The placement of both HAL Surveillance Hubs as well as caches for emergency field provisions is key to providing optimal chances of mission success, particularly in the event of catastrophic temporal incursion / enacting of Theta Protocol.
HUB Locations
Hub locations should be located at or in long-standing and seldom visited locations. For a wireless hub placed to monitor radio / subspace communications monuments with some kind of local protected status are ideal. Wired hubs that tap directly into communications networks should be placed at locations which are difficult or costly for the local population to reach to ensure the locations are undisturbed. Underground or undersea interface points are ideal for terrestrial deployment onto existing communications lines.
Orbital and interplanetary installations can also be used, though installation can be difficult. Many races leave orbital satellites in place for decades, if not centuries, rather than incur the cost of recovery. This makes long-term satellites or unmanned relay stations of particularly good use for installations depending on longevity and isolation.
Emergency Caches
An emergency cache is only be accessed in the event that Temporal Operatives require the provisions inside. Once a cache is used, it will likely be discontinued beyond that point. This is to avoid the location being revealed to the general public and later visited.
Cache Contents
- Durable Currency0
- Solas Tempus Communicator
- General Credentials / Identification
- Medical Supplies
Durable Currencies
Durable currency includes currency with a long width of time for which it can be used normally, the more anonymous the better. Fiat currency such as cash or coin can be used so long as it retains the ability to be used without suspicion for a long period of time, determined by the location and time period in question. In addition precious metals can also be used if they meet the same criteria as well as digital currencies in various forms (such as crypto currencies or digital token currencies).
In addition TEMPCOM will organize and maintain various funds in time periods where deemed appropriate by the head of Temporal Operations. Such funds will be in anonymous form wherever possible with funds placed into securities such as stocks, bonds, and other long term investments. Such investment strategies will be managed by HAL through the Pandoric Interface and agents on the ground to ensure they go unnoticed and remain individually unremarkable. This will also allow identities to be backstopped with financial histories using said funds to lay out convincing financial transactions even when an Operative is not using the identity.
Identification
TEMPCOM will create and maintain cover identities for operatives in the field. Once an identity is used it is then assigned to said individual who used it. Emergency identities are also to be kept open until first use, following the same rule, in any region and time where Solas Tempus has to operate. Identities may be used in appropriate areas and eras given the time period and with what government they were created for. Temporal Operatives assigned identities will keep appropriate documentation for their use within the proper locations and time periods.
Location Selection
All Temporal Operatives will investigate and report new potential locations for new HAL Surveillance Hub installations to expand the Pandoric Interface as well as locations for emergency equipment caches. Locations are to be reported to TEMPCOM operations during mission debrief.
Once potential locations are selected as candidates based on Operative recommendations, they are researched through local history to determine dates of the locations existence, how often it is visited, and other factors. Of particular interest in this phase is determining whether a particularly location will last long enough to be useful. For lower priority locations this can mean seeking out a location which lasts centuries, other high priority locations can be installed for use over a term of decades if those decades are more frequently visited or surveillance is needed.