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From:	Brian Angliss <angliss@*****.COLORADO.EDU>
Subject:	More Thunda
Date:	Sat, 4 Jan 1997 22:34:17 -0700

Message no. 1 >>>>>[Thunda, I hear that you sent a research probe into InterPol. Sorry
about the lack of information, but most of our records are kept on real
paper. Keeps the searches from getting too much. But if you have UCAS
contacts, please look up the following documents >>encrypted<<. You'll
find proof of all my claims there.

I don't sit in an ivory tower, Thunda. I train with my men, I do the
grunt work that my men do, I take the same risks. As for power, I've
nearly lost it and I could feel my life-expectancy increasing
exponentially in the process. I rather relished the feeling, actually.
So I'm not addicted to the power. I do my job because it's the right
thing to do, the moral and ethical thing to do, not because I enjoy the
rush, the thrill of attending my cops' funerals.

My wife married me because I was an ethical man, Thunda. My little girl
was raised knowing that. I put what amounted to the best InterPol
personal protection experts around my family, and Ares killed them. My
life was thiers, Thunda, but sacraficing my ethics, my beliefs...that was
something which is worse than death. My wife knew it, and as best she
could, my daughter knew it too. And both Charlene and I knew when we had
Marlene that she might not be safe, yet we wanted a child. And we had
one, and I have nightmares every night. How often have you relived the
death of a loved one, or a close friend? Every night. You have no right
to talk about my family or my love for them until you've talked to all 7
psychologists and psychiatrists I've had since then, or all of my men
who have seen me on my anniversary, or my friends who have held vigil
with me every year on the day my wife and child were killed.

My exploits are all public record, as are my failures. I am a totally
public figure, Thunda. It keeps me from becoming "addicted to power".
It also means that there are no buttons you can push to control me. Make
me angry, well, keep accusing me about my family. But get me to stop an
investigation? No-one's found the button which can do that yet. Maybe
you can. I find that a bit of a challenge, personally.

InterPol Special Branch is, as a matter of record, the least corrupt
branch of InterPol, although much of the rest of InterPol is much better
now. Probably because we use the occasional rehabilitated shadowrunner
or terrorist. It's funny, really, to know that ex-criminals who have
been given a second chance are the least corruptable of all the cops I
know, but it's true. And the best cops I have were all tested by the
best means, mostly real attempts at purchashing or control by corps, and
none of them failed. So you see, most of Special Branch has no price, or
at least no price you can pay.

But you'll only be getting the attention of a couple of my "flunkies", as
I have more dangerous people to hunt down than you. Sorry for the
disappointment. But thank you for the interest.

I won't change your mind about me, Thunda, and death no longer truly
scares me. Having 6 story buildings dropped on you makes you feel a
little impervious to attack. So please, feel free to drop off another
letter bomb or two. Maybe you'll make it past the mail-room with the
next one. Gee, didn't your contacts tell you that each peice of mail
get's x-rayed individually in addition to chem-sniffed before it's
allowed in the main building? The hermetic sealing almost worked, but
the detonator package showed up right away. Sorry to disappoint you.

Hopefully, you'll go to jail. Perhaps when those hypothetical employers
which will touch a white hot target like yourself get tired of you.]<<<<<
-- Commander Drake, InterPol <22:31:48/01-04-58>

*****PRIVATE: Lynch
>>>>>[Sorry that I cannot help you out personally with this one, but with
his letterbomb and the blatently failed searches, I do get to get
moderately involved. I hope you have no objections about being behind
the man who put a Barret round in your leg rather than in his
gunsights.

I do really have bigger fish to fry, though, odd as that might
seem]<<<<<
-- Commander Drake, InterPol <22:34:05/01-04-58>

From:	"Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:	Re: More Thunda
Date:	Sun, 5 Jan 1997 15:46:42 +0000

Message no. 2 *****PRIVATE: Commander Drake, InterPol
>>>>>[Thanks, Paul. Good luck on your other problems, feel free to ask
for help if we have something you need (the Agency does have a
legitimate analysis and collation role, and while we wouldn't provide
data to InterPol in general, Special Branch is an exception).

And I'm glad to hear Monty's got the case, that's nearly as good as
having you on the job.]<<<<<
-- Lynch <15:43:32/01-05-58>

*****PRIVATE: Lieutenant Montoya, InterPol
>>>>>[Hi there, Monty, Paul says he's put you on the Thunda case. Be
advised we and the the FBI are no longer aiming for an arrest in this
one, Thunda enters custody in a zipper bag. Bear that in mind for your
own investigation, I know Drake's feelings on live-bullet arrests. Let's
just say the decision wasn't taken lightly.

