*General and Dossier Information*

As it is only 2023, the world is still very much like the modern world. Not much will have changed. Nano technology has not yet become mainstream. It will still be known as science fiction to anyone around you, as well as the idea of cybernetic augmentations beyond artificial organs and vat grown skin grafts. However, the Syndicate has made the prospect of mind altering cybernetics and self sustainable nano machines a reality, the kind that only you and other sleeper agents are aware of. The technology you will have at your disposal are prototypes within the Initial Phase, or more strategically known as Operation Bunraku, and the purpose of the sleeper agents is to test these new machines on other human beings discretely.

The Nano Machine Chips

The dossier you will retrieve will describe the basics of operating the chips. The goal is to retrieve as much data as possible from field testing the new mind altering and body modifying devices. It reads in professional terms:

• The devices are reusable and are physically and electronically resilient, making them very difficult to break. Even if they are somehow damaged, they will attempt a self repair unless instructed otherwise. Any changes made are also permanent, even when the devices have left the target's body. The way they work is simple.
• When deployed, an internal array of nano machines will deconstruct the chip into microscopic base parts, completely invisible to the naked eye, and leave your body.
• From there, the machines will rapidly travel to the target human body up to a kilometer, intelligently bypassing solid or liquid material, allowing the agent to reach people behind surfaces such as glass, as long as the agent has line of sight.
• Once they have arrived, they will enter through the skin or orifices of the target, make their way towards the brain or other tissue within the body system and rapidly reconstruct the chip attached to the appropriate internal body part.
• Once attached, the chip will record the DNA signature of the target for it to understand how the person ticks. It will emit a unique wireless signal that is picked up by the master control key within the agent's augmentation network, allowing him or her to learn about the target's mental and physical capabilities, to know where the target is at all times from anywhere across the world by using his or her internal GPS system, and ultimately to give the chips instructions to alter parts of the brain or parts of the target's body.
• All the agent has to do is to instruct the machines through his own brain for the desired effect he wants and the nano machines will commit the changes almost immediately. Bodily changes will often take some time if the changes are substantial. With this, the agent can change the target's personality, likes and dislikes, base instincts and habits, as well all forms of physical changes such as eye color, breast size and hair growth. As the chip has the DNA signature of the target, the nano machines will always perform the best possible alterations to physical matter to match the agent's commands while maintaining the DNA stability of the target, which also means that that the agents cannot change the person beyond what is safely possible, such as turning them into a cat or growing an extra arm (However, full or partial changes/additions of gender parts, such as breasts, penises and vaginas, are a grey area that could be a point of interest for further research).
• Retrieving the chips only require a simple command. The nano machines will deconstruct the chips and return to your body. They can also be instructed to move on to attach inside another target at any time. This is especially useful if you lack multiple chips in your experiments.
• The chips can also communicate with each other as long as they are within a one kilometer range of at least one target, allowing you to link a single command to all chips at once.

Unfortunately, the machines are not designed to self replicate, so if an agent somehow loses a chip through some unlikely means, it is gone forever. Reported lost chips are immediately deactivated and self disintegrate. Replacements and/or additional chips can be ordered from the Syndicate. Response times usually take a day, regardless of location.

The Sleeper Agents

The scale of the operation is global. Sleeper agents from almost every technologically savvy country has been activated, spanning from almost all walks of life. These agents have been selected on the basis of their vital statistics, age, social identity and vocation, and they range through a wide variety within every aspect and social positions of society. For example, some of them could be young university students. Others could be housewives, doctors or even garbage men. However mundane they may seem, each agent has been heavily augmented with cybernetic enhancements. Their personal augmentation networks are a web of multiple cyber systems working in tandem with each other, all of which are almost undetectable to today's sensor technology:

• Their brains have been modified to operate much more efficiently than a regular human being, making them particularly intelligent. This also acts as a vital requirement for the brain to handle the added physical stress of controlling the chips in their possession. The full capabilities of this augmentation only activates once the agent him or herself has been activated. Before then, it works at a level just enough for the other personal augmentations to function at minimal capacity.
• Their physical bodies hide a wide array of useful gadgets:
• Among these are the retinal augmentations, which allows the agent to see the world through the aid of the augmented part of their brain. This allows them to see in almost complete darkness, magnify their vision to distance ranges, take photos or video, and even defend against intense emissions of light.
• Their ears are also augmented in the same way, allowing them to pick up wireless signals, record sound, hear over longer distances and protect against ear damaging effects.
• The skin surfaces of their palms are laced with touch sensitive nano machines. Pressing the palm on a computer device will allow them access it directly as the machines rapidly build pathways into the device's CPU. This allows them a strong utility with electronic devices. With time, they can break into any computer or bypass almost every form of electronic security.
• A GPS system built into their brain allows perfect navigational capabilities, complete with a full spectrum wireless signal suite for easy communications to any device within ten kilometers or across the world with the assistance of the GPS system. This includes regular every day cell phones, so effectively, agents can make or receive calls through their brain, or even listen in to a phone conversation, as long as there is a wireless signal.
• Finally, they have reservoirs of nano machines inside them, specifically augmented with the more permanent and non transferable MKII body modification chip, for the purpose of quick healing, augmentation repair and personal body alterations.

The agents are all aware of what they are and who they work for. Each one is extensively loyal to the Syndicate. How their loyalties came to be can be varied. Some agents may not even remember how they came to work for the shadow company. It was simply a given and an absolute. However, they do not go around arousing suspicion. They maintain their cover flawlessly, going about the daily grind, having their own aspirations, dreams, grudges and desires. Their lives may even be assisted by the Syndicate or the country's government in some discrete way, such as the assurance of a stable job, minimal work stress, etc. Even when activated, most remain non descript even after an operation ends. Those who compromise themselves too much or rebel against the Syndicate, however, tend to simply vanish from existence.

The Targets

The targets that agents wish to experiment upon can be anyone they wish. The dossier describes certain effects from lab testing:

• The chips will not respond to commands that target another agent, and both agents will be prompted if such an event occurs. These inhibitions are DNA locked and cannot be altered.
• The initial stages of alteration can lead to some initial side effects. Targets mostly experience mild headaches and light headedness when an alteration is made. One well documented effect was the target entering a catatonic state if the chips are instructed to 'turn them off'. While in this state, they will be extremely susceptible to suggestion, as if the target has been reduced to a mindless machine, similar to that of being in a state of hypnosis. Test subjects will not remember what has happened to them between the times of their catatonia and the times of their awakening. However, it is possible to perform multiple complex alterations significantly faster while the subject is in this state. Agents will be encouraged to use this command with care, as it can be dangerous to the target's personal well being.
• Alterations appear to always succeed, even against a target with a relatively strong willpower.
• The chips cannot directly subjectively affect a target's moods. The way they do this is through the alteration of brain functions that control chemical reactions.

At the agent's discretion, should they not know what targets to go for or decide not to be autonomous, they can ask the Syndicate for special assignments or for general information about certain subjects or situations to aid them in making a decision. These assignments can include experimentation with specific individuals or groups known or unknown to the agent.