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=LSF= Information Sheet - Liberty Security Force - 03-13-2008

Liberty Security Force

”Fidelitas, Virtus, Integritas.”
”Fidelity, Bravery, Integrity.”

- Homeland Security motto, adopted 786 A.S.

Brief Summary

Agents in Darkness

Where the Navy sits at the front-line of the Armed Forces' many battles, the Liberty Security Force prefers the comfort of the shadows. Operating as Liberty's chief intelligence arm, their origins date back to the founding of the Department of Homeland Security, not long after the founding of the Republic itself. The LSF has existed in one form or another since the early years of Liberty's expansion throughout Sirius, always listening and gathering information, analyzing potential threats and handling them before they had a chance to reach the Core Worlds. For every threat the Navy extinguished in those first centuries, the Security Force took down a dozen more in secret.

But when the Nomads unveiled themselves in 800 A.S, the Liberty Security Force's mettle was tested. There were whispers throughout the department for some time of these beings, but only the highest levels had the clearance to even read the rumors. When Admiral Schultzky's Donau was swept off the field over Manhattan, however, the threat became clear - and even the temporarily respite given by the immediate conclusion of the Nomad War was not something the LSF wanted to rest on. For the next twenty years, they have worked closely with their intelligence partners to conduct a series of experiments and investigations, attempting to design technology and find weaknesses, and conduct a total threat assessment upon the Nomad threat.

Liberty's struggles these days are less confined to extra-galactic presences, however. Coming out of a war with Rheinland and entering the third year of a grinding stalemate with the Kingdom of Gallia, Liberty's strained armed forces are struggling to hold the line. Internal conflicts show themselves, as well: rogue elements such as the firebrand 'Hellfire Legion' and the recently-defected Battlegroup Harmony make the knife at Liberty's throat press ever so slightly harder.

Despite it all, the Liberty Security Force is a capable organization, and their agents even now work to outmaneuver, out-think, and outplay the enemy plans. Whether taking the action directly in ship-to-ship combat using their advanced technologies and experimental craft, or working behind the scenes as subversive elements, the LSF will always be there - watching, waiting, as agents in the darkness.

Tactical Capabilities

Walk softly, and carry a big stick.

The Liberty Security Force is the largest and most well-funded intelligence organization in Sirius, and most serious estimates put the funding and dedication of Liberty's agents even above that of the Gallic kingdom's. While the LSF was at one time but a single unit of the Liberty Intelligence Community, it has since absorbed a majority of its member groups and become a single, monolothic intelligence group consisting of multiple subdivisions. Only the Liberty Navy's External Security & Research Division and the Defense Intelligence Agency remain as independent entities in the now-defunct Intelligence Community.

The Security Force is divided principally into four departments, with large portions of inter-connectivity and cooperation. Agents are expected to work solely in one division, but in practice most agents end up collaborating between departments on most assignments, and it can be hard to effectively narrow down their specific assignments. Nevertheless:

Department of Homeland Security

The Department of Homeland Security was the principal branch of the Security Force upon its foundation, and remains the largest and most active department within the LSF today. The DHS is charged with a simple yet daunting task: the defense and security of the Libertonian homeland, at any cost. Fighting against threats both foreign and domestic, Homeland Security traditionally serves as an investigative branch, as well as a counterintelligence organization, seeking to prevent hostile agents such as the Gallic Crown from causing discord from within. The vast majority of LSF agents reside within the Homeland Security branch within some form or another, and officially the lion's share of the Security Force's budget does, as well.

Department of Tactical Operations

The initial creation of the Department of Tactical Operations (or TacOps, for short) is much hazier than that of the DHS, but its underlying goal has never wavered: where DHS is the bulwark against all which would threaten Liberty, TacOps is the sword. Agents working for the Department of Tactical Operations are typically highly skilled combat pilots, expert combatants, and master tacticians. These well-crafted tools are then given the independence to conduct offensive operations both inside and outside Liberty, against high-risk targets and strategic objectives. In times of war, it is typically TacOps and their heavy assets seen assisting Naval forces in the field.

Department of Research and Analysis

The RA employs some of the finest minds in Sirius to develop new technologies for the Security Force and the greater Armed Forces as a whole, although much of this research never sees the light of day. Highly trusted agents from the DHS and TacOps are sometimes re-assigned to the RA as pilots for experimental test-beds, to varying degrees of success: technologies from the "Avenger" snubcraft to the improved Archer siege gun are common sights first produced and tested within the RA. With the comparatively recent reveal of the Nomads and their activities within Sirius, a large portion of the RA is now tied to Internal Affairs, as both attempt to better understand the threat poised by those extragalactic intruders.

Department of Internal Affairs

The Department of Internal Affairs was originally an informal organization within the Security Force, with little special funding and few specially trained agents. Much of this changed with the flashpoint of the Nomad War, which saw the LSF heavily compromised and nearly torn apart from within. While nearly all of this conflict was hidden from the public eye, privately the Directorate understood that the Security Force could ill afford another mistake such as that, and saw fit to properly institute the Department of Internal Affairs with the agency to investigate any member of the Security Force, and indeed any member of the Armed Forces, to ensure that infiltration of that size and scale never happens again.

The Security Force is well-armed and equipped for the task, typically employing heavily modified and experimental crafts based on the common Naval types, your Guardians and Avengers, et cetera. But some tasks call for a brute force approach, and the utilization of heavy assets from the Defiant gunboat to the Archer-class Siege Cruiser or even the heavy Interdictor-class Battlecruiser is not uncommon within the borders of Liberty. In the past, the heaviest of incursions have even seen the might and mobile operations center of the LSF, the Freedom, deployed as a heavy asset to tip the scales in the agents' favor. Some agents also prefer to utilize civilian craft for their operations, either due to their specific capabilities or because of the overall mission profile. Still others utilize the limited offering of Bretonian naval vessels on loan to the Armed Forces, at the express permission of the Directorate.

