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you."
    Steve nodded.
    "You need to understand that or else you're going to go off and do something we'll all regret."
    "Yes, sir," Steve said. He lifted a hand in a half-hearted wave, and walked off. Maybe it's because I understand that, that I might do something we'll all regret, he thought. That night he didn't sleep at all. 5
    Status Report
    Intelligence gathering suggests a possible technological advance that necessitates an accelerated mission plan. We proceed accordingly.
    The impulse to individuality simultaneously retards the progress of Homo sapiens (to borrow their unwieldy classification system) as a species and enables startling acts of innovation on the part of individual members of the species. This is one reason why Homo sapiens was targeted for ordering. The parallel influences of chaos and reason, however, make humans a particularly difficult case to manage. Under no circumstances should we mistake the actions and rationales of one member of the species for a general tendency on the part of the species as a whole.
    A further complication is the observed phenomenon of a member of the species reasoning through a set of circumstances and then acting in a way entirely opposed to the logical conclusion of this reasoning process. Again, this observed phenomenon was one factor in the initiation of the human ordering project; it bears repeating in the current context, especially in view of the influx of new forces unfamiliar with the nature of the human.
    The human team known as the suffers from all of the defects in reason that afflict Homo sapiens as a species; yet they have proved a difficult obstacle. We are intensifying our surveillance of all current and former members of this organization, and have reason to believe that this surveillance will enable us to penetrate the organization and remove it as an obstacle.
    Progress in nonhuman form assimilation has been particularly successful in furthering this goal. Increased surveillance, and increased density of assimilated assets in place, is ordered in the following locations:
    . Location of team member as well as his corporate endeavor,
    . Location of team member . Location of team member . Location of headquarters, , previously infiltrated. Full schematics of
     are available and will be utilized as part of the human ordering project.
    . Location of team member .
    . Location of team member .
    . Location of former team member , believed to be engaged in research directly related to our endeavors.
    , for political consultation and guidance. Also seat of government of the nation with financial and infrastructure support.
    . Frequent location of team member known as . Notes regarding symbolic significance of this identity to one iteration of human mythology attached. Deployment orders pursuant to intensification of surveillance efforts in these locations attached. Assimilation and infiltration activities in other areas of the planet are to remain unchanged. We consider the a primary threat, and we redirect our resources to reflect this conclusion. Previous efforts to eliminate the focused on direct attacks on members of the group as well as the headquarters. At this time that strategy is no longer considered viable. Current strategy prioritizes more indirect methods. Results indicate that this approach is successful at this time, and it will be pursued. The timetable for execution of this phase of the human ordering project accelerates due to security questions noted in appendix. Time before missing humans provoke police investigation