Spezialoperationsabteilung

This is a player faction. For the affiliated NPC faction, see Red Hessians

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:

• 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.
• 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.
• 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.

Alien controlled vessels frequently set up ambushes in Red Hessian space. Spezialoperationsabteilung are the main part of the RHA responsible for repelling these attacks.

R&D Department

Spezialoperationsabteilung is in charge of monitoring, regulating and managing all the activities of Red Hessian Army Research & Development division. With the steady income of credits and resources, provided by Diamond export and often supplied by Red Hessians allies, the Red Hessian Army R&D has managed to develop all of the modern technologies currently in use by the pilots of Volksrevolution, and continues to work on designing and producing equipment and vessels on par to the technology used by Rheinland lawful forces and Corsairs, to help the revolution continue its fight on both fronts.

Anti-Alien Activities

Ever since the Nomad wars, Red Hessians have been the main force fighting Das Wilde and Nomads in Omega systems, and being the only faction standing between infected forces and Rheinland space, the Hessians consider themselves the main reason for the survival of Rheinland to this date. With their never-ending conflict against the alien forces deep within Omegas, the Spezialoperationsabteilung operatives have dedicated their lives fighting and hopefully altogether annihilating the alien threat from Rheinland and Omegas.

With years of experience fighting against the unique warfare techniques and tactics employed by the alien forces, higher ranking Spezialoperationsabteilung officers and combat advisors have been known for their flexibility in critical combat situations, even those happening in remote corners of Omegas and far from any friendly installation, and therefor, are a trusted group within the Red Hessian Army when it comes to repelling the alien attacks and also organizing and performing counterattacks when required.

Foreign Relations

Despite focusing their main efforts on fighting the Wilde within Omegas and Rheinland, Spezialoperationsabteilung as always shown interest in matters of foreign relations, especially those of the similar groups who have been battling the remnants of the aliens ever since the Nomad War. Using the Hessian Tears squadron, SOA managed to establish a friendly-enough stance with various factions around Sirius to be permitted docking rights on various bases which had proved to be effective staging points for any possible operations within those regions, either in order to investigate suspicious activities of groups who are known to have ties to Nomads (Such as but not limited to, Outcasts and Liberty Security Force) or to assist like-minded groups in their fight against the aliens when necessary (Groups such as The Order and Blood Dragons), also, with recent reports regarding the increased sightings of Das Wilde ships in Bretonia region, Spezialoperationsabteilung is planing various joint operations with Mollys against these alien-infested humans.

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 more 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.

Zone of Influence

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RHA zone of influence map.

Omega-11

Omega-11 is one of those systems where the Hessians can and do make a difference. Controlling much of the system, their only organised opposition within is the Daumann mining base Solarius, and the occassional Corsair raid from Omega-41.

The reason this system is so contested is because of the plethora of natural riches within, manifesting itself in the form of a ring of carbon asteroids around the system's dying sun. These rocks can be made into diamonds so pure, and in such quantities that they serve as a reasonable source of funding even for the Hessians, who frequently capture Daumann transports on their way to Stuttgart, and even sometimes employ captured Daumann mining ships to extract the diamonds on their own from the more dangerous parts of the system.

Owned bases:

• Freital Base

Rheinland

Most of Rheinland is controlled by the iron grip of the Military, the Chancellor's own. The Red Hessians tread carefully in the central and northern systems of house Rheinland, but with the knowledge that all Rheinland systems also offer at least one place of refuge within their plentiful asteroid fields or other sensor disrupting phenomenae.

Owned bases:

• Vogtland Base, Dresden

Allied bases:

• Kaiserslautern Depot, New Berlin (LWB)
• Kreuzberg Depot, New Berlin (Junkers)
• Darmstadt Depot, Stuttgart (LWB)
• Bruchsal Base, Frankfurt (Bundschuh)
• Wedel Mining Facility, Hamburg (Unioners)
• Cloppenburg Base, Bremen (Bundschuh)
• Eltmann Outpost, Munich (Bundschuh)
• Leipheim Base, Munich (Unioners)

Omega-54

A inner Hessian system, it is a training place, shipyard and sanctuary for many battlegroups, including the Red Hessian Army. Omega-54 survives untouched by enemies mostly due to its hidden nature, with the only jump holes leading to it either from behind Hessian lines or from within dangerous environmental hazards.