And my leg still hurts when it rains, which is a real bitch in Seattle,
but personally I'm damn glad you're such a good shot, or I might be
walking on a cyber replacement instead. No hard feelings from me on that
one, just envy of your marksmanship <g>]<<<<<
-- 15:45:42/01-05-58>

From:	Brian Angliss <angliss@*****.COLORADO.EDU>
Subject:	Re: More Thunda
Date:	Mon, 6 Jan 1997 13:32:33 -0700

Message no. 3 *****PRIVATE: Lynch
>>>>>[Frag. Live bullet, is it? Wonderful. Sorry to say, but my feelings
>>>>>on those are nearly the same as the Boss'. Well, as InterPol doesn't
>>>>>have true jurisdiction on this one, I guess I'll just have to do
>>>>>whatever I can.

Sorry about the leg, though. And thanks for using a painter that time.
I've since upgraded the helmet. (grin)]<<<<<
-- Lt. Montoya, InterPol <13:32:03/01-06-58>

From:	"Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:	Re: More Thunda
Date:	Tue, 7 Jan 1997 19:49:56 +0000

Message no. 4 *****PRIVATE: Lieutenant Montoya, InterPol
>>>>>[Can't say I totally agree either, but then have you seen even that
copy of the guy in action? Easy is by no means incompetent, and she
would have died of her wounds if one of the hospital docs hadn't grabbed
her. She wouldn't have lasted that long if he hadn't been so
overconfident.

From his file he's very dangerous, from his postings his mind has
wandered off the map, and he seems to have no trouble at all getting
hold of mil-spec weapons and explosives that he's fully trained to use
in nasty and imaginative ways: I've worked with SEAL Teams Seven and
Nine and they are _scary_ guys when it comes to finding ways to extract
under fire from heavy opposition, I picked up more than a few moves from
them (the trick I pulled on you with the wall is one of theirs, for
instance). Not a combination that fills me with joy.

If we can get him alive, great. Despite what the lead Fed might want
(he's upset at losing partners and having one of his men turn out to be
dirty made him even angrier) I'd prefer an arrest to a corpse, if only
because nobody's worked out how to mindprobe a cadaver yet, but I'm not
willing to get men killed to keep Thunda alive.

I just can't think of a way to bring him in that doesn't risk a lot of
our people and maybe some bystanders stuffed into zipper bags, but if
having you and your group involved (a) cuts the casualties and (b) gets
us a prisoner not a stiff, I'll take back all those horrible things I
said about you behind your back <g>

Blow his legs off and I can keep him alive as long as I get to him
within a few minutes, before the arteries come out of spasm: you're good
enough to pull that off, while I'd be sticking to centre-torso or
centre-head.

And don't worry too much about the helmet, I would have been loading
explosives if I hadn't switched to gel, and you'd probably have gotten
away with concussion, maybe a skull fracture, when it prematured on the
armour. Your spotter - Tagit, wasn't it? - is the one who was most at
risk, a 9mm EX in the throat is nothing to laugh off.

Glad to have you on the team, and glad to finally work with you guys
instead of against you.]<<<<<
-- Lynch <19:50:42/01-07-58>

From:	"Mark L. Neidengard" <mneideng@****.CALTECH.EDU>
Subject:	More Thunda
Date:	Tue, 7 Jan 1997 19:55:47 -0800

Message no. 5 *****PRIVATE: AlexandriaN
>>>>>[
+++++signal reroute: Minos-3
+++++signal reroute: Suzaku-12
+++++authorize <ENCRYPTED>...accepted.
+++++acquire DSDO49A:<ENCRYPTED>...alt/azm matched.
+++++enable: DSDO49A
We have now finished "processing" the data gained from the Fuchi datastore.
It pointed us at a particular Fuchi employee living in the area, whom we
arranged to have courteously interrogated and returned to his apartment with
nothing more than a hangover. To summarize:

There is significant involvement from a splinter faction of the Fuchi
bureaucracy involved in the Thunda case. Employees whose records were
archived in the datastore are:

+++++include records.archive.binary

I believe you have had dealings with Division Head Mifune, at the very least.
You will also note the complete security traces of the employees in question;
since these grant cart blanche to masquerade as the employee in Fuchi's
computer systems, it is our considered opinion that these were extracted as a
form of blackmail in the event that this project was blown. We have thusfar
refrained from using them.

Also in the datastore was the means to pierce Thunda's legerdemain and trace
his routing back another hop. The chaos with the Renton routing proved to be
but a minor inconvenience. We have now isolated his transmissions to the
Renraku Archology. We rate the security on his system as highly professional
work: cascaded black IC hidden in the bushes, roving smartframes playing
"Lassie", and several other hazards. However, we were able to ascertain that
the system is not a mainframe-class machine, but is rather some sort of deck
or small cluster of decks. More interestingly, the behavior of the IC seems
carefully attuned to blend into the Renraku scenery; being that it palpably
changes format _with_ the rest of their Matrix, we strongly suspect an
inside job by the Archology's Matrix-operations division.

