Editing Agent of the Imperium

{{InfoboxBook2
|name      = Agent of the Imperium
|author    = Marc Miller
|available = FFE, RPGnet
|canon     = Yes
|caption   = A [[Tigress class Dreadnought]], probably on [[High Guard]], perhaps over a [[star]].
|contents  = 
|edition   = 1st
|footnote  = 
|format    = Novel (Hardback) (PDF)
|image     = AOTI-Cover 18-Jan-2019a.jpg
|language  = English
|pages     = 336
|publisher = Far Future Enterprises
|version   = Traveller 5th
|year      = 2015
}}
[[Agent of the Imperium]] is a [[Traveller]] novel of the [[OTU]] [[universe]] telling the story of a secret agent and his efforts to serve and preserve the [[Third Imperium]].
* It is a 2015 Novel by [[Marc Miller]] published by [[FFE]]. A new edition was published by Baen Books in 2020.
 
== Description ([[Specifications]]) ==
[[Agent]]s are specifically tasked with confronting existential threats to the [[Third Imperium]].

===Wafer-tech & Skillsets===
[[Wafer]]s are an electronic storage medium by which the personality of a [[sophont]] may be stored and preserved. A [[sophont]] with an external [[computer-brain interface]], a jack, can insert a [[wafer]] and assume the personality stored on the wafer. Unfortunately, the body that stored the original personality cannot survive the transfer process from a living [[sophont]] mind to a stored [[personality]]. It is a lethal, mortal life-ending process. The [[mind]] lives on in the wafer as a sort of [[infomorph]].

A [[skillset]] is similar to a wafer but far more limited. [[Skillset]]s only store learned skills, not entire [[sophont]] minds. Skillsets are very useful under limited scenarios, but long-term usage leads to brain deterioration. 

Both [[technologies]] remain in use throughout the [[Third Imperium]], but not under  widespread, commonplace usage. Neither [[technology]] is permanent or long-lasting. Wafer personalities and [[skillset]] abilities rarely last for more than thirty days. Both [[technologies]] temporarily overwrite and replace part or the whole of the host mind. Some details of the ''wafer-mind supplementation process'' are still not well understood.

=== The Five Wafer Types ===
There are five kinds of [[wafer]]: each with its own attributes and benefits: (pg. 177) 
{| class="wikitable sortable" 
|+ The Five Wafer Types 
|-
! #
! Role
! Original Host
! Remarks
|-
| 1. 
| Admiral
| Unknown
| Imperial Navy Master Tactician
|-
| 2. 
| Advisor 
| Unknown
| Expert Polymath & Jack of All Trades
|-
| 3.
| Decider
| [[Jonathan Bland]] 
| Master Political Strategist
|-
| 4.
| Negotiator 
| Unknown
| Master Crisis Negotiator
|-
| 5.
| Warlord
| [[Peter Trevor]]
| Imperial Military Master Strategist & Tactician
|-
|}

=== [[Library Data|Library Data Entries]] (Public) ===
# [[Affine]]
# [[Agent]]
# [[Anglic]]
# [[Anguistus]]
# [[Black Ship]]
# [[Central Records of the Quarantine]]
# [[Cranch Crisis]]
# [[Datanet]]
# [[Data Repository]]
# [[Empress Wave]]
# [[Enna Lagash]]
# [[First Imperium]]
# [[Great Imperial Archive]]
# [[Imperial Edict 97]]
# [[Imperial Encyclopediopolis]]
# [[Imperial Moot]]
# [[Imperial Warrant]]
# [[Jonathan Bland]]
# [[Jumpliner]]
# [[Lone Star]]
# [[Niikiik-Luur]]
# [[Peter Trevor]]
# [[Priority Classification]]
# [[Proxy Vote]]
# [[Psionics]]
# [[Psychohistory]]
# [[Quarantine Agency]]
# [[Rebellion]]
# [[Right of Assassination]]
# [[Right of Fleet Control]]
# [[Rule of Man]]
# [[Sapient]]
# [[Secret Imperial Archives]]
# [[Sentient]]
# [[Sophont]]
# [[Starpass]]
# [[Third Imperium]]
# [[ThreeMinCo]]
# [[Traveller Gene]]
# [[Trellian Nerst]]
# [[Viewport]]

=== [[Library Data|Library Data Entries]] (Automated) ===
{{LibraryEntries}}

==== [[Sophont|Selected Sophonts]] ====
# [[Aslan]]
# [[Essaray]]
# [[Humaniti]]
# [[Llellewyloly]]
# [[Plexxan]]
# [[Threep]]

