Bryan West

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Bryan West is my name. Well, at least that's what I'll be calling myself for the foreseeable future. My real name is not important, never has been.
Undercover work is undoubtedly the most dangerous kind of police work. Above all else you need committment to your cover ID. It's not enough to simply pretend your someone else, you need to be that somebody. If you don't truely believe you are who you say you are, why should anybody else?

You need to be resourceful, observant and a very good liar. And you need to be consistant with your lies. What helps is to season your lies with just the right ammount of truth to make it palletable, yet not too much that you start compromising yourself. It also doesent hurt to know how to field strip half a dozen of the most common hand guns, blasters and laser rifles, hold military grade proficiency in hand to hand combat, and have a decent knowledge of household chemistry.

If working in the LPI's Narcotics beauro for 6 years has taught me one thing, it's that smugglers are the most slippery, decietful, cunning mongrels on the face of the planet. It's a bitter feeling to see thousands of police hours wasted raiding empty warehouses, docking platforms cargo pods and freighters. It was only a matter of time before the big man demanded I become a smuggler. If the LPI ever wanted to throw a hydrospanner into the works of the colossal machination that was the cadamine smuggling scene here on manhattan, then I coulddn't think of a better place to start.