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…Three Weeks Earlier…

Yuki was sitting at her desk looking intently at a thick file she had opened on the desk in front of her.  The contents of this folder has been on Yuki’s mind ever since she had been given the project files for Novous.  Today was her first day with the title officially… ‘Special projects coordinator’.  She’d worked her way up the chain with her out-of-the-box thinking; but never before had she encountered a project quite like this.  And it wasn’t even an active project, in fact, it was just over 6 years cold.

Yuki had been placed in change of cleaning up old projects that had been undertaken by the secret and highly classified Novous Group.  It had been jointed funded and run by DARPA and the CIA, but took on a life of it’s own during the cold war with almost no supervision.  Now, the big wigs at DARPA wanted all the research finalized and the project refocused on “the needs of today”.

Her eyes once again glanced over the document, stopping at some sections she had attected placeholders too earlier.  ‘Partial project failure’, ‘unforeseen side-effects’, ‘public danger’; all of those phrases quickly jumped out to her.  She’d read the file many times before, and now she finally had the power and authority to take action.

She reached for her phone and dialed a number, a man answered ‘internal operations’.  “I need to assemble a team for a exploratory trip to island twelve”…

[Notes: Sorry this took so long to get published, this single post went through ten drafts to get to this point.  The good news is most of the next posts got drafted as well; so, it should be a much shorter wait for the next couple of posts.]