The Director of Military Intelligence Windscorpion was kind enough to grant us a short interview after a recent NS Politburo meeting.
US : Windscorpion, can you describe what your role of Director of MI actually entails?
WS : I chair the NS Intelligence Committee and also conduct a number of special operations.
US : Can you elaborate more about these "special operations"?
WS : No.
US : Er, you have said that New Sparta needs to be more proactive, how does intelligence play a role in this?
WS : In the past we have always been reactive, allowing for threats to develop before dealing with them. I want NS to detect these threats at an earlier stage and snuff them out. To do this we need to have stronger intelligence so we can detect them earlier.
US : But some would say there is a tension between yourself and NS+, the ISSF successor.
WS : Tension is not always bad. I can keep NS+ honest. New Sparta needs a bit of tension throughout to keep everyone on their toes.
US : Where is the NS strongest in intelligence? Signals? Data gathering? Humint?
WS : Signal intelligence for sure, we've lagged in humint (though of course that emcompasses many alien species) but there will be greater investment in this area. The galaxy is becoming ever more complicated and dangerous, the effort to keep tabs on what is going on thus will be always becoming a bigger job.
US : You can't go into specifics of course but are you happy with our intelligence efforts with respect to major threats like the Tarbotians?
WS : No i am never happy, things can always get better and they will.
