Personnel · Eyes only

Agents

Every person recruited into Planet Control receives a number, a code name and a file. Most of the file is redacted. Some of it was redacted by them.

Classified personnel file

Active

Agent 00½

Role
Field operations
Code name
Withheld
Clearance
Surprisingly high
Last seen
Monte Carlo
Weakness
Confidence

Enters a room, assesses the situation instantly and reaches entirely the wrong conclusion. Has never once been informed of this. Survival rate: inexplicable.

Classified personnel file

Active

The Director

Role
Command
Code name
Withheld
Clearance
Total
Last seen
Behind the desk
Weakness
Warm vermouth

Has not smiled since 1947. Regards martini preparation as a matter of greater consequence than nuclear proliferation, and has been proven correct twice.

Classified personnel file

Active

Q-Section

Role
Technical development
Code name
Withheld
Clearance
Level 8
Last seen
Sub-level three
Weakness
The coffee machine

Has built a laser wristwatch, an underwater saloon car and a telephone inside a shoe. Cannot operate the department's coffee machine and refuses to discuss it.

Classified personnel file

Active

Agent Kestrel

Role
Unclear · possibly rival
Code name
Withheld
Clearance
Not ours
Last seen
Everywhere first
Weakness
None identified

Consistently ahead of our own agents. Drinks Planet Vodka, which has created an administrative problem, as staff are formally required to dislike her.

Classified personnel file

Active

Unit Nine

Role
Security detail
Code name
Withheld
Clearance
Level 1
Last seen
Volcanic island
Weakness
Ambiguous orders

Immaculately uniformed and entirely without curiosity. Once painted a runway because the instruction was not clearly a mistake.

Classified personnel file

Active

Station Chief, Toronto

Role
Supply
Code name
Withheld
Clearance
Level 6
Last seen
The distillery
Weakness
Punctuality

Responsible for the production of Planet Vodka itself. The only member of the organisation whose work has never been questioned.

A casino table at night with chips and a martini

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