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+===Synopsis===
+*Into the command HQ. Blinkenlichten.
+*Fryer is hunched over the taxonomy map. Hare is pushing units around with a stick.
+*Boone back from a routine patrol with news — had to dig a unit of regulatory relations team out of a scrape during routine market enquiry. Hare is fractious, as he went without authorisation.
+*Immediately
+*Boone brings back sample captured communication. They run it through the recombobulation matrix (a roomful of clerks equipped with code-deciphering tools). Nothing.
+===Background===
 For years GCHQ has protected sensitive communications with a carefully calibrated syntactic scrambler code language, meaning vital defensive strategies have been communicated around the various command centres without compromise. Arrayed with sophisticated defensive systems such as prolixity dumps and syntactical contortion arrays — GCHQ has forged an impregnable iron dome of textual impenetrability that has permitted vital communications to take place uninterrupted, un intercepted, in real-time.
 But in recent weeks there has been an upsurge in enemy activity — it is as if they can anticipate our every move. We have had Legal Squad agents getting in all kinds of scrapes and firefights during what should have been routine courier drops.
- Everywhere they turn members of eagles squad find they are losing attritional battle: outline villages of peace-loving legal teams have been captured imprisoned and changed to this monumental unforgiving operational beast. Elsewhere, eagles are being replaced, a la ''body snatchers'' with chatbots.
-Detachments of blade runners track the [[chatbot]] interlopers down and retire them using the Babbage-Turing test, but there is a concern a senior member of Legal Squad may have been ''turned''.
 And at the same time the double-oh command has changed up its own encryption, and the central interpretation units have been struggling to decipher communications. Until now this has been trivial, but suddenly there is a problem.
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 WAIT A MINUTE said Boone. Suddenly, the scales fell from his eyes. Boone realised the overwhelming scale of the challenge that faced the team. “Lines and lines of utter gibberish...That’s... it. That’s exactly it. It’s .... ''GENIUS''”.
-Boone barked into his wristcomm. “Algy! George! Let’s go!”
+Boone barked into his wristcomm. “[[Algy]]! [[Janice]]! Let’s go!”