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Dossier on Adrienne Perry, (Updated, 06/04/827 A.S.) - Stolt. - 05-14-2017

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Surveillance camera footage, 4th, June, 816 A.S., Planet New London

Name: Adrienne Perry
Date of Birth/Age: 22nd August, 783 A.S. (42 Years Old)
Place of Birth: Planet Los Angeles, California System
Gender: F/M
Citizenship: Dual Citizen of Liberty (by Birth) & Bretonia (via Spouse)
Marital Status: Divorced & Remarried (see below)
Family: David Perry(Husband), Logan Perry (Son)
Education:
  1. Bachelor of Science (B.Sc. Electrical Engineering), University of Cambridge, Class of 801 A.S.
  2. Master of Business Administration (MBA Management & Finance), University of California, Los Angeles, Class of 810 A.S.
  3. Doctorate of Philosophy (Ph.D. International Relations), Columbia University, Planet Manhattan, Class of 825 A.S. Her dissertation was an analysis of the theory of intelligence collection and it's role in the event of strategic surprise, using Gallia's surprise invasion of Sirius as a case study.
Work History:
  1. Ageira Technologies: Project Manager/Engineer, 805 – 808 A.S.
  2. Interspace Commerce: Management Consultant and later Equity Partner, 808 – 817 A.S.
  3. =LSF= (Liberty Security Force): Advisor of Special Operations and later Director of Tactical Operations, 817 – 819/820 A.S.
Notable Events & Information:
  1. Captured and imprisoned by Gallic intelligence forces sometimes around 817/818 A.S. for 18 months, helped organise her own rescue, assisted by Maquis and =LSF= in a joint operation (Reference 1)
  2. LSF records indicate that she was recruited into the LSF during college and worked undercover within Ageira & Interspace to build her career within these companies while protecting important Liberty Intellectual Properties (IP’s) from foreign corporate espionage
Current Occupation:
  1. Please see the bottom of this post

Brief Summary

Adrienne Perry was born into a wealthy and conservative political family and as a result she was able to provide a very comfortable upper middle class life for herself thanks to her family's connections. She has a history of changing her career several times, initially as an engineer with Ageira Technologies, to consultancy work with Interspace Commerce before joining the =LSF= and quickly progressing her career within the Department of Tactical Operations (REFERENCE ADDED ON 14/05/826 A.S. - EARLIEST PROOF OF ADRIENNE PERRY'S EXISTENCE AND EMPLOYMENT AT =LSF= FROM 30/05/816 A.S./2010). She had been recruited by the LSF during her college years and worked undercover as a counter-corporate espionage officer tasked with protecting important Liberty Intellectual Properties (IP's). Her expertise on Gallia came from the fact that she was kidnapped by Gallic intelligence forces shortly before the existence of Gallia was revealed to Sirius, she was soon rescued by the =LSF= (Check Reference 1). This allowed her to become the Director of Tactical Operations shortly after her rescue which occurred 18 months after her capture and imprisonment by Gallic forces. Her tenure was however short as she elected to spend more time with her family with whom she wanted to rebuild her relationship with after her capture by Gallic forces, so she resigned from her position at =LSF= after a few months.

Operation Century – Rescue of Adrienne Perry

In late 819, Adrienne Perry was able to escape a prison facility from Planet Le Mans in the Maine System (inside Gallia) after several bombs went off inside the facility. The Maquis had placed those bombs and successfully staged a prison break. After escaping the facility, Perry immediately contacted the =LSF= to arrange her extraction from Gallia. Due to the trauma she went through, it was difficult for her to communicate or be aware of her surroundings for several weeks.

The =LSF= began planning Operation Century (Reference 2) to rescue Adrienne Perry. One squadron of LSF pilots were to create a diversion by launching an attack at La Ferte-Bernard while another squadron would rendezvous with Perry at Evron Base and sneak her out of Gallia. Freelancers Carolatte Champagne and Rose Chartermen had been hired to to scout out La Ferte-Bernard and its defences so that the LSF can determine which assets were needed. Their information came in useful though Carol Champagne was shot down and imprisoned by Gallic forces.

