Agent of the Imperium

Agent of the Imperium
A Tigress class Dreadnought, probably on High Guard, perhaps over a star.
Author		Marc Miller
Publisher		Far Future Enterprises
Version		Traveller 5th
Edition		1st
Format		Novel (Hardback) (PDF)
Language		English
Pages		336
Year Published		2015
Canonical		Yes
Available from		FFE, RPGnet

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.

Description (Specifications)

Agents are specifically tasked with confronting existential threats to the Third Imperium.

Wafer-tech & Skillsets

Wafers 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. Skillsets 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 Agent Wafer Types

There are five kinds of agent wafer: each with its own attributes and benefits: (pg. 177)

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 Entries (Public)

1. Affine
2. Agent
3. Angin-wafer
4. Anglic
5. Anguistus
6. Black Globe Generator
7. Black Ship
8. Central Records of the Quarantine
9. Data Repository
10. Enna Lagash
11. Essaray
12. Imperial Encyclopediopolis
13. Infomorph
14. Psionics
15. Quarantine Agency
16. Rebellion
17. Skillset
18. Wafer
19. Waferjack

1. Empress Wave
2. Black Ship
3. Cranch Crisis
4. Imperial Warrant
5. Imperial Edict 97

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History & Background (Dossier)

Agents are special secret service that replaced the early-Empire Quarantine Agency.

• The technologies of wafertech and skillsets 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)

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

The Three Great Threats

Enna Lagash and the 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.

The Three Great Threats

#	Name	AKA	Remarks
1.	The Break	Rebellion	The Great Break: An Imperial Second Civil War, breaking asunder the Third Imperium. The Virus and the Collapse are part of the final phases of the Second Civil War.
2.	The Wave	Empress Wave	The Wave of Craziness: A psionic effect originating from coreward that near-lobotomizes sophonts and is particularly deleterious to psions. It also destroys the higher thinking of many sophonts, often outright slaying them. the wave has murdered billions if not more.
3.	The Black Ships	Black Ships	The Black Ships: Strange exoforms that seem to inhabit deep space ominously, often near stars and planetoid belts.

References & Contributors (Sources)

This list of sources was used by the Traveller Wiki Editorial Team and individual contributors to compose this article. Copyrighted material is used under license from Far Future Enterprises or by permission of the author. The page history lists all of the contributions.

• Novel: Far Future Enterprises Traveller 5th Edition Agent of the Imperium
• Traveller Wiki Editorial Team
• Author & Contributor: Lord (Marquis) and Master of Sophontology Maksim-Smelchak of the Ministry of Science