@|V|asterJay: I'd say sometime around January 22nd, so there will be a gap of about 6 days from when the Spec Ops teams went silent. The U.N. has been planning a rescue for quite some time, and has only recently been cleared by the W.U. to make it happen. So despite how quickly it was commissioned, the ones going in will still be well-prepared.

Also, I'm sorry for the delay on the IC. I was writing it up, but we had a sudden power outage and it was only recently restored >_<. I'll get back to working on it now...