Oracle's Diplomacy Quotes

“Yes, Camp Vrede.” It was one of the deadliest incidents in the alliance’s fight for peace. The large base was located near the Kuwait, Iraq and Saudi Arabia tri-border, its presence there sanctioned by the three countries, which welcomed its assistance in maintaining the area’s stability. The attack, by insurgents who opposed the alliance’s presence in the region, came in the middle of a heavy desert storm, and the number of dead and injured was high. Donovan remembered the incident clearly, USFID had been one of the agencies put on alert following it. “The United States lost people there, too,” he said. “Fifty-nine were killed there that day.”
― A. Claire Everward, Oracle's Diplomacy

“Could a signal jammer have been used?” The man asking was Admiral James Helios, head of IDSD United States. It was the recent Oracle incident involving his IDSD branch that had brought to their attention the existence, in the hands of the wrong people, of a sophisticated type of jammers one of the applications of which was to conceal the flight path of an aircraft. “No, sir, we don’t believe so. We don’t know much yet about that jammer I’m assuming you’re referring to, how it works, but I believe a jammer would have caused a different type of interference, not what we’re seeing here.”
― A. Claire Everward, Oracle's Diplomacy