DEC 2010: An investor consortium acquires Xe Services, former - ly Blackwater International, and renames it Academi. Academi’s new board of directors include former Attorney General John Ashcroft and Adm. Bobby Ray Inman (ret.), a former MAJESTIC director. Academi soon receives the first of many lucrative CIA contracts.
» 17 DEC 2010: The Arab Spring begins with the Tunisian Revolution. Insurgencies and uprisings would rock the Middle East over the next year and a half, leading to an authoritarian crackdown and coup in Egypt, a coup in Yemen, civil wars in Libya and Syria, and an esca
- lation of the Iraq insurgency to a civil war with the Islamic State of Iraq and the Levant (ISIL). During this time, various Delta Green teams (from the Program) scour the countries for known unnatural ar
- tifacts and targets.
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