

We urge you to keep that in mind as you proceed. Your efforts will have considerable influence on this planet's future. You have been chosen to lead this initiative. In light of the recent extraterrestrial incursion, this council of nations has convened to approve the activation of the XCOM Project. The secondary protagonist can be heard reporting to an unseen figure at the end of the game's campaign, whom the subtitles refers to only as "The Councilor". The organization had stopped working for just the United States, and answered instead to a multi-national collective, which would come to be known as The Council. XCOM followed the Zudjari defeat with an extensive cover-up, destroying all evidence of an alien invasion and paving the way for the formation of a global, successor organization known as the XCOM proper. The valiant defensive effort against the Zudjari and ultimately the revelation of the real motives behind their invasion allowed XCOM to stall and eventually defeat the invasion through surgical strikes using captured and reverse-engineered alien weapons. What they had in common was that they weren't even aware of XCOM's existence until the call came. The lengthy list included the military, clandestine services, DIA, even regular civilians.

Site X became the temporarily center of US strategic command, as Faulke was unable to contact the President or anyone else in Washington D.C.Īs one of the last remaining elements of the United States' continuity of government capable of resisting the alien invasion, Faulke directed the activation of people pre-flagged for XCOM recruitment. The activation of the Bureau was necessary, as the alien invasion was preceded by a global communications blackout (and unintentionally preventing a global panic). There were six survivors, including Director Myron Faulke, who rallied all available assets at Site X and assumed command over military forces at his disposal. The Bureau was activated following the alien attack on Groom Range, which devastated the base and wiped out its staff and garrison within half an hour.
