IHQ (Target)

A hardened, multi-story concrete command complex capped with antenna arrays and sparse external markings. Characters never enter the facility; they point to its coordinates on maps and military briefings, tracing strike lanes and target boxes. Officers treat the site with clipped urgency and political caution, marking it on strike packages and awaiting battle-damage assessments.

2 appearances

Purpose

Serve as a command-and-control headquarters for an opposing force, concentrating leadership, communications, and operational planning so that disabling it disrupts enemy coordination.

Significance

Acts as the tangible focus for the Pericles One strike order: the named objective that justifies the administration's retaliatory posture, drives urgent security measures, and sharpens political and moral decisions in the room.

Appearances in the Narrative

When this object appears and how it's used

2 moments

S1E3 · A Proportional Response

Fitzwallace Reframes the Charlie Question

The IHQ is named by Leo as one of Pericles One's four military targets; in this event it functions as part of the crisis grammar that raises stakes and explains the urgency of the hiring aside and media lockdown.

Before: Listed on the strike package and briefing maps; a plotted target awaiting execution as part of Pericles One.

After: Still a planned target with execution pending; its mention deepens the urgency but nothing about it changes within this scene.

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S1E3 · A Proportional Response

Pericles One Launched — Lockdown, Optics, and a Staff Fraying

The IHQ is explicitly enumerated by Leo as one of the four military targets of Pericles One; it functions rhetorically to legitimate the strike as focused on military command infrastructure rather than civilian centers, shaping staff and public framing.

Before: A plotted coordinate on planning maps and included in the strike package awaiting execution.

After: Now part of the executed strike list; its mention contributes to the administration's narrative that targets were military in nature while BDA remains pending.

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