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Digitization

 * 1) "Observe your motivations for breaking the arbitrary laws of the current government. Do not miss your chance to be one of us and create the New World Order.
 * 2) Bot kills 3 -- accident? Yves-Pierre Adrien, Dominique Vittet, Marie Philibert (Silhouettes?)
 * 3) "The bot just kept shooting until all you could hear was an empty clicking sound, then one of the soldiers ran to the control station across the street, trying to shut it down, but nothing happened. It just kept clicking...trying to shoot them again. "
 * 4) "Only in novels do places crumble without reason; when their spirit is lost."
 * 5) 3rd french republic?
 * 6) Beth+Everett -- romantic (started something in Illuminati)
 * 7) Nicolette & Chad
 * 8) What is Beth DuClare's painting?
 * 9) "He'd been assuming that there were two sides to this game and both were playing to win. But what if... what if there was someone else, and they wanted to see both sides lose? "
 * 10) "As t'were in scorn of eyes, reflecting gems, // Which woo'd the slimy bottom of the deep, // And mocked the dead bones that lay scatter'd by... " -- Richard III (Clarence)

Analysis
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 * 1) Icarus moves in and drops this bombshell -- the first time the antagonists reach out to JC to join them. Interesting that Icarus suggests that the NWO is being built by Majestic 12, rather than being the final goal of the Illuminati. Everyone wants to change. Why?
 * 2) Most likely a display of power or a targeted attack on Silhouette or Illuminati figures. The one doubt I have about the Sil/Ill idea is that agents from those groups would find it far too dangerous to travel outside of the lone wolf idea.
 * 3) The word then here is critical. The Majestic 12 ordered this attack. This is a sick account of attacks by Majestic 12 -- which are likely happening all over France (and likely the world).
 * 4) Nicolette, always the realist.
 * 5) The Third Republic, suspended in 1940 with the occupation of France by Germany. The DuClare estate is at least 120 years old at the time of the game.
 * 6) Everett would frequently visit Beth DuClare, Nicolette recalls.
 * 7) Confirms that Nicolette is involved with Silhouette and Chad.
 * 8) Beth DuClare's painting meant very much to her. Research turns up a reverse of Pierre-Auguste Renoir's Path Raised in High Fields. Images on the web are zoomed to focus on distant figures; the actual painting (and Beth's) have a river running down one side.
 * 9) Interesting passage from Jacob's Shadow. I think at this point I can tentatively claim that the "someone else" is Icarus, in a rare bit of foreshadowing in the game. However, it could be someone else entirely (see #2).
 * 10) The whole passage, not digitized here, centers around dead bones hiding jewels and treasure -- maybe a pass at the greatness and wealth still possible with the humanity of 2052.