So, in essence, the Byzant's having this sort of capacity for gathering intelligence.

Yeah.

And almost having like a predecessor like, is it MI6?

That's the foreign one?

In Britain, yeah, yeah.

You know, like CIA, whatever, and gathering intelligence and learning about all these people,

some who are closer to the periphery vampire and some that are distant.

You know, for instance, for instance, it covers a number of depth tribes of sort of long lost memory.

I mean, really, to some degree, even like the Peschenegs, you know, when extinct after the

two battles they fought against Alexios and John Cunanus, you know, we know about the Peson

eggs because of them existing in the Imperial Mnistrando.

So, you know, this is really, you might say the first case of like a real, in an official sense,

as a matter of government policy. As I'd mentioned before, the process that sort of begins

towards the end of, you know, when you sort of had that east-west split under Theodosius,

you know, with Arcadius and Eastern emperors, that the Byzantines cultivate and refine this

mechanism which assist them, you know, both in a diplomatic context and also in a military

context, they sort of learn how to fight against different enemies and they sort of gather

intelligence as to what their enemies might be, what their strengths are. There's an example

whereby I've got a feeling, I got a feeling was against the

Bologars, and I can't remember if they invite the Khomans or the Peschnigs, whoever it was,

and they got too powerful, so they invited the Kiev and Rus to sort of like counter-invade

them, you know, because like, oh, we can't have one em as too powerful on the Danubean frontier.

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