Personal:
- Begin marketing and selling to new countries; such as India, Malaysia, and as many African/Middle Eastern nations as possible. Many of our products will greatly improve the quality of life for everyone in question.
Result: Success
The new round of marketing to foreign countries and investors goes well. You manage to attain coverage over all but Bialya in regards to the Middle East and Africa is now benefiting from Wave Tech, Universal Organs, Cybernetics and Maverick-provided security.
All in all, you manage to secure a nice profit increase.
(+$7,000,000 per month.)
- The last attempt at trying to do the whole public relations thing was horribly canceled. Perhaps trying again in a safer environment will go better. Let's do that.
Result: Nat 100
You hold the press conference in Canada this time and begin handling the storm of media attention as you answer questions ranging from the products that ATIC has been selling through their front companies to the company's stance on the on-going turmoil in the United States.
And then you start receiving questions from some American pundit named G. Gordon Godfrey, and you weather his barrage of incendiary questions and leading statements, until you finally lose your patience with him and proceed to scathingly humiliate him in front of the world's media with your own barrage of questions and statements.
You feel very satisfied when the PR event ends, and your little dressing down of G. Gordon Godfrey has earned you some kudos from more a few sources official and otherwise.
Research:
- It has been a long journey, but we've learned much about the world itself in order to make this a reality. We shall commence the Savior Symphony.
Result: Success!
The players are assembled, the containment unit is transported to the concert ground, the machinery is set up in a complicated array of technology and Maverick is deployed in force to prevent anything, anything at all, from interfering in the Symphony.
You stand before the orchestra, the staff, and the commanders of the Maverick security detachment with transmissions to the gunships circling overhead and you tell them what is at stake, you explain just what could happen if this fails.
Make no mistake, if this fails, everyone and everything within two hundred kilometers is going to die based on the latest projections of the rate of failure within the woman.
Setting yourself up in the control room with your team, you activate the machinery and bath the area in the warm glow of the Songstone, activate the containment unit, and give the order.
And as the symphony plays, they attack; it appears that someone was interested enough in what you were moving into the area over the last few days that they've sent a small army of mercenaries to disrupt the proceedings. Only to be met by Maverick PMSC forces as explosions and gunfire echo over the music being played and the song being sung.
During the concert, information is extracted from mercenary commanders, who are revealed to not be mercenaries at all, but forces sent from Bialya to capture you. But that won't be known until well after the concert.
Finally, as the song reaches it's crescendo, a blast of light comes from the containment unit, lighting up the night sky as the song begins to draw to a close. As the light and smoke fade, Maverick troops in hazmat gear approach the containment unit while bite a finger so hard it begins to bleed.
And then they reappear from the smoke with a woman, whole and unmarked, and the words that are reported to you bring tears of joy to your eyes.
"Subject is stable."
-Last time we tried to miniaturize Wave Tech didn't pan out. Nor could we make more improvements to Wave Healing in particular. But now we know much more than before. Try again.
Result: Critical Success!
It's as much blind luck as it was good scientific methodology; using Nanofog and the new insights into miniaturisation for cybernetics, you are able to finally make Wave-Tech that can not only be exceptionally small, but the way is now open for Wave-Tech implants.
(Nat 100...goddammit all...give me a minute...)
