Templar Twelve
Praetoriani Classiarii Templares
Praetoria Imperialis Excubitoris
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Posted - 2014.04.03 10:00:00 -
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Tallen Ellecon wrote:Anybody have any links to any good tales of the Federations finest troops?
Since no one has yet to answer this fully, I have taken the liberty of going through the library archives concerning these "special organisations".
The Black Eagles (emblem embedded) are the Federal Intelligence service and report to the President. Their tactics, referred to as protocols, are named with the type of protocol, a symbol, and a number.
The Black Eagles is reported being created in the aftermath of the Caldari invasion.
Though officially titled the "Special Department of Internal Investigations and Federal Security", and carrying the sanctioned acronym of SDII, this secretive new organization nonetheless immediately became known to everyone as the Black Eagles.
This moniker is most commonly associated with the SDII logo GÇô a black Gallente eagle outlined in white against a dark background GÇô but there are a fair few who proclaim the name is a direct allusion to the man chosen to lead the department, Head Senator Mentas Blaque. Blaque himself has never commented publicly on anything to do with the agency, preferring instead to let dry press releases and carefully calculated public operations do the talking for him.
The Black Eagles organisation can be summed up in 3 points.
Most information here have been leaked by former agents that have defected (yes, defected) from the agency:
- The Black Eagles have a well-equipped, highly trained paramilitary arm. Black Eagle-uniformed troops have been seen on more than one occasion conducting security sweeps in high-sensitivity public zones. They are trained in every manner of covert infiltration, spaceborne and terrestrial, as well as the use of cutting-edge weaponry and tools of the trade. Due to prohibitive selection and training their numbers are not great at present, but growing rapidly.
- The Black Eagles have a presence in space, though reports vary widely about the extent of their operational capacity. They are known to travel in specially commissioned dark-hulled versions of Gallente Navy staples.
The exact capabilities of these vessels are unknown, but they are invariably reported to be more poweful than both their standard and Navy counterparts. Reports also unanimously agree that the Eagles possess a capsuleer contingent numbering over one hundred pilots (and presumably growing).
- The Black Eagles have built up a ruthless image, one that indicates the agency will go to considerable lengths to make sure its objectives are met.
This is the area most sparsely commented on by former agents. With very few exceptions, defectors have completely disavowed all knowledge of the illicit activities so often attributed to the Eagles, such as torture, blackmail and kidnapping. Whether this is down to the extreme sensitivity of such subjects or the actual absence of such activities from the modus operandi remains wholly unknown.
Focusing on the last point, and on the following recorded audio transcript, I would say that the Black Eagles embodies the Gallente Federation as a whole. While trying to uphold a public figure of democracy, focusing on the will of the "people", they instead work in the shadows while listening in and putting tabs on every civilian in the Federation.
There have already been a fair share of defectors from the agency since its inception, people who view the Eagles' methods as violations of long-sacred Gallente ideals.
To end this, I managed to get a hold of a recorded transcript from one of my many contacts, which clearly shows the brutality the Eagles possess:
Recorded Audio Transcript wrote:"They make you watch it all, man. They make you watch through the eyes of the person you killed. It's all for show, really, but they do it so well. I saw the guy come in, brush his teeth, kiss his son good night... then I felt my bullet go into his skull just seconds after it shattered the window. Back when I'd shot him, you know, I didn't know anything... all I saw was a man leaning down in the spot where I'd been told he would be, then I squeezed the trigger, twice to make sure, and got the hell out of there. But they had to make me relive it all through this bullshit virtual scenario. They want you to know that you're gonna be called upon to kill innocent people, good people, Federation people, and that you have to be comfortable with doing it because it serves the greater good. Whatever the **** that's even supposed to mean."
GÇöAudio transcript from "Agent Mornay," alleged Black Eagle defector
Regarding the Federal Marines, I found mostly public information:
"The Federal Marines have a long, proud history of serving the Gallente Federation in space and on planetary bodies. They are among the elite troops of the Federal military and typically at the forefront when the Gallente Federation goes to the extreme of intervening militarily in planetary conflicts across New Eden."
And an unfinished Gallente recruitment poster for the Federal Marines.
T12, out.
Librarian and Keeper of the Praetorian Temple Library
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