Report - Eyes Only - Director, Republic Intelligence
League Military Forces Review - 81st Infantry
Prepared by Misha Vostok, Assistant to the Director
The 81st Infantry is, nominally, an infantry division of the League of Allied Worlds armed forces. They are officially categorized as a land-based mechanized infantry division operating out of a base on Njord, the second planet in the Vanir system. Their base is built under Mt. Adamson, a peak in the Vanaheim Range on the Northeastern Continent.
Based on a series of six scans conducted from high orbit by a contracted merchant ship, we have ascertained that the base sprawls over the interior of the mountain with no less than three exterior entrances. Based upon comparisons to other League facilities constructed around the same time, we should assume there are more access points than are immediately visible. The base itself is likely powered by the standard League reactor combo of fusion and geothermal.
Of special note was a Mercury-class shuttle that showed up on the fourth orbital pass. The captain of the merchant vessel reported that the shuttle had not shown up on their scans on any previous passes. It remained on their scopes for the fifth pass, moving away from the mountain and gaining altitude, and by the sixth pass, it had achieved orbit and was moving towards a rendezvous with an Aegis-class cruiser (Reportedly, the Ancile) that arrived in orbit roughly an hour after the merchant had. This suggests that the 81st base has the capacity for landing shuttle-sized ships at a minimum. A study of previous League bases suggests that if a base has a shuttle landing area, they almost certainly possess a landing bay for larger ships as well.
Unofficially, we have received reliable reports that the 81st Infantry isn’t an infantry division at all. Rather, that designator is a cover for a League Intelligence force. One that is large enough to be capable of maintaining the cover of a mechanized infantry division.
Based on these reports, as well as further data points assembled by our analysts, we believe that the base on Njord is actually the home of League Intelligence’s Theta Team, colloquially known as Agamemnon.
Given Vanir’s distance from any of the currently relevant frontlines, our analyst’s best projection is that this is one of Director McKenzie’s blacksite units, though one analyst added a comment on their report that bears some additional scrutiny.
Vanir, outside of having two planets that were more or less habitable out of the box, has very little going for it, with one exception: it possesses one of the dozen or so charted subspace corridors. This one connects Vanir to what is listed as a dead system, and as this singular analyst noted, a dead system that is on the short list for possible locations of the League Intelligence base known only as Scylla. This same analyst has also proposed that Scylla is likely to be the internal designation for the ghost site called the Anchorage. As we have yet to confirm that such a facility even exists, it would be premature to consider this secondary proposal.
Furthermore, it bears mentioning at this stage that we have attempted to slip an observation ship into the dead system under discussion. In fact, we have tried three times, and all three times have resulted in an automated emergency drone returning to us with a “ship destroyed” message. If this dead system is Scylla Base, it clearly requires some special, and likely very specific, directions for entry.
Current recommendations:
The base in the Vanir system is too far from any major theater of engagement to be worth any concerted effort to assault, unless situations change.
Director McKenzie has almost certainly placed Agamemnon here for a reason. Given that roughly half of Director McKenzie’s decisions seem to be made based on a system of logic unknown to anyone else, it behooves us to see if there is an element to Agamemnon’s deployment that we are unaware of.
The dead system that shares a subspace corridor with Vanir merits a closer look. Upon the recommendation of the analyst who has proposed that this system is Scylla, a Merit S-class has been dispatched to the heliopause of the system to perform a long distance survey. It is recommended that any further actions be held off until this survey is complete.
Recommend that the analyst in question be promoted to senior analyst and assigned to me for special projects.
Recommend that we seek out any League Navy assets that may know more about Scylla and the ghost site known as the Anchorage. Even if all we learn is that we’re chasing a Dutchman, that’s more than we currently have.
Recommend that we try to establish an asset on the ground on Njord to investigate the base and confirm if it is Agamemnon.
What follows is a series of notations added to a League Intelligence copy of the above document:
I need to see if this analyst Tiresias found has been co-opted by one of Aeneas’ people. Also, remind me to see if I can get Tiresias to stop making such good recommendations to his idiot boss. I know he needs to keep up appearances, but I’d really rather Aeneas not know the route to the Anchorage. Get me someone conversant in current Terran ship speeds to figure out how long it would take a Merit S to reach Scylla. If we can slip an Ares in before they arrive, the Anchorage can run silent for a bit to avoid being obvious. Oh, and let’s reach out to that informant on Njord and see if they’d be willing to lead the Terrans on a wild goose chase before he gives them evidence that the 81st is exactly what it appears to be. He should enjoy that.
TBD. (Optional)