In the first Pineland exercise, you are a Federal operations team operating outside official orders to combat Atlantican smuggling cartel teams. Your mission is to track down, engage, and eliminate cartel forces without being discovered or captured. Pineland will officially disavow you in such a situation, and you will be subject to cartel or fifth column justice. Local law enforcement and political systems have been infiltrated by the Atlantican fifth column, and are not to be trusted, though there are some loyal to Pineland. Discovering who is who could be invaluable to your mission, though is not required.