The operation was a success as Alpha Squadron managed to destroy all resistance before enemy reinforcements could show up at La Ferte-Bernard. Meanwhile Bravo Squadron was separated during the flight to Gallia as they have to evade several enemy patrols, though they were able to regroup at Evron Base. The two squadrons were able to regroup in the Anjou system and continued on, with a third squadron at the Orkney system acting as a reinforcement. Two GRN battleships attempted to block the route at the orkney system but the =LSF= units were able to evade them. The rest of the journey went by uneventfully. When Perry reached back to Manhattan, Director Welch of the RDA division arranged for her to meet her son, Logan, before asking her to continue on with debriefing and intelligence sharing.

Tenure as Director of Tactical Operations, =LSF=


After Executive Director Joseph Dawson stepped down as the head of the =LSF= in late 819, Major Elijah Brand was promoted to the rank of Colonel and was selected by the President to become the new Director of the =LSF= (Reference 3). Congress approved his nomination for the head of the Liberty Security Force a few days later. This left the position of of Director of Tactical Operations open and Director Brand appointed Adrienne Perry to become the new Director of Tactical Operations at the =LSF=. Like her predecessor, she pledged to take active part in operations alongside her agents while balancing the bureaucratic responsibilities that came along with the position.

During her time as Director of Tactical Operation, she assisted in taking down a terrorist organization masquerading as Zoners called the [ZA] (Zoner Alliance). The goals of this organization were completely unknown to Liberty forces and it appeared that they mostly focused on violent actions against several factions within the Omicron region. Shortly after it was revealed to Director Perry that they had been launching sneak attacks against Liberty Navy and Liberty Security Forces across several systems to capture ship captains (presumably for interrogation) (Reference 4), Perry organized a rescue for captured LSF and LN pilots (Reference 5) and shortly after there base of operations, Zoner-Guard 74 was destroyed. The records surrounding this incident have been corrupted due to their dated nature, but it is suspected that their base of operations was destroyed either by the Order or by the Liberty Navy.

Additionally, she established friendly relations with the Colonial/Crayter Intelligence Services to expand the =LSF=’s operations against Gallia, including operations to steal promethium (Reference 6), and important fuel source for the Gallic Navy in order to study it’s applications within the LSF Research & Development department.

Perry's Intelligence Network

During her time with the =LSF=, Perry began setting up an intelligence network of her own to complement the intelligence collection efforts of the Department of Tactical Operations. She began hiring Freelancers from all over Sirius in order to achieve this.
  1. Eldene: An android introduced to her by the late Special Agent Lisa Lisbon. She does most of her freelance work for the =LSF= in the Tau region (Reference 7).
  2. Rose Chartermen: A former SCRA pilot, she now works as a freelancer for the LSF taking jobs in the Omega region and collecting intelligence for the Liberty Security Force. She previously worked for the LSF in an operation to collect intelligence for Perry's rescue from Gallia (Reference 8).
  3. Elaine Lacoursiere: A Gallic Junker whose ship was damaged inside Liberty while she was visiting her Sirius 'Brethren'. She was ordered to leave by the =LSF= but due to the damage sustained on her ship, she was unable to do so. In exchange for not arresting her, the Elaine agreed to work as an intelligence asset within Gallia for the LSF (Reference 9).
  4. Rumours that a fourth intelligence asset was recruited, however, records of this specific individual appear to have been deleted for unknown reasons. An LSF investigation has been unable to yield tangible results.

The current status of Perry's intelligence network is unknown although it is highly suspected that she continued building her own network with her own funds after leaving the =LSF=.

Leaving the =LSF= (820 A.S.)

