GoldenEye 007 Rare Prologue – Story So Far…

Portfolio of a Spy

James Bond, 007, is partnered with 006, his friend Alec Trevelyan, for a difficult mission to destroy a Soviet chemical weapons facility deep inside Russia. Colonel Ourumov captures 006 and apparently executes him, but Bond gets away by commandeering a light aircraft after destroying the facility. Over the next few years a shadowy arms syndicate called Janus springs up from nowhere, spreading from Russia across the world.

A few years after the fateful mission to the Chemical Weapons plant, Bond is sent to a previously unimportant observatory complex in Severnaya, Siberia; unusual activity has been detected by spy satellites, and Intelligence analysts are hungry for more information. During the mission Bond discovers the GoldenEye encryption key, and a setup which reveals plans for a space-based weapons system. He duly reports this, but the analysts decide that it is improbable that the system will work. The data Bond collected is filed, and forgotten.

Then a series of rockets are launched from a Kirghizstan Missile Silo; payload is unidentified. 007 is chosen to infiltrate the Silo and obtain photographic evidence of the nature of the payload for Q-branch to evaluate. Here he crosses paths with Ourumov (now promoted to General) and, wounded in a shoot out, Ourumov drops his briefcase, which contains details of a military demonstration of a high-tech helicopter. Bond stakes out the location, a French Navy frigate, and is on hand to help out when the Janus syndicate attempt take over the vessel with the intention of stealing the helicopter. He places a tracking bug on the Pirate, and MI6 monitor the thieves via orbital camera to the Severnaya installation. Bond is flown in by spyplane, and arrives to find the base crawling with elite Spetznaz troops and the stolen helicopter long gone. While scouting for clues, 007 is captured by the Russian troops and thrown in a cell. There he meets the sole survivor of the Janus raid – Natalya Simonova, a computer programmer. From her, Bond learns that Janus were aided by General Ourumov; they are trying to steal the satellites themselves. Using Q’s magnetic watch, Bond escapes from the cell and covers his tracks, while helping Natalya to escape from her countrymen.

Natalya goes to St. Petersburg to try and find her friend and co-worker at the Severnaya Installation, Boris Grishenko, who she thinks might still be alive. Bond, meanwhile, is hunting down the Janus syndicate in the same city; alledgedly, this is their base of operations. Using an old adversary of his, an ex-KGB agent turned small-time arms dealer named Valentin Zukovsky, 007 manages to set up a meeting between himself and Janus. On the way to the rendezvous in the dumping ground for fallen icons known as Statue Park, news reaches Bond of Natalya’s kidnap by the Janus syndicate. With a sense of foreboding, Bond goes ahead with his meeting.

His unease is found to have solid foundation when the leader of the Janus syndicate is revealed as his old friend Alec Trevelyan; he had become disillusioned with MI6 after finding out his Lienz Cossack ancestry, and cut a deal with Ourumov years ago to defect unofficially. Natalya’s friend Boris had sold her out to the syndicate when he took a huge sum of money from Trevelyan to betray the GoldenEye project. Escaping the shock troops Janus sets on him, Bond locates the Pirate helicopter and rescues Natalya before it explodes. After retrieving the flight recorder Bond and Natalya are captured by Defence Minister Mishkin and his men, and are taken to the Military Intelligence building in St.Petersburg for interrogation.

Eluding his captors in the corridors of the archives, Bond frees Natalya and is given the flight recorder by Mishkin, who is now convinced of General Ourumov’s complicity in the affair. The traitorous General’s men are still loyal, and fight Bond every step of the way. While breaking out of the building, Natalya is abducted by Ourumov and Bond gives chase in the only transport to hand – a tank. The General flees to his business partners’ base, the Janus syndicate headquarters in an ex-military train depot on the outskirts of St. Petersburg. Trevelyan has set up his operations centre on a converted Missile Train, and Ourumov, hotly pursued by 007, boards the train. Fighting his way through from the rear of the train, Bond gets to the Radio Car, the nerve centre of Trevelyan’s communications to his arms empire. He kills Ourumov and wounds Xenia, giving Natalya time to break Boris’ password and discover the location of the Janus secret Base as Trevelyan helps Xenia on board his escape helicopter. They escape the train with only seconds to spare before the explosives Trevelyan set are detonated.

Flying over southern Cuba in search of the hidden satellite dish, Bond and Natalya are hit by an anti-aircraft missile, and are forced to crashland in the jungle. Fighting their way past automated defences, they encounter Xenia, and Bond kills her in a vicious gun battle. Finding an underground cave system, Bond and Natalya enter to discover the Janus Secret Base.

Natalya hacks her way through the security computer as Bond prowls the Control Centre, picking off the Janus Elite troops. Once in the Main Control Room, Bond defends Natalya as she re-programs the GoldenEye guidance computer so that the weapon will burn up on re-entry. Her job done, Natalya heads back up to the surface, while Bond goes after Trevelyan to settle the score. Taking a lift further underground leads 007 into a series of subterranean caverns containing the water that hides the dish from view. Bond detroys the pumps and calls in the marines, before following Trevelyan to the cradle itself.

There, high above the ground, 007 takes on the toughest Janus troops as he fights Trevelyan tooth and nail. Daring him to finish the job that he was sent to do, Trevelyan takes refuge on the antenna platform. In a final battle, the traitor is sent falling to his doom, while Bond is rescued by the enterprising Natalya, who has commandeered a helicopter. The threat of the GoldenEye is no more.

But there is no rest for James Bond. Remnants of the Drax Corporation are still operating, and there is a very curious message from Egypt awaiting him on M’s desk…