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Intelligence Agent

There are well over a million intelligence organisations in the Imperium. Every planet has its own government security agency, even if this is merely a half dozen spies amongst the workers of an agri-world, or an intelligence wing of the police or Planetary Defence Force. Beyond that, the Imperial Guard, Navy, Ministorum and the Adeptus Arbites all have covert divisions, as, of course, has the Inquisition. Many noble houses and corporations also maintain networks for industrial espionage on various levels, often extending as far as assassination of dangerous rivals, using specially trained agents known as ‘cleaners’, even though such activities are usually illegal and often treated extremely seriously by planetary authorities.

It is not unknown for different intelligence agencies, even Imperial ones, to succumb to inter-agency rivalry and launch clandestine wars of assassinations and bombing against one another. The Inquisition looks unkindly on spymasters who send their agents against one another, to the detriment of defending the Imperium.

(Basic) Intelligence Agent – Analyst
The lowest rank in the intelligence services is the analyst. When in the field, analysts gather information, rather than engage in direct action against the agency’s targets. They observe every moment of a target’s life, via methods as simple as rummaging through bins up to tracking them in real-time via orbiting satellites. Back at base, other analysts sift through the data gathered by the field operatives, as well as by permanent surveillance devices and listening posts. They piece together various snippets that could have slipped past an individual field operative’s notice, to build an accurate model of what the agency’s targets are up to, whether they are aliens, heretics, dissidents or even other Imperial organisations.
Advance Scheme	WS	BS	S	T	I	Wp	Sg	Nv	Ld
Analyst	-	-	-	-	2	1	2	-	1
Abilities: Cryptography Literacy – Advanced Use Cogitator				Secret Language – Agency Code Secret Signs – Agency Code 25% chance of Interrogate
Equipment: Cogitator Terminal Codebook				Surveillance and communications equipment (exact nature at GM’s discretion)
Career Exits (Military): Intelligence Agent – Spook	Career Exits (Freelancer): Private Security – Private Eye			Career Exits (Scholar):			Career Exits (Citizen): Law Enforcement – Investigator

(Advanced) Intelligence Agent – Spook
When undercover work is required, the ‘spooks’ are called in. The classic secret agent, these faceless men and women infiltrate targets, posing as fellow dissidents, underworld criminals, prostitutes or even heretics, in order to bring dangerous organisations and individuals down. Spooks will never be recognised for their work, and the only memorial to those who fall in the line of duty is a plaque in a discreet area of their headquarters.
Advance Scheme	WS	BS	S	T	I	Wp	Sg	Nv	Ld
Spook	1	1	-	-	2	2	3	2	1
Abilities: Act Bribery Concealment – Urban Cryptography Disguise Interrogate Intimidate Literacy – Advanced Palm Object				Pick Lock Secret Language – Agency Code Secret Signs – Agency Code Seduction Shadowing Silent Move – Urban Specialist Weapon – Grenade Strike to Stun
Equipment: Laspistol with two power packs One of the following: - Blind grenade - Photon flash flare - Tanglefoot grenade Injector with 6 doses of Stun				False identity papers Disguise and makeup kit (D3 particular costumes, plus accessories) Flak armour vest, worn beneath a non-descript suit Dark sunglasses Photo-contacts
Career Exits (Military): Intelligence Agent – Cleaner Intelligence Agent – Spymaster	Career Exits (Freelancer): Bodyguard – Pro Criminal – Burglar Private Security – Private Eye Shootist – Bounty Hunter Shootist – Hitman			Career Exits (Scholar):			Career Exits (Citizen): Scum - Informant

(Advanced) Intelligence Agent – Cleaner
It is inevitable that, when exposed to the counter-culture of heresy and rebellion that poses the greatest threat to the Imperium’s stability, that some intelligence agents will begin to sympathise. This can lead to laxity of duty or even turning rogue. There is nothing an intelligence organisation fears more than one of its own agents turning against it, so a special breed of agent exists to deal with these threats as and when they occur. The ‘cleaners’ are cold, brutal, but efficient killers, taking no pleasure in their jobs, but showing no remorse. Because of the nature of their work, they trust no one, not even their superiors, and many fall prey to paranoia and become convinced that they too are at risk of being ‘cleaned’. Which is true.
Advance Scheme	WS	BS	S	T	I	Wp	Sg	Nv	Ld
Cleaner	3	5	1	1	2	3	2	3	2
Abilities: Deadeye Shot Disguise Marksman Pick Lock Prepare Poison Scale Sheer Surface Secret Language – Agency Code Secret Signs – Agency Code				Shadowing Silent Move – Urban Set Trap Specialist Weapon – Digital Specialist Weapon – Thrown Specialist Weapon – Grenade Spot Trap
Equipment: One of the following: - Stubber with two clips of 15 Limax bullets and a removable silencer - Needle pistol with two clips of 6 needles, one clip of 6 Bloodfire toxin needles and a power pack - Auto-carbine with two clips of 30 Limax bullets and an integral silencer - Duelling pistol with 8 Limax bullets and an integral silencer - Repeating crossbow with two clips of 6 barbed bolts tipped with bloodfire poison Laspistol with two power packs Injector with 6 doses of Stun Garotte				One of the following: - Blind grenade - Photon flash flare - Tanglefoot grenade Codebook False identity papers Disguise and makeup kit (D3 particular costumes, plus accessories) Flak armour vest, worn beneath a non-descript suit Dark sunglasses Photo-contacts
Career Exits (Military): Intelligence Agent – Spymaster Inquisitorial Ward	Career Exits (Freelancer): Shootist – Hitman			Career Exits (Scholar): Inquisition – Explicator			Career Exits (Citizen):

(Advanced) Intelligence Agent – Spymaster
Sitting at the centre of a web of spies, the spymaster has the resources of an entire intelligence organisation at his command. He can order his enemies to be watched at all time, he can eliminate rivals with his cleaners, and he can plant evidence to bring down even the most pious citizen on charges of heresy. As such, intelligence organisations spend vast amounts of money ensuring that their spymasters are kept happy, and government or Imperial spymasters can often look forward to a respectable title on retirement.
Advance Scheme	WS	BS	S	T	I	Wp	Sg	Nv	Ld
Spymaster	2	2	1	1	3	5	4	3	4
Abilities: Daemon Lore Leader Lightning Reflexes				Literacy – Advanced Spot Trap Step Aside
Equipment: Any civilian or military pistol with two clips of ammunition Photo-contacts Conversion field				One of the following: - Blind grenade - Photon flash flare - Tanglefoot grenade
Career Exits (Military): Adeptus Arbites – Lord Magistrate	Career Exits (Freelancer): Gang – Kingpin			Career Exits (Scholar): Inquisition – Explicator Noble – Baron / Baroness			Career Exits (Citizen):

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