Fond as I am of Eurostar for Paris, if I wanted to get to Marseilles from London, I'd probably end up on a plane.
This was purely a case of the "Indian" secret service providing the transportation and deciding on rail. The reason had to do mainly with, as you said, "slightly lower security."
Also - getting into a competent international black-ops organisation's safe house by shady means sounds risky as well as hard, even if it is your own organisation. I'd have thought that the Company would have some arrangement for emergency key pick-up, given the possibility of agents in trouble needing to use the place at short notice.
The Company isn't actually a black-ops organization, however. It's a world-changing do-gooders' club that hires black-ops personnel. All of the competence at secret operations is in the field, with the hired help. The higher-ups are good at bureaucratic stuff (shell companies, clean funds, false papers, etc.) but haven't a clue about practicalities like locks and keys. Their "safe houses" are just places that said higher-ups' businesses bought and put on a list; the floor safe was doubtless the work of another group of Agents, which is why Chaturvedi didn't warn of it or realize he had the code.
This is part of the challenge in this campaign: Doing risky stuff with backing that's mostly financial.
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This was purely a case of the "Indian" secret service providing the transportation and deciding on rail. The reason had to do mainly with, as you said, "slightly lower security."
Also - getting into a competent international black-ops organisation's safe house by shady means sounds risky as well as hard, even if it is your own organisation. I'd have thought that the Company would have some arrangement for emergency key pick-up, given the possibility of agents in trouble needing to use the place at short notice.
The Company isn't actually a black-ops organization, however. It's a world-changing do-gooders' club that hires black-ops personnel. All of the competence at secret operations is in the field, with the hired help. The higher-ups are good at bureaucratic stuff (shell companies, clean funds, false papers, etc.) but haven't a clue about practicalities like locks and keys. Their "safe houses" are just places that said higher-ups' businesses bought and put on a list; the floor safe was doubtless the work of another group of Agents, which is why Chaturvedi didn't warn of it or realize he had the code.
This is part of the challenge in this campaign: Doing risky stuff with backing that's mostly financial.