I have a new modern espionage game the weekend players would like to do, and found myself trying to piece together the angle I wanted to go for.  The current administration and the foreign policy are decidedly unfriendly to the intelligence community, and my understand from some of my friends left in the industry is that the lawyers are back in charge.

Playing a game fraught with dangers from the oversight committee, and the thick with drama tension caused by getting out your paperwork on time seemed a bit daunting.  So I decided to go with a private intelligence company.  There’s plenty out there, and they’re frequently working on contract for the government — allowing short term missions for the national good, without all the hassle (or support) of government bureaucracy.

So…

VERITAS INTERNATIONAL:  Based in New York and London, Veritas is the brainchild of a CIA and an MI6 officer.  The group utilizes a few small teams of specialists in the field, as well as a cadre of analysts and software experts to provide a number of services to their customers.

The main mission profiles that Veritas will be handling range from dignitary and VIP protection, hostage rescue and negotiation, blackmail and fraud investigations, industrial intelligence gathering, and security consultancy.  Also they can be contracted for short-duration missions by intelligence and military agencies for action in Afghanistan or Iraq, etc…

Characters are just starting to come together, and I’ve yet to pin down the upper management NPCs, but its a good start.