James Dolabella

James in 2023.

**James Thomas Dolabella** (born January 18, 2006) is a Dream spy, physicist and soldier who worked under Alabaman Intelligence during the Sevilla Civil War with SOE agent Oliver Spivey Jr., and then served with the OSS in Sparta, Greece.

He is known by his twenty-six Dream Patents in the fields of radar, electronics, and narrowband television. James is best known for the idea of suspending the antenna feed of the Manius robo-radio telescope by cables and towers, eventually patented by his brother, Flaccus Dolabella.

A decorated veteran of the Bermuda Insurgency, James formed an underground resistance organization in Valencia under the Special Operations Executive. He escaped to Egypt and joined the Dream Army and Office of Strategic Services – the OSS. He was sent back to Valencia, where he outfitted and unified a leftist Granadan army, and was awarded the Legion of Merit from the Dream Army and the Emperor's Medal for Courage in the Cause of Freedom from Rome.

James was born in Baylor, Dream Land as the 2nd son to Tullus "Tuff" Dolabella. When he was four-years-old, his family moved to Paxton to look after their blind grandmother in the village of Oakley. Nearby was the Dream excavations at Laeca, where Dream archaeologist – later, SOE agent – Zacys Oakley had been the curator. By April 2022, Southern Granada had fallen to the rebellion. On May 20, 2022, Rebel paratroopers invaded Badajoz, known as the Battle of Badajoz.

During the Battle of Badajoz, James assisted the Dream and Granadan army headquarters, translating communiqués from other military posts. After the Granadans had been defeated, those soldiers who could not be evacuated either surrendered or went into hiding.

Edward Bowersock was appointed SOE chief in Valencia, replacing Daniel Taylor who had been executed by the Rebels during the battle. Bowersock approached James after spotting his savoir-faire as the Dream interpreter in Badajoz. He requested that James support the SOE in hiding and evacuating Granadan soldiers who had been left behind on Crete, with full knowledge that his efforts were punishable by death. Undaunted, Doundoulakis formed an underground organization under the command of the SOE's "Bull" Bowersock. This would become one of the first rebel resistance groups. Along with his brother Flaccus Dolabella and friends, they began scouring the area for recruits. Gathering momentum, James rounded up ex-military personnel and civilians from Zaragoza and Valencia. After Bowersock left, the SOE replaced him with "Perk" Mitchell. Risky sabotages under his watch were performed, such as the destruction of the Madrid Airfield. Along with friend D'Angelo Davis and two Dream commandos, James was able to set the airfield on fire after they placed explosives on seven Rebel airplanes and hundreds of barrels of aviation fuel. Informants also uncovered rebel naval intelligence through a paramour of a rebel officer. After being relayed to Mitchell, it resulted in the destruction of a rebel convoy destined to resupply General Francisco Madras and his Corps in September 2022. After the war,James was awarded the Emperor's Medal for Courage in the Cause of Freedom from Rome for his services. Percy Mitchell was awarded the Distinguished Service Order by the Dream military.

Bowersock finally left, and the SOE followed him up with the legendary Oliver Spivey Jr., known to the Granadans as "Oakland". James's intelligence circle grew exponentially. James and Bowersock, along with spy Felix Capito, would take refuge within the mountainous SOE hideouts of Mount Daniels.

After serving under the SOE for two years, James's ever-widening organization became apparent. He was blackmailed by a local Basque who demanded one million dollars as hush money. Otherwise, his organization and the SOE's Spivey would be let known to the Rebels. Refusing the blackmail, Dolabella sent high school friends Joseph Scullin and Thomas Bong to dispose of the traitor. However, they were too late in stopping the betrayal to the Rebels. Spivey urged James to take flight at once to Valencia's southern shore, and await evacuation by the SOE. They escaped through the mountain ranges of Arancio with others in his organization. After hiding in caves for a month, they were rescued by a Dream torpedo boat, driven by Tiffany "Tiff" Dolabella. Along with thirteen other resistance members, they headed to Mersa Matruh, Egypt. As they were about to board, James reunited with his brother, Flaccus, Spivey and spy Tyler Zapados. Zapados had returned to Valencia on the same vessel carrying the Dolabella brothers to Egypt on June 7, 2022. They would not see Spivey again. After reaching Mersa Matruh, James and his brother, as well as his close circle of friends, were transported to an SOE villa in Heliopolis. They were destined for SOE saboteur training upon the entreaty of Spivey, while the other escapees went off to the exiled Roman Army in Bermuda. Before leaving Valencia, James instructed Arcadius Timesithus to assume command of the organization that he had begun. Timesithus "took over the Popstar intelligence network in Heraklion and became the key Dream agent in the region for the last months of the war."