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Morrdh wrote:Well, thats the Commonwealth Intelligence Service now fully detailed.

The Commonwealth Intelligence Service has the important job of protecting the Commonwealth from Internal and external threats. This effectively includes every other nation in the Commonwealth's home region and beyond. There are several departments divided to different tasks. Below you will find the fully detailed description of the most important of these departments, their work and the CIS as a whole.

CIS - The World of Secret Agents

The CIS is effectively the Commonwealth's intelligence agency, though the Ministry of Defence has the Defence Intelligence Staff to provide military intelligence to the Morridane Armed Forces and the Royal Reconnaissance Service exists as a separate agency tasked with gathering information.

Though the CIS' main concern is espionage, it also deals with high level crime and for the most part comes under the responsibility of the Morridane Home Office. The foreign section of the CIS is answerable to the Morridane Foreign Secretary, thankfully there hasn't been much in the way of conflict of interests.

Departments of the C.I.S.

The CIS is divided into numbered sections typically long the lines of Commonwealth Intelligence, Section 2, abbreviated to CI2. Each department is divided up into sub-sections and sometimes further divided into 'desks' depending upon it's role.

CI1 - Headquarters

This is not a real department, but more a name for the headquarters. All of the staff employed at the headquarters is said to work for CI1. The headquarters is located in Morrdun and consists of 75 floors. 20 of them are above ground and are the organisation’s face towards the world. Three of the floors are totally dedicated to a division of soldiers, guarding the rest of the building. Its here Sir Charles Loughton, in CIS code more known as “M”, has his office. He has the executive power over all of the departments, even though much of the real power leis in the hands of the different department chefs.

CI2 - Personal Security

This department takes care of guarding important people in the Commonwealth. They provide bodyguards for the nobles, high ranking military officers or any other important member. They also serve as the main core of men guarding the CIS’ offices around the world.

In the field they work in groups of five. Two close to the target and the others keeping their eyes open from a distant. Of course they can increase the number of agents to fit the “danger-level” their targets live in. For example, when Major-General Sir Willbert Murdoch decides to go on a vacation, no less then 50 agents constantly guard him.

The operating agents prefer costumes and lighter weapons before heavier outfits. Only in the case of obvious danger, they choose bigger guns. An ordinary agent wears a nice costume with a bullet-proof west under the shirt.

CI3 - Domestic Section

This department works to investigate and stop organised crime within the Commonwealth. Although they are known to sponsor the same in other nations. The department is strongly divided between the operating agents and the investigating. The largest group of men and women work for the investigation. They are mapping the organisations that deal in crime, trying to seek out important cover businesses and key persons. Then they figure out what measures the department should take. After that it is up to the field agents to make it happen.

The field agents come in many different shapes. Some of them can work undercover for years trying to infiltrate the Mafia, others act just like ordinary police, but with more authority. The department also have its own swat-team, called “Ironfist”, to call in at extraordinary situations. This team is the most effective weapon the Commonwealth has against urban terrorism at this point. The team is always equipped with the latest and best wargear the Commonwealth can muster. You can be sure to find one team of these agents in every big city were the Commonwealth has influence.

CI3 is divided up into a number of subsections.

  • CI3a: Morrdun

  • CI3b: New Anglia

  • CI3c: New Lincolnshire

  • CI3d: Northern Morrdh

  • CI3e: Gwentia

  • CI3f: South-West Territory

  • CI3g: Rionese Isles

  • CI3h: Tactical Response Unit "Ironfist"

CI4 - Internal Revision

CI4 is one of the most feared departments by CIS' agents themselves. CI4’s task is to investigate all crimes committed by people within CIS. The agents working on CI4 have the right to interrogate and arrest all other agents in the CIS. It is said that the real power over CIS is to be found in Sir Johnathan D Smyth, a CIS code “G”, the commander of CI4. He is the one who really has the power over the rest of the organisation. This is due to his power of authority to put any other agent under investigation, and there are not many men without a skeleton in the closet these days. JD Smythe is in the possession of more secrets about the CIS' employees then any other man. Now you figure it out…

CI5 - Counter-Espionage

CI5 deals with the dirt business of counter-espionage. They are trying to stay one step ahead of the spies working for other nations on Commonwealth territory. This is a tricky work trying to outsmart each other on the field. Often it results in lone agents going head to head with the competing spies.

