A.The world and its language
World glossary
13- ADVANCED COGNITIVE MANOEUVRES
- Highly dubious abilities alleged to allow operants to bend material reality to their conscious will. Treated sceptically by most operants.
- ASSETS
- An unofficial agent of an intelligence service, typically recruited by operants for in- theatre work. Knows very little of the big picture.
- ASTRAL DOOR
- Operant’s term of art for a dead- drop, used to pass sensitive material without risking face-to-face meetings.
- CONTROLLER
- An operant’s desk-bound supervisor/support liaison. Knows most of the big picture.
- DOUBLE
- An operant’s partner in- theatre. One double typically plays the role of ‘lead’.
- IN-THEATRE
- The zone of action where an operant is working. NEVER ‘in the field’.
- INTELLIGENCE
- What spies gather and trade. Sometimes ‘information’ or ‘material’, but NEVER ‘intel’ or ‘lore’.
- NULL PERSONA
- A former spy declared a traitor, never to be spoken of or interacted with.
- OPERANT
- A spy working for an intelligence service. Knows some of the big picture. Employs assets for their in-theatre work. NEVER ‘operative’ or ‘agent’.
- PUMP-AND-DUMP
- Operant’s term of art for ‘blackmail’.
- REMEMBRANCER
- Desk-bound operants who comb through collected intelligence.
- STAGECRAFT
- Term of art used by operants for their sources, methods, and tactics. Good stagecraft keeps you from getting killed.
- ZERO OUT
- Operant’s term of art for ‘eliminate’ or ‘kill’. Operants or assets who’ve been killed are said to have been ‘zeroed out’.