As her work with the =LSF= was taking up too much of her time, she elected to resign from her position as Director of Tactical Operations because after not seeing her family during her imprisonment in Gallia, she wanted to spend more time with them and help raise her young son. During this time, she remarried her ex-husband and also pursued a Ph.D. in International Relations from the Columbia University at Planet Manhattan

Current Status (824 A.S.)

After completing her Ph.D. program and helping raise her son until he went off to college, she returned to work as an Associate Professor of International Relations at her alma mater, the University of California, Los Angeles.

***UPDATE: 5th May, 2017/824 A.S.***
In addition to her work as a professor, Perry accepted a job offer from the Bretonian Foreign Ministry to assist with increasing foreign direct investment into Bretonia, which has been severely lacking due to the Gallic invasion which forced many foreign investors to pull out of the Kingdom due to instability.

However, it is highly suspected that this is merely a cover, and that she has been recruited as an Intelligence Officer by the Bretonian Intelligence Services. There is no evidence to confirm this, however.



RE: [Dossier on Adrienne Perry]: Updated (20th March, 825 A.S.) - Stolt. - 03-20-2018

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Signature from May, 2017-May, 2018 (Personally designed)

[Dossier Update: 20th March, 825 A.S.]


Since Perry's return almost 11 months ago, she has advanced Bretonian national interests by rebuilding her intelligence network & funding terror cells for Her Majesty's Secret Intelligence Service [SIS]. She currently serves as the Chief of Staff of [SIS], their 2nd in Command. Between November 824 & February 825, she had to disappear in order to regain a lower profile. She has since, returned to her duties.

[Major Operations]


- [Funding the Tears of Izanagi/Blood Dragons in Kusari]

For better or worse, this is the operation which got Perry promoted to 2nd in Command of [SIS], although it also raised her profile which would have significant consequences for her future. She came into contact with a new group of Blood Dragons inside Kusari called the Tears of Izanagi (<ToI>). They were Blood Dragon extremists who did not discriminate between civilian and military targets unlike the official Blood Dragons who who followed Shogun Hideyoshi at the time.

She passed on 500,000,000 (half a billion) credits in funding to their terror cell which ultimately set up a base of operations for their organisation. For around 2-3 months, almost all trade within Kusari was shut down and several bases went defunct due to a lack of access to supplies. Their heavy handed tactics had ultimately forced other organisations within the Blood Dragons to reign them in. Today, they are known as the Blood Dragons (BD|) and are led primarily by the Kijima Clan.

The purpose behind the funding of this terrorist cell was to establish a leading presence within the Kusari unlawful side in order to reduce and deter Gallic influence within Kusari and set up a full spectrum of intelligence within that House.

- [Funding a Corsair Civil War]

The Apostatas (herein to be referred to as Aps) are a group of Corsairs working to establish a lawful government at Crete. Naturally, this aligned with Bretonian interests and as such, Perry proceeded to fund this organisation with 250 million credits worth of equipment. Their revolt however, has not yet begun as they are still sneaking in more recruits and training their crew.

Their existence was leaked to the [SIS] by an intelligence asset of Director Weber's known only as Paragon.

[Paragon]

[Further Details]

- [Meeting with the Corsica Intelligence Division of Malta]

After the Tears of Izanagi had been funded, they began collecting valuable intelligence for [SIS]. It ultimately led to an
intelligence report by Gallic Intelligence regarding their border with the Outcast nation before their reveal and how they had increased funding over time. Perry met with her Outcast counterpart to share this intelligence.

[Report on the meeting at Corsica]

- [Discovery of Sapphire Raven's Nomad Infestation]

[Relevant Communications Link with Sara "Ryder" Shepard]

At the orders of Commodore Dagon who had initially started the Secret Intelligence Service, Perry had contacted the Order's 2nd in Command, Admiral Sara Shepard. Shepard's interest in Perry was geared around regaining the trust of Bretonia in humanity's mutual war agains the Nomads, and they were also friends having fought Nomads together in the past. She agreed to pass on intelligence which confirmed that Sapphire Raven of the now defunct Battlegroup Auxesia was infested.