The department consists mostly of people gathering information and tips, then trying to puzzle them together. But there are also agents out in the fields. They work directly at the government departments or facilities they protect, trying to prevent espionage at the spot. This is in some cases done undercover, but in the most cases they work in the open, trying to prevent the espionage with their mere presence.

CI6 - Foreign Section

The liaison department for the Morridane Foreign Office, it is also the department that the intelligence agencies of friendly/allied nations deal with. Its staff can be found at almost every Commonwealth consulate and embassy.

CI7 - Sabotage and Espionage

This department is divided in three groups: coordinators, spies and sabotage personnel.

The coordinators work from home, leading the field agents in the collection of information. They do all the paperwork and support the agents with the necessary equipment.

The spies work undercover deep in enemy territory (includes occupied territory). Perhaps they are employees on a factory or a white-collar worker at an important department. They are supported by all of CI19's little gadgets in the nerve wracking war against detection and counterespionage. The sabotage teams also works differently depending on the specific situation. Sometimes they work in heavily armed groups, blowing up whole facilities. Other times one lone agent can break into his boss’s office and torch the place. Most of the time though, stealth and quietness is preferred before armed groups, which is more of the army way to act.

CI8 - Serial Killers

This department is wholly dedicated to tracking down serial killers. Its agents often work quite closely with the Criminal Investigation Department detectives of local police forces, though sometimes they're not always welcomed. It's a heavy work trying to catch these criminals. Many times the crime scenes are brutal and the intricate messages often left by the murderer must be solved even if they are written with carvings in human flesh. The Agents who work for CI8 are renowned for their heartless efficiency. Where others wouldn't dare go, they just work on investigating every possibility. It’s not that they don't care, they are just so hardened after many years of work that they think they have seen it all. Almost nothing can make them break.

CI9 - Mordent Section

Concerns itself with intelligence operations in the Commonwealth Territory of Mordent (now West Mordent).

CI10 - Military Security

Responsible for protecting Commonwealth troops against the enemy agents amongst civilian population during and in the theatre of war. It also acts as the liaison department for the Ministry of Defence's Defence Intelligence Staff.

CI11 - Signals & Communications

Cover designation for the Radio Security Service, department responsible for signal intelligence and the interception, locating and jamming of transmissions made by enemy agents. Its role also covers codebreaking the security of government communications.

CI12 - Cartographic Section

Liaison department for the Royal Reconnaissance Service, tasked with ensuring the Commonwealth has accurate and up to date maps.

CI13 - *REDACTED*

CI13 Does Not Exist.

Any inquiries made regarding CI13 will be investigated by CI4.

CI14 - Dienstad Section

Focused on the region of Greater Dienstad, divided into 'desks'.

  • Lyras Desk

  • Lamoni Desk

  • Greal Desk
    ...and so on.

CI15 - Commonwealth Section

Deals with the rest of the Commonwealth and the CCA colonies, divided into subsections covering a realm or colony.

  • CI15a: New Garrack

  • CI15b: Mars

  • CI15c: Gilbert

CI19 - Technical Section

This is a fun place to be! The men and women working for CI19 are all engineers, scientists’ and technicians of the top level. Their work is to come up with new weapons and gadgets for the CIS and for the Ministry of Defence as well. Many strange things have left the laboratory and workshops at the department’s test centre located at the Headquarters in Morrdun. Examples include The Iron mastiff, The Rainy Dayer and that little camera known as the Penncam. The head engineer Donnever Barnaby, in CIS code known as “Q”, is a genius on the brink of insanity. Some of his latest gadgets have caused over fifteen lab-workers death, of which something described as a “flamethrowing coffee-mug” took most of the casualties. He is now under investigation by CI4.

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Added a bit more, now includes the various provinces of Morrdh.

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