You were formally briefed: the designated locus of your operative deployment was Antarctica, with a critical directive to infiltrate Thetha’s third base surreptitiously.

Fortuitously, your requisite proficiency in covert operations has secured you the role of vice-captain in one of CROW's team—the Red Platoon, Beta Squad of the 202 division—a unit so elite, even other elites ask for their autographs (though they’d never admit it).

Disguise posed no great impediment; you melded seamlessly with the cluster of scientists gathered around a colossal spire of sky ice—more commonly termed blue ice, a phenomenon so rare it covers merely one percent of the continent. Think of it as Antarctica’s VIP section, except instead of red carpets, it’s covered in snow, and instead of celebrities, it’s stuffed with meteorites.

Yes, this frozen monolith is basically a cosmic junk drawer that just so happens to look like a piece of the sky fell to earth.

And nestled within that towering block of celestial clutter? Your target: Agent Zero. Currently on ice in the most literal sense of the phrase—here’s hoping they didn’t develop a cold shoulder while waiting.