Agency Structure

Order to the madness.

The Security Force follows a relatively simple structure, befitting an organization with none of the bureaucratic need of its larger Navy counterpart:

« Directorate »

Director

The official in charge of the entire Liberty Security Force. Appointed by Congress, the Director is given ultimate control over the direction of the LSF, receiving their orders directly from the Department of Defense and the Commander-in-Chief.

» Permitted to fly or command all ships at the LSF's disposal.

Currently appointed » Christopher Murray.

Department Chief

The right hands of the Director, the Department Chiefs oversee a particular Department (or in times of need, Department(s)) and implement the Director's overall plan at a more specific level. They report immediately to the Director, and the four Chiefs and the Director form the LSF Directorate.

» Permitted to fly or command all ships at the LSF's disposal.

Currently assigned » Omar Anoke (IA), Abraham Eisenhower (TacOps), Una Kidman (HomeSec).

« Agency »

Senior Agent

A veteran of the Security Force, a Senior Agent is one typically well-versed in the goings-on of their respective Department, and acts as a bridge between the Agents of a Department and their Department Chief, or as the acting Department Chief in times of absence or on field operations. Senior Agents are very well trusted assets within the Security Force, and typically operate with great independence.

» Permitted to fly or command all ships at the LSF's disposal.

Agent

The standard rank-and-file of the Security Force, "Agents" in truth take up a variety of roles: from the intelligence officers of Homeland Security, to the experienced combat pilots and weapons specialists of TacOps, or the scientific advisors of the RDA, Agents are found in every department as the lifeblood of the operation, and the brute force behind the field work the LSF undertakes on a day-to-day basis.

» Permitted to fly or command all standard ships at the LSF's disposal. Special vessels falling outside the typical purview, including Bretonian Lend-Lease, requires the explicit permission of the Directorate.

Agent-in-Training

New recruits that pass through the purview of Internal Affairs are placed within the training pool of Homeland Security, where their skills can be more closely examined. Most tend to graduate to proper field agent positions quickly - with good reason, as the LSF has little need for Agents that fail to motivate themselves.

» Permitted to fly and command all standard ships up to the "Defiant" gunship in size, until promoted or otherwise given explicit permission from the Directorate.

Diplomatic Information

Friends close, enemies dead.

Libertonian Armed Forces
Liberty Security Force • Liberty Navy • Liberty Police, Inc.
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Member organizations and public servants of the Libertonian Armed Forces. These represent the closest things the LSF will ever admit as trustworthy allies; though there is certainly much remaining sibling rivalry between the Navy and Security Force.

Libertonian Corporations
Ageira Technologies • Cryer Pharmaceuticals • Deep Space Engineering
Interspace Commerce • Orbital Spa & Cruise • Synth Foods, Inc. • Universal Shipping
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Libertonian corporations and citizens are the backbone of Liberty's society, and are the chief instruments of the Republic's free trade that the LSF is chartered to protect and nurture. Any threat to the Corporations' well-being is a threat against the sovereignty and stability of the Republic.

Associates
Bounty Hunters Guild • Bretonian Armed Forces • Bretonian Police
Crayter Republic • Gas Miners Guild • IRG • Planetform, Inc. • The Core
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Individuals and organizations that have had a favorable relationship with the Republic of Liberty in past and present, who have provided substantial support in either an economic or military sense, and whose members have suffered comparatively few incidents of nomad infestation and/or crimes against the Republic.

Indifference
House Corporations • Confederal Gallia • Freelancers
Bretonian Privateers • Bundschuh • Zoners
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The LSF's opinion on the general public - that is to say, there is either nothing particularly noteworthy about these groups as far as the LSF is concerned, they are not groups of interest, they are geographically too distant to be concerned with, or they are relative unknowns.

Cautious
Auxesia • Bretonian Intelligence Service • Hogosha • Junkers • Independent Miners Guild
Kusari Empire • Federalist Rheinland • Natio Octavarium • Unione Corse
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Groups, organizations, and nation-states that the LSF has deemed potential threats, but lack sufficient evidence or the ability to handle and investigate them further at present. Working relationships are nonetheless maintained with some or all of these organizations, especially in such matters that it is politically and militarily expedient to work with them against a common enemy; but the watchful eye of the LSF is never removed from their work.

Intense Scrutiny
Kempeitai • Independent Miners Guild (IMG|) • Imperialist Rheinland
Office of Confederal Intelligence • The Maquis
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Organizations and individuals that are not outright hostile elements, but are barred from entry into the Republic of Liberty, and whose actions and messages outside the Republic are carefully monitored and scrutinized. Very few groups that fall into this category manage to reclaim their lawful status.

Hostile
Blood Dragons • Coalition • Farmers Alliance • Gaians
Gallic Brigands • Golden Chrysanthemums • IDF Shipping
Lane Hackers • Liberty Rogues • Mollys • Outcasts
Red Hessians • The Commonwealth • The Order • Xenos
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Criminal organizations, hostile nation-states, and threats of all kinds to the national sovereignty of the Republic, and the well-being of its people. The LSF's most friendly reaction to individuals belonging to these organizations would be a single, terse demand to surrender; most, however, will not be so lucky.

Enemies of the Republic
Gallic Royal Enclave • Hellfire Legion • Liberty Separatists
Nomads • Nomad Infectees • Unioners
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Dire threats to the Republic's continued existence, and the highest priority targets of the Security Force. Members belonging to these organizations fall under a blanket shoot-on-sight directive.