Sunday, June 16, 2013

167: Codename: Sector

ENTRY 167: Codename: Sector

There is a mole in Firewall; an undercover agent or leak who is passing Firewall’s data and technology to outside parties, including various suspected TITAN affiliate groups, former collaborators, and exsurgent cells. Firewall agents have been killed or infected, their missions blown. Valuable intel data and equipment has gone missing. The counterintelligence agents attempting to track and identify this mole know them only by the codename Sector. While they do not yet have definitive proof of Sector’s real identity, they have three strong suspects.

D’lish is a freelance media tech, veteran of six gatecrashing documentaries and a brief but high-ratings civil war on one of the Venusan aerostats. Murky personal history involving some military training; no record of birth or family. She started stringing for Firewall in media circles six years ago, began running her own agents within eighteen months, gradually gained greater access to the organization as crises came up and were contained or dealt with.

Artemis 1 worked her way to the top of the matriarchal sex-economy hypercorp AllLove, and used her position to fund reproductive health education throughout the solar system. Appeared on Firewall watch lists after attempting to convene a conference on suspected sexually-transmitted diseases left behind by the TITANs; contacted after her personal cadre of troops firebombed three reproductive health clinics that were implanting xenomorph embryos in unsuspecting transhumans. Became a close advisor on viral research who personally took part in several research-and-recovery expeditions.

Jules Mars, professional war orphan from out of Mars. Fifteen nanoseconds of fame for being the last living transhuman rescued from the Zone; her muse managed to parlay that into a career as a minor media personality focusing on the rights, benefits, and care of veterans and survivors. Her continued prominence in the Martian mediasphere is in part due to Firewall support, as Jules’ continued advocacy and has placed her at the center of a number of groups that Firewall likes to keep tabs on. At this point, she has become so adept at handling her Firewall handlers it is not clear what Firewall assets she has access to.

COG
COO
INT
REF
SAV
SOM
WIL
MOX
18
13
12
18
13
13
30
-
INIT
SPD
LUC
TT
IR
DUR
WT
DR
6
1
60
12
120
30
6
45

Morph: Flat
Skills: Academics: Psychology 47, Academics: Sociology 53, Beam Weapons 40, Fray (Full Defense) 56, Free Fall 55, Infiltration 50, Interests: Exsurgent Cells 50, Interests: The Fall 50, Interests: Firewall 40, Interests: TITANs 50, Intimidation (Verbal) 67, Kinesics (Sense Motive) 45, Kinetic Weapons (Pistols) 45, Language: Native French 87, Language: English 73, Language: Skandinavíska 68, Networking: Autonomists 36, Networking: Criminals 47, Networking: Hypercorps 40, Networking: Media 55, Perception (Visual) 50, Persuasion (Negotiation) 56, Profession: Intel Ops 65, Scrounging 44, Unarmed Combat 40
Implants: Basic Biomods, Basic Mesh Inserts, Cortical Stack
Traits: Allies (Firewall), Eidetic Memory

Using Codename: Sector

The three suspects listed above are only the most likely possibilities on Firewall’s list. Gamemasters may choose for any (or all, or none) of them to be Sector. The search for a mole is a venerable story trope with lots of material to draw on for an Eclipse Phase campaign, but in EP there exist any number of possible twists: each of the women mentioned as suspects may be no more than sleeves for the ego of the real morph, or Manchurian Candidates whose psychosurgery-installed behavioral routines are trigged by certain code phrases.

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