Art of Domination Thread 04

So why don't we have spy satellites orbiting this planet?

Remember that in game the alliance only been on 117 for 7 weeks now. We're the invasion force here. The only thing that's in orbit is the Enderfist, and it's only one thing so it can't spy everywhere, (even if planet 117 is anormaly small for a life bearing planet)

We do have a number of spy drones (and I believe gloomy way back raised to option of getting some spy planes plans from R&D) but they can't be everywhere at once, especially since we're already maintaining a close knit surveillance on region 3 (for traces of he rebellion) and 4 (for what remains on Smith movement troops)

Also, last but not least, region 5 was mostly covered in storm clouds due to the brain trees/storm drones combo that kept frying everything under. You may remember we had to manufacture some basic anti air rocker launchers so that they could shoot the cloud generating drones. So peeking inside from above was probably almost impossible.
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but if they're not actual monstrosities or carrying weird infectious agents, they're a manageable problem.

Well the fact any refugee from region 5 could be carrying brain trees spores in their clothes was the reason we established that checkpoint in the first place.

(Not to mention that horrible virus that turns you into an infectious mindless zombie. And now we know about pretenders, living nanotechs colonies, emissaries of hope and despair, fedora stalkers and tiny lung authors, if anything the screening should be, if anything, even more throurough)

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>Dossier on agents such as Gulls

Actualy, Gulls isn't an agent.
He's our number 2 and Adjutant. (aka the guy who relays out orders to our troops, gives status report, offer strategic advice and take care of administrative matters) and the Enderfist navigator.

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SpoilerHe's been part of our local command since the very start of the invasion. Also if memory serves he's Vora cousin with his family/clan serving vora"s from generations hence why he doesn't mind being bossed around by her and tend to be overly formal with her.

He's been on terrain a grand total of once so far, due to an ambush and survived hectically due to a mixture of having wkeyes with him, bluff, dumb luck and being rescued soon enough.
He's been described as "book smart/.Bullet dumb" for a reason, although due to this he's been training to get better (that and that led him to have coffe with hakweye now in an unlikely romance.)

He's trained to used a small black ops pistol (and Vora taught him two special 'moves', "quick cover" and 'quick reload' if it comes to that) but he's very far from being a field agent

He's been described as having "a mind like a steel trap", attentive to details, highly cautious and has a lot of general knowledge. He can participate to prisoner integrations. He's not however a scientific or hacker, so he's not either a cyber agent or such

Oh and he's also the only one who officialy actually got exposed to the art of domination. He got,as an an experiment, to read and copy only a single first page. It almost drove him violently insane as he wanted to copy more of it. And he shouted and was very angry
(which apparently means that despite his wealth of knowledge and sharp and cautious mind 'like a steel trap', the book didn't judge him 'intelligent' for or 'scientifically minded' enough; Unless that'd been retconed and it's just a matter of exposure now)

Due to that he had a tiny author baby growing into one of his lungs for a while. Apparently it's what the art of domination does to people reading it. (which got someone to make a funny post cling them self insert hacks, heh).
It was surgically removed through nanotech surgery with Feather and Francoise help and there is no detected long term psychological changes after period of observation. (which is why he's still even allowed to keep his position)

Lists of actual agents includes:

Haweyes
(Demoliton and trap expert)

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First appeared in region 3, as a mercenary helping Smith resistance troops
Which she promply offered to betray and then got hired on our side as she blew up the resistance force.

(same page also has her dossier, summed up:
Anna ‘Hawkeyes’ Reznov is a Saramis but she was raised among humans (so she blend beter with humans than saramis) by some kind of old loner chemist. But she though science was borring so she became a mercenary instead
She's a decent shooter but her nickname seems to refer to her talent to and avoid detect trap. she's mostly a demolition expert who can impovise explosives and explosive amo on the field.)

When North took control, she was taken prisoner as a test subect in one of Number 1's ab (where she met amnog other the "real president Smith" who gave her a disk to give to Vora in person). Smith forces offered her life in exchange of helping them. It ended as well as can be imagined (aka the betrayal mentioned above)

She cost us 1000 RP per week (kinda steep) but so far she's been serving us pretty well, in no small part thank to her infor about Smith montrosities early on and her advice to rig explosive (mostly in barbarosa). Though she ain't been in the field much sicne the whle thing with Ghuls

Talbat
(Assasin)

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First appeared when out troops entered the first of Smith VIP bunkers in region 3 where the minister of finace and his family were hiding. .. Only to find them dead and splatered over the walls by Talbat's hands

Part of the "Circle of Justice", a group of rescued (and armed by an unknown federation source, which has been revealed later to be a pair of Federaion scientists described as 'ethical sociopaths) survivors from north genocides having vowed to murder the North regime and everyone associated with it

Also found, after interogation, to be controled into revengfull toughts by brain implant creating schyzophrenia like 'voice in the head'.
May (probably) have suffered mental damage as a result.

