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Top 10 Best IST Embassies?
01-06-2016, 08:49 AM
Any thought on the most popular IST Embassies? Most prestigious? Least desirable?
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IST Kingston (Jamaica) is canonically barely distinguishable from a Caribbean resort from the outside - I'd expect it would be popular. ("Duty schedule: 9:00-10:00 have breakfast, 10:00-12:00 work out in the gym, 12:00-13:30 have lunch, 13:30-17:00 relax by the pool, 17:00-18:30 have an early supper, 18:30-01:00 go into town and be seen at the nightclubs... Are you sure this is an embassy?") As for other embassies being most or least desirable, you'd probably have to fall back to whether one would want to spend time in the surrounding cities.
IST New York is IST HQ - rather prestigious.
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Yes, you have to be best of the best to get an assignment at IST NY.
IST Paris and IST Tokyo. London, too, if only to give a nod to Warriors' World. Oh, and Rome.
IIRC, there's a Hawaii embassy. Probably a desireable post, that.
Hiroshima/Nagasaki, although it's a special duty usually for injured-and-recovering members, almost certainly carries a special cachet, as much for what it takes to get to assigned there as for the post itself.
I'd have to check the master list of embassies, but I suspect anything on the Mediterranean and away from trouble spots would be popular.
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Bob Schroeck Wrote:IIRC, there's a Hawaii embassy. Probably a desireable post, that.
Honolulu according to my 'IST placement' file.
Quote:I'd have to check the master list of embassies, but I suspect anything on the Mediterranean and away from trouble spots would be popular.
My list highlights Rome, Marseilles, and maybe Milan.
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Great. Thank you all for the suggestions. Any thoughts for the worst of them?
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Any station in the Middle east or Africa... I can see the political turmoil being turned against the IST as a way for the power mongers to keep themselves in power
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IST McMurdo.
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So as an aside, was an embassy actually built in the capital city of EVERY UN member nation, or just a selection of them?
If yes, that's a LOT of IST embassies.
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Every member nation was the intent and what I specified as the long-term plan in the original book. I see no reason why it wasn't accomplished, even if the actual nations themselves changed over the decades.
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Thanks. That helps.
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You know, in slightly less stable counties I can see the IST Embassy being a modular construction so they can drop it in and get going. Or they have a jumbo jet parked in a hanger in the capital's airport. Could be useful in the event they need to evac, and in the airport's case the diplomatic protections may help with evacuating civilians. Heck, having an embassy be built into a ship that is docked in the capitol would be another way.
A mobile embassy would be a way of having a team travel the world. Given all the people they'd go to, they'd have to be well regarded to prevent diplomatic blunders. Not quite 'best' in the meaning originally specified, but fairly important.
Are there any Space stations or Luna/Mars colonies that could have an embassy as well? For the occasional alien visitor. They'd be either a place to be posted, or to avoid.
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In my campaign framework there are two orbital IST Embassies, a Lunar one and a Martian one, as well as IST Ceres and its orbital counterpart.
I might make the case for many of the more modern (and many of the replacement embassies in the wake of the Y2K Invasion) modular affairs just for ease of deployment and standardized defenses. I added a "lockdown" feature on many of the embassies to prevent IST equipment and records falling into the wrong hands in the increasingly likely event that an embassy is closed, invaded or overrun. The protocol locks down the embassy with the Storm Shutters, evacuates all staff through the embassy's Deployment Gate, then collapses the embassy into structure the size of a large packing crate using integral miniaturization technology, which is then Airlifted out by an IST Rapid Recovery Team.
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I'd argue against that sort of plan. Why? because even though governments change, and names might, capitols usually DONT. Therefore to me, at least, it makes more sense to have a non modular permanent structure. I'd agree with all facilites having a bugout/lockdown plan and gear in place; especially the less stable a nation is. If anything its a show of faith to the people...
Your governement might be a bunch of corrupt power mongers who will run at the first signs of trouble, but the members of the IST will always be there, doing what they can.
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