Post by Zarkana on Oct 15, 2012 18:04:05 GMT -5
Faction Name: SPECTRE (Special Executive for Counter-Intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion)
Faction Purpose: An organization focused on instigating conflict as a means to gain power and wealth. They offer their services to both sides in a conflict as a means to undermine the opposing sides efforts, in order to cause them to exhaust themselves. This is to ensure that in the end they are vulnerable when SPECTRE seizes power. They accomplish this though the use of four branches, each with a specialty that is used to further the goals of SPECTRE as a whole.
These branches are Counter-Intelligence, used to deceive and plant evidence against the opposing factors in a conflict, thus causing both sides to take action according to misleading information, further exhausting their own power and weakening them.
Terrorism, used as a means to turn the people against the government, and to weaken the government itself. This is accomplished through acts of terror which will turn the people into the arms of SPECTRE and to bring about the rise of those whom would be more favorable to SPECTRE than the current government, thus using terrorism as a means to put into power a puppet government.
Revenge, acted in the desires of those politicians whom would seek to support SPECTRE provided that their own desires are met, often after the removal of a rival or those that would threaten the client. It is a proven and necessary action that SPECTRE is willing to take on behalf of its clients in order to ensure that its wealth and power grows.
Extortion, using the information gathered from all other branches of SPECTRE, it then uses that same information as a means to keep those that they have put into power under the thumb of SPECTRE. For if any of the information should come into the right hands, it would greatly reduce those in power and remove them for another SPECTRE backed agent to take their place. This is also used as a means of revenue, using it to extort vast amounts of credits from other worlds through the threat and following proof should they refuse to give into the demands.
Faction Planet: Umgul
Financial wealth: The wealth of SPECTRE is considerable, with various means of increasing it, all of which are covered through shell companies and other small facades to insure that it is not traced back to SPECTRE.
Aglari Banking is the facade which SPECTRE is protected by, which is a large bank on the planet of Umgul, the capital of which to start it comes mainly from the inheritance of Irwaen Aglari, the founder of SPECTRE. The bank is used as a means to launder the organizations credits, as well as using a portion of what it earns though its other ventures, as loans to the normal everyday people, as well as appearing to aid refugees whom are often turned to unknowingly work for SPECTRE. Aglari Banking also makes a pretty penny on large loans, which are often given to poorer Outer Rim territories whom are often given a payment plan, though most of the time SPECTRE retains enough debt from the planet to keep them under their thumb.
SPECTRE has a small stake in the spice operations of the Outer Rim, using smugglers hired through the means of a third party to either smuggle or steal spice for SPECTRE which is then sold at a higher profit to those organizations and other spice users as a higher marked up price, making a larger profit by creating a shortage by intercepting other spice smuggling vessels or shipments.
Consulting Fees are often charged to Outer Rim worlds that SPECTRE offers their services too, with these fees often being for simple security oversight, security personnel training and at times funds provided from SPECTRE through Aglari Banking to help after a disaster. These fees can range in their pricing and often ensures that those SPECTRE have decided to work with remain under their thumb, looking to them in the future for further consultations or loans.
SPECTRE also profits through their regular line of work which is Counter-Intelligence, often selling secrets to one side or another, though more likely to both sides. Terrorism as a means to get what they want, often they fund terrorist groups and receive a cut of the resulting profits, or a stake in a new government when it comes to revolutionary groups. Revenge, which sees SPECTRE paid to eliminate a specific target, which not only earns them credits, it also sees them paid with the soul of those that hired them. Extortion, using the information gathered from all the listed actions above to see that credits and contracts continue to flow through SPECTRE, ensuring that their power base and wealth continue to grow.
Military assets: SPECTRE maintains a minimal amount of military personnel, these usually being the guards that protect the Aglari Bank on Umgul, as well as small local security forces that are hired on a case by case basis by those SPECTRE operatives in the area to ensure that their privacy and plans are not disturbed.
Aglari Bank is home to a small group of well armed security guards that are trained to prevent any type of bank robbery. These guards are also ordered to shot on sight any person(s) that are attempting to steal from the bank, keeping the facade that they are doing so to protect the people's money while in reality they are doing so to protect SPECTRE's wealth in the vaults. The security guards watch the bank in three shifts with a small contingent of guards always on alert to take action at anytime.