The next step is to compromise the deck. The latest transmissions from Thunda
make it appear that his signal is originating from that deck, but I cannot
_guarantee_ this to be the case. I had to call in a personal favor to get
this, but the deck is located in room <ENCRYPTED>. If this _is_ where Thunda
is residing, a physical intrusion could be very messy; we can't know without
getting on-site and trying, though.

You call the next move.
]<<<<<
-- Dystropy Prime <19:25:26 / 01-07-58>

From:	Brian Angliss <angliss@*****.COLORADO.EDU>
Subject:	Re: More Thunda
Date:	Tue, 7 Jan 1997 18:41:42 -0700

Message no. 6 *****PRIVATE: Lynch
>>>>>[I'd like to connect with you ASAP, in person, and with the rest of
the
Feds you're working with. It's only me and Sergent Miner from InterPol,
though. The Boss couldn't spare anyone else.

Guess there's one thing you didn't know, though. There are ways to extract
memories and information from a dead body, but the spell only works in the
first few hours after death. After that, the neural structure has
collapsed too far for it to work. Or so I've been told. A couple of
At-Larges on my desk can do it, apparently. Too bad SIGA or us don't have
access to that spell, it would make life easier sometimes.]<<<<<
-- Lieutenant Montoya, InterPol <01-07-58/18:41:36>

From:	"Paul J. Adam" <shadowtk@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:	Re: More Thunda
Date:	Wed, 8 Jan 1997 23:14:23 +0000

Message no. 7 *****PRIVATE: Captain D'Arkan, FBI; Lt. Montoya, InterPol
>>>>>[D'Arkan, I'd like to bring Monty by HQ. Since InterPol are
providing assistance (and don't be fooled by the numbers, Monty is
probably one of the best riflemen in North America) it seems sensible to
brief them on the situation.

I'll cover a lot of it myself, but I wanted to ask your permission
before I (a) brought some SB personnel in and (b) grabbed you and some
of your key people for a hasty meeting. If you don't want them in HQ,
that's fine, but it means more disruption, and I'll vouch for Monty's
integrity (as well as, from personal experience, his skill).]<<<<<
-- Lynch <23:13:54/01-08-58>

From:	D'Arkan <D'Arkan@********.DEMON.CO.UK>
Subject:	Re: More Thunda
Date:	Thu, 9 Jan 1997 01:35:37 +0000

Message no. 8 *****PRIVATE: Lynch
>>>>>[I have full jurisdiction on this section Lynch, so don't worry
about anything. Bring them in. I'll be glad to meet them and hear
anything they have to say on this subject.

Coffee is hot, and Marjorie has provided home baked cookies for
everybody. The office may be a little ripe, none of us have slept for
the past few days, and virtually live in here. Apologies for the aroma.
<g>

A secure area has been set up, and an office cleared for your use. ECM
is in place.

Director Coppinger was kind enough to contact me earlier and passed on a
little information that has helped me put a new perspective on things,
an interesting gentleman you work for Lynch. If you see him personally
sometime after this, give my heartfelt thanks won't you.

I also have an item that has me somewhat concerned, and would appreciate
your input, and any idea on who might identify it. The hill are
looking, and I'm awaiting the arrival of Samuels from LSS, and someone
from Ares Weapons at the moment. It's got me puzzled and more than a
little worried.]<<<<<
-- SAC D'Arkan <01:31:27/01-08-58>
FBI, Achilles Project
Seattle, UCAS

From:	Jeffrey Mach <mach@****.CALTECH.EDU>
Subject:	Re: More Thunda (fwd)
Date:	Thu, 9 Jan 1997 13:27:34 -0800

Message no. 9 *****PRIVATE: AlexandriaN
>>>>>[I've pulled myself away from the forge to deal with a rather
perturbing problem that is hitting the Seattle area. I assume with your
access, you are already informed of this terrorist, "Thunda."

A few of my associates and I have been asked to examine this and consult,
if not be directly involved in its...demanufacture:

+++++include: Thunda.bomb.v7.trid

If you have the original, you will note that I have already had the trideo
image considerably enhanced. Thankfully this Thunda person is unwise
enough to have provided us with a holographic image, as well as his
unwelcome personage for scale. While we have no assurance this is the
real weapon, his previous hubris is worth something. Given our temporal
constraint of much less than 24 hour by the time you get this, any
suggestions would be appreciated. We have our own ideas, but a fresh
perspective could help me and my sleep deprived team.

If you give us a breakthrough, you can have my consulting fee and a
bottle of my best Dom.]<<<<<
-- Hephaestus <13:27:23/01-09-58>

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