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><span class="mu-s">Intelligence and Discussion Phase</span>
The rest of the time not spent on the vote and counting the votes, the period leading up to them certainly... Will be spent on obtaining intelligence and discussion.
Any of you are free to ask any question. In some amount of time you will be told what you currently know, or what can be found out quickly enough. If you can be completely certain about something, you will be told. If you are told it is 50/50, you will be told. 90/10, you will be told. And if you have no idea, you will be told.
You also have the ability to take some kind of action that won't require serious pull from Congress or the President.
>A. Improving a Capability
You could try and improve any of your Capabilities. This could be by removing unqualified or suspicious subordinates, increasing funding, or recruiting new talent. It could be all of the above.
Let's state some of your <span class="mu-s">Capabilities</span>.
Most importantly, you have <span class="mu-s">Internal Affairs</span>. This is your ability to make sure you don't have spies within... whatever this group of senators and policy wonks is supposed to be.
>B. Investigating a sub-compartment of The Machine.
This would be like using Internal Affairs upon one of your capabilities or some agency or group that you recruited or gained the loyalty of, or entrusted with tasks.
Then you have your <span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-b">Intelligence</span></span> Capability.
>C. Investigating or Infiltrating a sub-department of the Executive Department
This would be looking into the USMC, FBI, or DEA for agents or members of the various other factions.
There is also <span class="mu-r"><span class="mu-s">Commanders and Generals</span></span>, who would prevent coups or come down hard on militias or rebellious states.
>D.
You don't have this <span class="mu-s">Capability</span> yet.
There is the <span class="mu-r"><span class="mu-s">Wet Work Teams</span></span> or <span class="mu-g"><span class="mu-s">Tier Two Counter-Terrorist Teams</span>.
>E.
You don't have this <span class="mu-s">Capability</span> yet.
There is that wonderful <span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-r">"Manufactured Consent</span></span> that hippies always complain about. The news reporters could cover something or not cover something, and you certainly could have them tell the truth or a convincing half-truth.
>F.
You don't have this <span class="mu-s">Capability</span> yet.
There is some kind of <span class="mu-s"><span class="mu-b">sociological research system</span></span>. Using it too aggressively could get you accused of being hippies or partisan Democrats, but it would allow you to think of new ideas and proposals, possibly new solutions.</span>