[Updated Intelligence Network]


- [Communications Link with Mr. Ezrael Vertiga]

Mr. Vertiga was an intelligence asset of Commodore Kaze Dagon before her disappearance. Since then, Ms. Perry has taken over handling Vertiga. He is primarily directed towards scientific research efforts.

CURRENT STATS: Active.

- [Communications Link with Ms. Chelsea Jenkins]

Chelsea Jenkins was Perry's first intelligence assets after her recruitment into [SIS]. Although she was wanted in Bretonia for murdering her slave captor, Perry was able to help build Ms. Jenkins a record of service with Bretonian Intelligence which ultimately exonerated her for her past crimes.

CURRENT STATUS: She was recruited into [SIS] and currently serves as an intelligence officer.

- [Communications Link with Ms. Erin Miller]

Ms. Erin Miller was a transport ship captain and former smuggler and blockade runner during the Rheinlandic-Liberty War. Having experience building up her own network of contacts in Rheinland and forging identities, Perry recruited her to act as a long term sleeper agent and infiltrate Gallia. Her objective was primarily to build her up her own network of connections that [SIS] could use inside Gallia on both lawful and unlawful sides of the House.

CURRENT STATUS: Asleep, unactivated inside Gallia.

- [Communications Link with Ms. Satsumi Miyasaki]

Satsumi Miyasaki was a Golden Chrysanthemum who agreed to spy on the Kusari unlawful world for SIS with the permission of the Mistress of the Golden Chrysanthemums. Perry recruited her to diversify her intelligence network inside Kusari as she only had a single source of intelligence within Kusari at the time.

CURRENT STATUS: Lost Contact, unknown.

- [Communications Links with Ms. Kailani Rose]

Ms. Kailani Rose is one of Adrienne Perry's failures. She was a rogue intelligence asset, a former Liberty Navy officer who became addicted to cardamine (unbeknownst to Perry) and dealt in petty arms smuggling from Detroit Munitions. Perry recruited her to get an insight into the Liberty unlawful world, however she took advantage of this trust to cause a major incident with the Lane Hackers, prompting a risky operation to rescue her from hostile space in order to prevent her from falling into enemy hands.The rescue mission led to a minor firefight between Bretonian lawful forces and the Lane Hackers at the Cambridge System.

CURRENT STATUS: Burn notice issued, persona non grata in Bretonia.

- [Communications Link with Ms. Emma Melcer]

Ms. Emma Melcer was a woman who proved to be an effective assassin for [SIS]. Although there is no decrypted record, Melcer's last mission was to deploy into Corsair space as a sleeper agent in a conversation that witnesses reporttook place over Heisenberg Research Station. Since then, Perry and Melcer have lost contact with each other.

CURRENT STATUS: Unactivated sleeper agent, contact lost.

- [Communications Link with Mr. Matthias Hayes]

Mr. Matthias Hayes was working as a private contractor with Ms. Perry primarily to establish the location and whereabouts of a minor arms smuggler going by the name Shipbreaker. After this, he eventually cut off all contact for unknown reasons.

CURRENT STATUS: Unknown, no contact.

- [Communications Link with Mr. Aidan Reeves]

Mr. Aidan Reeves was a Bounty Hunter and a former enforcer for the Core who recruited himself as an intelligence asset for Adrienne Perry. He has completed several assignments for her before parting his way and returning to the Core for unknown reasons.

CURRENT STATUS: Returned to the Core 5 months ago, recent activities unknown.

- [Communications Link with Mr. Karl Stark, ISE]

Although Mr. Stark is not an intelligence asset for [SIS], he did help Perry by redirecting significant ISE cargo ships to resupply a strategic base important to Bretonian national interests at the request of Perry. In return, he was able to report this incident to the Crayter Intelligence Service.

CURRENT STATUS: Disconnected from communications.

