Background

Mother: Welcome to Planet Shackleton

Planet Shackleton

SEEGSON CORP.

INTELLIGENCE FILE

SUBJECT: WEYLAND YUTANI RESEARCH FACILITIES ON SHACKLETON

Planet Shackleton

The Planet: Shackleton is a small frozen world in the outer reaches of a system in Three World Empire space. The atmosphere is a stormy mix of methane and nitrogen. The surface is made up of rock-hard water ice. Surface temperatures range from -100°C to -175°C. Planet surface thought to be uninhabited other than the Weyalnd Yutani facility SK-1098. No commercial resources. A small number of remote-sensing satellites orbit the planet.

The Base: SK-1098 is a high security research facility operated by Weyland Yutani. The base is largely constructed beneath the level of the surface ice, with only the landing facilities, cargo handling bays, communication arrays and reactor cooling towers at surface level. Details of the base are incomplete, but it is believed that there are 6-10 sub levels below the surface. Power and heat are provided by triple-redundant mid-range reactors on the lower levels of the base. The current understanding of the base layout is as follows:

Station Layout

SURFACE: Landing Facilities, Security, Elevators, Communication Array, Cooling Towers

SUB 1: Administration and Main Stores

SUB 2: Habitation, Mess and Recreation, RM Barracks & Armory

SUB: 3&4: Neurotoxin Research Labs

SUB 5: Computer Mainframe, Command Center

SUB 6&7: Reactors & Physical Plant

The base is staffed by around 150 personnel grouped into administration, security, maintenance and research duties. Base personnel have dubbed the base “The Icicle,” although “The Shit-cicle” is also in common usage.

The Icicle

Security Protocols: SK-1098 shows exceptionally high levels of security. Access to the base is limited to supply flights arriving every 3 months. Incoming personnel are vetted through security on the surface level before being allowed access to the base below. The base guards are not typical Weyland Yutani personnel, but a troop of Royal Marine Commandos borrowed from the Three World Empire armed forces. All off-world communication with the base is through narrow-band encrypted burst transmissions. Internal base security access controlled through a mix of encrypted keycard panels and biometric scanners.

OBJECTIVES

Your team will plan and execute an infiltration/espionage mission to SK-1098. You will retrieve experiment data, scientific samples and any other material or assets that will help Seegson understand and reconstruct the research being conducted at SK-1098.

Upon successful completion of the mission, your team will be compensated UA$238,000,000 (or equivalent alternate currency)

Royal Marines

25-30 total, broken down into 5-6-soldier teams. A team is always stationed at Landing Facilities and another in armored exosuits conducting perimeter security. Official line: Opportunity for harsh-weather training. Troops seem both bored and on edge, all-business, but resentful of Wey/Yu personnel. Often at least one team is unaccounted for.

Key Personnel

Director Hesper Lynch: Wey/Yu true-believer. Terrifying. Stay the fuck out of her way. (played by Dame Judy Dench)

Director Hesper Lynch

Deputy Director Hiroto Kagero- publicly supportive of Dir. Lynch. Privately, who knows? (played by Hiroyuki Sanada)

Director Hiroto Kagero

Director of Neurotoxin Research, Dr. Marion Phlinder- waspish and unpleasant. Always has a bug up his ass about something. Called Dr. Mary behind his back. Everyone wishes his face would melt off. (played by Ronald Lacey)

Dr. Marion Phlinder

Lt. Winslow- commander of Commando unit. Strictly professional. Seems exhausted. Secret crush of many station personnel. (played by Clive Owen)

Lt. Winslow

Sgt.O'Hara- second in command of Commando troop. Yikes. Seems like a maniac. Could go off at any second. (played by Robert Carlysle)

Sgt. O'Hara

General Station Morale

Nerves are stretched thin. Everyone keeps their head down and tries not to displease Dir. Lynch. Most can't wait to get the fuck off the Shit-cicle.

Additional detail: Given their respective covers, neither mole has access to SUB 5.