[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.
From: An Anonymous Analyst (fenfront@cia.gov)
To: Col. Mal Fnord, USSRAF (23@globalfrequency.fen)
Subj: Re: SETEC ASTRONOMY
Date: May 20, 2013
* Point One: The fact that you don't seem all that interested
* in where Nagato or Itsuki get their intelligence doesn't
* reassure me.
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.
* You *are* after all an agent of a hostile power.
...
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. They would be and -are- threatened by current Reaver activity and its likely consequences, particularly since a great many fen still hold active US Citizenship.
* Point Two: If Boskone has sufficient sigint and humint
* resources aboard Stellvia to intercept sealed orders with
* force estimates attached, then we might as well give up
* right now for we are well & truly fucked.
Sealed orders? Of course not. That's how we got the PAVEMENT network in place to begin with. Open up-armament of a major combatant is a different matter.
* Point Three: When I said full disclosure, I meant full
* disclosure. That's not negotiable. If Suzumiya wants to
* spill the beans but the SOS-dan is reluctant to talk, then I
* have no problem cutting them out of the loop and dealing
* with Suzumiya directly. If *they* have a problem with
* that, then they shouldn't have climbed into the goldfish
* bowl in the first place.
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.
Now go watch the damned source I pointed you at before you say something that gets us all killed or worse.
* To use your own metaphor: ante up.
Have done.
Pointedly yours, AAA
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"Even God's enemies are in some way his own."
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"I'm terribly sorry, but I have to kill you quite horribly now."
From: An Anonymous Analyst (fenfront@cia.gov)
To: Col. Mal Fnord, USSRAF (23@globalfrequency.fen)
Subj: Re: SETEC ASTRONOMY
Date: May 20, 2013
* Point One: The fact that you don't seem all that interested
* in where Nagato or Itsuki get their intelligence doesn't
* reassure me.
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.
* You *are* after all an agent of a hostile power.
...
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. They would be and -are- threatened by current Reaver activity and its likely consequences, particularly since a great many fen still hold active US Citizenship.
* Point Two: If Boskone has sufficient sigint and humint
* resources aboard Stellvia to intercept sealed orders with
* force estimates attached, then we might as well give up
* right now for we are well & truly fucked.
Sealed orders? Of course not. That's how we got the PAVEMENT network in place to begin with. Open up-armament of a major combatant is a different matter.
* Point Three: When I said full disclosure, I meant full
* disclosure. That's not negotiable. If Suzumiya wants to
* spill the beans but the SOS-dan is reluctant to talk, then I
* have no problem cutting them out of the loop and dealing
* with Suzumiya directly. If *they* have a problem with
* that, then they shouldn't have climbed into the goldfish
* bowl in the first place.
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.
Now go watch the damned source I pointed you at before you say something that gets us all killed or worse.
* To use your own metaphor: ante up.
Have done.
Pointedly yours, AAA
=======================================
"Even God's enemies are in some way his own."
===============================================
"I'm terribly sorry, but I have to kill you quite horribly now."