Imperial Scholae Intelligence (ISI), is the central intelligence service of House Scholae Palatinae. It is dedicated to collecting information and carrying out covert operations. It is responsible for watching all activities of the various planetary governments, corporations and other entities within the Cocytus System and as necessary the greater galaxy. As well, it monitors all impacting mercenary, bounty hunter and other illegal activities.
History
The Imperial Scholae Intelligence, founded in 33 ABY by Dante and Impetus, was created to fill the void of Internal Security, an area that the clan had neglected for years. With widespread changes across the Clan rising from its downsize into a house, innovations and changes to the new house’s structure were so common it seemed a natural time to introduce another new system, the Imperial Scholae Intelligence, or ISI.
The ISI, separate from the military, would focus almost exclusively on the internal and external protection of the clan. Dante hired Impetus for the task of building the force shortly after her return from Plagueis, given her intimate knowledge of the Clan’s system, long history in Special Operations and Intelligence, and being a famous name across Cocytus, she was the obvious and ideal choice.
Impetus and Dante quickly assessed the required funding and drainage on the house’s resources and come together with a plan that would minimize the security problems that threatened the house both internally and externally.
Deployment & Garrison
Headquarters of the ISI are in Ohmen, Judecca near the Imperial Palace. While the location serves as the primary address for the group in reality they are spread out across the system and galaxy. In addition many of the locations of various units varies or is actually stationed within the ships of the fleet.
Command
The highest level of command over Imperial Scholae Intelligence is a group known as the Directorate. Membership within this group is made up of seven members including the Director of ISI, heads of the three Divisions, the Emperor's Hand, the Battle Team Leader of Caliburnus, and an unknown designee by the Emperor.
The Directorate will oversee all activities of the ISI, formulating strategies and aligning goals and moving the organization in the right direction. However, the Director of ISI is the public figure at the head, while the rest operate in relative secrecy and do not attend gatherings on behalf of the organization.
Directorate
- Director of ISI Jaina Azrah
- Chief of Internal Affairs
- Chief of Analysis
- Chief of Operations
- Emperor's Hand Rayne Victae
- Commander Evant Taelyan
- Unknown Designee of the Emperor
| Imperial Scholae Intelligence Ranks |
| |
O-1 |
O-2 |
O-3 |
O-4 |
| Internal Division |
Junior Agent |
Agent |
Senior Agent |
Special Agent |
| Analysis Division |
Junior Analyst |
Analyst |
Senior Analyst |
Watcher |
| Operations Division |
Informant |
Fixer |
Cipher |
Keeper |
Intelligence Officers
All members of Imperial Scholae Intelligence are commissioned officers as part of the military, however they do not follow the normal rankings of the other units. Each respective Division has a set of ranks that clearly relates to their level of access to classified information and autonomy in how they operate given the relative level of trust placed upon them.
Internal Division
All members of the Internal Division fall under the title of Agent under both the Investigation and Counterintelligence Branches. If necessary new members will start out as a Junior Agent while they complete necessary training but the majority of members will hold the rank of Agent. The most experienced of these Agents will find themselves promoted to Senior Agent, mentors to other Agents and sent on more difficult missions that require their level of expertise. A small set of the best of these Agents will become Special Agents. Given access to the most classified and critical of operations. They are the most trusted and skilled individuals within the Internal Division.
Analysis Division
A majority of the Analysis Division hold the rank of Analyst. They gather and analyze data and are the main driving work force behind the knowledge and data of the entire division. Specialized and unique in their given tasks they are good at what they do, crunching numbers. With more experience and skills, the next level are Senior Analysts. They have access to more classified information and allowing more analysis across sets of data and work with more time sensitive and critical operations and trends. A select few of the best will find themselves as Watchers. They are given access to all levels of secure data of ISI and directly support Agents and Operatives in the field and are among some of the best and most trusted individuals.
Operations Division
Members of the Operations Division are collectively known as Operatives, however specific titles designate the type of work and level of skills. The lowest of these is informant, taking the most basic of missions and taking new identities and collecting information. Specialized and more technical of these will become Fixers, with a specialized technical skill in the field required to slice or apply scientific knowledge to collect information at a higher level. The best and most skilled of these individuals will become Ciphers. With a high level of autonomy and combat skills, Ciphers are dangerous and critical to ISI operations. Completely given over to the ISI are the Keepers at the top of Operations. These individuals know some of the deepest secrets are the most deadly in all of the ISI with direct access at all times to the Watchers of the Analysis Division.
