The Actionator Vol II

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.”

At the height of the Cold War, the old city of Gnotus was cut off from the rest of Europe by a volcanic ash cloud for 47 days.

During that period, western and eastern intelligence agents, trapped together, operated against one another in more open fashion which included aggressions that, according to experts, “would have led to irrevocable actions by the global powers, had they known. At that time, it was truly the Third World War in a city.”

The small and remote European city-state of Gnotus is often overlooked in history, but it played key roles in global affairs throughout the Cold War.

Known as “The Fugitive City”, its complex political makeup made it a boiling pot of spies, criminals and adventurers.

It’s rumored that many foreign crises were both started and resolved in smoky backroom conversations in the taverns, safe houses and hotels of this dangerous and largely lawless micro-country.

In the late 1800s, US Space Force agents evacuated 15,000 islanders from the Param Archipelago before it was destroyed by volcano eruptions intentionally triggered by the mad volcanologist and terrorist Dr. Magma. 

In 1939, US Space Force Guardians infiltrated a rogue robotics black market in the remote European city-state of Gnotus.

Guardians seized an untold quantity of dangerous and uncontrollable technology that had been prepared to be delivered to Central Asia and then the Americas.

It’s not widely known, but a conspiracy of American nation-state adversaries stood up their own counter-Space Force organization at the height of the Cold War which included an experimental cloning program.

When one of their monstrous experiments escaped and caused lethal chaos during the ‘77 Moldovan World Greco-Roman Wrestling Summit, a lone US Space Force Guardian applied some quick thinking to lure and trap the abomination within a burning stadium.

Sempra Supra

American adventure Banner Western lived abroad for a decade in the mid-20th century, spending much of that time in the remote and mysterious European micro city-state of Gnotus.

Locals there credit him with saving hundreds of lives when the entire city was held hostage by terrorists during its centennial holiday.

The once-“closed” city formerly known as Ж-17 straddles a remote patch of territory between Europe and Asia. Despite decades of attempted reforms, only thieves and fools visit this dangerous ramshackle collection of ruins now.

The volunteer police force (known locally as “The Lights”) wear a distinctive orange uniform. It is said that if an officer approaches you, he is as likely as not to rob you himself

Elizabeth PW Malone was a fixture on the 19th century American circus routes. Known as “The Falconista”, she delighted crowds with her falconry and firearms skills.

American folklorists later suggested that The Falconista was more than a performer.

Evidence indicates a formidable female falconer vigilante was active in the region at the time. That roving woman of action is said to have regularly righted wrongs and saved lives with her trusty falcons at her side.

She was known as Phobos: the ninja crime lord of the remote European city-state of Gnotus. While Interpol regarded her as a reclusive and most-wanted villain, there were others rumors too…Some believed she was the alter-ego shared by several regional leaders.

By pooling resources (and loot) and assigning crimes to the “Phobos” persona, such politicians would have diverted attention from their own misdeeds and give the international community a common enemy.

Every summer solstice, the major street gangs of Phoenix and Tucson, Arizona, send their best fighters into the desert for a drug-fueled hand-to-hand battle that determines control of narcotics corridors for the year. It is believed that state law enforcement allows and even participates in the contest.