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Missouria wrote:

:)

:)

(Also didn't see the notif until now since I'm playing Prison Architect in the background lol)

North Goguryeo wrote:

Luna comes by to visit

Nosress isn’t busy for once

Ferneus wrote:

(Love you coming up for in-universe explanations for me just being an idiot and having very little experience with true espionage RP lmao)

Once the message got through, Quetzalcoatl would take a back seat. He continued monitoring things from behind the scenes, for he was only a royal who had no real experience getting into the thick of things. The Legio Sicarius were the real espionage masters in Mexico, and they were the ones trusted with building the network in Nova Wooloos and doing the actual work.

The operative would be a butler in the currently empty dining room, currently wiping down the tables and setting them afterwards for a dinner set to occur in a couple of hours. The butler would see Drummer walking in and engage in conversation, trying to play it off as a normal interaction for now.

"Ah, Ms Drummer! Someone must have given you the wrong schedule, I'm afraid the dinner doesn't start for another few hours. You are more than welcome to assist me in preparing the table, however."

"I had thought something was up with that schedule," she says, keeping most of the exasperation out of her voice. "Dinner this early just didn't make sense. It's better to be wrong this way, though. Sure, I'll help out.", she says, wondering what it says about her that she's had enough experience to be able to help at all. Politics is about image, and some factions already see her as on an Inner leash. she weighs that against the unlikeliness of anyone who would care actually recording her doing this, and the value of gaining the staff's good will, and dismisses the thought entirely, beginning to help.

The truth is, though, her schedule was working perfectly fine. She just got a little sloppy, and apparently her trying to bump elbows with as many people as she could had begun to look more like wandering. She's glad to have an excuse for it, at least...

Novilliwit wrote:

"I had thought something was up with that schedule," she says, keeping most of the exasperation out of her voice. "Dinner this early just didn't make sense. It's better to be wrong this way, though. Sure, I'll help out.", she says, wondering what it says about her that she's had enough experience to be able to help at all. Politics is about image, and some factions already see her as on an Inner leash. she weighs that against the unlikeliness of anyone who would care actually recording her doing this, and the value of gaining the staff's good will, and dismisses the thought entirely, beginning to help.

The truth is, though, her schedule was working perfectly fine. She just got a little sloppy, and apparently her trying to bump elbows with as many people as she could had begun to look more like wandering. She's glad to have an excuse for it, at least...

The butler continued to set the table as needed, setting out plates and straightening cutlery. Eventually he made his way to the window and opened up the curtains, letting some natural light in as he looked outside. He tried to make his next sentence sound as natural as possible while still signaling to Drummer.

"Have you seen some of the birds that have been migrating around here recently? Peregrine falcons, it looks like."

And there was the codeword that signaled to Drummer that the butler was the operative in question. In reality, the birds migrating weren't peregrines, but few people in the palace would know or even bother to check, and anybody who did find out likely would just believe it was a beginner's mistake by a butler dabbling in birdwatching or something.

Untecna wrote:

actually dumbfounded

Luna hugs Irulan

North Goguryeo wrote:

Luna: "Hello, Mr. Nosress. I see you're not busy."

Nosress: “for once, hello Luna. It’s been a while since I’ve seen you.”

Untecna wrote:

actually dumbfounded

The day was peaceful, too peaceful.

North Goguryeo wrote:

Luna: "Yes. I'm just here in my spare time and thought to drop by. How is work these days?"
Luna: "You need hugs!"

the duality of my monarch

Nosress: “Very busy, today I had no work.”

North Goguryeo wrote:

Luna: "Yes. I'm just here in my spare time and thought to drop by. How is work these days?"
Luna: "You need hugs!"

the duality of my monarch

Irulan would punch her

Novilliwit wrote:

"Is that so? I'm not an expert on birds by any means, but I believe that falcons are birds of prey. It seems like a risk for something this dangerous to be here."
From slight indications in Drummer's tone, the operative would be able to tell that Drummer isn't really talking about the birds, the dangerous thing in question is the meeting itself. Drummer can only assume that the meeting is only happening at all because there is information to be shared, greater than just the identity of the asset in the palace, and risk is ever-present.

The information that needed to be shared was that loyal Legio Sicarius agents had infiltrated the Congress Building and had begun looking through camera feeds and public and private records of Congressmen and government members to identify any moments they could've been compromised. Unexplained monetary transfers, sudden shifts in rhetoric, those sorts of things. As such, the operative would try to communicate this to her in their natural-sounding code.

"Perhaps. I've only begun dipping my toes in birdwatching myself, along with a group of like-minded friends here in the city. Though my friends are more interested in eagles and the like. I hear they've been studying migrating patterns, their prey, family structures, that sort of thing. The local library has proven to have quite the treasure trove of information on eagles. Fascinating stuff, I say."

North American Imperial State wrote:

Some Shady S**t

Stellar Mining Corporation. feeling that their property had been stolen would begin to motion to their friends in Congress, and its friends in other megacorps. suddenly Congress would begin issuing multiple "innemenent domain orders" on several of the mines that ha been taken. stating that Stellar Mining Co had made lavish promises for their redevelopment to mine other rare earth materials. and the government making a heavy push towards quantum energy anyway saw this as a much more efficient use. although this would only affect around 10 fo the mines. this was a clear move to slight this new belter cooperation before it could even get off the ground. Luckily for the corporations. factories and manufacturing plants for fission batteries. were few and far between in the belt. Even if BESO wanted to they could not outproduce them. most manufacturing still remained either untouched by the change. or within the core worlds, North America and the mid-rim.

Cyberlife would agree to however begin sending older models to the belt for profit. however, these older models being sold in the belt were intentionally sabotaged by Cyberlife beforehand to cut their efficiency in almost half. this would go from everything from consumer electronic products to high-industry robots. and at increased prices. and would instead also begin to flood belter markets with far more efficient Quantum Powered technologies, for extremely cheap as well. while this would hurt Cyberlife Profits in the belt in the short term. the unreliability of the Fusion Products being sent to the belt, along with the efficiency promised by cheap quantum technologies inevitably would hurt BESO far, far more. Cyberlife and Stellar Mining Co had effectively formed a corporate kabul in secret, and therefore it sought to maintain SMCs interest in the region. in return, cyberlife would get generous discounts on desperately needed rare earth minerals for its electronic products. Cyberlife and Stellar Mining Corporation knew very well that if the BESO actually went anywhere. it could lead to a far more economically independent belt. something that was not within either of their corporate interests.

Meanwhile in Congress, while they were indeed spooked by the belter reports of a terrorist plot decided it was likely only a one-off incident of a deranged group of people. While drummers proposal would be considered, it would be, however, killed in the Imperial Senate Security Special Committee and would not reach the floor of the Imperial Senate. effectively killing it. the Supreme Chancellor Dylan would again voice his public disapproval with the drummer once again supposedly trying to inflame paranoia over an already very delicate situation to encourage an intervention in America. Meanwhile civilian investigators would begin scrawling over newly released Defence Documents. a pattern began to emerge. during the Untecan War specifically. Within official logs from the Secretariat of Defence for losses around 8,500 Columbian Space Ships of various classes were reported as lost in battles they could not have participated in. around hundred thosuand M-56 Plasma Rifles were reported to units who in there own logs had never requested new rifles. A group of these would release there findings to the General Publics in a group of papers collectively known as the "Yorktown Papers". The Secretariat of Defence would announce that after an internal investigation, this was an oversight on the fault of there automated logging system. the FIB corroborated these claims. and claimed the papers were nothing but simply documents based on mere coincidence after there own investigation.

Hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm.................... now that be very suspicioso...