10:00 AM - Safavid Military Airport – Kingdom of Tamora, Empire of Tamora
One of the imams assigned to the base had just finished leading a public payer in the An-12 cargo plane and was now walking on the runway returning to his temple in the military base. Every day an An-12 would leave the base and go the kingdom of Clysperis to one of the joint military bases Tamoran troops had with the Clysperi military. The imam like most on the base had no idea what the plane was carrying and didn’t really bother to think much about it. The kingdom of Clysperis was considered a trusted friend by many in Tamora so such trips did not raise any suspicion.
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A Tamoran An-12 on its route to Clyperis
11:00 AM Tamoran-Clysperis military base
Major Gorazm Kabbha exited the plane and when straight to the helipad where the helicopter was ready to take him as soon as possible to the Khemnen Palace, the seat of Clysperi’s government and state religion. He was due to deliver to Pharaoh Akaska the daily intelligence report from Djerb. The schedule was clear, he has to arrive before 12:00 at the palace so that there would be enough time to get to Pharaoh Akaska by 12:00 should she see him.
Major Kabbha had not read the report as he did not have clearance, all he cared about was his mission which was simple: deliver the report to the Pharaoh, and the Pharaoh only. Should anything suspicious happen during the trip, he was to destroy the report. His custom phone which he carried with him at all times while he was on mission had a special alert that when triggered by Djerb would mean that he would have cancel his trip to the Khemnen Palace, destroy the report and return immediately to Tamora. So far that alert had never been triggered and the daily trips to Clysperis had run without interruption. It did not matter if it was a religious holiday, a civil war or something else. The reports were still delivered even when Clysperis had at times come at odds with Tamora like during the summit meeting for a future Mundus League of Nations or when the Clysperis declined to support Tamora’s joint bid for the Mundus games.
The intelligence reports Djerb provided to Pharaoh Akasha detailed all Tamora’s operations aboard, from Zimalia to Merina and anything in between. Whether it was Tamora’s attempted dealings with the Monarchists in Izhitsa or the support for the Muslim militia in Phuebra, the Pharaoh was informed of them and all the other operations and dealings Tamora had outside its borders. The purpose of the intelligence sharing was to allow Pharaoh Akaska to coordinate efforts with Tamora or at least not engage in operations which would see the two sides endangering the other’s operations but also more importantly it was a sign of that Akasha was part of the highest circle of the Safavid imperial family. In many countries in Mundus, the affairs of state and that of the royal family where separated, in Tamora they were intertwined in a way that it often confused many diplomats outside of MidAranye. Tamora’s intelligence sharing with Pharaoh Akaska remained one of Tamora’s most closely guarded secrets, there was no signed treaty detailing such an arrangement only a verbal agreement between the Abbas and Akasha. In fact the agreement provided that Akasha did not share the info with anyone else in her own government, another arrangement that many outside MidAranye would not understand.
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A page from the intelligence report provided by Djerb to Pharaoh Akaska