From: An Anonymous Analyst (fenfront@cia.gov)
To: nttp://fen.current-events.disc
Subject: Re: re: Politics, Government, Drugs, Really Wild Things
Date Posted: May 18th, 2013
* These things are not part of the background, they're
* something else. And yet, those of us working OGJ are
* spending more time busting individual zwilniks than we are
* trying to locate and eliminate the spider at the center of
* this web.
These two courses of action are hardly what I'd call mutually exclusive, especially since my own sources indicate that these two courses you're tracking are the same people. I've forwarded the details to you (with an aside on the three dates you mentioned) by secure channels - for public consumption, I'm authorized to say that the money trails and the ship IDs both point at a single organization doing two things. Catch one, you have your hooks into the other.
Are there other courses being worked? From this side and from yours? Oh, yes. But, honestly, the only reason I'm saying that much is because it's self-evident to anyone who thinks to look for it. Where, how, and who is... well, sorry, but You Don't Need To Know.
And that brings us to this:
* We're being played.
No shit, Sherlock! That's why they call it a game. Everyone plays everyone else. The questions are 'Who are they' and 'What are their victory conditions?'
* We need to split our efforts, create an *actual* Patrol that
* can handle the minor zwilniks and the small-time
* operators found on any frontier so the big guns like Katz,
* Geek, Corcoran and I can openly pursue the Boskonians
* without having to try and play "take a bite out of crime."
* Instead of bringing down hellfire on every dumb bastard
* that crosses our sights, we need to be able to measured
* response to situations; what we've got going on in OGJ
* right now ain't that.
If you think you can find them, be my guest. If you're smart, though, you'll stop assuming you can outsneak the pros.
Yeah, right now, we're swinging at shadows and they're hitting where they please, and that sucks. It's not the way to win the war. But until the other avenues being worked behind the scenes play out, the only other options -I- can see are to sit on our keisters doing nothing or to break ourselves up into even smaller penny-packets to be picked off at leisure.
At least this way they have to work at it.
There's one other thing Great Justice is good for, though: Y'all on the Ptichka might've known what you were about in a fight before this started, but I'll guarantee that even most of the others on the first string wouldn't have known more than where to start. It's an ugly, ugly price to pay for that experience, yeah, but...
Welcome to the high-stakes table, folks. Ante up.
Yours, AAA
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"Five, six, seven, open up the pearly gates! Well there ain't no time to wonder why: Whoopee! We're all gonna die!"
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."
To: nttp://fen.current-events.disc
Subject: Re: re: Politics, Government, Drugs, Really Wild Things
Date Posted: May 18th, 2013
* These things are not part of the background, they're
* something else. And yet, those of us working OGJ are
* spending more time busting individual zwilniks than we are
* trying to locate and eliminate the spider at the center of
* this web.
These two courses of action are hardly what I'd call mutually exclusive, especially since my own sources indicate that these two courses you're tracking are the same people. I've forwarded the details to you (with an aside on the three dates you mentioned) by secure channels - for public consumption, I'm authorized to say that the money trails and the ship IDs both point at a single organization doing two things. Catch one, you have your hooks into the other.
Are there other courses being worked? From this side and from yours? Oh, yes. But, honestly, the only reason I'm saying that much is because it's self-evident to anyone who thinks to look for it. Where, how, and who is... well, sorry, but You Don't Need To Know.
And that brings us to this:
* We're being played.
No shit, Sherlock! That's why they call it a game. Everyone plays everyone else. The questions are 'Who are they' and 'What are their victory conditions?'
* We need to split our efforts, create an *actual* Patrol that
* can handle the minor zwilniks and the small-time
* operators found on any frontier so the big guns like Katz,
* Geek, Corcoran and I can openly pursue the Boskonians
* without having to try and play "take a bite out of crime."
* Instead of bringing down hellfire on every dumb bastard
* that crosses our sights, we need to be able to measured
* response to situations; what we've got going on in OGJ
* right now ain't that.
If you think you can find them, be my guest. If you're smart, though, you'll stop assuming you can outsneak the pros.
Yeah, right now, we're swinging at shadows and they're hitting where they please, and that sucks. It's not the way to win the war. But until the other avenues being worked behind the scenes play out, the only other options -I- can see are to sit on our keisters doing nothing or to break ourselves up into even smaller penny-packets to be picked off at leisure.
At least this way they have to work at it.
There's one other thing Great Justice is good for, though: Y'all on the Ptichka might've known what you were about in a fight before this started, but I'll guarantee that even most of the others on the first string wouldn't have known more than where to start. It's an ugly, ugly price to pay for that experience, yeah, but...
Welcome to the high-stakes table, folks. Ante up.
Yours, AAA
=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=-=
"Five, six, seven, open up the pearly gates! Well there ain't no time to wonder why: Whoopee! We're all gonna die!"
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===============================================
"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."