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The Circle

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The Circle
Short story by Dan C. Duval
Publication
Published2006
Published inTotal Warfare
PublisherCatalyst Game Labs
Pages4
Chronology
EraCivil War era
Timeline7 October 3067

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The Circle is a short story by Dan C. Duval that was included in Total Warfare.

Plot Summary

The story follows the covert maneuvers around a set of Word of Blake spies of the Toyamas faction deployed in the Taurian Concordat. Taurian Subaltern Alan Noppadoi, seeking promotions, follows the tips of an anonymous source (in fact working for the rival True Believers faction) to capture Blakist agent after Blakist agent. A loyalist to Marshal Kithrong, he deliberately misreports these spies as working for the Federated Commonwealth, but those he reports to are in fact fully aware that the agents are Blakists. As well, Noppadoi sends the captured agents to be reconditioned into thinking they work for the Federated Commonwealth, and arranges for them to be redeployed in the Capellan Confederation.

The Capellans, for about a year, have continually intercepted these reconditioned Blakist agents. In order to cause confusion at minimal cost, Sun-Tzu Liao has arranged for these agents to be covertly redeployed in the Draconis Combine, always done through routes the Combine is aware of. This operation, also noticed by the Outworlds Alliance, baffles Louis Yamashi of the Draconis Combine Internal Security Force.

In the end, the captured spies are merely part of a greater wave of Toyamas agents in training for operations in the Concordat, and those who were not caught reach their graduation ceremony.

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