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How are secrets kept in the real world? The answer from WL, they're not. The modern world is so stuffed with information outlets from 24 hour TV News, streaming videos of private citizens, blog entries like this, and even old fashioned paper mediums. However, secrets can be compartmentalized, each piece revealed and opened up as needed to achieve a certain goal. If I were running the CIA, it would be the most logical way to keep secrecy in a free and open society: compartmentalization, segregation of details, and handles for names (probably that's how it really works right now).

Yes, I am working on bigger things in this story down the road that you guys probably can imagine in a million different ways by how I used overt reference to Turing's contribution to the field of Counter Intelligence (one of the first great Computer Scientist was also the father of Modern Counter-intelligence) and media manipulation. You learn a lot more about Hunter as an underdog, who is willing to compromise his beliefs and ideals, if it means bringing his foes to justice. Hunter is more than just an avenging angel, he's a complex moralist with certain limits that being tested.

You are also meeting Ben Jie Long, or "Benji". No that's not my Chinese name, though I know a few guys named Ben, which ironically is their Chinese name as translated weirdly enough. He's one part me and one part an amalgamation of people I know. Loyalty is a character trait he has in excess; it's a cultural thing as well as a bond that he shares with Hunter and Kevin. If you are wondering, Kevin and Benji do enjoy each others company along with a select group of friends, but Hunter is monogamous.

The scene of the secret exchange between the friends is going to be repeated. I am going to keep this circle small at first, because in reality, you can't start a covert group of counter operatives without time assembling of resources.

I hope the Babylon 5 references aren't boring you either