Splinter Cell World Tour, part 1

I had this kinda random idea of going on a world tour, visiting the locations that come up in the Splinter Cell games. For those that don't know Splinter Cell is a game based on very advanced counter terrorism, particularly in the area of cyber terrorism that takes the her around the world using gadgets, stealth and a good ol' fashioned hunting knife to stop the bad guys and save the world in the very near future. The game features a wide variety of locations, some fictional, but all grounded in realism and I thought it might be fun to visit some of these places that I've only heard of from the game and others I already know about but would like to visit anyway.

It'll probably never happen - certainly not soon so I thought I'd post about them in the meantime, so here's the first one:

Fort Meade, Maryland.












I don't think the location of the training missions is explicitly revealed, and I don't think I'd ever be able to get into whatever top secret techno-bunker they used to train Sam Fisher if it ever did exist so I think going to the National Security Agency Headquarters in Fort Meade, Maryland would be the closest thing to that since Third Echelon (the fictional agency Sam works for) are a department of that organization.

I don't know if they give guided tours there or if it's even possible to get past the car park without being shot by spy satellites, but it'd be worth going just to see the place from which one of the most powerful and well equipped agencies in the world runs it's operations. I've always quite fancied a trek to America, but there's a ton of locations to visit on the vast nation it'd be hard to think of which to visit - but this one wouldn't be a bad one to put on the list so I'm thinking this tour might be a good idea, as long as I could squeeze in Central Park and maybe San Diego Comic Con.

There's also a few other American spy based locations on the first game's list and realistically I'd visit them before setting off to anywhere else, but as we're going about this trip virtually so I'll stick to going in chronological order and set out to somewhere interesting next time, but for now I'll leave you with a map of all Fisher's visits so far to give you a hint of where this journey might take us.












Word of the post: Exponential –adjective

1.	of or pertaining to an exponent or exponents.

2.	Mathematics. a. of or pertaining to the constant e. b. (of an equation) having one or more unknown variables in one or more exponents.

–noun

3.	Mathematics. a. the constant e raised to the power equal to a given expression, as e3 x, which is the exponential of 3x. b. any positive constant raised to a power.