What do "The Man," K-Directorate, FTL and The Alliance have in common?
 

Each of these organizations took a hit when Khasinau's teams infiltrated and attempted to destroy local cells. Moreover each party, including "The Man," is an independent crime organization in search of artifacts from the 15th-century seer and prophet, Milo Rambaldi. SD-6 boasts the top record for retrieved articles, due in great part to Sloane's obsessive pursuits.

These articles are guarded closely — the ampule of Rambaldi solution nearly cost SD-6 its headquarters when McKenas Cole broke into the vault where it was stored — and several key artifacts have been offered in trade, at secret sales and auctions.

Alliance members and branch directors, alike, have assigned great value to the retrieval and recovery of his notebooks and artifacts, in part because they believe that Rambaldi was a seer, and that the over-arching sum of Rambaldi's prophetic vision will unleash a power unknown before to mankind.