Security Guards: 50 Trained Personnel
Spice Operations are over watched by the smugglers whom are hired on a case by case basis, however they also retain their own smugglers on retainer that are ready to take action at a given notice. These vessels also staff a small group of security, usually to fend off boarding from smaller pirate groups as a means to protect SPECTRE's spice and the credits that it could bring to the organization.
Smugglers: 5 - 10
Security Personnel: 20 - 100 {4 per vessels per case}
During the operations involved by SPECTRE offering consultations to Outer Rim worlds, they usually send an operative, at times one of the sixteen lieutenants, unless other wise stated or ordered by either number one or the four captains below. These consultation operatives are therefore guarded by their own security of personal bodyguards.
Consultation Operatives: 16
Bodyguards: 64 Trained Personnel
Counter-Intelligence can be considered the creme de la creme of SPECTRE, with their operatives and personnel in this branch serving all over the galaxy in the most important and vital role of information gathering, misleading and information planting, thus making it easier for SPECTRE to seize control and power from those weakened by their counter intelligence operations.
Operatives: 60
Basic Counter-Intelligence Personnel: 500
Terrorism is a large part of SPECTRE operations, with this group contributing its fair share of credits that they receive from their actions. They are therefore funded well by SPECTRE and the best is always expected of their personnel whom are trained and continue to spend countless hours of training to ensure that their skills are always at their peak. These operatives are therefore always watched closely to ensure that not a single one is lacking, with those whom do fail expected to forfeit their lives.
Terrorist: 100 {divided into 25 cells of four personnel each}
Revenge, a dirty business not to be dealt with in simple absolutes, and only to be handled by those whom have no problem getting their hands dirty. Officially those whom work in this branch of SPECTRE have an average life expectancy of only five years when they first join, with even fewer making it pass that point due from either capture and their following suicide or from death due to their own failure. While their numbers are small, they are the best trained of the SPECTRE operatives, and only drawn from the best assassins that the SPECTRE organization can indoctrinate into their ranks.
Assassins: 24
Indoctrination Operatives: 10
Extortion is handled by only those skilled enough to carry through with it, though when it comes to larger cases of such it is often directly dealt with by one of the SPECTRE cabinet members whom formulate the plan which will result in the acquisition of the information used to extort credits or power from the target. Those few operatives outside of the cabinet that are trusted with this task are only the best members drawn from the Counter-Intelligence branch to ensure the success of these operations, making them few in number.
Operatives: 20
Total Personnel: 890 - 975 Personnel {Including 21 cabinet members}
Vessels: SPECTRE maintains a small design and development branch that oversees the development of technology including vessels. As such SPECTRE has only a limited fleet capacity, which is usually lead to nothing more than simple yachts in use by the SPECTRE cabinet, or shuttles hired by their personnel as transport, with the vessels piloted by the smugglers kept on retainer being added to the limited fleet of ships.
Vessel Numbers: 5 - 25 {Yachts, Shuttles, Freighters}
Form of Government: SPECTRE is lead more by a family like structure than an actual form of government. At the head of the organization is the cabinet, the twenty-one primary personnel whom lead SPECTRE and watch over the branches of their operation and decide the future and direction that SPECTRE will take.
Number One: The head of SPECTRE, her name is Irwaen Aglari, the founder and leader of the original organization which soon evolved into SPECTRE. She makes all the final decisions of the organization and will not tolerate any of the operatives or personnel stealing from SPECTRE.
Numbers Two through Five: Considered the Captains of SPECTRE, they are under the direct command of Number One, with a clear line of succession. They are the ones that are in command of the four main branches dedicated to SPECTRE's work. With each captain being placed in charge of the branch with which they have the most expertise to ensure efficiency and success.
Numbers Six through Twenty-One: Considered the Lieutenants of SPECTRE, they each fall under the command of one captain, with their branch and captain being dictated by their expertise. For each captain there are four lieutenants that fall under their command, whom are thus in turn charged with the operations and guidance of the branch to ensure efficiency and success in the endeavors in which they are placed.
