In this pivotal moment ahead of the raid on Erdhart Aggregates headquarters, the confidential Operation Reckoning's heavy hitters assemble: Lead investigator DCI Frank Gresham looms front and centre, flanked by DI Sangeet Bakshi, DS Alan Pierce and DC Noah Graves. Their body language broadcast anticipation to finally smash Daedalus' alleged criminal nexus wide open.
For years, the Gresham's anti-corruption unit had rigorously trawled the tangled money trails and shady dealings dogging architect Thomas Danielson's audacious urban renewal crusade across the city. Erdhart's utilitarian facades concealed rumoured gangland ties, dubious cash sources, and potentially deadly industrial mishandlings, all greasing the overhead for Danielson's brutalist pour.
Yet when the dust finally settled following the semi-theatrical blitz, the expected windfall of damning evidence failed to fully materialise. While peripherally implicating a few low level concrete crewmen in isolated contamination events, authorities could establish no definitive connective syndicate kingpins or criminal masterminds overseeing Daedalus' divisive civic works.
What did crystallise were corrosive suspicions Gresham's entire team had been willfully misleading the case from within. As the details leaked to the press in the preceding years, a disturbing portrait emerged of endemic corruption deep within the upper echelons supposedly investigating Daedalus' rot.
