Cdr. Amyus Bale - Personal log - 28 March 2015

Despite Toronto, everyone at XCOM is riding high right now.

Sgt. "Twitch" Gent

With a brace of double-kills under his belt, Harvey Gent is promoted to Sergeant.  The troops have taken to calling him "Twitch" for his lightning reflexes.

I'm feeling more reserved about our successes.  We were lucky at Baltimore, encountering only Sectoids. A couple of Thin Men in the mix might have tipped the balance, and who knows what else the X-rays have in store for us?  The research team are eager to start poking around in alien physiognomy, but for now I want them focused on arms and armaments: anything we can do to even the odds in the field is essential.

Engineering have completed construction of a second satellite.  Panic is getting out of hand in Russia, with reports of tank battalions taking position around major population centres as the chaos escalates... and little indication that they're there to protect people.  I'd like to avoid the Russians doing anything rash, and frankly I need the additional funds they'll send my way, so I'm launching the new sat over Siberia.

Meanwhile, the troops can celebrate.