Thread:Darkwarrior101/@comment-5365119-20130411053718


 * 1) 1. Because it seems like Drodo isn't coming back anytime soon, I was thinking of pushing AD along in Western Katar. We'll be skipping over a few details, but we have a pretty good idea of the state of things after the Tasan Crisis in Delcath and Varapha (unlike in Mid-Eastern Katar, where things will likely be a mess in a very specific way). What will happen roughly is that the KSA will launch offensives on the Tyranny in Katar, and order the Delcath Commander (responsible for commanding the KSA's forces on the Delcath front) to carry the war to the Imperium of War below them. The Combine will be expected to contribute to the effort, especially because the Delcath commander will likely come from your fiction.


 * 1) 2. (This concerns my fiction more narrowly.) After the Tasan Crisis, Ikeben will realize that the UFPC's current method of rooting out spies and finding out information is gloriously inept, so he'll create ROUT, which will grow to become the FPC's central intelligence, research and development, and threat assessment agency by the quarter of 2793. The Tyranny uses a sort of homegrown shapeshifting organism that impersonates characters within a nation and reports back the information it discovers to the Tyranny. They make the perfect spies, essentially, and are really hard to detect.

One of ROUT's main priorities at the start will be to find a way to easily detect and neutralize these spies before they can cause any real harm. They also understand that they might benefit from possessing shapeshifting spies of their own, which would make their jobs a LOT easier.

Now, their biological technology, though advanced, lacks several key elements that weren't present in the old Quaranian Second Republic to accomplish these tasks. They'd have to either develop the technology themselves (which could take decades), steal it from the Tyranny (which would be neigh impossible), or steal it from someone else (which is quite easy if you plan it right).

I was thinking that a ROUT scientist might intern in one of the Combine's labs to learn about the way they do things and record some data (illegally) to advance ROUT's research into the subject. What do you think? 