Description Summary
Agents are skilled individuals who use their contacts and abilities to ingratiate themselves with organisations, and engage in diplomatic activities. Some of their actions may be trivial, such as gathering Influence with a faction, while others can be considerably more complex. Depending on this complexity, tasks may involve more, or less, time, effort and risk. Travel time, for example, depends on the distance between the Spacelab Headquarters and the Agent's destination. A task's duration may depend on the faction at which it is targeted; some factions may be more open to receiving Agents, or have fewer restrictions in place, allowing swifter completion. Dynamic Relations can also have an impact, and should be taken into account when assigning tasks to Agents.
A number of legal tasks are available to Agents: Gather Influence or Blueprints, Negotiate Discount, Boost Notoriety, Increase Notoriety, Acquire Equipment, and Special Ships. Other tasks, of more questionable legality, are also possible, including: Hack Station, Steal Equipment or Blueprints, and Sabotage Factory. These bear a risk to the Agent's health if they are caught. Finding and recruiting Agents is not easy. They can only be hired following the completion of risky missions such as Defend Object or Transport Passenger, which are, themselves, hard to come by.
All tasks are arduous, limiting the operational longevity of Agents. Some Agents have higher tolerance levels then others, and may be able to perform more tasks before they burn out. Once their ability to continue in such a high-pressure environment has been exhausted, they will leave the headquarters, usually retiring to their home world with their close kin.
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