Captain Stanley Nelson - Prisoner of War

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--Roppongi Station, New Tokyo System--

A tall man sits behind the desk of an Interspace Commerce Executive, in an airy office overlooking the planet of New Toyko behind him. Putting aside a pile of commercial reports and business contracts, his eyes linger for a moment on what appears to be an an Engineer's Report of Fuchu Prison construction, marked with an official KNF security tag. Hastily stowing this out of sight into his jacket pocket, the man looks up as his secretary enters the room carrying a vase of flowers.

"Some flowers have come for you sir"

"Thank you Emily, I'll p... " his voice trailed off as he looked up at the flowers she was holding. White Tulips.

"Everything all right Mr R-"

He cut her off, "Yes, yes, fine thank you Emily, put them on the table here."

"This card came with them," she said, placing an envelope by the vase of tuilps, before backing quickly out of the office.

Once he was sure she had gone, the man carfully opened the enveolpe. He knew what a terrible risk sending such open messages was, and consequently what terrible danger his agent must be in. Yet opening the greetings card, he saw not the loopy writing of Yoko, but the tiny black scrawl of Yoshimo, his inside informer at KNF Headquaters. His eyes widened in shock as he read the message within...

Your plan has failed. Yoko is dead. Captain Hiro****o arrested for treason, replaced with Arisugawa Komatsu, a notable hard-liner. Chance of further infiltration now negligible. Komatsu is known for cruel but effective interrogation techniques, my suspicions are he plans to torture Nelson. KNF Fleet plans to break ceasfire by 5 January at latest. You must act quickly.

Breathing hard, the man opened a concealed door in his desk and removed a tiny black palm computer. Opening his encryption program, he set an ultra-low bandwidth frequency and began to type:

==W-H-I-T-E---R-O-S-E---T-O---M-I-7---C-O-M-M-A......

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Sir Stanley Nelson




<span style="color:#000066">Charles Canning </span><span style="color:#000066"> Foreign Secretary</span>