In Union terminology, an ally is someone sympathetic to the Technocratic cause who has some ideas about who we are and what we do; an RD technoshaman agrees that the internet needs to be protected from corruption might become an ally. [...] This level represents an apparent contradiction to Technocratic protocol because many assets and allies are Reality Deviants of some kind: animated corpses, alien entities, rogue mages, that sort of thing. Technically, we are not supposed to deal with RDs in any friendly way; in a practical sense, though, it’s sometimes in our best interests to have “a friend on the inside,” as it were.