Quote:Ptichka operates out of Kandor, where they've got a hangar/maintenance facility/office/apartment complex on the city rim. Stellvia's nice and all, but space shuttles are surprisingly large vehicles and the station's not big enough to house one yet.
[ooc] Re: Basing: Wait, what? Where is Ptichka operating out of, then? I've ignored it in this draft - I can tighten things up in an edit if need be.
And now, on with the show:
From: Col. Mal Fnord, USSRAF (23@globalfrequency.fen)
To: An Anonymous Analyst (fenfront@cia.gov)
Subj: Re: SETEC ASTRONOMY
Date Posted: May 20, 2013
* I -know- where Nagato gets hers, but it's not my place to say.
* Itsuki's people are concerning but outside the topic at hand.
Outside the topic? You don't know where intelligence is coming from - you don't know if the intelligence is *compromised* - and that's outside the topic?
Jesus. No wonder the CIA's reputation is in the shitter.
* Okay, I'm sorry to have to type this, but stop being a fucking
* idiot. Why the hell should we -care-? The safety and interests of
* the United States of America would not be inherently threatened by
* the existence of a fennish state even if one existed or was likely
* to in the foreseeable future.
From your government's own National Space Policy, as crafted by President Giuliani's staff and duly signed off on by the Congress: "The United States will oppose the development of new legal regimes or other restrictions that seek to prohibit or limit U.S. access to or use of space."
Who's being the fucking idiot, here? It's pretty clear that the nations (yes, *nations*) in the Solar System represent a restriction of American interests. You may work under the assumption that Boskone is a threat to everybody as a whole, but that doesn't mean you're our buddies. Any romantic delusions you may have to the contrary are just that: delusions.
Your interests are not our interests. Our interests are a long-term threat to your interests. Accept it and move on.
* Let me repeat myself using smaller words. We Mundanes are not the
* ones you need to convince. Nagato is not the one you need to
* convince. Suzumiya is not the one you need to convince. Itsuki is the
* one with problems telling people what they need. Got it? Good.
I thought it was Itsuki and Asahina?
Doesn't matter. The bid is still there. Full. Disclosure. Whatever I know, whatever you know, whatever Suzumiya knows, whatever the other commanders know, whatever Asahina, Itsuki & Nagato know, we *all* know it. No compromises.
* Now go watch the damned source I pointed you at before you say
* something that gets us all killed or worse.
And what kind of paranoid bullshit is this?
--Fnord
From: Col. Mal Fnord, USSRAF (23@globalfrequency.fen)
To: big-cheese@stellvia.lib
Subj: Something's happening here...
Date Posted: May 20, 2013
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Gentlemen:
I'm attaching a file with excerpts from correspondence between myself and OGJ's "official" CIA liaison, AAA. It's nothing mission-critical or anything, but something that makes me think there's a big piece of this puzzle we're missing.
To sum up: The inner circles of the SOS-dan all seem to be hiding a secret - or maybe multiple secrets - from their esteemed leader. More to the point, they've gotten AAA in on the act, and AAA seems to be scared stupid that somebody will tell Suzumiya. Tell her *what* I haven't figured out yet. The key seems to be an anime called "Suzumiya Haruhi no Yuutsu", which (AFAICT) came & went the summer before the wave with no real impact or fanbase.
You gentlemen have your own methods of finding things out. I would like to hire you to do some digging. Mail your terms back and we'll make a deal.
--Fnord
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Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery
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