The S/D Agency Files

[Athenian]

Director's Briefing

Evening, staff.

I returned from Baden-Baden in the Stuttgart system to deliver this briefing in person as it is quite an important one.

It gives me great pleasure to announce that the Agency has achieved the status that we have so long sought. As of midnight last night, we are officially licensed to operate in Rheinland. This means that we are effectively a Galaxy-wide business.

In addition, I can also announce the terms of a deal concluded with Interspace Neuralnet Department (Interspace Commerce).

The Search and Destroy Agency, hereinafter referred to as the Agency, and Interspace Neuralnet Department, hereinafter referred to as IND, hereby agree to the following terms:

A. Identities of the Parties

The Agency, whose business address is New London Orbital Station "The Doghouse", New London System, Bretonia, is in the business of security provision.

IND, whose business address is registered in Newark Station, Manhattan Orbit, New York system, Liberty; Waterloo Station, New London Orbit, New London System, Bretonia; Roppongi Station, New Tokyo Orbit, New Tokyo System, Kusari; and Bonn Station, New Berlin System, Rheinland is in the business of trade and commerce.

B. Description of the Goods/Services

The Agency agrees to transfer and deliver to IND the below-described goods and services:

• Design and construction of ten APM custom built BHG Bomber class vessels
  
• Security-assessment of IND fleet.
  
• Combat training for IND security escort personnel .
  
• Manned on-site guarding services to safeguard personnel, installations, and equipment at Bonn Station and Newark Station.
  

IND agrees to transfer and deliver to the Agency the below-described goods and services:

• Full docking rights and access to station maintenance, repair and communication facilities at Newark Station, Manhattan Orbit, New York system, Liberty; Waterloo Station, New London Orbit, New London System, Bretonia; and Bonn Station, New Berlin System, Rheinland.
  
• Office space subject to agreed lease for administrative purposes at Newark Station, Manhattan Orbit, New York system, Liberty and Bonn Station, New Berlin System, Rheinland.
  
• Licensing of all APM vessels to carry Interspace Commerce identification credentials and transponder signals.
  
• A credit transfer to the amount agreed.
  

Agreed to this, in the year 816 A.S.

By: George Graves
Official Title: The Director
On behalf of the Search/Destroy Agency.

By: Jay Simon
Official Title: CEO
On behalf of Interspace Neuralnet Department.

In light of these developments, and the recent concerns raised by the situation in Bretonia, I am giving the following directives that affect all staff.

All APM craft will be re-licensed under the Interspace Commerce Identification Protocol. IFF Transponders may be adjusted as soon as time allows. As Interspace are recognised in all four Houses, logistics teams are analysing current routes for optimal profitability.

Operational squads shall report to Newark Station in New York or Bonn Station in New Berlin as soon as possible and commence hunting. Get a feel for the opponents. Utilise jump-holes. All agents are ordered to analyse Special Agent De Virgo's intelligence reports on Rheinland and the terms of the security contract immediately.

Sir Douglas Bader, Assistant Director, will be moving to New York, and managing the office on Newark Station. Sir Douglas has often expressed a desire to see Liberty. I believe his actual words were something along the lines of "I'd rather sit in the orbit of Manhattan than listen to opera", so I hope I'm interpreting things correctly.

Assistant Director Harvey Blackwater will be resuming duties in Sheffield.

Which brings me to the next item. The Doghouse. Recent events have demonstrated the Kusari invaders' disregard for the civilian population of New London. The orbital security is under review by the Admiralty. The Doghouse appears to be particularly vulnerable. We are therefore faced with the task of raising its defensive capabilities and reinforcing the super-structure. This construction work will take many months, so the station will be reduced to a skeleton crew to manage the containment facility. Reduced capacity for prisoner confinement means that the Prisoner Transport Service will see an increase in business.

In addition, I have ordered the construction of two orbital defense platforms to guard the construction site. These are manned platforms and should deal easily with any minor incursions by small craft.

These are wonderful times, gentlemen, and we all stand to benefit from these changes.

I will depart for Baden-Baden tomorrow morning. My health is not the best.

I wish you all good luck.

Now go. Search and destroy.


George Graves,
The Director.

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