Burro Shipping

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Burro Shipping
First Encountered	February, 2009
Top Dog
Size	unknown
Affiliation	Remaal al-Sahra
Alignment	Profit; Self-interest
Status	Active
Location(s)	International organization
Link	Communication

Initially thought to be synonymous with al-Sahra, the international smuggling ring which operates as Burro Shipping is instead a separate organization that counts al-Sahra as one of many customers. They trade in drugs, weaponry, and humans (mutant and otherwise).

Goals & Interests

Profit. Money. Profit.

The smuggling ring trades in drugs and weaponry, but their primary business is human trafficking. They seem to have a special focus on mutants and supply a good many customers across the world, including al-Sahra.

People

Major

• Dmitri Sergeyevich Alexeyev - The logistical brains of the organization.
• Vladimir Cherkesov - Deals with clients; planner.
• Zhou Dandan - The group's top retrieval specialist.

Minor

• Rotensen - Member of Dandan's team. Combat specialist. Expert in pharmaceuticals. MD, but no license. Mostly keeps the kids unconscious.
• Lowry - Member of Dandan's team. Combat specialist. (Allergic to peanuts.)
• Garza - Member of Dandan's team. Information retrieval specialist (computer networks, etc.) -- hacked into MRA database, keeps tabs on global news to red flag mutants.
• Morales - Member of Dandan's team. Analyst, crazysmart with patterns. He and Garza do the locating of targets.

Locations

Major

• Vladivostok, Russia
• Shanghai, China
• Algiers, Algeria
• Seattle, USA

Minor

• Los Angeles, USA
• Puerto Vallarta, Mexico
• Cape Town, South Africa
• Marseilles, France
• Haifa, Israel
• New York City, USA

Resources

• Two known ships, the Ravager and the Eagle's Crest
• Pharmaceuticals and telepathic inhibitors for handling mutants

Events

Major Missions

• Shanghaid (Dec 12-20, 2009)

Burro Shipping supplies mutants to a specialized brothel in Shanghai.

• Gravity Smugglers(Jan 4-17, 2010)

The ring blackmails former agent Zoe McMillan into using her powers to help alter the weights of their smuggling shipments.

• The Lion's Den (Jan 16-26, 2010)

Several ring members at the Algiers base are investigated and/or questioned in X-Factor's quest to find Carmen.

• By Any Other Name (March 20- , 2010)

Mini Investigations

• Nicaragua (Dec 5, 2009)

A return to Puente Sobre, Nicaragua looking for clues to Carmen's whereabouts gives the first evidence of Burro Shipping's contracts and logos.

• Darra (Dec 5, 2009)

A mission in search of Carmen instead turns up the name of a Russian smuggler: Vladimir Cherkesov

• San Francisco (Dec 13, 2009)

Piotr leads a mission to San Francisco in search of human trafficking leads and turns up an abducted mutant and a Cherkesov sighting, which later leads them to Shanghai.

• Los Angeles (Jan 7, 2010)

Team members follow a lead from Shanghaid and turn up a warehouse full of pharmaceuticals and a disposable cellphone with an area code that traces back to Vladivostok.

• New York City (Jan 9, 2010)

Team members follow a lead to check out a shipping location in New York City and find a warehouse filled with Burro-marked crates. They slap one with an RFID.

• Vladivostok (Jan 10, 2010)

Team members continue following leads to Vladivostok, where they encounter Dmitri and are mistaken for X-Men.

• Algiers (Jan 13, 2010)

Team members are ambushed in Algiers while following a lead on a shipping location. They have their brains wiped by Carmen and came home with a t-shirt written on by Thang.

• Marseilles (Jan 14, 2010)

Team members check out a lead on a shipping location in Marseilles, where they obtain information on Dmitri and Carmen.

• Vladivostok 2.0 (March 7, 2010)

Team members return to Vladivostok to search for al-Sahra intel at Dmitri's home. They learn two new names of al-Sahra agents, and Dmitri agrees to pass on further information.

• Australia (Mini) (March 18-19, 2010)

Team members follow a lead from Dmitri to investigate the kidnapping of Scott Langley by Burro Shipping.