Operative taxonomy
Intelligence work is not one universal spy class. Field access, source management, analysis, technical collection, liaison, logistics, and counterintelligence divide responsibility across a cell.
Core cell roles
Each role receives different tools, constraints, reporting, and failure modes. The goal is coordinated judgment rather than five interfaces showing the same mission marker.
VR / EMBODIED ACCESS
Maintains cover, enters the environment, handles sources and objects, and collects what remote systems cannot.
INTERFACEOpenXR-compatible headset or supported WebXR browser
DESKTOP / HANDLER
Translates requirements into tasking, manages assets, compartments information, and decides when access is worth the risk.
INTERFACECurrent desktop, console, or browser interface
DESKTOP / ANALYSIS
Fuses multi-source reporting, tests hypotheses, preserves dissent, and turns fragments into decision support.
INTERFACEDesktop or tablet dossier workspace
DESKTOP / TECHNICAL COLLECTION
Operates signals, cyber, surveillance, sensor, imagery, and communications systems that extend the cell’s reach.
INTERFACEDesktop, browser console, or specialized companion interface
MOBILE / SUPPORT & LIAISON
Moves people, information, cover resources, and permissions between compartments, organizations, and operating locations.
INTERFACEMobile, tablet, or browser interface
Collection and analysis disciplines
Disciplines are assigned by requirement, access, authority, risk, and time. Each fragment has its own provenance, latency, signature, and deception vulnerability.
Source recruitment, handling, elicitation, debriefing, liaison reporting, and relationship-based access.
Primary risks: source control, motivation, memory, exposure.Communications, emissions, traffic, telemetry, intercept windows, and cryptologic context inside the game world.
Primary risks: collection signature, spoofing, missing context.Public records, media, commercial data, published research, geolocation, and cross-source verification.
Primary risks: manipulation, recency, provenance, amplification.Server-owned network evidence, infrastructure mapping, digital forensics, malware analysis, and attribution confidence.
Primary risks: false flags, access loss, contaminated evidence.Terrain, routes, facilities, movement, change detection, spatial relationships, and preparation of the environment.
Primary risks: timing, occlusion, deception, interpretation.Capabilities, components, sensor behavior, material traces, system performance, and technical exploitation as fictional mechanics.
Primary risks: sample validity, configuration, extrapolation.Requirement management, source evaluation, competing hypotheses, confidence, dissent, implications, and warning.
Primary risks: confirmation bias, missing alternatives, false precision.Source validation, insider-risk review, deception detection, compartment protection, and damage assessment.
Primary risks: overreaction, internal politics, circular suspicion.Cell coordination
The field operative reports what was observed. The case officer adds source and access context. The technical officer adds collection limits. The analyst tests alternatives. Liaison determines what can be shared. Counterintelligence asks whether the picture was shaped for the cell.
Deep research links
The report archive retains detailed role families, skill matrices, NPC taxonomies, and tradecraft frameworks behind the public role model.
Connected tools and standards
