Some embassies are more powerful than others, though.
I don't know whether you've ever seen a copy of IST Kingston - it wasn't published by SJGames and it's difficult to find at a reasonable price - but that supplement made it pretty clear that Jamaica's embassy is primarily a rest-and-recuperation facility for recuperating IST metahumans. It's still a fortress, and it still has a core of competent metahumans in residence, but it's not as likely to be able to drive off an alien invasion as, say, IST New York.
Oh, and I'd expect IST Vienna to be more-heavily staffed with spies and counter-spies, and less-heavily staffed with combat monsters. Because, hey - it's Vienna, with all the cultural Cold-War baggage that implies...
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
I don't know whether you've ever seen a copy of IST Kingston - it wasn't published by SJGames and it's difficult to find at a reasonable price - but that supplement made it pretty clear that Jamaica's embassy is primarily a rest-and-recuperation facility for recuperating IST metahumans. It's still a fortress, and it still has a core of competent metahumans in residence, but it's not as likely to be able to drive off an alien invasion as, say, IST New York.
Oh, and I'd expect IST Vienna to be more-heavily staffed with spies and counter-spies, and less-heavily staffed with combat monsters. Because, hey - it's Vienna, with all the cultural Cold-War baggage that implies...
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012