Post by nocturne on Jul 27, 2012 14:57:35 GMT -5
This is a proposal for addition into the LOCATIONS section.
The Department of Internal Security (DIS)
The Fissure event marked the end of the Great State period of Earth's history. The globalization movement, spurred on by the interconnectivity of information, financial, economic, and trade systems as well as decreasing levels of inter-state violence was facilitated by the technological developments that brought distant areas together: television, radio, internet, and satellite linkages.
When the Fissure broke out, these globalizing systems failed, causing a cascading failure of dependent systems. With the satellite system destroyed, international commerce failed; the destruction of the electronic finance system (bank accounts were largely digitized numbers in electronic servers rather than wealth in vaults) the population was thrown onto their own resources.
Where there were localized attempts to resist the slide into anarchy, on the whole the urban systems of the Western World shattered completely. Nations dissolved into localized city-states; political rulers who had promised solvency were killed and the mob ruled. The Night began; the age of Fissure was at hand.
In New Lancaster (it's previous name lost and destroyed), the remnants of the armed forces rallied around their barracks and bases. Their leaders established martial law, and immediately seized the local Center for Disease Control, shrewdly if cynically recognizing that anyone who controlled the treatment of Manifestation controlled the city. Huge areas of land surrounding the city were seized, and camps established to raise food. Borders were sealed against raiders and rovers of the waste. Slowly, the state stabilized, and political control was eased to civilian masters once more.
The Greater Defense Force of New Lancaster (GDF/NL) is comprised of three elements: the Department of External Defense, which monitors the borders of the New Lancaster region; the Department of Internal Security monitors threats within the city-state (acting as a paramilitary police force and counter-insurgency force), and the Institute, which jealously guards control of the Manifestation Containment therapy. The Institute is largely independent of the GDF/NL, but still administratively falls under their jurisdiction.
The Department of Internal Security, as noted, has several branches. The Constabulatory Force (ConFor) acts as a combined police and fire brigade; they often are first-responders and deal with minor breaches of law. due to the lowered levels of technology, the ConFor is usually not armed with firearms, but has access to some light infantry weaponry. The Paramilitary Force (ParFor) is the heavier force, trained in both special weapons and tactics (SWAT) and counterinsurgeny (COIN) tactics. They have access to some heavier weapons, but all must be jealously guarded due to the finite resources available -- there are no factories churing out new weapons and ammunition. The Inspector Corps (InsCorp, usually known by their nickname of Monitors) acts as both investigative agents and internal security operatives. A small branch, Manifestation Force (ManFor) deals with containment and seizure operations involving manifested individuals, and is the only section with a significant Manifested presence.
Other smaller branches exist, and these boundaries are somewhat elastic due to manning shortages (especially in ManFor operations, which draw heavily on InsCorp and ParFor augmentees). ManFor will also often work in conjunction with Department of Social Work agents, especially when confronting Manifested posessing high degrees of power.
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Comments, questions, thrown tomatoes...
-nocturne
The Department of Internal Security (DIS)
The Fissure event marked the end of the Great State period of Earth's history. The globalization movement, spurred on by the interconnectivity of information, financial, economic, and trade systems as well as decreasing levels of inter-state violence was facilitated by the technological developments that brought distant areas together: television, radio, internet, and satellite linkages.
When the Fissure broke out, these globalizing systems failed, causing a cascading failure of dependent systems. With the satellite system destroyed, international commerce failed; the destruction of the electronic finance system (bank accounts were largely digitized numbers in electronic servers rather than wealth in vaults) the population was thrown onto their own resources.
Where there were localized attempts to resist the slide into anarchy, on the whole the urban systems of the Western World shattered completely. Nations dissolved into localized city-states; political rulers who had promised solvency were killed and the mob ruled. The Night began; the age of Fissure was at hand.
In New Lancaster (it's previous name lost and destroyed), the remnants of the armed forces rallied around their barracks and bases. Their leaders established martial law, and immediately seized the local Center for Disease Control, shrewdly if cynically recognizing that anyone who controlled the treatment of Manifestation controlled the city. Huge areas of land surrounding the city were seized, and camps established to raise food. Borders were sealed against raiders and rovers of the waste. Slowly, the state stabilized, and political control was eased to civilian masters once more.
The Greater Defense Force of New Lancaster (GDF/NL) is comprised of three elements: the Department of External Defense, which monitors the borders of the New Lancaster region; the Department of Internal Security monitors threats within the city-state (acting as a paramilitary police force and counter-insurgency force), and the Institute, which jealously guards control of the Manifestation Containment therapy. The Institute is largely independent of the GDF/NL, but still administratively falls under their jurisdiction.
The Department of Internal Security, as noted, has several branches. The Constabulatory Force (ConFor) acts as a combined police and fire brigade; they often are first-responders and deal with minor breaches of law. due to the lowered levels of technology, the ConFor is usually not armed with firearms, but has access to some light infantry weaponry. The Paramilitary Force (ParFor) is the heavier force, trained in both special weapons and tactics (SWAT) and counterinsurgeny (COIN) tactics. They have access to some heavier weapons, but all must be jealously guarded due to the finite resources available -- there are no factories churing out new weapons and ammunition. The Inspector Corps (InsCorp, usually known by their nickname of Monitors) acts as both investigative agents and internal security operatives. A small branch, Manifestation Force (ManFor) deals with containment and seizure operations involving manifested individuals, and is the only section with a significant Manifested presence.
Other smaller branches exist, and these boundaries are somewhat elastic due to manning shortages (especially in ManFor operations, which draw heavily on InsCorp and ParFor augmentees). ManFor will also often work in conjunction with Department of Social Work agents, especially when confronting Manifested posessing high degrees of power.
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Comments, questions, thrown tomatoes...
-nocturne