- [Communications Link with AI06]

AI06 was a PRIME AI from Planet Gammu. He, or it, was recruited to collect intelligence in the Omicron region in exchange for Bretonian technology that it craved. Unfortunately, it has since been scavenged by an unknown individual.

CURRENT STATUS: Dead.



RE: [Dossier on Adrienne Perry]: Updated (20th March, 825 A.S.) - Stolt. - 03-30-2019

[DOSSIER UPDATE: 30th March, 826 A.S.]


- [Weaponised Jumpgate Superweapon Project]

Adrienne Perry pitches a project to weaponise jumpgates and use the technology to destroy entire star systems to the BAF Admiralty/High Command and the Bretonian Government. Although the project was approved, the science behind it is murky and it is likely not possible to construct such a weapon. Perry spent the majority of the past year working on this weapon, occasionally working on other projects as listed below.

- [Establishing a diplomatic relationship with the Order]

Leveraging her relationship with Sara Ryder of the Order, Perry managed to get The Order onto the good side of Bretonia for a bit while Dir. Weber handled the political side in order to re-legitimise them. The strategic purpose of this was to establish a ceasefire with the Red Hessian Army which Weber managed to accomplish soon after.

Unfortunately, the Order did not participate much in creating a ceasefire with the Red Hessians and [SIS] assets had to make contact on their own. Luckily, the Hessians had similar interests in mind.

Eventually, the Order turned their back on Bretonia and launched unjustified attacks upon Bretonia thus eliminating this relationship. Furthermore, following the Bretonian nationalisation of Aland Shipyards at Omega-3, the Red Hessians resumed their hostilities with Bretonia.

- [V. Steiner requests arms supplies for the Blood Dragons BD| ]
- [Perry organises said operation with the BAF Merchant Navy BAF|MN]

Through an SIS intelligence asset, military vehicles were covertly supplied to the BD| to escalate hostilities with the Kusari government forces at Planet Tomioka. The operation went smoothly and no SIS/BD| presence was detected by Kusari government forces.

- [Perry-Natio Octavarium-Blood Dragons Communications]

Perry assists the Natio Octavarium establish relations with the Blood Dragons in order to gain an armed [SIS] allied presence in the Taus and the Independent Worlds regions.

- [Transmissions regarding Vex Upsilon 1]
- [Vex Upsilon Transmissions 2]

A defected Order capital ship attempted passage through Bretonia which Perry blocked. It was suspected that the captain of this vessel was attempting influence Bretonian policy towards The Order. At the time, the Order and SIS enjoyed friendly relations and therefore Perry lobbied to block the ship's entrance into Bretonia and suspected that it was on an espionage operation.

- [Joint Operation between the Order and SIS]

Perry organised a joint operation into the Tau-117 (now known as Drake) with the Order back when relations were still good. Auxesia forces were spotted and lodged a complaint with the Bretonian government. The operation was considered a failure due to the detection of hostile forces.

- [KNI officer detected spying on Liberty]

A Kusari Naval Intelligence officer was detected spying upon the Libertonian space. Perry escorted the intelligence officer out of Liberty and Bretonian space and towards the Kusari border. Since then, the KNI communicated that there was the possibility of KNI going rogue and conducting intelligence operations against Gallia. Unfortunately, nothing came about this due to the risks involved and the general lack of trust between Bretonia and Kusari following the Tau War.

- [Perry shares intelligence with Malta]

In order to foster friendlier relations, Perry shared intelligence that the SIS had captured from the GRN regarding the Outcasts.

- [Crayter intelligence exchange regarding Corsair alliance with Gallia]
- [Crayter presence in the Taus]

Perry and the Crayter Intelligence exchanged intelligence on the Corsairs relations with Gallia which allowed SIS to pursue a further investigation on this issue. In exchange, evidence of the KNI breaching the territory of the Crayter Republic was given to them.

Soon after, Crayter forces deployed into the Tau region and requested further intelligence but this request was denied by the SIS.

- [Perry returns after giving birth]

Adrienne Perry recently became a mother (again) and gave birth to triplets.

