Operation Sign of the Dove

Operation Sign of the Dove
Part of Sxiro-Jingdaoese Confrontation
Another "Agent Jonas" before a firing squad
Date 1651–1653 AN Location Western Apollonia, Western Benacia Result Administrative inefficiency. Limited industrial sabotage & ethnic tensions in Jingdao. Dissension in the USSO. War of Lost Brothers Mass executions of all persons named "Jonas".
Belligerents
SANE Imperial Republic of Shireroth	USSO Jingdaoese Empire

Operation Sign of the Dove was a Shirerithian campaign designed to sow doubt and dissension in the Jingdaoese Empire whilst simultaneously encouraging moderate politicians in the Kuominliantang to begin favouring a tentative detente with Shireroth as it focused on asserting control over Benacia and disengaged from its far flung and irrelevant overseas colonies.

Infiltration tactics

The Tegong, a Jingdaoese security service, reputed and feared throughout Micras for its omnipresence and paranoia, represented a formidable obstacle to introducing Shirerithian sleeper agents into the Empire. Most Kildari resistance cells left over from the Jingdaoese takeover of Kildare had been eradicated by the deployment of Obedience Machines and during the course of the subsequent Geming War and Xianbei Defiance. As a consequence there were in no position to assist, the survivors having mostly evacuated to Voltrue in western Benacia in the early 1640s.

One vector however was the policy of Princess Yuling of encouraging Batavians, fleeing the Froyalanish and then Imperial takeover of the old Batavian Kingdom, to flee to Tianhoucheng, the Jingdaoese enclave around the old Batavian capital of 's-Koningenwaarde. It was felt, after 1651 and the expulsion of King Noah from Elwynn, that the Tegong would be overworked trying to weed out Froyalaners disguised as Batavians to pay too close attention to Shirerithians hidden amongst the refugees, especially when their ranks included actual Batavians, and the occasional Kildari recruited from amongst the under utilised community of exiles in Voltrue.