The Circle
The Circle | |
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Story information | |
Author | Dan C. Duval |
Pages | 4 |
Type | Short story |
Product | Total Warfare |
Content | |
Era | Civil War era |
Timeline | 7 October 3067 |
The short story The Circle was published in Total Warfare.
Plot summary
The story follows the covert maneuvers around a set of Word of Blake Toyamas spies 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) 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 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.
Featured characters
- Alan Noppadoi
- Coronet Jaruwan
- Grover Shraplen
- Brellan Stark
- Zwick
- Santiago Przbtesky
- Sun-Tzu Liao
- Chi'n
- Steven Woodward
- Louis Yamashi
- Moshima
- Allois Bauer (mentioned)
- Lucius Shute (mentioned)
- Mitchell Avellar (mentioned)
- Grieg (mentioned)
- Blane (mentioned)
- Cham Kithrong (mentioned)
- Conrad Toyama (mentioned)
Featured places
- Illiushin
- Taurus
- New Abilene
- Sian
- Luthien
- Baltazar
- Quatre Belle (mentioned)
- Sinope (mentioned)
- Alpheratz (mentioned)
- Galedon (mentioned)