@kylo.ren - november 4, 2511; locked to morningstar agents and contacts

[warfares]

Investigation into the leak that lead to the raid on Morningstar agents in September strongly suggests that the source might, in fact, be survivors of the crash in June.

It is time to consider moving on the UNA.

However, this poses several problems, particularly given that our goal is ultimately to reclaim the captured agents.

The first is determining their location; Morningstar has been unable to track the captured agents and it is likely that the UNA has a means to nullify or otherwise cloak the implants much in the way Morningstar has been able to do with the Displaced following each drop-off.

The second is extracting the agents once we have determined their location; this will place any rescuers directly in the path of UNA soldiers who are, as experience suggests, difficult to engage directly. It is also likely that in accomplishing this, the UNA will immediately suspect Morningstar which will lead to an elevation in hostility.

The most efficient way to acquire the information that will allow us to do both is to go to the source: capturing one of their soldiers.

To that end, the UNA has a base locally. Scouting for information will be difficult though not impossible.

Ideally, we will be looking to pin down movement patterns and shift times before moving onto outright capture; the soldiers work in groups. We will also need to secure a site to hold them once they’re in our custody.

Those that wish to assist are welcome, particularly those with abilities and experience beyond that which Morningstar can provide. Additionally, anyone wishing to weigh in on this plan or offer alternatives should do so now, as the longer the agents remain in UNA custody, the greater the risk to the rest of us.


( OOC NOTES:
1. while the tone of this post might give the impression that kylo ren has determined his course and will not be moved, we are in fact very open to suggestion and brainstorming.
2. this network is locked to morningstar agents and contacts. if you would like to be involved and have not signed up with morningstar yet, the page is here.
3. any ideas discussed here will likely be referred back to in the upcoming event, despite the fact that this network is happening prior to knowledge of the event.
4. mods wanted to clarify that there is only a single base in the city. )

Comments

@margaret.carter

[revlon]

Before we engage in any (further) debates on morality and tactics, we ought to determine where our agents could possibly be held in the event the soldier we capture doesn't have that intel.

[ No stone left unturned and all that. She wants to be prepared, find more possible leads rather than pinning their hopes to one in the form of a captured soldier. If anything, whatever is gleaned from a captive could tell them if they're on the right track. ]

I've been trying to find leads on our missing agents for some time now and looking into whatever I can access via my position at work. I personally doubt they're still in New Amsterdam. So I focused on all manner of transportation (shipment of exports, travel records, surveillance on the underground) looking for anything out of the ordinary. Unsurprisingly, I've found nothing; UNA records are confidential regardless of my clearance in government.

I'm still looking, of course, but I highly suspect it will continue to be a fruitless search. So the floor is open to other avenues we could explore on finding where our agents are being held. No idea or approach is too unconventional; if conventional methods worked, Morningstar would have found them before now.

@rey.nolo

[forcevisions]

UNA headquarters is in New Beijing, isn't it?
The information is certainly there. But we'd need to get somebody inside it, assuming Morningstar has not been able to hack into their systems remotely.

[revlon]

Their orders originate from there, yes, which is why I focused my search on New Beijing at first. We could continue looking into it, but we ought to keep in mind holding sites could be anywhere.

[ It's not as though her fellow agents in the war were shipped off to Berlin when they were captured and interrogated. ]

[forcevisions]

I just mean --

Even if they aren't being held there, if some of us could be sent there to try and get into the headquarters, the information of where they're being held is certainly there somewhere, yeah?

[revlon]

You're not wrong. But it's a big move, and an incredibly risky one I'm not sure we have to make at this juncture. I would infiltrate their headquarters in the capital as a last resort and only then. Information of this sort is confidential but that doesn't mean it's secured in one place or is completely inaccessible — particularly in this day and age with the technology available to us.

[ In her time, everything was committed to paper. Going into party headquarters or a main command outpost was often the only way to get crucial intel at great personal risk; anything else carried by enemy agents would be useful, but not to the same degree.

It's different here, with an online network instead of physical filing cabinets and safes. At least, that's how she understands it to be. ]

[forcevisions]

I'm not saying we rule out less risky moves, but if we exhaust everything else, we do know a surefire way to find it.

[ in her day, it would also be necessary. lots of star wars tech is analog. ]

[revlon]

We certainly do.

