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Originally Posted by malloyd
It's not really clear to me what the goal here is (the bit about operatives makes it sound like it's some sort of espionage cover, but what would a credit card network do for that?).
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Credit cards are useful for purchasing stuff. With TL 8+1^ encryption tech, and offshore accounts, you're providing a certain level of untraceability to operatives, even if operatives need dummy cards when overseas. The point is that I don't think you could get away with going through airport security with a suitcase full of cash (for bribes and On Site Procurement), and such a suitcase would inconvenient to carry around anyways. Dummy cards on the other hand, especially if you've got, say a small extra dimensional pocket that can store a few hundred grams of stuff (larger extra-dimensional spaces are possible, but the bigger a space the harder it is to maintain)... The dragon lady is genuinely trying to make the world a better place through having the best minds inventing tech, but there's another organization trying to take over the world by destabilizing governments and recruiting it's own militia, so the dragon lady has to fight on their terms, with covert ops. Think of the dragon lady and her organization as a sort of XCOM that went public as far as being the world leader in peaceful xenotech (Arcanotech, but that's technically xenotech) but not with it's world protection agenda, fighting against an EXALT that has xenotroops and xenoaugmented troops, but no overt alien invasion.