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From A Consise Popular History of 21st Century Espionage, by Lara Exquisite

You never thought you'd see the people of over 300 nation-states, colonies and other political entities rise up against the covert operators of their nations, but the excesses of the Great Game became too much for the peoples of the solar system to take by 2007. In that year, MicroSteam Technologies came up with the "No More Secrets" personalized Watt-engine nanobot swarm. It was marketed to jealous spouses, industrial rivals, even kids looking to find gossip on their schoolmates.

The technology couldn't get shut down by the Great Powers, political or industrial, once it was loosed. And that's when certain political parties, opposed to the Great Game being waged on the starliners and in the finest British restaurants of the solar system, took matters into their own hands.

The Ionian Infatada (sic) was born that day. Every covert operator in the solar system was exposed, either to the press or rival governments.

The Ionian movement spent much of the first half of the 21st century working on ways to keep the Great Game off their Zograscope screens. They were infoterrorists, keeping spies and intelligence gatherers from all sides on their toes. They perfected secrecy-busting technologies, regularly publicizing the most important names in all countries' agencies. On one night in 2045, the heirs to the Ionian Infatada (sometimes now called the New Cretan Legion) were able to send nanoswarm-constructed biographies of all the remaining (well, there weren't that many, really) spies in service to all media outlets. I myself, a mere stringer, received 254 M-mails? that very day with dossiers on the spies of 120 different countries. Sordid little buggers, they were.

Soon, aetheric disciplines were to be used in the gathering of intelligence in entirely new and innovative ways?. Me, I kicked back with a fine French beer, and read such interesting facts about the private lives of spies that I had a new novel written in 26 days.

See also: Haut Cuisine Britannica, Morse Mails?, Tesseract Officers?

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