- [Ezrael Vertiga discovers an SIS secret]

Ezrael Vertiga discovered the SIS relationship with the Order and the operation in Drake which was thwarted by Auxesia.

- [Perry's role in the annexation of Omega-49]

Adrienne Perry lobbied and influence members of parliament as well as the War Cabinet to annex the Omega-49 system and Planet Gran Canaria. She was at this time firmly within the government of Bretonia as she was the 2nd in Command of the Secret Intelligence Service. She was asked to direct civil servants to negotiate with the Zoners over the peaceful handover of the Planet.

- [SIS based in Inverness discovered by Auxesia]

Auxesia discovers a covert SIS base at the Inverness system and request a confirmation which Perry provides. They also demanded the purpose of the base, but that request was denied. The base was not forcibly removed by Auxesia.

- [Perry establishes contact with the DWR]

Up until now, SIS was barred from any intelligence operations in Rheinland as this was an informal agreement with the Rheinlandic government and the Buro. Once this order was rescinded, Perry took some of the first steps to establish an intelligence gathering presence in Rheinland. Eventually, SIS began to developer closer relations with other unlawful factions of Rheinland which Weber and Victor Steiner were in charge of.

- [Comms between [LN]-ESRD and SIS]

A secret operation between the Liberty Navy's 1st Fleet's ESRD and SIS.





[DOSSIER CLOSED]



RE: Dossier on Adrienne Perry, (Updated, 14/05/826) - Stolt. - 05-14-2019

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UPDATE: 14/05/826 A.S.


BBC News: Senior [SIS] Official Assassinated

On 13th April, 826 A.S., Adrienne Perry was assassinated by a rogue LSF Officer named Mattis Hoegenakker. The reason why is as of yet, undetermined. Cpt. John Mellark and Sherry Aguilar of the Apahanta had both witnessed; and testified; to the assassination.

Cpt. Mellark's testimony.

Sherry Aguilar's testimony.

Adrienne Perry was tractored in by the crew of the BRF|-HMS-Westminster under the orders of Cpt. Mellark while the Apahanta continued to follow the assailant. Unfortunately, she passed away on the operating table. Her position as the Second in Command of the [SIS] was taken over by Lady Sarah Mountbatten (the details of which are in the BBC News report linked above).



Approximately one month later, Adrienne Perry resurfaced once again in a comm to the current director of the =LSF=, Christopher Murray [LINK].

She reveals that she had been in a deep undercover operation initiated by the =LSF= when she returned after completing her Ph.D. in 824 A.S.

Her mission was to infiltrate the Bretonian state help build an allied intelligence agency; the Secret Intelligence Service; to assist the =LSF= in the war against Gallia. This was done WITHOUT the Bretonian state knowing she was an undercover double agent of the =LSF=. Part of her mission was also to maintain Liberty's interest's within the [SIS] in secret. Around this time, the Steiner family was gaining prominence in Bretonia and they were known for their biased anti-Libertonian stance.

Through her efforts, she had worked her way up to the second in command position of the [SIS]. Although she was meant to remain within Bretonia as a clandestine infiltrator, she faked her own death (as shown in the BBC News report). The [SIS] had become increasingly bureaucratised and centralised and its counter-intelligence capabilities had strengthened significantly since its inception. As a result, Perry calculated that the risk of discovery was too high, and decided to fake her own death to escape. Her family has since moved back to Liberty from Bretonia. Aside from her husband and her family (who are under the Federal Witness Protection Program of the Republic of Liberty, only the =LSF='s current director Christopher Murray and the former director of the =LSF= when she first joined; David Copperfield; and a handful of =LSF= agents on Planet Curacao are aware that she is still alive.

She is currently on Planet Curacao, rendezvousing with David Copperfield for debriefing. Although he is retired, as the ex-director of the =LSF= he has plenty of resources that he has been deploying clandestinely to fight Gallia. Adrienne Perry is a part of his intelligence network and continues to be so. She has opted to remain an independent non-state actor as opposed to rejoining the =LSF= as she wants her identity and her current status to remain a hidden secret.

