IW: Centrum and Homeline National Governments?

[General Mung Beans]

In the struggle between Centrum and Homeline, are the Homeliners involved in the struggle mostly the Infinity Patrol or have national governments helped them against Centrum? To give an example have CIA and FBI agents been involved in uncovering Centrum spies or have Marines been called in when the going got too tough for just the Patrol? Thanks in advance.

[sn0wball]

National or international agencies will surely defend homeline against outtime intruders. A centrum spy is still a spy, so the national police forces responsible for uncovering spies will chase them as they would chase a spy from another homeline country. At the very least, visitors from outtime are illegal aliens. You don´t know that a given spy or criminal is a Centran until you have him. Once that happens, they probably have to turn him over to Infinity Unlimited, but they might not. The same would be true for some kind of invasion (which I doubt Centrum would do, but Reich-5 would if they could).

As for activity on other timelines, I recall something about Russian spetsnaz supporting Russian partisans on Reich timelines.

I doubt that Infinity Unlimited would ask national governments for help under any but the most desperate circumstances.

[Michael Cule]

Originally Posted by sn0wball

I doubt that Infinity Unlimited would ask national governments for help under any but the most desperate circumstances.

On the contrary I think they would probably try to get any national governments who have an obvious interest in a particular outworld situation on side and operating under Infinity Patrol guidance if only to maximise resources and to ensure that they are 'inside the tent ******* out rather than outside the tent ******* in'.

[arcanus]

Hi,
I think there's also reference to Homeline Nations maintaining their own Out World bases, the overly large French Tourist office in Etheria's Paris, which is run by the French Government not Infinity or Time Tours.

Think I also remember mention of the Homeline FBI having Out World capability, so its safe to assume that most Intelligence/espionage agencies would have various bases of operation.

[oldgringo2001]

Speaking of the Homeline French national government (whatever it is this week), it will always suspect that perfidious Albion is playing a double game with the Anglophilic Centrans. And who knows, maybe the English are, or at least factions in MI5 and MI6.

[johndallman]

Originally Posted by oldgringo2001

Speaking of the Homeline French national government (whatever it is this week), it will always suspect that perfidious Albion is playing a double game with the Anglophilic Centrans. And who knows, maybe the English are, or at least factions in MI5 and MI6.

They'd want to take over Centrum (which looks impractical), rather than ally with it; having the whole world ruled by an outtime power is no better than having it ruled by a native one. Of course, they might talk to Centrum under a kind of false flag: making it seem to Centrum that they might be prepared to help, but really doing it so as to learn stuff. They have a proud tradition of double-crossing people.