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Team Members

      Their vehicle was a 90mm cannon-armed V-150 with 5 crew.

     Most of the members of this team were recuited in 1984; the team was frozen in July of 1986.

     They were awakened by an uninformative signal in 2138, and lured to Canada when they attempted radio contact with the Project. 4 of the team members were captured; the other team member (Gene) escaped with the vehicle, and hasn't been seen since.

     All members were military veterans with (at least) armored vehicle training and experience -- but NOT special forces. Two members of this team escaped in 2139, heading over the Rockies to British Columbia. One of the remaining team members is missing a leg due to injuries when first captured.

Standing Orders

     You expect to be awakened a very few years after the War.  

     The goal of the Project is the continued survival of human civilization after the War. The standing orders for every team are to:

• assist the population in recovering in any way you can

• reunite with the rest of the Morrow Project

• survive!

     The team members know that, somewhere in California north of the Tehachapi Mountains, the following 14 teams (total less than 100 people) are part of their group:

• Science Team S-10 in a Science-1 vehicle
  

• Science Team S-71
  

• MARS Team M-1 in a MARS-ONE vehicle

• MARS Team M-11

• MARS Team M-12 (your own team)
  

• MARS Team M-13

• Engineer Team E-1

• Agriculture Team A-10

• Recon Team R-12

• Recon Team R-13

• Recon Team R-22

• Recon Team R-34

• Recon Team R-43

• Recon Team R-54
  

     To support these teams, there are at least two dozen caches, and Depot Alpha (a sort of super-cache, unmanned but with bolthole-style conditions inside, and filled with items such as a few spare vehicles). The Science team leader is the "top boss" of all these teams, with the MARS-ONE leader as second-in-command. Project operations south of the Tehachapi Mountains exist, but you don't know any more than that. It's also possible that there are other specialist teams in northern California known only to the MARS-ONE and Science-1 team leaders.

     All the team members know that the Project has large amounts of "reconstruction supplies" stashed in various places.

     In essence the plan is:  Recon teams will scout around, mapping the good and bad things; MARS teams suppress some of the bad things, Science teams look into and solve the other bad things.

Facilities

     Their bolthole was in northern California, in the Sierra Nevada foothills.

     For security purposes, they only knew the location of their own bolthole and of their team's six supply caches. Keep in mind that the Project might have to change the team's location, vehicles, equipment, or even membership after they'd entered cryosleep. 

     The team didn't visit any of their caches before most of them were captured; the captured team members claimed not to know the locations in enough detail to find them (but may well have been lying). Unlike the Recon teams, MARS teams knew the (planned) contents of most of their caches. The caches were:

• CA03 - a MARS-oriented cache, west of Platina, in Tehama county.

• CA12 - another MARS-oriented cache. Located in Shasta county, west of Old Station.

• CA28:  a 'regular" cache, north of Groveland in Tuolomne count.

• CA29:  a "regular" cache, north of Glenville in Kern county.

• NV12:  a MARS-oriented cache, west of Humboldt, Nevada

• TX03:  a MARS-oriented cache, located northwest of Kent, in the Apache Mountains, in Culberson county.

Radio Frequencies

     The team is assigned ten FM voice communication frequencies:

• channel 1:  32.0 MHz - Zone 1 common tactical channel
  

• channel 2:  32.6 MHz - team primary channel
  

• channel 3:  32.2 MHz
  

• channel 4:  32.4 MHz

• channel 5:  32.8 MHz

• channel 6:  33.0 MHz - also MARS general
  

• channel 7:  33.2 MHz
  

• channel 8:  33.4 MHz

• channel 9:  33.6 MHz

• channel 10:  33.8 MHz

A couple of other important FM channels:

• 34.0 MHz - Recon common channel
  

• 31.0 MHz - Science common channel
  

     Note that changing these frequencies on their PRC-68 radios will require a successful Electronics skill roll if your skill is less than 40%; a failed roll (especially a fumbled roll) will result in channels not being usable. The PRC-70 vehicle/backpack radio is much more flexible; the HF band covers a lot of aircraft and marine channels, though it requires a long antenna to be really useful. 

     HF channels to watch:

• 2.182 MHz:  international distress and emergency

• 7.0 to 7.3 MHz:  the "long range" channels for the Project (one for each Zone, plus a couple of general purpose channels)
  

• 14.06 MHz:  a common amateur radio channel

• 26.617 MHz:  Civil Air Patrol common channel
  

• 26.96 to 27.41 MHz:  CB radios on 40 channels. CB channel 11 (general calls) is 27.085 MHz; channel 9 (emergencies) is 27.065 MHz
  

• 27.87, 27.92, 27.97 MHz:  US Navy-MARS (Military Affiliate Radio System)