[ And no matter how much she rises in the ranks of local government, she suspects she'll never gain the clearance to access UNA files. Slippery bastards. ]

@jon.snow

[998]

If they're smart they'll be keeping them outside the cities, where they can't run away. They could even be keeping them out near the Colonies, or a ship in orbit. We have to be prepared for that. Assuming they aren't dead, or broken like the soldiers.

You're right that we should be seeking information anywhere that we can find it. I don't know that I have any ideas you haven't considered already.

@john.jaqobis

[stabilis]

In my experience, shady organizations love putting their black sites on the backsides of mostly empty planets. If they've got access, it's probably their safest bet.

[998]

They're United Nations colonies. They have access to everything.

[how...are they going to get to the DARK SIDE OF THE MOON......]

Though Mars seems less likely than the others, now.

@margaret.carter

[revlon]

It's a stretch and possibly outlandish, but not too much so, given where and when we are. History does point to governments shipping off convicts to faraway colonies to live out the rest of their days in abject misery.

[ That's how they got Australia. America, too, technically. Rule Britannia, etc etc. ]

[998]

They could just as well be keeping somewhere them on this planet, between the cities. Nobody else is allowed to go there.

I don't know the satellites could find something like that, or if they'd be able to hide it, and I don't know if that would be easier for them than shipping them off to the far side of the moon.

They'd be fools to let our people loose among the colonists, though.

[but if there's one thing jon's managed to learn it's to never underestimate the sheer stupidity of the people that hate you.]

[revlon]

There are rumblings of growing Morningstar sentiment amongst the colonists. It's already out of their hands.

But to your point about locations between the cities, yes, it is the more likely option. I found information on research outposts primarily established in areas to document environmental changes and ensure that the atmospheric stabilisers are running properly. They're infrequently visited by supply drops and not much else. (Perhaps @prom.argentum can learn more about these transports via his job.)

If those outposts exist, I have no doubt there could be more out there and off the record. UNA information is nearly impossible to access and the UN is only slightly less so. [ She's maintaining her stellar reputation in government in order to get a job at the embassy itself in the future. Baby steps. ] But those can't be our only avenues of intel.

[998]

There must be service workers, perhaps engineers. They're too afraid of artificial intelligence to build machines that can manage themselves.

[revlon]

Precisely. And people need food, even prisoners.

[ Assuming they're still alive after they've served their use. ]

[mercurio]

i could look into it if it'd prove beneficial to have that info
dunno how fast i can have it happen but it'll be worth a try

if i know what exactly i'm trying to look for?

@gaby

[vns]

No one is up in the colonies or a ship in orbit.

Just putting that out there. It's not the first time one of you have thought that's where someone would be jailed. I'm making it clear now that that isn't likely.

[ way too many factors.

plus: time. the biggest factor of them all. ]

@rey.nolo

[forcevisions]

Have you or any other Morningstar branches found other political prisons?
Any ideas on what we might be looking for?

[vns]

If we have, it's not something I'd know.

[ pacifist Gaby problems. ]

But it's somewhere that even the most savvy couldn't just spot on a dossier.

Everything they do has to look good, or it shakes the foundation of the world they enforce.

[forcevisions]

Probably not their base then, either. Or at the headquarters in New Beijing.
In fact, probably not in a megacity at all.

[vns]

No.

But it's not hard to get from one place to another. Problem is, there is still a lot of ground to cover.

I can say that Morningstar is designed to defeat a problem like this. As you've determined, they used New Amsterdam Morningstar agents to get information. That's why their attack on us was ultimately unsuccessful. They couldn't get more, and we had systems in place to help people clear out.

But no agent in New Amsterdam will know what's happening in New Prague.

It's likely that they've realized that, and are hoping to focus their efforts here instead of elsewhere. What efforts they may have.

[998]

[that's a relief, at least.]

That narrows it down to one planet.

[but it's still a huge amount of ground to cover. more than anyone in jon's world has ever managed, to his knowledge.]

Is there anywhere down here that's been ruled out?

[vns]

The North American continent.

[ dark humor? ]

[998]

We'll try to stay out of the Smoking Sea.

[valyrian humor.]

[revlon]

[ don't, gaby, it still stings ]