Enemy intelligence has drawn up a plan of attack: a target, a method, a timing window, and a spearhead asset. Run your network — surveil, wiretap, bribe — to piece it together before your cover collapses or their clock runs out.
The enemy's plan has 4 hidden facts: Target, Method, Timing, and Spearhead Asset. Learn as many as you can before the clock runs out — or before your network's cover is blown — then submit your best assessment.
Pick one still-possible value inside a category and test it directly: Yes, it's confirmed — or No, and that value is crossed off for good. Moderate cost, moderate exposure risk.
Pick a whole category. Usually eliminates one wrong value; occasionally gets lucky and confirms the truth outright. Cheaper and safer than direct Surveillance, but less precise.
Pick a category and pay heavily for a guaranteed, instant confirmation of the true value. Powerful — but the highest exposure risk in the game.
Skip gathering intel this cycle to rebuild Cover and cool down Heat. No information, but keeps the network alive.
Every risky operation rolls a chance of exposure based on current Heat. An exposure costs you Cover and raises Heat further. If Cover ever hits zero, the network collapses and the game ends immediately.
Submit anytime. You'll be asked to pick your best guess for each category (confirmed facts are locked in automatically). Score is based on how many of the 4 you get right — the sooner and safer you get there, the better your rank.
Lock in your best guess for each category. This ends the operation.