Think I'm understanding it right, and I like this post a lot! Good way to bridge the realities of the Freelancer campaign and especially ending to today's roleplay, without forcing anyone to make their own wild assumptions (heh) about the affair, plus lays a good framework for the espionage happening going forward. I am curious about this bit, though:
...-- a matter complicated by the need to maintain a veil of secrecy over the Nomads’ existence.
Maybe this is a whole other can of worms, but I'm curious about how absolute that secrecy is? I had figured that at least the mere existence of the Nomads, sans specifics, was not hidden knowledge to the general public in the present day.