Targets

Where the Continentals have an entire deck of 52 Allies collaborators and agents to kill, the Phoenix Front has only a few primary targets to kill, and each one for a specific reason related to the Struggle in Ireland. Other targets are similarly marked, but in broad groups or categories.

## Apollo Fowl

"**The Dirtball from Derry"**

-  A common title for Fowl within the Front.
Above all else, the man known as Apollo Fowl must die. The Front has made several attempts on his life, each time being beaten back by his personal army of lawyers and the drug-addled slaves he surrounds himself with.

The Front has identified Fowl as the vital lynchpin holding the various groups withing Belfast together. His force of personality is the reason for the many corporations haven't destroyed each other through the gangs they keep under thumb. His Helios agents are constantly on watch for rioters guided toward Fowl, and Fowl's personal limo has been bombed no less than seventeen separate times trying to kill him. The reality is that, in his little kingdom, Fowl is untouchable.

That's when the Front started reaching out for information. For a start, it appeared the Fowl family had a history of stabbing their fellow Irish in the back. They became landowners, forcing families off their land for late rents and payments during the famine. They sold arms to the rebels during the war for independence as they told the British Army where the rebels gathered. As far as living family goes, the Front can find nothing on Fowl's father. Many suspect he's dead, having outlived some kind of usefulness to either Fowl, or the Syndicate as a whole. Ears are kept open for any mention of the man, and any possible information sent to Front leaders.

What's been positively identified is Fowl Manor, built on the ancestral home of the Fowl family in Derry. Heavily guarded by battlesuits and Legion Security, the building is home to the one last survivor of the Fowl family; Fowl's mentally unsound and infirm mother. Debate has raged on the topic for years. While killing Fowl's mother would be a severe blow to the bastard's ego and morale, the fear is that it would also drive him into a roaring tide of vengeance against all Ireland, civilians included. Even if the Syndicate did pull him out, the damage could already be done. Others insist that the destruction of Fowl manor, and all inside, would be the best way to finally convince the Syndicate that the Irish would not bow to the rulers of Belfast.

While already waging a real war, the Front are also trying to fight in the court of public opinion. Fowl is lampooned constantly in song and story, being made into a sniveling toady of rich bankers and owners, more a rat than man. So far the plan has worked, thousands of Irish whistling about Apollo Fowl's bucked teeth and massive nose on their way about the sprawl.

Fowl himself is growing tired of these constant interruptions to his plans. The Front have had their rebellion, but Fowl isn't going to let his operations be interrupted like they have been in California or Las Vegas. But until he can find a good angle to work over on the group, he has to stay cooped up in his penthouse and limo, waiting for his mercenaries and lawyers to clear his way.

## Margaret Thatcher

"*We must try to find ways to starve the Front terrorist of the oxygen of publicity on which they depend."*

-  Margaret Thatcher
The Iron Bitch is the biggest Allied target for the group, and with good reason. Under her plans, the Front's fight would be reduced to that of common criminals skulking about for a score, instead of the lawful political struggle being waged to create a free and united Ireland.

Leading the push behind the construction of the prison facility in Maze, Thatcher's stated opinion on the recent incidents in Northern Ireland is that the Phoenix Front and the smaller splinter groups are no better than common criminals claiming political rights to justify their fighting. The Syndicate is happy to play up this image, "encouraging" support for Thatcher's policies among the workers that are too afraid for their jobs to do otherwise. This has given Thatcher the image in the Allied parliament of a people's leader, directly in contrast to the cries of men like Morris Tillager and their cries that Thatcher's efforts will only inflame the situation.

Though normally safely tucked away in England, the Front is making plans for attacks outside of Belfast. Still Irish Republicans, the thought of attacking Dublin is the farthest from their mind. London is not. A glaring symbol of both British colonialism and Allied idiocy, the Front is making new plans for bringing the war right to the doorsteps of the British people. A war that can't be won by hunkering down in shelters and hiding from the bombs. A war in the streets, a war that's being fought in cities the world over against the Allies. Though many outside experts would see this as the best possible thing to happen to Thatcher due to her support of Allied military spending, the Front isn't worried about experts. If the common people of Britain start getting bombings on their own shores, in their cities, the hope is that the question will be asked: Why are we still in Ireland?

This means the Front has three ways to get rid of Thatcher. Killing her is an obvious first step, but also dangerous. Thatcher could be lionized in the people's hearts, and whoever replaces her vowing to hunt down the killers. Political murder is much more tempting, but also a slippery road for the Front's leadership. It's one thing to kill an enemy soldier. It's an entirely different one to kill innocent civilians. Murdering her career to render her powerless is also an option, but deliberately destroying someone's image is something difficult to do without significant media control. This has made all plans for eliminating Thatcher somewhat difficult to plan out, and the search for a solution to kill the bitch continues.

