Everywhere they turn members of Eagle Squad find they are losing attritional battle: outlying villages of peace-loving legal eagles, starlings and so forth 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.
Internal audit are like a elite group of trackers who can trace and follow anything in the organisation based on its formal structure. They are like Tonto. Oppo discovers their weakness to be that they cannot see anything unexpected.
Opco is called to a situation where a detachment of legal eagles are cornered, fighting their way out a narrow canyon. The commanding officer insight you is struggling colon he has tried a precedent formation, but none of his men have any experience in similar situations.
“All right, chaps:we are going to have to escalate our way out of this.”
The men dubiously looked up the sheer, smooth rockface.
“Piggy, Blighter: you prepare the first pitch. We will need a group of stakeholders. Form a working group. We’re going up.”
Piggy and brighter with a strong men of the unit. They did not shirk from their task and before long I hammering stakeholders into whatever fishes they could find in the wall of sheer verbiage
“it is dense, sir, but we can do this.”
After an hour or two men had made it 50 m up the face and completed the first pitch of the escalation. The rest of the unit scrambled nimbly up the road Perth they had created.
The next pitch was a horizontal traverse for some 70 metres.
Hare had the men pull up the rope after them. “We’ll need it for further escalations, lads. And besides, we don’t want any of those IA blighters following us. Safety first,” he said, tapping his nose. It’s all about plausible deniability here.”
Jiffy, prepare some slides outlining the business case. Tatts; prepare a briefing for the joint chiefs.
Piggy said, “the stakeholders are occupied, sir. We can’t reach them.”
Tatts said, “sir the supply line to the joint chiefs is cut off. There is no signal.”
Lieutenant Hare of eagle squad is under enormous pressure to deliver. Resentful as overlooked and publicly humiliated by Carpenter, who plainly does not rate him.
Had opportunity to
in previous
Falling behind on his quota
Takes to drinking cool aid — starts to feel addicted. Winds up going to alpha dens surreptitiously
Walks into an alpha den