The Engineer and the Echo: Intercepted ISB Memorandum
The ISB doesn’t yet know what it’s looking for. But it’s already looking. This is the first internal record of a failure in narrative containment.
🛰️ New Asset Activated – ISB Agent Bel Drenn
Carolina has finally done it — after years of dreaming, she stepped into the gray and white uniforms of the Imperial Security Bureau. Her character, Bel Drenn, is not just another analyst. She’s a handler, an observer, a gatekeeper of narrative stability in an increasingly unstable Oversector.
Her storyline will intersect with that of Jaseb Chevalier, the first player to operate within the Immalia conflict. But while Jaseb commands boots on the ground, Drenn’s war is fought through signals, silences, and patterns.
She has just received her first technical memorandum — a dossier suggesting that something is moving in the shadows of Bilbringi and Myomar. And with it, she received this message:
Internal Note:
Agent Drenn,This document was forwarded to your unit by direct assignment from the DAEI. Your familiarity with Myomar’s industrial corridors and your sensitivity to insurgent narrative patterns were decisive in your selection.
The analysis contained in this memorandum offers no conclusions — only signals. It is expected that your fieldwork will determine whether we are dealing with tactical noise, or the first emergence of a concealed protocol.
Preliminary intel suggests other infiltration vectors may already be active. Proceed with caution. Your eyes now bear the burden of Imperial uncertainty.
— Section V Oversight, ISB
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Welcome to the Bureau. The shadows are yours to read.
IMPERIAL SECURITY BUREAU – MEMORANDUM
CLASSIFICATION: INTERNAL – ISB/SECTION V-INTERCEPTION
PROTOCOL: ISB-SVINT/N7/089-DEV
COMPILED FOR: Bel Drenn
SUBMITTED BY: Erneeste Ackodi
POSITION: Subanalyst, Sectoral Interception
UNIT: ISB – Sectoral Interception Platform N-7, Ord Varee
DATE: 7 Nelona -5ABY
RECIPIENT: Directorate of Emerging Interstellar Threats (DAEI/ISB)
SUBJECT: Incident Memorandum – Correlation Between Encrypted Traffic in Bilbringi and Local Log in Myomar
I. CONTEXT
During passive monitoring of industrial maintenance channels in sector G-27 of Bilbringi, a partially encrypted data packet was intercepted. The primary digital signature — "Hyres Devik" — has no active match in Imperial databases but appears linked to metadata involving orbital engineering and legacy terminals. The structure of the message and its authentication modulation indicate a deliberate masking attempt, without alignment to known rebel encryption protocols.
Fewer than 18 standard cycles after this interception, a second communication fragment was detected in Myomar, transmitted from a civilian relay terminal located in the lower technical zone. The content exhibits informal tone, lacks technical priority markings, and references a figure identified only as "the engineer", in a context suggestive of coordinated distraction.
II. INTERCEPTED FRAGMENTS
[1] Bilbringi – Partial Log (Fragment 3/9)
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Reactivating Devik is a calculated risk. Old shipyard codes have been adjusted to appear residual. The Anselm Line still converges on Myomar through civilian traffic. The “Engineer” doesn’t know the whole picture — but knows enough to mislead the right eyes.
[2] Myomar – Local Record (Unauthenticated Log)
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They say someone out there is messing with the big flow. If it's true, my signal won’t even make a dent. But if the engineer distracts them, I might pull something off down here.
III. OBSERVATIONS
Both fragments employ technical metaphors and nonstandard semantic structures, with converging vocabulary and compartmentalized communication tone.
The figure of “the engineer” appears in both logs as a narrative device tied to tactical mobilization—though in distinct contexts and with varying levels of formality.
The Myomar fragment originated from a low-priority civilian terminal and shows traces of intentional packet delay and rerouting, suggesting potential manipulation of origin.
The identity "Sel Oren", informally linked to the second transmission, does not appear in any penal, military, or administrative Imperial records. The language suggests individual initiative with undefined ideological alignment.
No direct evidence of coordination between the two transmitters has been found, but structural and temporal similarities suggest a potential axis of indirect influence.
Signed,
Erneeste Ackodi
Subanalyst – Sectoral Interception Platform N-7
ISB – Ord Varee
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