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Devon,
As per your request, I spent a considerable amount of time thinking of ways to improve the efficacy of the Union as a whole while reducing our vulnerablity to external forces. As this is a secure line, I will talk freely. We have some very severe problems in the Union right now. The war with the Traditions and other Reality Deviants increases it's intensity daily, our focus on protecting the Masses is faltering. Our Conventions are being pulled in divergent directions and allegations of treason and hostile influence is rampant.
The view from the trenches is pretty grim, Dee. The conventions are pulling amalgam structures apart all over the Union. Loyalties are breaking down. If you can't trust the triggerman to your right, the team is not going to be effective. We need to get a handle on this monster, now. I know that the original concept was for a slow transition over 10 years, but we don't have that amount of time. Five years max until we are history, less unless we get a handle on the Majestic 12 and the SPD.
The general consensus is as follows:
1. The Syndicate is a lost cause. They are too greedy with the cash, as if it was theirs and not the Masses.
2. The New World Order is too confused playing cloak and dagger with themselves to be any use.
3. Iteration X is about two inches from Falling completely due to the interference of the Machine.
Nobody trusts them anymore, so they are being cut out of operations left and right.
4. The Progenitors are too busy either researching freaks in space or creating more drugs dirtside to be any use.
5. The Void Engineers are spread too thin to be any real use. They are also close to packing their bags and joining with the Virtual Adepts.
We need to fix these internal problems ASAP.
The next goat rope that can't be put off anymore is this STARSTRIKE problem. I am not even going to ask how the NWO missed the Roswell Accords or the subsequent Fall of half of Iteration X, or the the US governments unchecked treaty making with the TOG. It doesn't matter now anyway, does it?
First things first though. We need to nuke the conventions and dissolve all of their redundant chains of command. The differing methodologies will survive, but the intermediate level between the Ivory Tower and the Methodology has got to go.
The second problem is how to keep this issue of global annihilation and our involvement with the extraterrestrials/extradimensionals a secret. I would assume that eventually our complicity will come to light within the Masses, although I am sure that the Ivory Tower and Media Control have a plan to leak the story with some suitably pro-Technocracy/pro-Humanity propaganda.
As I understand it, the survivors of the STARSTRIKE operation are the plank-owners of the UN Rapid Deployment Forces with the stolen ship to be the center piece. Good idea, but the 776 survivors and one cruiser are not going to do the job of defending Earth alone. The reconstruction project on Darkside Base is a stroke of genius and already having Stormwatch already constructed was just pure luck (although the ten year warning didn't hurt much either).
We are going to have to increase the numbers of the RDF, pure and simple. We don't have the time and resources to Awaken all the recruits, but here's my plan.
1. The RDF will consist of troops drawn from the UN Security Council only. They will already have extensive experience using high tech. It shouldn't be too much of a stretch to teach them Technology.
2. All of the troops will have already completed at least four years with their parent country's military and hold Top Secret clearances before being allowed to transfer to the UNRDF.
3. The benefit package is going to have to be huge for them to put up with the deployment/training schedule, especially since we are going to have to draw on career military types, and they will have families. Lifetime enlistment is out and so are no-notice deployments. I would suggest having them retain their original benefit package from their parent military and just supplement the pay. Also, we can control the access of information by using implant/personality programming, not only on the troops but on their families as well. We will have to build new facilities, but if we want no questions asked, it better be worth it to them to keep their mouths shut.
4. Such a massive investment in capital and manpower can't be disguised, but if it's voted on by the Masses and done in pure daylight, they won't suspect a thing. The only secret will be in what they do and where they do it. Media Control, Enforcement and the Watchers shouldm't have too much trouble keeping that secret.
Returning to my earlier position on the destruction of the Conventions….
Each of the Methodologies will now have particular operational/functional area determined by capability and not by political manuevering or historical precedent.
BioMechanics- They will take over all advanced cybernetic/bionic research. Sphere of involvement will be hospitals, research facilities, UN RDF medical dept, and college campuses.
Statisticians- Keep their portfolio of statistics and raw data. Sphere of involvement will remain the same.
Time-Motion Managers- They will continue to be engineers specializing on production and propulsion. Sphere of involvement will remain the same.
Ivory Tower- No Change, although some of the more mundane aspects should be transferred to national/international organizations.
