MEMORANDUM FOR THE BOARD

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February 8, 1985

MEMORANDUM FOR: [REDACTED] - Board of Directors
FROM: [REDACTED]
SUBJECT: Berlin Event

Since Berlin, many of you have approached me about my involvement. I will make my intentions clear on the matter – then we will move on and be done with this.

Berlin presented an opportunity to acquire a pertinent piece of our puzzle. Instead of capitalizing on it, I chose to deploy countermeasures to ensure that the gateway would be closed. This choice seems to have perturbed more than a few of you.

Initially, my plan was to utilize the American forces on site, but their incompetence shone brighter than the sun. A communication from an Omega contact revealed they would be deploying Requiem’s strike team in Berlin. Given their success rate up until this point, I knew the operation would be in the most capable of hands. I laid a trail of breadcrumbs and they eagerly followed, none the wiser to their role in my plan.

As you all know, and, to my vexation, have repeatedly mentioned this week, we had the prized goose being offered to us on a silver platter – yet I chose to send the dish back to the kitchen. While I shouldn’t need to explain myself, for the sake of discouraging further irritating lines of inquiry, I will put this simply: it was not the right time.

If we are to achieve our goal, we must do so at the proper time and place, when all the appropriate arrangements have been made. We were not ready to proceed when Berlin happened. We will not rush this. A single misstep here would be catastrophic for our work – not to mention life on Earth. And if that’s not scary enough, you should also know it would be disastrous for your pockets and the shareholders. Perhaps those are stakes you can sink your teeth into.

Project Janus will proceed. When the time is right.

And worry not – Maxis will be dealt with. In fact, she is quite important to what comes next.