>>: Ling

[Mr.Ling]

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Now there's the gamble of a century. An identity that will pass the cleanly through the security state. You want to pull the wool over the eyes of Navy, Intelligence, and presumably the Corporates as well. The scam of a lifetime, huh?

An identity that has at least some kind of trust and good favor baked into it, and not so generic as to be inherently questioned. A new history that you can just slide into. Sounds kind of impossible.

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You've got the luck of the devil, Montes. You're going to have to brush up on your Gallic a bit, though.

There was a mystery case that I started looking into when I first joined the Inner Circle, something interesting to kill time. During the Gallic War, the Navy had an informant feeding them supply routes stationed in Magellan, part of the Gallic Royal Navy Foreign Legion, a group of expendables who were largely Sirian defectors to Gallia. A guy by the name of Judah Richmond. When the Battleship Carcassonne fell in California, he got a pardon and disappeared. Now here's the fun bit: No one but the Royal Navy saw this guy. Unless Gallia has them, this guy didn't have prints, DNA, not even a headshot recorded. The only time his name and former occupation ever shows up is a manifest on Sheffield Station from 827, registry for a Guild membership under the codename "Sincere". Done remotely. Seems likely that even the Guild never saw this guy. There was a report of someone receiving assistance from him in Tau 37 when Planetform was doing something in Baffin and whatever unstable jump network they were using was spitting people out there, and that's it.

So, not a doppelganger, per se. A name with a history and without an identity, though. Something you can fill in the blanks on, as long as you don't run into him or someone who knew him.

Does that work for you?

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