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At the request of the command, I hire a rookie even though we still have a few untrained kids to spend/train.
We finish investigating some weapon fragments and begin autopsying Thin Men, which is followed by "Experimental Warfare".

We got the Council Report, which was overwhelmingly positive even though Canada, China, and South Africa are panicking with three panic thingies (and the US, Mexico, Nigeria, and Egypt are close). We got a few scientists and an engineer. "More engineers would be more useful," I said. "I'm not entirely certainly we have enough work for all the scientists, but we definitely could use a few more engineers to get the carapace armor." But they don't listen.

Experimental Warfare research went well, resulting in a new Interceptor weapon and some more possibilities on the horizon. I tell them to research beam weapons, maybe get some of these possibilities off the ground. I have some more space excavated, in hopes of expanding the facility. We get basic beam weapons--laser pistols and rifles. I order them to work on precision, expecting something to come up before they finish. And it does...in North America, where we don't have any interceptors. Dang. This raises panic in the US.

Egypt asks for laser pistols. I intend to oblige them once making them...only to discover that they require 10 engineers to make. We really need engineers. And I might as well order that Interceptor for America. And another Uplink...wait, we're short engineers. Again. Instead, I begin construction of a power facility and another lab.

Some abductions show up, remarkably none in the US. Instead, we have...a game crash? Well, here's hoping it autosaved.
It was Brazil, India, and something else, but now it doesn't matter.