CH926 Ill-Fated Connection
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In order to better veil their activities, Alpha proposed bringing in more external intelligence agencies. These external agencies would be charged with surveilling unconfirmed contacts linked to the three scions. Only once their identities had been confirmed and they had been given priority would an officer from Dark Water be assigned to cast a surveillance net around them.
This was the best way the three—or rather, the two, Udara and Alpha—could reach an agreement on the allocation of their scarce resources.
They took a similar route with the political action operation Udara had suggested.
Initially, operatives sent to the Nearmarch Confederacy would hire mercenaries to shore up their troop numbers and provide the muscle they needed.
Since they would only be setting up a foundation for later operatives and wouldn't be doing anything too sensitive, hiring mercenaries loyal only to coin wasn't too much of an operational secrecy and security risk.
