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Having being around for as long as the Unity Protocol has been gathering wayward species and their ways of life, the United Defence Directive incorporates centuries of combined technological and strategic knowledge to create a defensive perimeter around the planet Traveller and its many colonies. In particular, the Defence Directive has been the first line of defence against hostile alien invasions on the colonies. They also work with colony police forces to go after pirates. | Having being around for as long as the Unity Protocol has been gathering wayward species and their ways of life, the United Defence Directive incorporates centuries of combined technological and strategic knowledge to create a defensive perimeter around the planet Traveller and its many colonies. In particular, the Defence Directive has been the first line of defence against hostile alien invasions on the colonies. They also work with colony police forces to go after pirates. | ||
- | Recruitment | + | Recruitment |
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+ | The UDD currently employs 850,000 non-Unit personnel, patrolling Traveller and its moons . An untold number of [[species: | ||
===== Divisions ===== | ===== Divisions ===== | ||
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|"Why are we fighting these things? Because they' | |"Why are we fighting these things? Because they' | ||
- | The ground force of the Defence Directive includes footsoldiers, | + | The ground force of the Defence Directive includes footsoldiers, |
^ :!: For GMs | The mainstay of any UDD attack, the Army is present. An easy plot to run is as an Army Squad containing PCs doing an attack or a defence against giant insects in a nearby colony of Traveller. | | ^ :!: For GMs | The mainstay of any UDD attack, the Army is present. An easy plot to run is as an Army Squad containing PCs doing an attack or a defence against giant insects in a nearby colony of Traveller. | | ||
==== Navy ==== | ==== Navy ==== | ||
- | tbd | + | The spacefaring force of the UDD, the Navy serves as the UDD's patrol through space, the first to see new arrivals. They employ mecha pilots and fighter pilots alongside the ship's crew and armoured boarding forces to defend Traveller' |
- | ^ :!: For GMs | Ideally, the operation of the Navy should be unnoticeable to player characters who are only moving from place to place. Put detail into it if players are going to be helping the ship. | | + | In addition, the Navy supports ground units with artillery blasts. Ranging from precision howitzer strikes to carpet bombing patterns, or orbital beams and rainstorms of lasers. The shows the Navy's artillery ships put on are nothing short of spectacular for those on the ground, and deadly for whatever is under the designator. |
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+ | ^ :!: For GMs | Ideally, the operation of the Navy should be unnoticeable to player characters who are only moving from place to place. Put detail into it if players are going to be helping the ship, will be undertaking their adventure there, or are its crew. | | ||
==== Emergency Assault Division ==== | ==== Emergency Assault Division ==== | ||
- | Currently disbanded in the wake of scandals involving the use of the EAD as a means to eliminate political rivals, the Emergency Assault Division was formerly a group of individual specialists. EAD employed beings such as combat-oriented spellcasters, | + | |" |
- | However, | + | Currently disbanded in the wake of scandals involving EAD' |
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+ | With time though, the fast and loose approach to accountability and growing corruption from deep relationships | ||
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+ | The following Code Names of former EAD members who have appeared or been mentioned in the Roleplay are as follows: | ||
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+ | * **Anchor** (Orok Nak-Riar), // | ||
+ | * **Buzzsaw** (Angela LaForge), // | ||
+ | * **[[character/ | ||
+ | * **Driver** (Dean Bodala) | ||
+ | * **[[location/ | ||
+ | * **[[character/ | ||
+ | * **Prewett** (Harry Torburn), // | ||
+ | * **[[location/ | ||
+ | * **Wrack** (Colm Masterson), // | ||
^ :!: For GMs | Many EAD units didn't put their gun down after leaving EAD, and work as roaming mercenaries, | ^ :!: For GMs | Many EAD units didn't put their gun down after leaving EAD, and work as roaming mercenaries, | ||
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+ | ==== Rapid Action Combat Command Attache ==== | ||
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+ | The current special forces unit of the Directive, RACCA is the commanding branch of ad-hoc units and teams called to action when needed for specific tasks. They have similar selection patterns to their predecessor, | ||
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+ | However, the relative youth of the unit and the amount of exerted control compared with its predecessor casts a shadow over its effectiveness. The unit has green and untested personnel to work with as most of the former EAD personnel were charged or went into hiding, while the additional layers of bureaucracy for the sake of ' | ||
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+ | ^ :!:\\ For GMs | RACCA has some large shoes to fill, and they' | ||
==== Bashkarl-Altiers Mobile Force ==== | ==== Bashkarl-Altiers Mobile Force ==== |