Other Personnel: Theses are the personnel of SPECTRE whom are not members of the cabinet, however they have a chance at being elevated to that status. These are the everyday workers of SPECTRE, which do the leg work behind the cabinet and are considered the true creators of wealth for the organization.
Operatives: Highly trained members dedicated to a single branch, they are those whom are sent out to oversee field operations and ensure their success. They can be likened to Sergeants under the command of the SPECTRE lieutenants. These include the Assassins of the Revenge branch and the Smugglers that SPECTRE keeps on retainer.
Security Personnel: This group covers both the Security Personnel on local sites as well as the Aglari Bank on Umgul, and the bodyguards that are often at times seen with operatives or cabinet members. They oversee all needed security and take all actions to ensure the security of their charges.
Basic Personnel: The menial job workers, those whom keep SPECTRE running. There is no glory in their work, just their success and their chances of being elevated from their status as a simple worker. They are the ones whom provide the information that is acted upon by the Operatives of the branches, and are thus considered the most important members of SPECTRE.
Faction History: The organization was originally founded by Irwaen Aglari, which was initially named SOAR (Special Operations of Acquisitions and Revenge) as a means to take her revenge on the person whom she deemed as the one responsible for the death of her mother. Using the organization as a silent buyer, SOAR purchased the hotel in which her mother had previously worked, pushing out the previous owner whom would later throw himself from the penthouse suite, thus providing the revenge that she had so sought after. At that time Irwaen no longer had a reason to need SOAR around, and was already toying with the thought of dismembering the organization all together. This thought however was stopped when she realized that SOAR could be used to operate as a means to keep her public finances and black market deals separate, providing to her two fronts of business, at which point SOAR was transformed into BAD (Blackmarket Acquisitions and Deals) which was used to further Irwaen's already large fortune.
Using BAD as a means to keep her less than legal deals under the table and hidden, she soon began to branch out into other areas to further her reach, this would further cause her organization to evolve to continue to keep up with the ever changing face of the black market and criminal enterprises as a whole. Seeking to keep up, the organization changed its face in which it began to fund revolutionary forces, thus evolving itself into FIRE (Financial Interest of Revolutionary Entities.) This provided revolutionary groups with a means to fund their wars, while also giving Irwaen and her organization power which they continued to seek after, as well as the ever so important credit. By the end however Irwaen learned that someone within FIRE was beginning to steal from her, as well as sell information to planetary governments which were fighting against the revolutionary groups that FIRE was financing. Seeing the possible repercussions that could be brought back to her, Irwaen had FIRE purged of all personnel whom she didnt trust completely, which left very few in the organization.
Packing up what was left of FIRE, it was for all intents and purposes dissolved and broken. Irwaen relocated herself, along with her fortune to the quiet planet of Umgul, a world where she would be able to remain inconspicuous from those that had been pointed towards FIRE. On Umgul Irwaen began to grow restless, and another opportunity presented itself to her, in the form of a bank that was going under. Shoring it up with her own inheritance and vast fortune, she changed the name of the bank to Aglari Banking, and began to offer loans to refugees and big name companies. These loans for the most part were a means to launder money for the clients of less than legal practices all of which was done for a nominal fee.
It was during this banking enterprise that the idea presented itself to Irwaen once more, whom revived FIRE under a new name and formation, which would result in its final conclusion when it formed as SPECTRE, the Special Executive for Counter-Intelligence, Terrorism, Revenge and Extortion. The organization was drastically changed and differed from the previous ones which Irwaen headed, now with a more strict set of rules which were to be followed, including the immediate death of those members whom either stole from SPECTRE or failed in their duties to the organization. With Algari Banking as a front for SPECTRE, it was able to grow in strength, however there is still much growth for it to gain, with many opportunities for it to stretch out across the galaxy.
Members:
- Number 1 - Irwaen Aglari - Commander of SPECTRE
- Number 10 - Carja Jinn - Lieutenant of SPECTRE Terrorism Branch
- Wyoming - SPECTRE R&D Technological Operative
