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From:	"Michael R. Goldberg" <mrgoldbe@**.NETCOM.COM>
Subject:	the demon stirs (was Re: ping)
Date:	Sun, 30 Aug 1998 13:12:36 -0500

Message no. 1 ***** PRIVATE: Whirlwind
>>>>>[ Other than a brief phone conversation that we had while we were
both in England on >>date<<, I haven't heard from him. He had made the
comment that he was thinking about looking for a new place to live, but
he was very non-committal as to where he might choose this time.

In all my spare time, I'll look into it. ]<<<<<
-- Nightmare <18:52:13/08-30-59>

***** PRIVATE: Nicole Velli
>>>>>[ Madame --

Out of professional courtesy, I thought I would contact you with an
interesting tidbit. Due to past conflicts, I have tried to keep an eye
on the criminal entity known as Dr. Alexander Jackson (or Action
Jackson or AJ as some people prefer). This is done merely to prepare
myself for coming storms that he might send my way as payback.

Over the past several months, I have noticed Panglobal Arms making a
recent surge in the domination of the arms dealing market. I have
noticed several particular characteristics that made me suspicious of
who is running the show. Sharing these suspicions with a select few,
and they confirmed my analysis. Unfortunately, in my current capacity,
I cannot react in a more appropiate manner -- especially without
evidence that will stand up in a court of law.

However, my analysis indicates that not only Dr. Jackson is involved
with Panglobal, he is high up in the leadership structure. I based
this statement on the trends of Panglobal's progress in market
penetration. It is quite possibly that he is leading it outright.

Based on Doctor Jackson's past interference in your business, it is my
estimation that a strong Panglobal does not boade well for you and your
corporation.

I hope my limited information proves useful.

May you have a good evening, madame. ]<<<<<
-- Nightmare <19:11:45/08-30-59>

From:	Brian Angliss <angliss@******.NET>
Subject:	Re: the demon stirs (was Re: ping)
Date:	Tue, 1 Sep 1998 20:39:05 -0600

Message no. 2 *****PRIVATE: Nightmare
>>>>>[Mr. Nightmare, thank you very much for your information. We have
been following PanGlobal ourselves with some interest, but considering your prior
involvement with Dr. Jackson, we'll consider your data demanding of additional
attention.]<<<<<
-- John Stulkin <18:52:35/09-01-59>
VP Security
Maxim Arms

*****INTERNAL: Maxim Arms Boardroom Logs
>>>>>[ NV: Nicole Velli, President/CEO, Maxim Arms
JS: John Stulkin, VP-Corporate Security

NV: Good evening, John. How are things with the world
tonight?

JS: That would depend on what aspect of the world your
interested in, ma'am.

NV: Start with the Court.

JS: The recent rise of Wuxing was unexpected and
unpleasant. While there is still a chance we can turn the
court's problems to our advantage, and finagle ourselves a
seat on the Court, doing so immediately has become
significantly less likely. With Cross Applied Technologies
and ourselves bidding to take any forthcoming seats, plus
the possibilities that there might be further shakeups in
the Court, we must be both extremely careful yet extremely
daring.

NV: What of Yamatetsu? I cannot help but approve of a
Court representative being from a metahuman-operated
corporation, but we must be able to turn thier disadvantage
to our advantage.

JS: Yamatetsu is still locked into fierce legal battles in
Japan, but the move is complete in fact if not in name or
law, regardless of how contested the move might be. They
are still weak, and we have been able to take some market
share from them in Asia and Australia, but they are still
leaders, with Shiawase, in shipping, while we remain far
behind. We could sabotage thier shipping fleets, but doing
so would open ourselves up to reprisals. Until we have a
shipping fleet of some 300+ vessels, beyond our immediate
corporate needs, we cannot afford to lose vessels
ourselves. And we won't have those vessels for at least
another 7 to 9 months. In addition, PanGlobal Arms, and the
various other pirate and smuggling operations around the
world, have begun to cause upwards of 2% attrition on our
vessels.

NV: 2 percent? That seems low. We've usually lost more
cargos than that, even before the arms dealing groups recent
ultra-organization.

JS: I'm sorry, ma'am, but that's the total loss of 2% of
our vessels, not just thier cargos. Cargo loss has risen
from approximately 4.2% to 4.8% in the last 3 months alone.
Most of the additional loss has been from the rising star
known as PanGlobal Arms, which is why we've been keeping
such a close eye on them, but PanGlobal has been targeting
Ares, Cross, Aztechnology, Saeder-Krupp, Shiawase,
Yamatetsu, Mitshuhama, and dozens of smaller corporate
vessels, trucking caravans, rail shipments, etc. Most of
the smaller corporations don't have the resources we do to
track down pirates and smugglers, and of the larger
corporations, Yamatetsu seems to be the favorite target of
PanGlobal. According to our intelligence, Yamatetsu's
shipping losses, naval only, have risen 33% in the last 3
months, and the losses stand to continue increasing as they
have been slow to enhance vessel security.