Structure
The Imperial Scholae Intelligence is split into three separate Directorates. The Internal Directorate to protect the military and ISI itself as well as the Cocytus System from all threats, along with the Analysis Directorate that uses ever method possible to collect any and all types of data, working with the Operations Directorate that helps to collect this information and carries out individual operations in support of the goals. These three Directorates work along with the Tempest Division and Battle Team Caliburnus to carry out covert operations as necessary.
Internal Division
Investigation Branch
Counterintelligence Branch
- Security Defence Forces: The Security Defence Forces are essentially common police officers, and as such they make up the bulk of the ISI. Trained in all manner of tasks, they can be relied upon for day to day crime prevention, crowd control, and guards. They also serve as lookouts on their patrols, trained to recognize the tell tale signs of a Jedi in the area, and report any mysterious occurrences up the chain of command.
- Forensics: Those assigned to Forensics are the detectives of the ISI. There are always the situations in which things happen beyond the control of the Security Defence Forces, in which case action must be taken to deduce what happened and who was responsible. The Forensic Scientists are generally only deployed to high important scenarios.
- Internal Intelligence: Another division that only generally sees action in the more high profile cases, the Internal Intelligence provide tactical assistance to the Defence Forces and Counter Terrorism. Their specialty is finding people, things, whatever needs to be found, whether it be stolen property of high value or a fugitive in hiding.
- Counter Terrorism: One of the most crucial tasks of the Internal Directorate, counter-terrorism is just what the name implies. Trained extensively to respond with rapid precision, usually with tips from the Security Defence Forces, this division’s function is to prevent wide scale attacks, with lethal force if required. Due to the high criteria for eligibility, this is one of the smallest divisions in the ISI.
- Insurgency Operations: Sometimes the best way to protect one thing is to make another thing explode. The Insurgency operatives understand this, and are the division called upon if an enemy structure needs to be destroyed, being trained in the use of explosive charges and missile launchers.
- Espionage and Reconnaissance: A simple task in writing, this division’s purpose is simply to provide information on what Scholae Palatinae’s rivals are doing. Exploring unknown territory, gauging enemy strength, and compiling information and schematics on key enemy locations, this division is essential support for the entire External Affairs Directorate.
- Appropriation: This is the division responsible for theft from items in enemy hands. Their function can have many different triggers, from discovering useful objects such as expensive technology, to counter-thievery in the case that anything is stolen from CSP. These agents have also been responsible for plagiarism, copying enemy designs and plans before they can implement them.
- Lethal Ops: This division is the ISI’s assassin network. Sometimes people just need to be killed. The entry criteria for this division is extremely high, and its members diverse, from highly competent marksmen in camouflage to the seductresses with a hidden blade. The main target for this division are high profile enemy names, from suppliers to commanders.
- Cyber Security: Not falling into any particular category, the ISI’s Cyber Security tirelessly monitors data communication. Their numbers large and their methods efficient, these computer scientists monitor everything from short distance to long distance communication, picking up on organised crime before it happens, and intercepting enemy signals for decoding.
Analysis Division
Large amounts of data gathering. Collecting information, hacking, decrypting, interrogating, public news networks, surveillance, etc.
Operations Division
To help collect more information, get deep inside. Where the actual spies and agents are. Infiltration, Surveillance, monitoring, sneaky stuff.
Tempest Division
Led by the Emperor's Hand
The head of the Tempest Division within Imperial Scholae Intelligence is the Emperor's Hand. Though the Tempest Division itself falls directly under the command of the ISI, this unique position answers only to the Emperor. Handling certain highly sensitive and classified assassination missions or other covert operations as necessary.
Assassination, Desbilization, Counter-intelligence, dealing directly with Jedi and other special cases. Actively seeks new Dark Jedi.
- 1 squad bugcrunchers
- 3 squads noghri
- 2 platoons of medics
- 2 double platoons of scouts
- 1 platoon of engineers
- 5 platoons of snipers
Caliburnus
Elite black-ops unit consisting of Dark Jedi of Scholae Palatinae. BTL of Caliburnus
Directly tied into Imperial Scholae Intelligence is Battle Team Caliburnus. Though reporting directly to the Emperor for all matters, the team will complete certain classified or otherwise impossible operations as needed by the ISI with all the Dark Jedi members of the team having access to the full resources and information at discretion of their Commander.