Spezialoperationsabteilung

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Spezialoperationsabteilung
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Origin	Rheinland
Affiliation	Red Hessians
Alignment	Unlawful
Recruitment	Click to join
Profile
Date of founding	816 A.S.
Founder(s)	Major Gunther Hoerst
Current leader(s)	Brigadegeneral Friedrich Dresner
Base of operations	Freital Base, Omega-11
Secondary Base	Wolfsburg Shipyard, Omega-54
Identification
Primary ID	Red Hessian ID
IFF	Hessians
Tag(s)	[RHA]SOA-
Primary role
Research into specialist warfare against Wilde mind control in an attempt to immunise all Hessian and allied forces to the effects of Wilde psychic weapons
Secondary role
Unconventional warfare operations, including (but not limited to) espionage and funding foreign revolutionary groups.

The Department of Special Operations (Spezialoperationsabteilung) or SOA is a relatively small group within the Red Hessian Army led by Brigadegeneral Friedrich Dresner. It has been commissioned in 816 A.S. on the eve of the declaration of cooperation between the Sirius Coalition Revolutionary Army and the Rheinland Revolutionary Alliance, in order to support the Coalition in their research and development. The department was since called to assume command over RHA anti-Nomad operations as well as unconventional warfare operations, including (but not limited to) espionage and funding foreign revolutionary groups.

Currently the main task of the SOA is research into specialist warfare against Wilde mind control in an attempt to immunise all Hessian and allied forces to the effects of Wilde psychic weapons, hoping to reduce significantly the amount of victims the Wilde use as cannon fodder against the Hessian forces in the Omega systems. The SOA has notably been able to strike significant breakthroughs in research around the start of 817 A.S., however an intelligence leak allowed the then Outcast Reapers of Sirius to react to the situation, and a large part of the research was destroyed in a Reaper attack against the Hessian convoy carrying the goods to Omega-52. The repercussions of this attack can be felt in the Red Hessian Army to this day, with the leadership emphasizing complete awareness of and pre-emptive hostility toward any Outcasts that might be encountered by the movement. As of this day, the SOA continues their work on recovering the lost research as well as trying to gain new information on Wilde weapons and abilities.

Background

Overview

Spezialoperationsabteilung was formed on the eve of the declaration of cooperation between the Sirius Coalition Revolutionary Army and the Rheinland Revolutionary Alliance, in order to support the Coalition in their research and development. The department was since called to assume command over RHA anti-Nomad operations as well as unconventional warfare operations, including (but not limited to) espionage and funding foreign revolutionary groups. To this date, SOA has established a position within the Red Hessian Army to fulfill three main objectives:

1. To handle foreign relations of the Red Hessian Army, coordinating joint operations with close allies, handling all the relations with major groups throughout Sirius and also monitoring the activity of less-trustworthy allied groups to assure their activities falling within the standards and expectations of Red Hessian movement. 2. Administrating the Red Hessian R&D division, establishing research into alien technology and Nomad mind control, and furthermore developing new gear and upgrading the existing ones to allow SOA and any other group under Volksrevolution to have a more effective stance against any threats, foreign or domestic. 3. Act as the front line of Red Hessians battle against Wilde and other alien forces, corresponding with similar groups throughout Sirius (Namely The Order and Blood Dragons), organizing assault into Wilde territory and adjusting and updating the Omega defense plans according to latest changes in Wilde attack patterns.

Hessian Tears

Due to unforeseen circumstances on the home front, the infamous Hessian Tears squadron was integrated as a wing into the Red Hessian Army in early 816 A.S. It has served as a special operations force for the next year, successfully providing cover for several RHA operations behind enemy lines and assisting the main force in their day to day operations. Constant leadership problems however thinned out its membership, and the remaining members were reassigned to intelligence ops centred around known Wilde infested areas.

The group remained until late 818 A.S. when it was reassigned under the command of Karl Leitner and reformed into an elite covert operations wing operating as a mercenary group outside of Rheinland. The Hessian Tears' first task was to establish a presence in the three core houses and their adjoining border worlds, to ensure safe points and set up basic intelligence networks after which they would continue working under cover as mercenaries for any party designated as friendly to the Red Hessian cause. This was later revealed to be one of the many preparations necessary to allow the Spezialoperationsabteilung to expand their operations to critical regions of space, under influence of friendly forces, and to gain support of forces friendly to Volksrevolution.

As of today, the Hessian Tears squadron is merged with the Spezialoperationsabteilung and the two groups are continuing their activities against Wilde and other alien forces under the command structure of Red Hessian Army and Spezialoperationsabteilung command.

Character Information

Any and all characters in Spezialoperationsabteilung must have already passed the promotion to Leutnant in [RHA], and once their transfer request to SOA is approved they can rename their character and use the SOA tag.

Characters are named as follows:

• [RHA]SOA-Firstname.Lastname or if approved by the high command [RHA]SOA-Callsign

For further information regarding regulations and ranks, visit SOA Rank Structure

Furthermore, each member of SOA is required to have at least one regular [RHA] character as well, and is to fly the SOA character for SOA-related activities only.

Operations

As the revolutionary hammer of the people of Rheinland, the Red Hessian Army prefers to use all the tools at its disposal to hurt the enemy forces in any way possible. This includes:

• Offensive and defensive actions against immediate threats to the Fatherland and its people, from the outside as well as within
• Indiscriminately attacking enemy targets of opportunity with the goal of inflicting maximum damage at a minimum cost
• Humiliating the enemy in the public eye by decisive victories
• Developing more effective tactics and equipment to counter the Wilde attacks in Omegas
• Assisting close allies in their area of operation to gather more support and resources for anti-alien research

To achieve these goals, self-discipline and knowledge of tactics is as important as any other skill. Those are the two key factors which bring swift victory to the movement.

Roster

Operatives

• Brigadegeneral
  • Friedrich Dresner

• Major
  • Gunther Hoerst

• Hauptmann
  • Niklas Wagner

• Oberleutnant
  • Sergei Lazarev
  • Felix Jaeger
  • Lukas Fauler

• Leutnant
  • Erik Ackart

Capital Ships

Considering the highly restricted access to capital ships, only a handful of them exist within the Spezialoperationsabteilung, and considering the nature of most SOA operations, the group mainly focuses on snubcrafts, with the capital ships being solely used in form of command ships and if extremely necessary, heavy support fire for SOA main wing.

• [RHA]SOA-Von.Rohe - Vidar class cruiser (shared)
• [RHA]SOA-Sturmgewehr - Storm class gunship (Shared)
• [RHA]SOA-Flammenwerfer - Storm class gunship

Diplomacy

Faction	Relationship
Red Hessians	Allied
Bundschuh	Allied
LWB	Allied
Sirius Coalition Revolutionary Army	Allied
Mollys	Allied
IMG	Friendly
Liberty Rogues	Friendly
GMG	Neutral
The Order	Neutral
Unioners	Neutral
Everyone else	Neutral
Other corporations	Unfriendly
Outcasts	Hostile
Bounty Hunters Guild	At War
Rheinland government enforcers	At War
Rheinland corporations	At War
Corsairs	At War
Reapers of Sirius	At War
Aliens and infested forces	At War

Links

• Red Hessian Operational Manual
• Red Hessian Army Rank Structure
• Red Hessian Army Recruitment
• Red Hessian Army Message Dump
• Red Hessian Army Signature Bars

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