Sec22 In The Emperor's War
The Emperor's War At the beginning of the Emperor's War, Sec22 suffered failure after failure. It was unprepared, organisationally and in resources, for the war. It was assigned to the large-scale internment of enemy aliens to discover spies. The result was the near-collapse of the agency. In response, the government sacked the agency head. He was replaced by the incompetent Brigadier Anthus Hemker, as Acting Director General. Hemker was soon replaced by Danier Fregs, a former Sec20 man, with Hemker as his deputy. With the abandonment of Briddarri invasion plans the internment policy was reversed. This eased pressure on Sec22. The long-standing policy of arresting and executing all enemy agents discovered began to change when several Denic spies offered to defect when captured; before the war, such requests were always turned down. The new Director advocated attempting to "turn" captured agents wherever possible, and use them to mislead enemy intellige