have not been up to date on this quest. I am assuming this was the inevitable Comstar's blacker than black OP's that they use on anyone that upsets the technological stagnation and balance of power they set up?
 
Quick question were do we keep our Petrusite?

In secure locations, now that its only uses for weapons basically.

As for decisions, i think we can have local forces get involved and spin it as us going after more smugglers, given that they previous turn had us make a major sting. I also want the police bring in the other civvies, saying they are targeted by criminal elements and in danger. Yes this airs the smuggling problem we have, but smugglers are better than spies
 
How much Petrusite do they have. After all didn't like most of our planet was very damaged in some shape or form because of a Petrusite explosion from one ship.
Well, an explosion over/near a major deposit.

In any case, they only have grams worth of the stuff, but that's enough to cause some trouble for the Republic.
 
[X] Secure the cooperation of local police forces and get eyes back on the hostiles.

getting eye on is the point also does not disrupt everything over much.
 
Well, an explosion over/near a major deposit.

In any case, they only have grams worth of the stuff, but that's enough to cause some trouble for the Republic.
Pyrrus is the planetary capital and home of a major portraits research lab, and Konstantine is the home of one of the two big tech universities (Karpathia is the other one). So a fair bit.
Oh fuck. And Thank you.
First things first we must evacuate every Petrusite. And also we should move out all of our scientific research and our researchers after all last thing we want is our scientist dying with their important knowledge in their brains.
 
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[X] Write In: "Smuggler" Round-up: Bring the local police and public transport (through the mayor if necessary) on board to locate the spies , saying we are pursuing wanted individuals as part of the smuggling operation earlier in the year. Emphasize the need to keep this quiet to prevent from spooking the targets further. Lock the trains down and send in the Gendarmes to capture the spies then send agents to bring the targeted civilians into protected custody citing them being at risk and begin a missing persons search for the missing one. Quietly Contact the Petrusite facilities Head of Security and advise them to enter a state of raised security awareness due to an ongoing anti-smuggler operation until provided an all clear, cite the smugglers apparent possession of Petrusite equipment places them at risk of intrusion, and to initiate a lockdown if they deem it necessary.
 
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[X] Secure the cooperation of local police forces and get eyes back on the hostiles.

fucking capallens...why the fuck do they need to poke the bear again?
 
[] Write-in: Plan oh shit oh shit
Do utmost to find and arrest the spies. Induce the cooperation of every local organization that may be of assistance and deploy the Gendarmes for action, call in military support to supplement local forces. Heavily reinforce key locations that could be targeted. Lockdown transport on and off planet as well local transport in and around Konstantine and Pyrrus. Go public with identities of the spies calling for public help in locating them and not to approach. Declare state of emergency in and around Konstantine and Pyrrus due to the terrorist threat.

EDIT: cancelled plan
 
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Other quick question is there a military base close by or in the city?
Also how long do we have until they get to the cities they're going to?
There are bases close by, but deploying troops would be even more obvious than the Gendarmes.

You have about 15-20 minutes until the trains arrive in the city.
 
right been thinking, best course of action i think is to play this as hunting down dangerous 'smugglers' on the run from the fallout of the durban deal going wrong, that should have been pretty public given it went loud from my understanding, that and the pervious anti--smuggling actions we took should also make this more credible. this should allow us to bring the police and local traffic/public transist control on board with minimal fuss. we can have separate police go and secure the targeted civilians using the same issue. Additionally we can reach out to the heads of the research facilities, informing them of the smuggler situation and advising them to take a stance of raised security/awareness.

so something like this,

[X] Write In: "Smuggler" Round-up: Bring the local police and public transport (through the mayor if necessary) on board to locate the spies , saying we are pursuing wanted individuals as part of the smuggling operation earlier in the year. Emphasize the need to keep this quite to prevent from spooking the targets further. Lock the trains down and send in the Gendarmes to capture the spies on said trains, then send agents to bring the targeted civilians into protected custody citing them being at risk and begin a missing persons search for the missing one. Quietly Contact the Petrusite facilities Head of Security and advise them to enter a state of raised security awareness due to an ongoing anti-smuggler operation until provided an all clear, cite the smugglers apparent possession of Petrusite equipment places them at risk of intrusion, and to initiate a lockdown if they deem it necessary.

Supposedly Capellans. It's typical for Com* too frame others for their crap.