## Robert Bingham

*"THIS IS WHY NORTHERN IRELAND CANNOT HAVE NICE THINGS."*

- From a mural lampooning Robert Bingham.
The Front knows that its fight will draw ever greater Allied scrutiny from the AN. As the struggle continues, the Front will face ever greater numbers of PKs and Reservists drawn in to fight them. And those men will need a leader.

Bingham is, presently, the most dangerous Allied military official in Europe. Though not currently leading the battle against the Front with Berlin and the borders to worry about, the Front has enough foresight to see that Bingham will lead a fight against them if the Soviets stay in their borders. If this new chill in the conflict keeps cooling, Bingham will have to address the issue of the Front and Belfast, and that means incredible Allied intervention and forces.

Currently, the Front has few ways of actually getting to Bingham. Thanks to the new electronic method of war, commanders can sit safely away from the fighting while their forces do the killing. This means that trying to get to Bingham in an Allied base is a suicide mission, one that the Front just doesn't have the resources to commit to. Thoughts of killing Bingham's family are tempting, but this would violate the Front's policy of not harming civilians (except if they're also military figures), and the Allied press could easily spin such an assault around on the Front.

Thankfully, Allied command has offered another tempting target.

Cryo-Command is the largest single Allied facility in Ireland. And it's severely short-staffed. With Allied forces being pulled to every corner of the globe, Cryo-Command has had to rely on heavily automated systems for defending the area, with a few token PKs and Cryo-Legionnaires to guard the facility. The Front has been working out a plan that, if they can strike hard enough at Cryo-Command, Bingham will have to visit the facility for a sort of press tour to reassure the people that everything is perfectly fine. The strike would be on either the aircraft transporting him, or on the convoy in an isolated area. Even better, the hope is that Bingham can be taken captive, a massive bargaining chip to be used against the Allies, and potentially as a way to get any favor from the Soviets.

Until then, most plans typically involve trying to match Bingham's movements with any kind of potential hang-up. A traffic snarl, an aircraft malfunction, any one of these could be a way to corner and eliminate the Allies' leading strategic mind.

## Beaver & Co. Motor Company

*"If those people in Beaver & Co were to defect to us, we would accept them with open arms. But until then, we have to defend ourselves from these mechanical monstrosities of their own creation."*

-  P. O'Neill
As seen with Apollo Fowl, the Front is vehemently anti-traitor. Throwing in one's lot with the enemy is a crime unforgivable, and must be met with swift and furious retribution. But there are traitors, and then there are men.

The workers and owners of Beaver & Co are just men, albeit men who manufacture a system that has led to numerous arrests and loses for the Front. The Armored Response Vehicle is a beast for the Front to face, and often the arrival of even one means that the Front has to regroup and withdraw. Their brother freedom fighters in the Americas and the Middle East face similar problems from the ARV, meaning a solution was needed if the world's freedom fighters were to stand a chance.

The company's factor is safely outside of Dublin, meaning civilian casualties would be minimal. But two things hold the Front's hand from actually striking. One, the factory is in the Republic of Ireland, and even being a member of the Allied Nations, it's still the nation they (ostensibly) fight to unite. Ergo, to attack inside its borders would force others to question the legitimacy of the Front by default. Second, while the attacks could be carried out with no civilian casualties, the reality is that men would lose their jobs overnight, and constant attacks would need to be made to eliminate the next factories the Allies would have built to keep up ARV production, never mind the hundreds of SPAM templates already produced.

Again, the Front does not see anyone in Beaver & Co. as a traitor on the level of Fowl. The owners have to turn a profit and pay their workers, and the workers simply come in, do their jobs, and leave at the end of the day. So whether or not the Front can survive the ARV any longer will play a major role in the possible attack on Beaver & Co.

## Satyrs

"*Santo merda, pretty woman, can't you feel the love to- che cazzo, you're a cardboard cutout?!"* \*gunshots\*

- An unlucky Satyr being baited to his death.
As a group, the Front have made it a personal mission to exterminate the urban psychotics that are seconded to the Syndicate. They consider it a personal mission after the first Bacchanalia, a duty to perform above nearly any other.

Though unable to rationalize why Satellite City might not be the best place for them to go, the Syndicate has seen a sharp increase in satyr disappearances in the region. These disappearances are often preceded by reports of massive gun battles, where whatever shooters there are typically outnumber the targets heavily. The damage to the surrounding blocks is heavy, but there are few witnesses due to the fact that many people are too busy cowering in fear.

