00 '79 : A campaign idea

Agemegos · 12-12-2012, 06:13 PM

Here's a James Bond 007 campaign idea I'd like to discuss, with a view to refining it. I'm sure I've discussed something like this before, but I can't find the old thread.

• It's late 1979.

• Thatcher has been PM in the UK for about six months.

• The British Secret Intelligence Service has been gutted, like the "Circus" in Smiley's People. The senior staff have mostly been fired, arrested, transferred to 'harmless' positions, or murdered, or have defected.

• Thatcher has appointed a retired field agent to take over as the new Control/C/M: Sir James Bond.

• Bond is rebuilding the SIS by recruiting new agents, field controllers, analysts, and station chiefs from unsullied wells: places that won't have been seeded with moles by the Russians because the SIS never recruited there before. Fleet Street, for instance, or the Bar. He has even recruited new armourers, new combat trainers etc., mostly retired sergeants of the Royal Engineers, Royal Marines, Royal Corps of Signals, Brigade of Gurkhas etc.

• The PCs are new field agents who have been recruited because of extraordinary skills that they developed in unconventional places: Royal Engineers and Royal Commandos NCOs, and that sort. One PC might be an ordinary decent criminal; another a stage magician; or an American private investigator; or a pentathlete; or a foreign correspondent; or a safari guide. They are people the Russians won't have thought to recruit, and they have skills that conventional counter-intelligence types would be expecting.

Was it really Russian moles who were purged from the old SIS? Or Labour Party supporters? Or did the last M try a coup?

12-12-2012, 06:13 PM	#1
Agemegos Join Date: May 2005 Location: Oz	00 '79 : A campaign idea Here's a James Bond 007 campaign idea I'd like to discuss, with a view to refining it. I'm sure I've discussed something like this before, but I can't find the old thread. • It's late 1979. • Thatcher has been PM in the UK for about six months. • The British Secret Intelligence Service has been gutted, like the "Circus" in Smiley's People. The senior staff have mostly been fired, arrested, transferred to 'harmless' positions, or murdered, or have defected. • Thatcher has appointed a retired field agent to take over as the new Control/C/M: Sir James Bond. • Bond is rebuilding the SIS by recruiting new agents, field controllers, analysts, and station chiefs from unsullied wells: places that won't have been seeded with moles by the Russians because the SIS never recruited there before. Fleet Street, for instance, or the Bar. He has even recruited new armourers, new combat trainers etc., mostly retired sergeants of the Royal Engineers, Royal Marines, Royal Corps of Signals, Brigade of Gurkhas etc. • The PCs are new field agents who have been recruited because of extraordinary skills that they developed in unconventional places: Royal Engineers and Royal Commandos NCOs, and that sort. One PC might be an ordinary decent criminal; another a stage magician; or an American private investigator; or a pentathlete; or a foreign correspondent; or a safari guide. They are people the Russians won't have thought to recruit, and they have skills that conventional counter-intelligence types would be expecting. Was it really Russian moles who were purged from the old SIS? Or Labour Party supporters? Or did the last M try a coup? Last edited by Agemegos; 12-12-2012 at 07:51 PM.