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Titanian police

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Wed, 2017-02-22 14:29

uwtartarus uwtartarus's picture

Titanian police

The Titanians have three separate police/intelligence/state agencies. I am having troulr figuring out which goes where. For example, Firewall uses a minifacturing outpost in the hinterlands as a remote Crow Lab. The commonwealth spooks start to sniff out, perhaps send in their own investigator, since publicly the facility is just an isolated minifacturing station for repairing/replacing ice mining equipment. Who gets sent? CID because its on Titan? Or Science Police since it involves possible science related matters? Firewall is using it to study and examine computer artifacts and electronic dangers.

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Wed, 2017-02-22 15:15

hyades

If they think it might be

If they think it might be criminals, they'll just send the Commonwealth Police, I guess.

Quote:
Commonwealth Police, Ofﬁce of Investigations, handles physical and mesh-based criminal investigations planet-wide.

If domestic terrorism or espionage is suspected, the Security Police will handle it.

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The Security Police are Titan’s domestic intelligence service, charged with securing Titanian interests within Titanian territory [...] Counterintelligence: Cointel is the largest branch and runs domestic counter-espionage. Most field agents are part of this ofﬁce.

If a state-funded research facility is involved, Science Police will probably be, too. In general CID and CFI are off-world only, but maybe not, when it comes to Firewall?

Quote:
Despite their counterintelligence function, the Security Police have standing orders from the Prime Minister’s ofﬁce to hand Firewall agents over to Fleet for debrieﬁng.

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Wed, 2017-02-22 19:39

uwtartarus uwtartarus's picture

Ok, cool! I was trying to

Ok, cool! I was trying to read through the Titanian section in Firewall (probably my favorite part) and I was having trouble fitting the part in the right spot. Sounds like Security Police would be the ones to send an undercover agent in to make sure the outpost wasn't being used by Firewall, and if they confirm it, they send stuff towards Fleet Intel. Interesting that military intelligence is in charge of dealing with Firewall and not the CID.

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Wed, 2017-02-22 21:37

UnitOmega

Actually, the text might

Actually, the text might contradict itself - checking the wiki and my own Rimward it says that on planet they must be handed over to Security Police. "(on planet, Firewall agents must be handed over to the Security Police)." Might be a right hand vs left hand thing?

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Wed, 2017-02-22 23:37

MrWigggles MrWigggles's picture

I bet it depends who catches

I bet it depends who catches them. If they're (Firewall) is caught on a Military installation or if they're caught operating against Commonwealth interest, then its either CID or CFI. If its on a civilian Commonwealth Hab or colony or city, then its Security Police or Science Police. Depending if its a Science horror or just burn it with fire horror. I am pretty sure that the Commonwealth Spooks arent that against Firewall. Most of time Commonwealth is also in favor of stopping exsurgent threats. But they're a State Agency, and they're for the State first.