Allanea
11-03-2005, 12:53
Allanean Embassy, Feline
The old embassy basement has changed greatly in the last few days, thought Bernard Walker Graves, the new Allanean official to the embassy. To the Felinians, he was nothing but a Public Relations Officer – a relatively innocent duty in the Embassy, with a pay of about five thousand Allanean Dollars per month. To Allaneans, he was also the Intelligence Officer - with a pay of additional ten thousand Allanean Dollars per month, to prevent bribery. Officially, this basement was still as it was before – a simple, barren hold for old furniture and other stuff you normally put in your basement.
Really, it was more, giggled Graves. Six computers, riggged to the most advanced SIGINT and communications hardware Allanea could provide, and to an immense variety of Allanean-made tracking devices, it would soon become one of the centers of Allanean intelligence activity in Eastern Haven.
Right now, thought, it was only a hub of sattelite activity. Hi-resolution images of Blattershpitt, Gerburg, Tokris, Sefrul, and every other major Edolian city in East Haven floated through the screens, together with photographs of main decks of Doujin battleships and military shipyards. This information was not enough for anything serious, of course. HUMINT was needed, and HUMINT was Bernard Walker Graves’ responsibility. And he would get it.
Just as he thought of it, a young man of only 16 walked out of the Embassy and got on his way to the Edolian embassy in Feline.
The old embassy basement has changed greatly in the last few days, thought Bernard Walker Graves, the new Allanean official to the embassy. To the Felinians, he was nothing but a Public Relations Officer – a relatively innocent duty in the Embassy, with a pay of about five thousand Allanean Dollars per month. To Allaneans, he was also the Intelligence Officer - with a pay of additional ten thousand Allanean Dollars per month, to prevent bribery. Officially, this basement was still as it was before – a simple, barren hold for old furniture and other stuff you normally put in your basement.
Really, it was more, giggled Graves. Six computers, riggged to the most advanced SIGINT and communications hardware Allanea could provide, and to an immense variety of Allanean-made tracking devices, it would soon become one of the centers of Allanean intelligence activity in Eastern Haven.
Right now, thought, it was only a hub of sattelite activity. Hi-resolution images of Blattershpitt, Gerburg, Tokris, Sefrul, and every other major Edolian city in East Haven floated through the screens, together with photographs of main decks of Doujin battleships and military shipyards. This information was not enough for anything serious, of course. HUMINT was needed, and HUMINT was Bernard Walker Graves’ responsibility. And he would get it.
Just as he thought of it, a young man of only 16 walked out of the Embassy and got on his way to the Edolian embassy in Feline.