BLACK CHAMBER
TURN 150
NOW 09:12 UTC
OPERATIONS 2 / 3
TARGET THE HANSE / you are trying to find out who printed a letterhead
OPERATIONS GATED BY NETWORK DEPTH
There is no spy-power stat and no counter-spy stat. Nothing here converges. Depth says what you can do, Exposure says how much rope is left, Cover says what catches you, and Motive says how your assets fail. Four axes, none comparable to the others.
ACQUISITION / DEPTH 3
EXFILTRATE REGISTRY
Target
Network and cover
Launder through
If attribution succeeds it names the launderer, not necessarily the principal. A Chamber that has routed everything through the same neighbour for sixty turns is counting on exactly that, and has been paying for it the whole time.
What their counterintelligence funds  this is a claim, not a fact
MeasureCatchesSourceAgeState
Financial auditsCommercial coverHUMINT6t2 SOURCES
Press licensingJournalistic coverOSINT2tUNCORROBORATED
Protocol surveillanceDiplomatic coverSIGINT11tCONTESTED
Police operationsCriminal coverNO ASSESSMENT-NEVER COLLECTED
Nobody can afford all eight measures, so a defender is always choosing which covers they are blind to. Reading which measures a target funds is itself worth an operation. The row that says NEVER COLLECTED is the most interesting row on this table, and you do not know whether it is empty because they fund nothing there or because nobody looked.
PRE-FLIGHT TWO ROLLS, NOT ONE
Detectionwill they know it happened--
0100
Attributionwill they learn it was you--
0100
If attribution succeeds, it names
Detection is usually easy and attribution usually fails. These are separate rolls with separate inputs, and the game will never collapse them into one number, because "somebody hit me" and "the Hanse hit me" are different pieces of knowledge and only one of them is worth a war.
Cost
Action points
1 OPERATIONS
Leverage
0
Requires
Depth 3
Dispatch lag
8h
Matures
17:12, executes tonight
Reports back in
3 stages
Exposure
This operation adds 18 to your Lisbon network's Exposure. You cannot see your Lisbon network's Exposure. Your last ASSESS put it in the band 40 to 70 at low confidence, nine turns ago, and if the Hanse is running counter-deception that band is what they wanted you to read.

At Exposure 100 the network is rolled up: assets arrested, Depth to 0, and the target learns your identity with a probability set by how well you laundered. There is no warning before that happens and there is not supposed to be.
EVERY NUMBER ON THE PRE-FLIGHT PANEL IS YOUR OWN ANALYSTS' ESTIMATE, NOT A MEASUREMENT
MOCKUP / STATIC / NOT PRODUCT CODE