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The Doclopedia #22
Places That Don’t Stay In One Place: The HMS Vagabond
Thanks to Weird Science and a large budget, the HMS Vagabond is the pride of the Royal Navy…or would be, if anyone outside of a very few knew about it. Instead, it is England’s top secret headquarters for all things espionage related. Oh sure, other countries know about the various spy organizations to be found scattered over the U.K., but those places are all either fakes or very low tier support. No, the Vagabond is where the action is.
Slightly smaller than a Nimitz class aircraft carrier, the Vagabond can change to resemble any number of large surface ships or it can just submerge submarine style. It can generate a fog bank, is stealth capable and appears to sonar as a large pod of whales. Rumors that it can also become airborne are probably false, but with Weird Science, you never know.
The permanent crew stands at 3,500, but the ship can hold another 3,000 people comfortably. Every aspect of training and supporting British agents can be found here, although Q Branch does most of it’s R&D in remote land based facilities. The crew gets rotated out every 18 months and undergoes a mindwipe before leaving the ship. Most of them then believe that they have been working on various oceanographic ships.
Access to the ship can be via helicopter, submarine or surface craft. On board, the security levels increase as you go down, with the lowest decks being so secure that fewer than 100 people in the world can be admitted. This is where you’ll find the enigmatic “M”, who is, in fact, 3 men who share a single mind. Only one is ever on the Vagabond, with the second being back in London and the third at the British embassy in Washington, DC.
Just in case the Vagabond is ever discovered, it has a dizzying array of weapons with which to defend itself. Most are conventional, but the Weird Scientists have also armed it with Temporal Displacement Beams, Moron Gas and a Shrink Ray.
The Vagabond has no set course and eventually visits every ocean and sea on Earth.
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