The Actionator: Issue 1

From the journal of Special Agent Frank Crash:

“Miami. 8/3/86

Siminsky’s goons must have fumbled the transaction. Got messy. The left a flood of blood and motor oil in the boathouse. We believe they’re unaware we placed a tracker on the load. They think they’ll make it to Cuba.”

A fleet of narco-terror submarines charge along a collision course with the Hawaiian Islands.

The only man who can stop them? Special Agent Frank Crash.

The only problem: He’s suspended from duty after that mess with Rukov.

Known only as “Rukov”, this international villain-for-hire conjured up a storm of active measures against American interests abroad in the 80s.

His fate was never confirmed; he may be the one operator in a million        who did net his one last score and disappear on his own terms.  

The newspapers called it “The Sunrise Duel of the International Mercenary Kings.”

On May 5, 1990, rival assassins for hire X.O. Yang and “The Toucan” were sent after one another by dueling transnational criminal groups.

They met on a rooftop in Caracas to battle hand to hand. What happened next is unclear, though various witnesses claimed to see one or both fall.

No further sighting of either was ever confirmed though both were rumored to continue their careers.

In 1988, American super-spy Felix Charger caused a minor incident at Chicago’s O’Hare Airport when he forced his way into an international arms dealer’s private aircraft, neutralized all hostiles aboard, freed three captive women and escaped with $7m worth of luxury watches from the arms dealer’s collection.

Gulf Coast twins, cops, and moonlighting hitmen, The Drucker Brothers were a powerful force on either side of the law in the early and mid-80s.

As Vice officers, they brought down tens of Sandoval Cartel operators. As hired guns, their victim count is unknown.

Their criminal success was sustained in part because, as law enforcement, they were often tasked with investigating their own crimes.

From the journal of Special Agent Frank Crash:

“Cuba. 8/6/86

Broke a couple toes jumping from the speedboat to Rukov’s superyacht. Was able to get his moll and claim a few hundred bags of cash. R escaped again. Still don’t know how he’s doing it. Don’t YET know.”

The international agent of intrigue known as “Madame Serpent’s Eye” was believed to be most active throughout Europe and Asia in the mid 1970s.

Her most notable feats included escaping a police custody by leaping from the London Bridge into a waiting submersible and single-handedly stopping a garda motorcade to free three prisoners in Dublin.

It was rumored that she retired to the West Indies but still accepted the occasional quiet (and lucrative) job.

From the journal of Special Agent Frank Crash:

“Moscow. 8/8/86

The shop sent me a new tool today. No instructions. As far as I can tell it’s a mini-telescope that also fires some kind of projectile. They didn’t tell me what or which end it comes out of. Thanks, guys.”

Millionaire fashion mogul Veronika Malprave successfully landed an Oceania Airliner in 1980 after she and other passengers retook control of the aircraft from Xanojan hijackers.

From the contemporaneous notes of Special Agent Frank Crash. [Date redacted.]

“According to my source, Rukov has four smallpox bombs available to the highest bidder. The auction is tonight on a docked boat somewhere in Valletta. He’ll sell me the name of the harbor for $200k. The name of the boat for another $300k. No guarantees of accuracy.”

British journalist Helena Lorrie was credited with saving 15 lives when she chose to interfere with a robbery/hostage-taking at the Intercontinental Hotel during the Great Athens Flood of ‘95.

American adventurer Banner Western was one of only a handful of survivors when the ocean liner Atalanta wrecked on a previously uncharted archipelago in the Indian Ocean in 1960.

Survivors spent the next six months battling local pirates and ultimately winning control of their radio system which they used to successfully transmit a distress signal that finally led to their rescue.

From the contemporaneous notes of Special Agent Frank Crash. [Date redacted.]

“According to my source, Pietro Pony smokes unfiltered Red Apple Cigarettes. That’ll be useful intel for the shop. Lace them with a little something or just make them go bang real big?”

American adventurer Banner Western survived “The Baja Tornado Riot of ‘61” by moving from improvised shelter to improvised shelter over the course of 12 destructive hours. On foot, he covered 45 miles—AND kept his hat.

American intelligence officer and astronaut Dom Blaylock was the only survivor of the 1979 crash of the secret US space shuttle Argo. The shuttle, unfortunately, came down near Lake Baikal in the USSR. Using only her training, wits and strength, Blaylock traveled 4,000 miles to Alaska where she presented herself to baffled police officers at a local station.

Three high ranking officers of the Silver Turtle Cartel met an inglorious end at a Chinatown lunch counter in New York City when they were ambushed but the Hardknives Brigade—a local militant anti-vice group/cult.

This incident set off the “Five Weeks War of 1970”: a bloody and sustained wave of skirmishes between the two groups.

Eventually, the Hardknives were overwhelmed and exterminated though their founder was rumored to escape to his native city of Mumbai.

The Lithuanian intelligence officer known only as “Coldsnap” is believed to be one of the most accomplished European spies of the 20th Century.

She is credited with developing nearly a dozen agents within the very heart of the Kremlin. According to legend, she was ultimately betrayed by her own spymasters and murdered in the KGB plot known as “Operation Endless Heatwave.”

There are also rumors, however, that she survived and took her own revenge against her former commanding officers.

The public was told SPACE FORCE was founded in 2019. In actuality, SPACE FORCE was first envisioned, proposed and technically founded by secret Founding Fathers Jedidiah Spring and Homer Field at the close of the Revolutionary War.

For all of American history, SPACE FORCE has had some hand in world events and intrigue.

And it remains so today. Sempra Supra.

From the contemporaneous notes of Special Agent Frank Crash. [Date redacted.]

“Rough day at the office. New partner was captured for a second time in as many days. (Silver Turtle Cartel has it out for us—no wonder why after Caracas.)

Kid’s making rookie mistakes. Unfortunately for him this whole game is fueled by the heat of lethal errors. If we get him back, it’ll be my job to screw what’s left of his head on straight.”