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Talos Erinos
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Ministry of State Security
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- Administrative Staff: 115
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Eldar
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Private Military Company
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35 ABY
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Brotherhood Era
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Starscream Tactical Solutions is a privately owned, funded, and operated Special Forces unit that has recently come on the black market of the Dajorra System. Offering top-notch operators with elite training and state-of-the-art equipment for any situation, STS specializes in what others would consider "impossible" or "high-risk" jobs. Due to their high success rate, professional courtesy, rigid discipline, and minimal fatality rate, Starscream is fast becoming the top choice for individuals or businesses that outsource to military contractors. But while STS is a very real company, with a very real source of income, it is nevertheless a front for the Dark Jedi House of Galeres, founded by Quaestor Celahir and Aedile Talos Erinos in mid-35 ABY.
History
Founding
Starscream Tactical Solutions, or STS, was originally founded from monetary assets given to Arcona's Oblivion Brigade and when the Black Operations Team was closed down (or so they say), former Vice-Captain Talos Erinos was quick to snap up the considerable amount of credits that were left over in the BOT's private bank account. The exact amount that Talos obtained is unknown but suffice to say it was enough to both fund an expedition with Marick Del'Abbot and Dralin Fortea which resulted in the discovery of Port Ol'val as well as the founding of Starscream some months later.
STS began as an extension of Event Horizon Investigations (EHI), working in the special tasks field, and so the first few months of the PMC's existence were confined to the Port Ol'val shadowport, where Talos and a small team of investigators-turned-commandos established STS' client base by taking jobs in Protection, Assassination, and Hostage Taking. Business was always steady and provided Talos and his team a good source of income but with the larger Mal Company to compete with, it never soared.
Until Mal Company made the mistake of irking the Besadii Splinter, a group of influential Hutts, and the crime-lords turned to the up-and-coming Starscream Tactical Solutions.
Rapid Rise
The contract that made Starscream one of the, if not the, most popular Private Military Company's in the Dajorra System was the one they accepted from the Besadii Splinter; valued at some 250,000 galactic credits, the contract had Talos Erinos and four of his most trusted commandos infiltrate Mal Company's compound and capture the daughter of a Mal executive while also assassinating another executive. What exactly went down in the compound can only be guessed at, but from the sounds that were reported coming from the compound, it earned Talos and his team the name 'Scream Team', and success can only be assumed as the commandos extracted from the compound with their hostage and the head of their target.
The Hutts, pleased with the results, paid the agreed upon 250,000 plus another 50,000 as a bonus. Now an extremely wealthy man, Talos Erinos paid off each of his commandos and then declared that effective immediately, Starscream Tactical Solutions was splitting from its parent company and striking out on its own; as this was concurrent with the cloned Dark Jedi being selected as the Aedile of House Galeres, it was no surprise that Starscream Tactical relocated to the Galerian capital Eldar and soon became the front organization for Arcona's Warrior House.
It is in this current capacity that Starscream Tactical Solutions currently operates, providing a cover for the Dark Jedi to the galaxy at large (as the native Eldarians know of the Galerians Force-Sensitivity), while also remaining a top competitor in the Dajorra System's black market and accruing a steady source of income for not only Galeres, but also Clan Arcona as a whole.
Inside the Company
Organization
The chain-of-command is broken down into four sections, three of which correspond with the heirarchy of House Galeres:
Executive Division
As the leader of the House, the Quaestor serves as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Starscream while his deputy, the Aedile, holds the position of Chief Operations Officer (COO); currently, these positions are held by the Erinos brothers Celahir and Talos, respectively. The position of the Rollmaster, occupied by Timeros Caesus Entar Arconae, corresponds with the position of CFO, or Chief Financial Officer, and finally two of the di Tenebrous Arconae act as Board Members, with the seats currently being held by Sashar Erinos, di Tenebrous Arconae and Malidir Trepidus Erinos, di Tenebrous Arconae. Both are commandos of the elite Soulfire Strike Team and Generals in the Arcona Army Corps.
Operations Division
This section holds the 85 operators (formally called Starscream Commandos) that make up the company's field units...the 'Scream Teams'. 34 of these operators are Foxtrot-Alphas, or Force-Adepts, and occupy some sort of command position over the remaining 51 operators. Normally, this command position is that of a Scream Team leader or an assistant leader, as the sizes of Scream Teams are never set in stone, but rather grow or shrink depending on the current contract's particular needs. While it is unknown to the regular operators, the superiority of the Force-Adepts is determined by their military rank which in turn corresponds with a mysterious Dark Jedi concept called "Prestige".
Administrative Division
Housing the 115 non-Operational employess of Starscream Tactical Solutions, the Administrative Division caters to everything that's not related to shooting people for a living. Whether it's contract monitoring, public relations, base security, all the way down to the kitchen and janitorial staff, the Administrative Division does it. While it's a rare punishment, a Operational employee who botches a mission or breaks STS' code-of-conduct may find themselves temporarily - or permanently - reassigned to Administrative...unless they're killed.
Special Tasks Division
The area of STS that houses the two Battleteams of House Galeres -- Soulfire Strike Team and Revenance Virtuom. Taking to the field as elite Scream Teams, the Battleteams are the only units entirely comprised of Force-Adepts and fully under the control of their Battleteam Leader, with Quaestor and Aedile oversight.
Services Offered
Starscream Tactical Solutions offers a wide variety of purchasable services and it is because of that wide range that STS has gained such popularity in a short amount of time. A full list of services are listed below:
- Assault
- Demolition
- Hostage Taking
- Hostage Rescue
- Drug Interdiction
- Assassination
- VIP Protection
- Event Security
The one area that STS does not, and will never, cater to is drug running. In a very forward and blunt statement from Talos, COO: "We might save lives and we'll definitely take lives. But we will do it with speed, precision, and professionalism...some would call it honor. So my company will not partake in any part of the drug trade and thereby actively help Dajorran citizens slowly kill themselves."
Whatever fuels Talos Erinos' personal vendetta against drugs is unknown to the Dajorra System at large, but there is a practical reason for abstaining from drugs as well; by not being a part of the trade, and even actively crippling it, has allowed Starscream to play both sides of the fence, namely outsourcing to galactic law enforcement agencies which generally pay very well for drug interdiction operations.
Locations
The PMC's main base is "T.R.O.Y", located in the Central Basin Region of Eldar. This large and fully operational military-esque base offers housing to all of Starscream's divisions, including Special Tasks, and also boasts extensive offices for administrative work, fully-stocked armories, a renowned culinary staff, and a state-of-the-art hangar along with self-automated firing ranges, battle circles, and spar rooms for honing a wide variety of combative skills.
The only other base owned by STS is a small field office in the "Pride of Corellia" district of Port Ol'val and while this office only houses a skeleton crew of Starscream personnel, it is often staffed by the best that the Administrative Division has to offer, since Ol'val remains the leader of business for the PMC.
Trivia
- Starscream Tactical was thought up and written out in an afternoon by Talos Erinos, after being struck with inspiration while walking his dogs.
- Despite common belief, Talos was unaware that "Starscream" was a Transformer Decepticon while naming this company; he remembered weeks later, concurrent with Grandmaster Muz posting an image of said Decepticon (cartoon form) on this page's discussion page.