Targeting the satyrs is obvious. The common people hate them, and the Syndicate itself can barely claim any control over them. After their introduction in Belfast, it has become common practice for teams to be put together at the first sighting of any satyr in an area. Civilians are told to stay inside and take whatever precautions they can, while local Front members arm up and start looking for the satyrs. They usually aren't too hard to find, all it really takes is leaving out a massive pile of semi-legal drugs and waiting. The satyrs, having lost their ability to not respond to their base impulses, immediately seek out the source of pleasure and spring the trap. Bombs explode, shots ring out, and even with the heavy casualties the Front typically walks away with a dead satyr, something few other anti-Syndicate forces can claim.

Though the Syndicate can easily replace these losses, the price tag combined with ever increasing suspicion about the origin of these bizarre human beings from ACIN and INTERPOL puts even more pressure on Fowl to cover these incidents up. The satyrs themselves care more about where they can get their next high instead of where the next ambush is.

## Straylight Electronics

*"If it is happy-ever-afters you wanted, stay away from the city of the future...and more importantly, stay away from the corporation that runs it."*

-  Stefan Bashkir's graffiti artwork randomly found in many places in Ireland
The reason Belfast is now called Satellite City, Straylight Electronics is seen as the leading cause of the new state of Northern Ireland. Ads are constantly defaced, offices attacked, and workers are either warned to stay away or beaten if they repeatedly do not listen to what they're being told.

As far as the Front is concerned, Straylight is their biggest corporate target in the Sprawl. Their purchase of Belfast with Allied permission is what set the stage for what was to come, and evidence in the Front's possession reveals bribery, extortion, blackmail, and even murder. Politicians, militias, activists, all were either bought, threatened, or killed for trying to refuse Straylight's efforts. At present, this evidence is merely being held over Straylight's head, preventing them from giving the order to simply burn the Front out to pacify the Sprawl.

Currently, all focus against Straylight is trying to disrupt the function of Straylight One in the activity of the city. Connections from Straylight's corporate headquarters are cut, fuse boxes sabotaged, wires cut everywhere. While Straylight One is bad at staying in orbit above the city, the Front have certainly done their best to help make these malfunctions even more hazardous. Straylight One has, however, become a boon to the Front. With the satellite constantly falling in and out of range, the Front can rely on communications breakdowns preventing a fast response to their actions.

Many Front commanders consider Straylight the perfect target for their anger. Straylight is the most public face of the occupation of Belfast, and the largest single corporate entity holding the city together. Anyone who works willingly for Straylight is intimidated and beaten, as buildings belonging to the company are burned. Straylight, already reeling from trying to keep their satellite working, now has to contend with the cost of doing business in a hostile cityscape.

## AN Prison Maze

*"Armored cars and tanks and guns*
*Came to take away our sons*
*But every man must stand behind*
*The men behind the wire"*

- *Men Behind the Wire*, writer unknown
The instant the Front started to rise from the ashes, the Allies have made it a mission to arrest, not kill. Conducting raids across Northern Ireland, the Peacekeepers and constables have managed to arrest over 300 Front affiliates, sending them to what has become a symbol of Allied oppression; Allied Nations Prison Maze.

Originally an RAF airfield, Maze was soon modified to become a prison facility for the growing numbers of Front prisoners being brought in. The facility was soon expanded, with several blocks constructed to house the prisoners how as long as was necessary. Originally, these prisoners were seen as political or POWs, given special statuses like being allowed greater contact with the world, more food parcels, and the right to wear their own clothes instead of prison uniforms. While this kept the prisoners calm and willing to cooperate to a degree in the first few weeks, the actions of one woman changed that.

Thatcher believed that to give the Front the status of POW or political prisoners was to give legitimacy to their fighting. Quickly, Thatcher decided to begin a process of "criminalization", forcing the men in the newly-constructed H-Block cells to wear prison uniforms and act as though they were ordinary convicts. The change was swift and merciless, and suddenly dozens of prisoners were protesting by simply refusing to wear the uniforms provided, choosing instead to go naked except for the thin blankets they now were forced to sleep in.

Thanks to this change, the Front has decided to treat AN Prison Maze, and by extension the Northern Ireland prison system as a whole, as just another target. Prison guards and officials are targeted for assassination and intimidation, as escape attempts continue to be made out of Maze and other facilities. This has extended to inside the prisons as well, with prisoners either choosing to protest their uniforms to their treatment as "common thieves" or tying up the guards by attempting to escape, leaving other prisoners free to make their own plans. Rumors are running rampant that one day, the Front plan on launching massive riots on the day, throwing the prisons into chaos and drawing in Peacekeepers and Reservists, allowing their brothers in the cities and countryside to launch their own operations. But for now, the "Blanket Protest" continues, with many human rights officials in the Allied Nations claiming that the continued treatment of the prisoners in such a way constituted illegal violations of human rights.