Captain Golding wrote:I get you on the Grayson attitude but does the MAlign? THink about all the bits we've seen in their thinking and how often do we see them considering Grayson as anything other than a Manticoran Puppet ? (after all as a MAlign client it would be a puppet state and that's the way they think.)
Grayson has come out of nowhere as far as the long term plans of the MAlign and as a closed feudal society would not have had much insertion of agents in the past. Corruption probably does exist but again before HotQ it would not have been a concern so not a target. As a production center from Manicore Blackbird had to go in Oyster Bay but politically ??? I suspect that apart from Sensor collections almost all MAlign inteligence on Grayson would have been collected via agents in Manicore and filtered through a civilan / Manicore viewpoint.
So yes I could see Colin making some very bad choices where Grayson sensibilities are concerned.
Ab-so-friggin-lutely!
I happened upon the same logic path and shared it elsewhere on the forum. Although you fleshed the concept out much more. Brilliant!
My two-cents, broached elsewhere on the forum, also adds that it should be a lot more difficult to insert an operative on Grayson because they would stick out like a sore thumb. Ditto!
Grayson is a devoutly religious planet. They are extremely faithful and true to Tester's principles. They deeply know and devoutly practice these principles consistently. It would be very difficult for an agent to consistently fake that level of religious knowledge and common enactment, if at all. An agent would immediately screw up royally at a friendly conversation at the coffee pot.
"SAY WHAAAAT?"
"Tester forgive him!"
An agent would come off either as a heretic, or a Masadan agent. At any rate, an agent.
An agent would have to be both well-versed in all Grayson history (including all of the personal history with the Salamander) as well as all of the teachings of Tester. Piled atop knowledge of politics and the government. It is like be an impossible job, except for someone like Honor.
Plus, how to correctly apply those teachings.