After being operated, joined our forces as an agent

First mission was to go against his former teamates (see Leon and ventica), allowing us to neutralize and capture them,. shown to be able to decieve quite well (although the 'false info' was from haweyes.)

Trained assassin and inflitrator, work pretty much like a one man spec ops team

Infiltrated Cyrano citadel while it was bandones b Smith troops and taken over by a bunch of human refugees, fought two of the poluted that were there (ex doctor Castor and an unknown Saramis corpse)

Leon and Ventica
(Human spies)
(presumably also trained as assassns similar to talbat. Counting them as a pair because so fair they've alway been together when apearing on screen)

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Part of Talblat assassination team from the circle of Justice.
Recuperated the same way with his help, catured and neutralized, then their implant was removed.
May suffer from the same kind of psychological damage as a result. though they seems to have recuperated fine by now

They've served as human spy for us once by infiltrating Cobalt city for two days, disguised as Smith forces and got us ont he gas defense of the city and made contact with a bunch of lieutenants willing to turn coat.
Seem to be resourcefull and capable to lend in witht he population.
PS: ...Leon has the manliest way to order a drink ever. Vodka drinkers are dime a dozen but Would you mess with a man who orders "the clear piss out of the dong of Satan ? ... Wonder how he'd order a plate of freid eggs ?")

Linesman
(cyberwerfare specialist)

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First appeared in his own POV,

Hacker. Secretive and pretty cocky. extensive inteligence though his 'own network of spys' robotic bugs.

Once employed by Smith forces, fled into hiding as soon as he could
Alway appeared so far as a personalized cartoon character to hide his (if a 'he', they even be)'true' appearance.

Possibly not human, seeing as it was mentioned Sm.. North would have eliminated him sooner or later once his usefullness was past. (then gain it's not like North forces haven't been experimenting and illing other humans so who knows)
(probably) not an AI either.

Has helped the Saramis aliance three time as an 'independent agent' from the shadows, albeit in pretty underhanded ways:
-Leaked important Smith research files to the Aliance. including bout project Skhive, the develloping superweapon
-Manipulated the Servant of Saramis cult into attacking a gang in region 4, the Axe clan who would otherwise had the potential to get human federation millitary grade anti personall weapons (which would have included stuff like 0.70 cal rifles, hand held raillguns snipers and multi biological weapon tinted sniper bullets "The federation sure likes overkill")
-Made a deal with Olpho back in Barbarossa to actualy hide some nfor from the allaince (but there was a "good" reason for it (although that was pretty pointless in retrospect since the whol thing about Lagan 'rebellion' was blown into existence like a couple of days after anyway...))

Hacked Rheynar computer for kicks and giggles and played a game with him

At some point, made contact with our CWS forces and now officialy work as an agent for us.

Kuroda
(cyberwerfare specialist)

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Part of a group of Smith forces officiers in Cobalt city who decided to defect to the Aliance (okay details were a tiny more complicated but it should be noted of the four he as one fo th to that were most open to defect from the start)

Communication specialist. And hacker.
knew stuff about Pionner base and the red Note

...Alway wear a furry cat like suit and never show is true face but is good enough at what he does he can get away from that kind of excentricity

Grenda
("Doomcat". (Stealth Infiltrator, heavy armed, assasin))

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Gift from the human federation
Grenda is part of the highly secret 'doomcat', that is to say.. an uplifted sentient cat piloting an heavily armed stealth battlesuit;

The suit is quadrupedal with some serious firepower, plating and stealth capabilities.

The stealth work differently from the way our stealth commando work.
Our stealth teams can keep stealthed for very long periods or time but get disrupted for a while as soon as they get in certain conditions (such as firing or entering in contact with water (high humidity too perhaps)) or can still be heard with very acute hearing
Her suit stealth work continuously. Even if she fires, as long as it got enough energy, up to one hour.

(Her suit can also act as a com really or at least as a hacking proxy, if memory serves ?)

To keep in mind though: the way she's been acting, she appears as something I'd describe as close to sociopathic from a humanoid POV
(since she is uplifted a from a predatory species that's not exacly suspiring she'd enjoy the thrill of hunting and killing, still could be dangerous if she ever decide to go rogue or disobey orders)

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