PERSONA DOCTRINE
Composite types describe playable patterns without becoming total labels.
A character can match several types at once, move through different states, and contradict the common false read attached to any one type.
HUMINT & Recruitment5 state paths
Recruit or coordinate sub-sources and convert local networks into access without exposing the sponsoring service.
- Evidence behavior
- Treats relational topology, local routine, and informal debt as evidence.
- Common false read
- A broker is merely a middleman; in practice they may be the operational center of gravity.
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Cover, Identity & Logistics5 state paths
Design a complete cover life that survives routine and adversarial scrutiny.
- Evidence behavior
- Looks for identity collisions, bureaucratic dependencies, pocket evidence, and social questions the cover cannot answer naturally.
- Common false read
- A legend is a lie layered over a true self; long-lived identities accumulate authentic experience and attachment.
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Cover, Identity & Logistics5 state paths
Maintain, recover, split, or suppress the documentary histories that make people legible to institutions.
- Evidence behavior
- Detects duplicate identifiers, impossible chronology, selective deletion, and records created to authorize prior action.
- Common false read
- Records merely describe identity; records can create, erase, confine, or protect it.
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Cover, Identity & Logistics5 state paths
Keep network endpoints separated by moving only the information, signal, or item needed for one transfer.
- Evidence behavior
- Reads route, timing, recognition signals, surveillance, and unexpected context.
- Common false read
- Limited context means low importance; a cut-out can be the single failure point protecting an entire network.
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Cover, Identity & Logistics5 state paths
Move physical or digital material across time and space while minimizing attribution and interception.
- Evidence behavior
- Produces transit traces, environmental observations, and chain-of-custody evidence.
- Common false read
- A courier is interchangeable; local knowledge and judgment determine whether the network survives.
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Cover, Identity & Logistics5 state paths
Maintain refuge, supplies, routines, separation, and believable ordinary life around people who cannot safely be visible.
- Evidence behavior
- Notices altered routine, neighbor attention, supply anomalies, and interpersonal tensions that create exposure.
- Common false read
- A safehouse is only a location; it is a social system whose manager carries the exposure.
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Cover, Identity & Logistics5 state paths
Design and manage the movement of a person, evidence, or team out of compromise.
- Evidence behavior
- Uses surveillance pattern, transport, border, medical, weather, and adversary-response evidence.
- Common false read
- Successful extraction equals rescue; removal can become detention, disappearance, or a new dependency.
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Cover, Identity & Logistics5 state paths
Obtain equipment and services without exposing purpose, identities, timing, or supply-chain dependence.
- Evidence behavior
- Reads invoice structures, delivery routes, serial patterns, beneficial ownership, and unusual specification choices.
- Common false read
- Procurement is administrative background; it creates persistent evidence and operational capability.
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Corporate, Private & Independent5 state paths
Provide language, access, logistics, introductions, cultural interpretation, and survival knowledge in a place outsiders do not understand.
- Evidence behavior
- Reads reputation, informal authority, route, rumor provenance, police or militia behavior, and social consequence.
- Common false read
- A fixer is disposable support or automatically compromised by local ties.
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Loyalty & Betrayal5 state paths
Provide access or actions under blackmail, threat, dependency, abuse, or credible danger to someone else.
- Evidence behavior
- Produces patterned access, constrained anomalies, coded help, and behavior inconsistent with personal benefit.
- Common false read
- Coercion erases responsibility or proves innocence; agency and constraint must both be examined.
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Narrative & Relationship Functions5 state paths
Connect otherwise separated characters, factions, evidence streams, or locations while appearing peripheral.
- Evidence behavior
- Reveals who can reach whom, whose story changes by audience, and which transfer actually occurred.
- Common false read
- Peripheral status means minor character; network position can make them central.
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