They funded the Durban deal with art from a Capellan private collection that was siezed by the Mandate in their purges, Comstar is good, but not that good. Odds are the Mandate figured out we were supplying everyone against them with equipment during the 4rth succession war and were a mite miffed and curious. Not to mention there is evidence that they were behind the Portland raid as well.
 
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[X] Write In: "Smuggler" Round-up: Bring the local police and public transport (through the mayor if necessary) on board to locate the spies , saying we are pursuing wanted individuals as part of the smuggling operation earlier in the year. Emphasize the need to keep this quite to prevent from spooking the targets further. Lock the trains down and send in the Gendarmes to capture the spies then send agents to bring the targeted civilians into protected custody citing them being at risk and begin a missing persons search for the missing one. Quietly Contact the Petrusite facilities Head of Security and advise them to enter a state of raised security awareness due to an ongoing anti-smuggler operation until provided an all clear, cite the smugglers apparent possession of Petrusite equipment places them at risk of intrusion, and to initiate a lockdown if they deem it necessary.
 
[X] Write In: "Smuggler" Round-up: Bring the local police and public transport (through the mayor if necessary) on board to locate the spies , saying we are pursuing wanted individuals as part of the smuggling operation earlier in the year. Emphasize the need to keep this quite to prevent from spooking the targets further. Lock the trains down and send in the Gendarmes to capture the spies then send agents to bring the targeted civilians into protected custody citing them being at risk and begin a missing persons search for the missing one. Quietly Contact the Petrusite facilities Head of Security and advise them to enter a state of raised security awareness due to an ongoing anti-smuggler operation until provided an all clear, cite the smugglers apparent possession of Petrusite equipment places them at risk of intrusion, and to initiate a lockdown if they deem it necessary.
 
So just to clarify, for the smuggler plan, the gendarmes will be going after both the spies on the trains and the ones you have intermittent surveillance of, correct?
 
Do utmost to find and arrest the spies. Induce the cooperation of every local organization that may be of assistance and deploy the Gendarmes for action, call in military support to supplement local forces. Heavily reinforce key locations that could be targeted. Lockdown transport on and off planet as well local transport in and around Konstantine and Pyrrus. Go public with identities of the spies calling for public help in locating them and not to approach. Declare state of emergency in and around Konstantine and Pyrrus due to the terrorist threat.
That is how you create a panic, people will see gendarmes and soldiers flooding the streets and assume the worst. Given we've already had a nuke go off in Phyrrus I'll give you 3 guesses as to what people will assume is happening which is only made worse once you try to seal the city, issue a terror alert and reveal the presence of foreign spies. This plan will turn a spy hunt into chaos as people try to flee the affected cities rather than help us find the spies. For a city-wide lockdown a hunt for a murderer or sealing it to keep a pandemic under control (as China did for their big cities) is far more effective since people are more readily able to envision the benefits and the risk is much more nebulous.


[X] Write In: "Murderer hunt": Bring the local police and public transport (through the mayor if necessary) on board to locate the spies , frame it as a prison break by several violent criminals who are a danger to the public. Circulate the faces and assumed names of the spies publicly to get the public onboard but emphasize that security forces are hot on the trail. Mark the spies as "armed and dangerous" and that if people spot the spies then they should get away from them and place a police report.Lock the trains down and send in the Gendarmes to capture the spies then send agents to bring the spies in under the guise of the prison service reclaiming them for transfer to a super-max facility. Quietly Contact the Petrusite facilities Head of Security and advise them to enter a state of raised security awareness due to the ongoing anti-smuggler operations until provided an all clear, cite the smugglers apparent possession of Petrusite equipment places them at risk of intrusion, and to initiate a lockdown if they deem it necessary. Request all petrusite facilities to perform a stockpile and security audit as part of a new series of regular checks for facilities storing and handling such a dangerous material. Quietly inform the heads of petrusite research centres and universities that there have been reports of the "escaped individuals" near to their premises and that they should look towards either sheltering in place or evacuating but suggest that an evacuation would be preffered. This also allows us to station police and gendarme units around such facilities without arousing too much suspicion.

A slight modification of the smuggler round-up plan that allows us to go semi-public but keeps the real details of the matter hidden without creating a panic.
 
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So just to clarify, for the smuggler plan, the gendarmes will be going after both the spies on the trains and the ones you have intermittent surveillance of, correct?

No, they are specifically going after the dudes we know are on the trains. the idea is we lock the trains down remotely and then send in the military police. we then work with the local police and transport authority, i.e. the guys with all of the traffic cameras, etc. to track down the intermittent spies.
 
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