Hans Von Trapp
Code Name: Midnight
Public Information
Life is hard. You should know as you have spent the better part of your adult life making it that way for others. You joined the Service when you were 16 years old - you lied about your age as you looked older then you were. You rose quickly up the ranks in the Service through sheer determination and strong will. The fact that you're one of the best at what you do also helps.
You are now the Service Bureau Chief for Germany and run a taut and efficient organization.
Very few people have any idea what you look like - in fact only a handful of individuals in the Service have seen your true face - in fact most operatives in the Service have no idea if you are a man or a woman (although you rarely wear disguises at upper echelon meetings). You normally operate under one disguise or another. Your specialization is breaking and entering and information retrieval. You designed a very special silent jet pack which you will sometimes use to get on the rooftops of a target's home in the dead of night - Midnight, of course - from which you'll usually find a way to the safe and make off with the goods.
Private Information
You've never really regretted anything you've done in the Service until now. You started out with some idealistic notions about saving the world from Communism and chaos and preserving Democracy and all that. Now, you know that things aren't always so black and white. Last month you discovered some secret communiques which prove that someone in the upper echelons of the Service has been selling important secrets to the other side. That someone has also been selling drugs in major urban sprawls in the United States to finance some rather suspect goings on in Iraq. You can't prove the entire conspiracy yet but it looks like your one-time friend and mentor Henry Chaplin is in the middle of the whole thing. You're sorry about this for more reasons than simply betrayal to the Service.
You used to consider Henry as a dear friend and confidante. It pains you that you will have to expose him in front of the Security Council but you have no other alternatives - especially since when you tried to contact Chaplin privately about the entire mess he told you point blank that you were now living on borrowed time and that he would be dispatching assassins to deal with any annoyance you might present. You need to watch your back as you have not yet uncovered all of the members of the conspiracy. One false step may very well lead to your doom.
Goals
Find out who Henry's co-conspirators are and expose them before they can neutralize you. You must not act too rashly though as you may tip your hand too early with no back up. If you miss even one conspirator, your life will be in very great danger. Since you aren't really interested in being the next World Coordinator for the Service, try to make certain that the person selected is the best one for the job.
Copyright 1996 (1998), Brian David Phillips, Ph.D., C.H.