NV: All right, about PanGlobal. What do we know, what do
we suspect, and what are we doing about them?

JS: We know that PanGlobal is relatively new on the scene.
It's officially run by an African heavy-hitter with more
money than he can possibly use. Supposedly, he positioned
his various men in and around a healthy number of African
pirate and smuggling operations and took them over
relatively bloodlessly. After securing a significant
percentage of the African arms dealing and piracy markets
from other syndicates and unaffiliated operators, PanGlobal
rapidly expanded into most other markets around the globe.
They seem to be having some difficulty in the UCAS, German,
and SE Asian markets, although they appear to have
successfully eliminated their largest competition in SE Asia
with the destruction of two piracy havens on Java and Bali.
They have moved into Seattle with a vengeance, setting up
operations in Redmond, Puyallup, and on the Tacoma docks,
and they appear to be making sudden moves into other main
UCAS markets. That's about what we know.

Intelligence indicates that PanGlobal is moving into markets
as quickly as they possibly can, with the one exception that
Nightmare indicated in his personal communication to you.
As you know, Nightmare's connections to the German
government are well documented, and he is considered a
potential threat to us but also a potential ally and source
of information. But his information on PanGlobal's not
moving into the German markets, or rather only now
attempting to make any inroads into the Berlin markets, is
accurate as far as we can determine.

NV: It seems to me that it's more than a little
coincidental that PanGlobal Arms is moving easily and
agressively into the markets that were left relatively
unscathed by the Org purge several years ago. We have all
the known documents from the Org in our vaults -- have you
compared PanGlobal's growth to those documents and arms
dealers known to have been associated with AJ and the Org?

JS: Yes, we have, and there is some correlation.
Specifically, Africa, Australia, and some of Northern Europe
were left relatively untouched. We suspect that some of the
Org's stockpiles and weapons caches were not accounted for,
and they could easily be providing the initial gear and
marketable goods for PanGlobal while they get their
acquisitions assets in place. In addition, the three
strongest PanGlobal markets are Africa, obviously,
Australia, and northern Europe. The weakest markets of
PanGlobal are also those markets in which the Org was
destroyed by megacorporate or national forces or
incorporated into Maxim's intelligence assets.

NV: Which certainly indicates that whoever restarted the
Org had access to Org documents, if not more.

JS: Precisely. Which is why we suspected Dr. Jackson or
another of the Org's inner circle as the primary organizer.
Nightmare's information only further supports that
conclusion. And Dr. Jackson, as the original founder, is
most likely to have complete information on the Org's
original construction, locations of the ex-outlets, etc.

And one other thing: Police found evidence at an ex-outlet
of titanium. It was burned, melted, or in the unusal
compounds that are formed when titanium combusts under the
influence of magical fire. Everyone at that outlet was
killed. It had been resisting PanGlobal seriously and was
run by the original owner's son. While we can't be sure
from our information, it's possible that the titanium traces
we located were from titanium shafted arrows, Dr. Jackson's
only true signature.

NV: Now that is damning.... It's still possible AJ's not
directly involved. Who else in his inner circle would be
interested and would have the necessary mercilessness to
kill several dozen people in armor?

JS: That's easy. Either Foxey Roxey or Diana, Dr.
Jackson's daughter. More likely Diana, however.

NV: Another thing I just remembered: AJ's rather cryptic
message following his ultimatum to MUT....

JS: The evidence is certainly mounting. An as-yet
unconfirmed source has also indicated that the Special
Branch of InterPol is decrypting a PanGlobal communication,
one allegedly carrying a Solitaire encryption.

NV: I though we were the only ones with her algorithms....
Apparently we were mistaken. I don't know that AJ is
involved, but your intelligence certainly seems to indicate
that he is. Well then, what are we doing about it?

JS: Directly, very little. However, we are attempting to
capture PanGlobal dealers and extract thier information.
The few we have captured have not been responsive. They
haven't self-destructed as Org members would have, but they
simply haven't known anything.

However, we do have something we'd like to run by you. We
were thinking of releasing some of this information
anonymously, perhaps to InterPol, and to some of Dr.
Jackson's friends and enemies. It will propogate rapidly
throughout the underworld, and regardless of whether it's
true or not, the information that the world's most notorious
arms dealer is active again will bring out enemies, friends,
and a great many customers as well. If it's true, Dr.
Jackson will reveal it to be true, and if it's false, then
PanGlobal just might be picked apart by Dr. Jackson's many
enemies who can't believe it could be false. Either way, we
will have exposed either PanGlobal, Dr. Jackson, or both.

NV: Interesting.... Do it. Give me a briefing tomorrow.

JS: Of course, ma'am.]<<<<<
-- Maxim Arms Boardroom Logs <20:38:19/09-01-59>

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