Owned bases:

• Wolfsburg Shipyard
• Northeim Base
• Kassel Outpost
• Offenbach Outpost

Omega Systems

Being the battlefront against Das Wilde and other alien forces, deep Omega systems are the center of Spezialoperationsabteilung activity. Being on the frontlines of the war with Wilde, and barely a few jumps away from their core systems, Red Hessians have always been the main force battling against alien forces in Omegas, and after formation and establishment of the SOA, their constant conflict with the alien forces has turned into their main focus and objective. Despite the tense geography of these systems - Radiation, asteroid fields, nebulae and clouds - familiarity of the SOA aces with advantage points of each system has given them the means to fight their way through even the worst battles against Wilde.

Owned bases:

• Ronneburg Base, Omega-5

Sigmas

Despite being considered a restricted space for regular RHA pilots, the Spezialoperationsabteilung maintain a regular patrol through the region, mainly Sigma-13 system, due to the high population of Outcasts in the area, as well as the occasional sightings of Wilde ships. Due to being supported by the GMG for their effort within that region, Red Hessian Army pilots refrain from engaging in any form of unlawful activity within this area, unless against Rheinland corporations and lawful groups.

Allied bases:

• Yanagi Depot (Junkers)

Other Regions

Despite their main focus on Omegas and Rheinland space, Spezialoperationsabteilung forces have been sighted in friendly zones of influence as well. With the preparations made by the Hessian Tears squadron, SOA currently has friendly standing and docking access to installations owned by groups such as Liberty Rogues, Blood Dragons and the Mollys. Even though the tense situation of Omegas requires the SOA to concentrate their focus on the region, when deemed necessary the Spezialoperationsabteilung command may arrange for operations deep in allied space, whether to assist an allied group or to establish an operation of their own.

Equipment

With the critical nature of their operations, Spezialoperationsabteilung have been granted access to the best ships and equipment the Red Hessian Army has access to. However, lower ranking officers of the SOA are restricted to Hessian and Borderworlds ships, along with Hessian or Civilian weaponry, while the higher ranking officers are allowed to file a request which if approved would allow them to use allied ships and equipments. All Spezialoperationsabteilung ships undergo costly modifications to their core management and navigation systems to allow the SOA operatives to get the most out of their ships in the field, and due to these modifications, various gear used by the regular pilots of the RHA (Such as Molly ships and equipments) are not available to SOA operatives due to being incompatible with said modifications.

Ships

Asgard line	Loki Light Fighter Odin Very Heavy Fighter Thor Bomber
Borderworlds line	Switchblade Heavy Fighter Sabre Very Heavy Fighter Cutlass Bomber
Coalition line (Limited Access)	Partisan Light Fighter Insurgent Very Heavy Fighter Revolution Bomber
Capital Vessels (Restricted Access)	Heimdall Gunship Storm Gunboat RHC Von Rohe Flagship

Weaponry

Unrestricted Access: These weapons are available to every operative of the Spezialoperationsabteilung, and there are no regulations regarding the use of these weapons.

• Red Hessian weaponry
• Bundschuh weaponry
• Civilian weaponry
• "Codename" prototypes

Limited Access: These weapons are not available to SOA operatives under regular circumstances, but can be installed on SOA ships after the high command's approval of a submitted request.

• Coalition weaponry
• IMG weaponry

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 the fighter wings.

• [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 Everyone else Neutral

Faction Relationship Unioners Neutral Bretonia government enforcers Unfriendly Bretonia 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

• Spezialoperationsabteilung Rank Structure
• Red Hessian Operational Manual

• Red Hessian Army
• Red Hessian Army Recruitment
• Red Hessian Army Message Dump

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