Teletype · Incoming

Intelligence

Signals received at Planet Control and released, after review, to the general public. The review was brief.

SIG-4471

Toronto Station

Routine

First production run cleared for release

The distillery reports the inaugural run of Planet Vodka has cleared quality control in full. Crates are moving east and west simultaneously, which is inefficient, and nobody will admit who authorised it.

SIG-4468

Monte Carlo

Elevated

Agent 00½ requests a fourth vehicle

The third was returned in two pieces and a bag. Transport has proposed issuing a bicycle. Field operations considers this an overreaction. Transport does not.

SIG-4463

Sub-level three

Low

Laboratory freezer temperature dispute continues

Q-Section maintains −18°C is the correct serving temperature. Accounting maintains the power bill is the correct concern. The Director has sided with the freezer.

SIG-4459

Rome

Urgent

Ready-to-drink cans arrive ahead of the agents

The shipment reached the hotel eleven hours before the operatives did. By the time the team arrived, the concierge had a strong opinion about the grapefruit.

SIG-4450

Unknown

Unclassified

Somebody keeps answering the red telephone

It is not a hotline. It has never been a hotline. Staff are asked once more to stop answering it, and once more to stop asking what it is.