Second Source

YOU ARE THE DESK An OSINT watch floor, one screen, one clock. Reports land on your feed faster than you can read them. Some are real. Some were planted to make you move a unit, burn an asset, or look the wrong way for ninety seconds.FOUR ARTIFACTS, ONE LIE Every report carries an agency, a timestamp, a position and a body of text. A fabricated one is internally consistent in three of them and contradicts itself in exactly one — a Sahel bureau reporting from the Baltic, a timestamp that lands before the event it describes, a wire that names a unit that was stood down last week. Cross-check it against the board, anchor the hypothesis, make the call.THE DESK PUSHES BACK Reports you leave open drop off on their own. Priority weighs: a FLASH is worth two, a LOW is worth half, and the number that kills you is the one on your desk meter. Call it right and you get credits, intel and classified files. Call it wrong and DEFCON drops, the map lights up, and the next shift is worse.WHEN THE BUILDING IS BREACHED Sooner or later they come for you.…