I'm just the recon guy... For the lawsuit... About the dirt....

Ess Somil is a star student and up and coming wunderkind in the soil science world. Unfortunately, he's also deathly afraid of confrontation and would sooner plan an entire stealth mission than ask for permission to enter a restricted, or even a regular civilian area.

He is extremely good at what he does- including tresspassing without being caught- and so has been stationed on study leave, to gain some field experience before returning to education for the rest of his Masters-going-on-PhD.

... Said field experience being an investigation into whether or not a government funded scientific endeavor dumped chemical waste in the areas surrounding Cliffside, an ocean-side town. Which would not be great, and would probably be cause for legal action, should it be true.

Luckily for Ess' trajectory as a published researcher, it seems like not only were they dumping chemical waste, but biochemical waste! What a discovery! Anyway, oh god, this is so much worse than anticipated. This is going to be such a bloody legal battle. Imagine the stress...