

These are sets of three special story-driven Council missions involving uniquely-voiced characters (such as Shaojie Zhang or Annette Durand) who later join XCOM's roster among other mission rewards. Any of these missions can be skipped but doing so (or failing the mission) results in increased panic in the affected countries/continents. These missions appear randomly each month. The following is a list of mission types in XCOM: Enemy Unknown.
