// CLASSIFIED — CLEARANCE LEVEL: CURIOUS //

Department of Inquiry
Operative Onboarding File

Well. You found it. Either someone tipped you off, or you're exactly the kind of person we've been looking for.

The Department of Inquiry doesn't advertise. We don't post on job boards. We don't hand out business cards at Federation galas. We find our people the old-fashioned way — they find us.

You've demonstrated initiative, technical curiosity, and a healthy disregard for staying in the lanes you're told to stay in. That's not a liability. That's a qualification.

Jax Jensen didn't fill out an application either.

// FIELD NOTE FROM HANDLER //

The Federation spans a hundred worlds. Most people spend their entire lives on one. The ones who dig — the ones who pull threads and follow breadcrumbs through server logs and response headers and places they weren't supposed to look — those are the ones who change things.

Stay curious. Read the books. The answers are in there too.

— M.P. Tayle
Handler, Unofficial Division

// BONUS INTEL //

One more thing the thorough among you may appreciate: /humans.txt

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MP Tayle

MP Tayle

MP Tayle (Matthew Taylor) spent years as a Cyber Operations Sergeant in the United States Army, which is a fancy way of saying he knows exactly how technology can go sideways — and loves writing stories about what happens when it does. He's the author of the Jax Jensen Trilogy and writes science fiction and fantasy that's equal parts adventure, heart, and "oh no, that could actually happen."

When not writing, he's rolling dice over Warhammer 40,000, drawing on Procreate, and being bossed around by a Maltipoo who thinks she runs the house.