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For the most part intelligence ops are by far more routine and boring that exciting special ops. Most countries have people in other countries just watching and observing open signals (signal analysis).
The new stellaris system does not really support this. An envoy is required to do anything.
I suggest that an envoy be required to initiate contact with a new species, but afterwards normal operations options be allowed to proceed without an envoy. These options ought to be passive, commercial, normal, engaged, and intrusive intelligence operations.
And the Home Team:
The home team has one central counter intelligence team which attempts to counter the above and the spec ops missions. The counter intelligence team has the same options which are applied to each known race but which also have a chance of finding intelligence from other races.
The quiet insertion: one race trait is shadowy... when first contact is made initially it does not occur as the kne race stays hidden... but they can start intelligence ops immediately while the other races does not even know they exist. The shadowy race is discovered only when
The new stellaris system does not really support this. An envoy is required to do anything.
I suggest that an envoy be required to initiate contact with a new species, but afterwards normal operations options be allowed to proceed without an envoy. These options ought to be passive, commercial, normal, engaged, and intrusive intelligence operations.
- Passive: listening posts monitor public communications, summarize the interesting points, and report them.
- Commercial: Passive plus traders are used to engage with the empire to gain a further level of intelligence. Only available where trade agreements exist.
- Normal: Passive + agents on the ground passively looking for opportunities to get more interesting information which is not commonly available.
- Engaged: Normal + agents actively looking to recruit assets and opportunities to get more interesting information which is not commonly available or protected.
- Intrusive: Engaged + agents conducting special ops to acquire intelligence.
And the Home Team:
The home team has one central counter intelligence team which attempts to counter the above and the spec ops missions. The counter intelligence team has the same options which are applied to each known race but which also have a chance of finding intelligence from other races.
The quiet insertion: one race trait is shadowy... when first contact is made initially it does not occur as the kne race stays hidden... but they can start intelligence ops immediately while the other races does not even know they exist. The shadowy race is discovered only when
- They choose to reveal themselves
- One of their planets is discovered and surveyed which does not utilize their shadowy building options.
- Similar stuff to this.