Jacob Hendricks Research Paper

On October 27, 2065, the Player and their partner, Jacob Hendricks, infiltrate a base in Ethiopia as part of a Winslow Accord operation to rescue hostages from the tyrannical NRC, assisted by Commander John Taylor and his team of cybernetically enhanced soldiers. The rescue is successful, but the Player is critically wounded, necessitating the installation of cybernetic enhancements to save their life. The Player is also given a Direct neural interface (DNI) to control their cybernetics, and is given virtual training inside it from Taylor and his team (Sebastian Diaz, Sarah Hall, and Peter Maretti) while undergoing surgery. Hendricks also decides to undergo cybernetic enhancements.
Five years later, the Player and Hendricks are put under the command of CIA Agent Rachel Kane and tasked with investigating a CIA black site in Singapore that has gone quiet. They find the site attacked by the 54 Immortals, Singapore's most powerful criminal organization, and the station staff murdered, with the site's data drives stolen. Kane concludes that Taylor and his team defected and carried out the murders, so the trio go to investigate the last location Taylor's team visited: the Coalescence Corporation in Singapore, which had been destroyed ten years prior in a mysterious explosion that killed 300,000 people.
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As they lay dying on their surgery bed, they lived out a simulation in their DNI, based on Taylor's experience of he and Hendricks hunting down Dylan Stone and his black ops team (Javier Ramirez, Alice Conrad, and Joseph Fierro), their former teammates who went rogue after discovering the CIA black site. It is hinted that the Player's consciousness lives within Taylor's mind throughout the simulation, and that the Player manages to take over Taylor's body after his death in Cairo until the DNI