==== [[Technology|Selected Technology]] ====
# [[Angin-wafer]]
# [[Black Globe Generator]]
# [[Chimera]]
# [[Clone]]
# [[Guest]]
# [[Infomorph]]
# [[Jump Drive]]
# [[Natural]]
# [[Offspring]]
# [[Personality Recording]]
# [[Recorded Personality]]
# [[Relict]]
# [[Skillset]]
# [[Transpex]]
# [[Wafer]]
# [[Waferjack]]

==== [[World|Selected Worlds]] ====
# [[Aadkhien (world)]]
# [[Anashakila (world)]]
# [[Ase (world)]]
# [[Beauniture (world)]]
# [[Codsen (world)]]
# [[Crompton (world)]]
# [[Dathsuts (world)]]
# [[Deyis II (world)]]
# [[Ercan (world)]]
# [[Fitl (world)]]
# [[Holex (world)]]
# [[Ion (world)]]
# [[Kanorb (world)]]
# [[Khusgurlu (world)]]
# [[Knabbib (world)]]
# [[Kulabisha (world)]]
# [[Kutubba (world)]]
# [[Lenashuuk (world)]]
# [[Lutyen (world)]]
# [[Maxx (world)]]
# [[Modesta (world)]]
# [[Morii (world)]]
# [[Othsekuu (world)]]
# [[Ploiqu (world)]]
# [[Riid Irman (world)]]
# [[Sakaliin (world)]]
# [[Shudusham (world)]]
# [[Sima (Da 2736) (world)]]
# [[Sima (Li 0315) (world)]]
# [[Sternbach (world)]]
# [[Traak (world)]]
# [[Vland (world)]]
# [[Yirsh Poy (world)]]

== History & Background ([[Dossier]]) ==
Agents are special secret service that replaced the early-Empire [[Quarantine Agency]].
* The [[technologies]] of [[wafertech]] and [[skillset]]s were invented around the [[400]]'s and became an underlying part of the [[Third Imperium]].

=== The Agent's Standing Orders (Revised) ===
Agent Standing Orders (Executive Summary)
# Rule 1. You speak with the voice of the Emperor. Brook no resistance.
# Rule 2. Millions of lives depend on your actions; you may need to spend some of them in the process.
# Rule 3. You act through your team; build it (quickly) by whatever means available.
# Rule 4. Your team is your greatest asset: use them; depend on them.
# Rule 5. You hold the ability to punish and reward; do both.
# Rule 6. Right action requires intelligence. (revised addition)

=== The Three Great Threats ===
[[Enna Lagash]] and the [[Jonathan Bland|Agent]] discuss some of these major threats, existential dangers threatening the interstellar order.
* A [[Zhodani]] lord speaks with the Agent of threats having sensed them using precognitive [[psionics]]. 

{| class="wikitable sortable" 
|+ The Three Great Threats
|-
! #
! Name
! AKA
! Remarks
|-
| 1.
| The Break
| [[Rebellion]] AKA 
[[Collapse]]
| ''The Great Break:'' An Imperial [[Second Civil War]], breaking asunder the [[Third Imperium]].
|-
| 2.
| The Wave
| [[Empress Wave]]
| ''The Wave of Craziness:'' A [[psionic]] effect originating from [[coreward]] that near-lobotomizes [[sophont]]s and is particularly deleterious to [[psion]]s. It also destroys the higher thinking of many [[sophont]]s, often outright slaying them. the wave has murdered billions if not more.  
|-
| 3.
| The Black Ships
| [[Black Ships]]
| ''The Black Ships:'' Strange [[exoform]]s that seem to inhabit deep space ominously.
|-
|}

=== Credits (Primary Sources) ===
{| class="wikitable sortable" 
!colspan="2"| Credits (Primary Sources)
|-
! Credit
! [[Author]]s & Contributors
|-
| [[Author]]
| [[Marc Miller]]
|-
|}

=== External Link/s ===
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== References & Contributors ([[Sources]]) ==
{{Advanced}}
{{Sources
|S1= Novel: [[Far Future Enterprises]] {{T5}} Edition [[Agent of the Imperium]]
|S2= Compiler: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology [[User:Maksim-Smelchak|Maksim-Smelchak]] of the [[Ministry of Science]]
}}
 

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