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Well, Commander… Strike-One is investigating an anomalous event in South Africa, there’s a conspiracy nut who thinks we’re allied with EXALT and the aliens, and an older gentleman seems to have demolished an EXALT facility in Chicago with a gasoline tanker that had an IED rigged to its airbags.

Intelligence indicates that this latter individual is known by at least two aliases: “Old Man Henderson” and “Eli Burning”.

…getting a report from Strike-One, sir. The Hover SHIV they were using as a forward recon element has just been destroyed by sustained conventional-weapons fire from the structure that seems to be the epicentre of the South Africa anomaly.

If your proposals for improvements to explosive or thermal weaponry involve any of the hypergolic fluorine compounds, please report for psychiatric evaluation.

Especially if they involve dioxygen difluoride; there's a reason why they call that compound "FOOF".

For the last time, we will not be razing our current cover facility so that we can build a movie studio.

Yes, I know it'd give us a plausible cover for the occasional sightings of advanced armor, exotic weaponry, SHIVs, etc. We're still not doing it.

To all MEC Troopers:

The fact that your MEC suits have built-in antitoxin systems does not mean that you should engage Chryssalids with your Kinetic Strike Modules.

Even if there are civilians watching.

ESPECIALLY if there are civilians watching.

There are only three official mottos for the XCOM Project and its more specialized fieldwork divisions.

They are as follows:

XCOM Project: Vigilo, Confido

MECT Division: Bellator In Machina

GET Division: Mutare Ad Custodiam

 While certain members of the Project may possess certain abilities similar to those witnessed in some of the alien forces, there is not now - nor will there ever be - an XCOM Psi Corps.

No, we will not be hiring Old Man Henderson.

...Hmm. Looks like another new recruit - though the uniform's a touch out of place.