Signed,
Adrienne Perry


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RE: Dossier on Adrienne Perry, (Updated, 14/05/826) - Stolt. - 04-06-2020

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UPDATE: 06/04/827 A.S.


Adrienne Perry has remained in hiding for the past year. Although there were plans for her to be deployed to Gallia, the war ended. Her work was done. After a decade since she was captured by Gallic forces and imprisoned, the nation that robbed her of two years of her life had fallen. Like many, she had a special bottle for this occasion, her poison was moonshine. But, a huge part of her life and her sense of purpose had now disappeared. She remained with her family for the time being, raising her young children.

Somehow, everything in Sirius remained the same. There was no major geopolitical shift after the war. Sirius had a sense of stability that defied logic. In a pool of piracy, terrorism and exploitative corporations and corrupt governments, a basic middle class sustained itself in most houses, save for Rheinland. Opportunists continued to flood the border worlds and edge worlds for raw materials that would be exported and processed into marketable foods at House space. But the possibility of a coming shift in the balance of power could never truly be discounted.

Her former employer, the government of Bretonia whom she had infiltrated on behalf of the Liberty Security Force had made strides despite its position. The weakest house, expanding to obtain two new planets and systems. Liberty had elected a new President and her foreign policy objectives remained unclear [Source]. Perry was once a stalwart proponent of the Anglophone-dominated NATO alliance between Liberty, Bretonia and the Colonial Republic. But it was clear to her this alliance would not be respected by the Bretonians; at least while they were under the thumb of the Monarchist, anti-Libertonian Steiner family.

In January 827 A.S., she was introduced to Danny Cohen, a former Liberty Security Force officer and active [LN]-ESRD officer. Together, they collected data on Sirius, an ungodly amount of data. Economic data, historical statistics dating back to Earth, trends on cardamine usage, most ships constructed, the number of computers and neural links manufactured on each planet, average losses on battle for each House military etc. (Source) Whatever data they could get their hands on, they did. Think tanks and university research groups were created for the sole purpose of creating a long-term doctrine to build Liberty into a Superpower.



The Control Group


The Control Group is a nationalist subversive pro-Liberty government paramilitary/intelligence organization. It exists to advance the national interests of Liberty both within and outside of its borders without the constraints of the law, rules of engagement, government bureaucracy, top-down micromanagement or diplomatic consequences. Many of its members disagree with the strategic direction of Liberty’s foreign and security policy. They believe Liberty should be more interventionist in its approach to the other Houses.

To achieve this goal, several former Liberty government officials, military and intelligence officers developed the Geostrategic Convergence Doctrine. The idea behind this doctrine is based on a book authored by Peter Zeihan titled The Accidental Superpower. Zeihan argues that the Republic of Liberty has the potential to become a superpower by controlling access to trade throughout Sirius. In addition to expanding the Liberty Navy’s size, strength and technological superiority, a network of military bases would have to be established in the independent worlds and border worlds. This would allow the Liberty Navy access to these distant regions as the bases would create a logistical supply chain to allow the Navy ships to resupply, re-arm and refuel outside of Liberty’s immediate borders. This is turn, would allow Liberty to project military force on a sector-wide scale.

During wartime, this doctrine would ensure Liberty’s national security by keeping any war as far from Liberty’s border’s as possible hence preventing an invasion of Liberty’s space by a foreign power, the way Gallia did in California (Source). During peacetime, the navy could be used to protect trade routes and civilian shipping between the houses from piracy and terrorism hence making the other houses dependent on Liberty for access to interstellar trade. Without trade, the other houses would fall behind economically.

This would create a geopolitical shift in favour of Liberty. But Perry was worried. Was she doing this because she loved the Republic of Liberty? Or was she unable to live, or breathe, without running a Black Operation?

Signed,
Adrienne Perry


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