Alternate History - Gallia Triumphant!

[Capt. Henry Morgan]

25 January 826 AS
City of Beeston, Leeds

BBC News Update!

Notorious pirate and terrorist, "Captain" Henry Morgan was apprehended earlier today by the Bretonia Police Authority. The former Buccaneer leader was discovered when the BPA received an anonymous tip from a loyal Bretonian concerning the location of a Resistance safehouse. Morgan is wanted by the Gallic authorities for multiple capital offenses related to terrorist activity on Leeds during the Gallic occupation, including the rape and murder of 18 year old Gallic soldier Camille Dubois. Morgan will be extradited to New Paris to face trial and probable execution for his..........

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This is the Voice of Bretonia, interrupting your regularly scheduled enemy propaganda! The war continues on every front. Every day, Her Majesty's Resistance strikes out against the Gallic occupation! While we've kept them busy, Council forces have taken complete control of the Picardy system, bringing the Royalist government one step closer to defeat. As long as we don't lose heart and we keep the pressure on our enemy, Bretonia will again know freedom. We've got a message to pass along before we sign off.

004, recognition code SIEGREICHER MARSCH. Assist Orange in operation 227 Blue at Location 63-Tango. 411, 822, 336, 404, 783. All other agents, cypher 39-Bravo is compromised. Rotate to your next assigned cypher for all further communications.

This concludes our broadcast, everybody stay strong and keep fighting the good fight. This is the Voice of Bretonia signing off.

As she finished her broadcast, Agent Sarah Mountbatten shut down the transmitter and began to gather her few possessions. When she was ready to leave, she triggered the safehouse's self-destruct mechanism. The safehouse had been a useful place to lay low and coordinate the Voice of Bretonia broadcasts, but interrupting the BBC's feed meant that the Gallic-controlled BPA would soon trace her broadcast back here. By the time they did, though, she would be off world and all evidence that could tie her to the broadcasts would be destroyed.

It had been a real risk, but she could only hope that the message to the SIS' remaining agents was worth it. It would be weeks before she could get set up somewhere else and start transmitting again. Sarah understood the importance of her role as the Voice of Bretonia, but she yearned to take on a more active role in the Resistance. It didn't feel right hiding in a safehouse behind a microphone while others fought and died, but everyone, including her father, thought she had died on the Line. Director Weber thought it best that everyone continued to believe that, as it would protect her family from facing Gallic reprisals for her activities.

She walked a few blocks to one of Beeston's better-known fish-and-chip restaurants, and made a specific order. The order, combined with the exact combination of bank notes used to pay for it signaled the resistance operative behind the counter that she required immediate extraction. The combination of notes and coins she received as change, as well as the number of napkins in her bag, indicated when and where she needed to be. She had a little time, so she sat down on a nearby bench to eat her food. It would look suspicious not to.

At the appointed time, a shuttle landed nearby. She greeted the pilot with a pre-arranged sign. When he responded with the appropriate countersign, she got into the shuttle. She didn't really begin to relax until the shuttle broke atmosphere and she was sure she had made good her escape. She wasn't sure where she was going next. She could only trust the Director's judgement and hope for the best.