Operatives- No Change. They will have a new tool in the form of the UN Anti-Crime Organization, UN Peace Keeping Forces Global Military Police and the UN Rapid Deployment Forces Section 7 (Intelligence).
Watchers- No Change. They will have a new tool in the form of the UN Anti-Crime Organization, UN Peace Keeping Forces Global Military Police and the UN Rapid Deployment Forces Section 7 (Intelligence).
FACADE- No Change. They will work closely with BioMechanists in the same spheres.
Genegineers- No Change. I do not have enough of an expert opinion to support/disagree with the position to incorporate them into FACADE.
Pharmacopoeists- No Change although many of their members should be killed.
Disbursements- No Change, although many of their connections with Enforcement should be cut, permanently.
Enforcement- No Change. They should be concerned with operations on a law enforcement/asset retreival scale. No more military grade operations should be allowed.
Financiers- No Change although reducing their oversight of military/exploration operations should be reduced, if not eliminated.
Media Control- No Change.
Special Projects Division- If this methodology is not able to be turned into an asset within 2 years to act as a liason with Reality Deviants, every individual, Awakened, Sleeper or Associate should be killed ASAP.
Defender- This includes: Border Corps, Pan Dimensional Corps and Neutralization Specialists. They will form one half of the new UNRDF along with the STARSTRIKE operatives.
Explorer- Earth Frontier, Aquatic Exploration, Cryogenic, HBMA, IHEET, Subterranean Exploation will form many of the UN Peace Keeping Forces core personnel.
Executor- Research and Execution, ETCA and DPEM will do the majority of the engineering for the UN RDF and the Union as a whole. The T-MM will be concerned with propulsion and production methods.
Please understand that many of the smaller methodologies of the former conventions will be subsumed into the larger methodologies such as many of the combat oriented methodologies used by the former Iteration X and Progenitors will be subsumed into either the Enforcers or the Defenders.
It must also be said that with the destruction of the Conventions, many of the long standing feuds with the Traditions can be may finally be put to rest. We could allow the Akashics to train the majority or our Un-Awakened troops. There is no real ideological reason that this could not be allowed.
The Sons of Ether should be welcomed back to the fold, as well as many of the more technical minded Hermetics. The Hollow Ones should be the focus of a major recruitment drive, not executed.
The Virtual Adepts should be the focus of a large peace offering. We do not need to be diverting resources to fight our brothers.
The Euthanatos can even be enlisted to aid the Enforcers/Operatives in some instances.
The Celestial Chorus can not be discounted. With the amount of influence that the CC and the Vatican exhibit on each other and the Vatican's Permananent Observer Status at the UN guarantees that the CC (and sometimes Templars and the Inquisition) will know of any non-covert motions by any of our proxy organizations within the UN. We must reach an accord.
The Dreamspeakers should merely be left alone until they initiate offensive activity against the Union. At that time, exterminate.
The Cult of Ecstacy should be exterminated at our leisure.
Other thoughts…………
The concept of the vampire clans realizing the value of space escapes me. I do not see them fully exploiting this avenue of reality. The recent reports of the Vryolakes and some of the armored entities existing in the Eye of Terror give me pause however. The links, tenous at best, still do not bode well.
The revelation that the lycanthropes are just a recombinant DNA variation that is quite common, especially in the Eye of Terror may undermine our efforts to destroy them on Earth. They may be useful, although the prospect of talking one onto a spacecraft doesn't thrill me in the least.
The Eldar/Fae connection is not a good discovery, especially in light of all the conditions that we have to fulfill in order to continue to use the COP.
In light of Earth being declared an 'open' world as part of the non-intervention treaty signed by MJ12 (w/o VE input I might add), we may be having to use the UN IST's more than we had originally anticipated. Recommend further funding for them, especially in the realm of weapons and transportation.
With the somewhat open alignment of Terra with the Confederation of Non-Aligned Worlds, the possible induction into the United Federation of Planets is very much in the air. Until we can pull of a one world government, they are not going to talk to us, anyway. Trying to gain admission into that organization would definitely aid us in all aspects. As a side note, they seem to be exceedingly easy to manipulate. We have already signed a mutual aid treaty although we are unable to get them to allow Terran membership in the UFP proper, and by extension StarFleet/GroundCorps.
Well, those are opinions and (sadly) ineffective recommendations. Let Control know what's happening out here.
Yours in Victory, SPC Slade X. McKie