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Shadowy dealings in Mithra
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| Amethyst | Date: Thursday, 26 Jan 2012, 1:45 AM | Message # 1 |
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| After walking in off the street, unassuming and unescorted, but carrying the badges and identification required to verify who he was, the man known only as Agent Amethyst was cleared for weapons, he was found to be carrying only a simple set of brass knuckles and a dart pistol. He commented in a laconic manner to the security guard as he checked them in "Tools of the trade.". Thereafter he proceeded up to the office of Benito Ximenez.
The Director of Special Circumstances entered the room, dressed in his customary black tunic and overcoat, unadorned he was the spymaster for the Tammuz Sector and rumoured to be Moff Levi's right hand man. He slipped gently into a chair, uninvited, and nodded to his Deralian opposite number.
"Mr Ximenez, I presume?" the man smoke with a self confident smirk "A strange name for a Deralian to be sure, the names in Deralian tend to end with s, although I suppose z might be considered to make the same sound?" he slapped his knee gently "Anyway, I digress. Naturally I would like to to be stated that this conversation is to be considered secret under Imperial Law, any disclosure or recording of it in any shape or form of the matters discussed here today are an offence which has one penalty, and I believe you are aware of this penalty... Now, I have come here because I am rather concerned about King Deralius, you see he had been making, how can I put it.. insubordinate.. statements to the Moff.. and as you will be aware, insubordination leads to mutiny." he raised his gloved right hand before there was an objection "No, I don't want a declaration of your King's loyalty to the Empire, I am not here to evaluate or investigate him directly. No, I am here to ask about your military and government today."
The hand dropped down, and he pulled a data pad from his breast pocket. "Firstly, I would like you to upload onto this datapad your files on every Deralian Senator and Senior Civil and Military official. I also want you to list for me their addresses and communications numbers. None of this is particularly onerous as I suspect you can pull that up momentarily."
The data pad was slid onto the desk with a gentle metallic click. "I also require you to detail where their first loyalty is, to their Emperor and Moff. Equally for the units of the military and police, where their loyalties lie." he raised his hand again just in case there was another interjection "they are one and the same, and we will not discuss this." the cautionary hand slid back down. "Whether their first loyalty is to the Emperor and his duly appointed Moff, or to Deralia's King and Government." he slid a hand into his breast pocket, coming out with a phial of stim, rolling it between his fingers. "Now, you will be aware that this may be a matter with a 'conflict of interest' Mr Ximenez, and perhaps there is, perhaps there is.. But I believe you are an intelligent man.. and I believe that a intelligent man should be able to see which way the wind is blowing?" he clicked the top of the glass phial, and inhaled smoothly the gas as it emerged.
"What I offer, Mr Ximenez, is to be Moff Levi's and the Empire's man on Deralia, to serve your Empire and Moff over all other causes. The Moff is a man who rewards the loyalty, and if his man was to be seen on the right side, if there was any.." he waggled his hand slightly "unpleasentness? And that man were to be useful to the Moff, he would be minded to be exceedingly benevolent to that man. Do I make myself clear?" the man placed the empty phial back in the collection in his breast pocket.
His whole manner was the most casual in the world, relaxed, calm as he placed away the phial, awaiting the man's words, since he had not yet been given the opportunity to speak. Ximenez was being offered the chance to have everything he ever dreamed of, but at the cost of loyalty to his King.
Amethyst
Director of Special Circumstances
Tammuz Sector Discretionary Force
(A Taskforce of the Tammuz Sector ISB)
Message edited by Amethyst - Thursday, 26 Jan 2012, 9:15 PM |
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| Benito_Ximénez | Date: Saturday, 28 Jan 2012, 0:59 AM | Message # 2 |
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| He was in the midst of an holocall with the Director of the Deralian Royal Security Service when Agent Amethyst entered his office. When the man sat down and began talking, he simply cut the equally stunned RSS Director off. "Indeed." was all he said for a moment, watching him. He took several mental notes of the man at that moment, attempting to gauge him. "I am merely not from the main continent of Deralia. Less common, as there are less of my ethnicity." After another moment of observing the man, he organized several datacards that had been sitting on his desk and put them into a drawer. "I am aware of insubordination leading to mutiny, of course. I am unaware, however, of His Highness being insubordinate towards the Moff." He leaned back in his chair, and listened to the rest of Agent Amethyst's statement.
Orders, were more like it. "Perhaps you are not aware, but Deralians are a people as a whole, steeped in tradition, ceremony, and loyalty. Loyalty to their government and their leader. Even if they don't personally agree, mere cultural standard since our people became Deralians, was to follow our leaders with loyalty and respect. I must ask plainly, for my honor as a Deralian is a matter of high regard, as it is for any Deralian, why are you asking this of me?" he said. This was all coming at once, and while he was an intelligent man, it was a simple matter of the orders Agent Amethyst was giving, and the reasons why, just did not make sense. Neither did the Moff's actions of late, but he would remain quiet on the matter. All he saw, and any other Deralian citizen, was there King acting in their best interest and attempting to protect Deralia and restore it to its former glory.
Benito Ximénez
Director, Royal Intelligence Service
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| Amethyst | Date: Saturday, 28 Jan 2012, 1:17 AM | Message # 3 |
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| "I am not authorized to answer that question at this time." he said curtly, replying to the question. "Now, you will furnish me with the information I have instructed you to furnish me with, or you will be regarded as refusing to cooperate with an Imperial Official."
Amethyst
Director of Special Circumstances
Tammuz Sector Discretionary Force
(A Taskforce of the Tammuz Sector ISB)
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| Benito_Ximénez | Date: Monday, 27 Feb 2012, 3:39 PM | Message # 4 |
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| He stared at the man for some time, before, silently, uploading the personnel files to the datapad. They would contain the basics of any personnel file, which would have been easily obtained through other means, and more official channels. It was the other aspect of this meeting that had him unnerved. Sure, he did not entirely agree with the King, and the Queen even more so; but he was as loyal as any Deralian. He also did see the direction the wind was blowing, and at this moment, Moff Levi was clearly pressing on the King in every way possible. He had no reason to yet, but it was becoming clear that Moff Levi was aiming to remove Deralius from power and install a puppet monarch... and with no disagreement from his superiors, with them likely unaware of his plans, there was nothing that could honestly stop them.
For the sake of survival, he would have to cooperate with Director Amethyst. "I hope you understand, we do not have a loyalty rating or tracking system. To be honest such a matter has never been required of our people. I will do as you have asked, through my personal operatives, so that such an effort may remain secret... but it will take time." he responded to him.
Benito Ximénez
Director, Royal Intelligence Service
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