Being the head of the Group isn't always easy. It was a constant source of tension between yourself and Gordon; the ILF proper has never taken the threat seriously, and he tended to be pretty dismissive of the Group's efforts. But the more you look into it, the clearer it is that something is terribly amiss, and something big is going to happen in less than two years. John Corrado has been trying to patch things up between the ILF and the Group, but it's still difficult -- he still doesn't really believe, deep down, that there is a danger here.
It's increasingly clear that there is some sort of correlation between Vortices and death; the body count around the average Vortex is staggeringly high. Now, that correlation is coming home to roost: you've started receiving death threats yourself.
At first, the crude note was almost laughable; you wrote it off as a bad joke on someone's part, and weren't even sure it was really a threat. But earlier today, you found out that Karl Weaver and Chuck Webber were found dead last night, apparently of poison, and no one has heard from Tad Pierson in weeks; and now Jeff Diewald has just dropped dead, practically at your feet. What the hell is going on? You need to find out, before you wind up the next victim. But then, that's the price of seeking the truth: sometimes, it finds you first.
There are a lot of things going on, far too fast. You need to co-ordinate your people to root out and analyze the threat from the various organizations that have been tracked here. You need to find out what's going on with the alien traces that were detected. And you need to find the killer, before he or she finds you. Time to get the Group organized. You've already deputed a few of your people -- Paul Dwyer, Hugh Eckert, and Rebecca Ellis -- to begin investigating, and try to figure out where the deadly port bottle came from.
(And while you're at it, maybe figure out why Gordon has been acting so strangely lately. He's always been prone to late meetings and running off to deal with crises -- it's part of the job. But you are getting the distinct impression that he is hiding something from you, and you don't like that...)