To: Zion Council

From: Operative (redacted)

Re: Captain Niobe’s discovery

No doubt exists that Morpheus’s killer is a program in the “employ” of the Merovingian.  As she tells it, Captain Niobe and her crew fought her way to the Merovingian’s suite and learned this at swordpoint – but lost the advantage and barely made her way out.

As important, she learned this Exile’s nature.  The Assassin is composed of flies – swarming, crawling, seething flies.  It’s some sort of programmer’s joke (he is a program involved in disposal of the Matrix’s simulated waste products).

Unfortunately, this means gunshots and physical blows are completely ineffective in harming him.  Word on the street is that insecticide (there may be a connection between The Corrupted which plagued the Matrix some time ago and The Assassin) slows him down. 

Conceivably coders could assemble a more effective insecticide and we can take down this vermin permanently.

I continue my inquiries.

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