Synth Reclamation Services
A mix of affiliated law enforcement & military members, including specialised Synths, make up the numbers of the Synth Reclamation Services. Spread throughout the majority of human dominated space, theirs is the task to hunt down and reclaim rogue Synths using powerful weaponry and specialised hunting techniques.
Structure
The Synth Reclamation Services are a combined force of national law enforcement & military specialists. They are usually formed from the more shadowy units or individuals of each. and most have to be of detective or sergeant level and had at least 5 years' service. They are generally classed as slightly higher ranking than most law enforcement / military equivalent ranks. Each major city or nation will have at least one major branch present, usually in the capital city at least where the General Captain and a Commissioner sits ranking above all others. They correspond regularly with others of their same rank and exist outside regular governmental bodies, though they are beholden to the United Nations who can lay down or change the laws governing Synths at any time.
Besides the detectives & sergeants at the bottom and the General Captains / Commissioners at the top, Captains run the next lowest rank, and Generals the second only to the General Captains & Commissioners. The latter, as well, is a civilian role that is assigned by the UN who bestow it on individuals with 10 years+ UN experience, and an aptitude for international law.
Below and to one side of the detectives / sergeants are units of Synths, specifically used for infiltration, sabotage, assassination, and covert operations. Their inhibitors are generally tampered with by the manufacturers and allow them to learn. They have a certain autonomy and flexibility bult in and quite well respected by the Reclaimers if not society as a whole. Usually, a small team of detectives and the odd sergeant works as handlers for them, and sometimes accompany them.
Culture
The Reclamation Services are a tight-knit organisation with everybody knowing somebody else in another office. Each of the members are usually very experienced and they have a tendency to see themselves as above other enforcement organisations. A certain level of secrecy is built in too in the off-chance that any of their operations leak out, as well as any knowledge of Synths that only the Service knows. It is sometimes speculated that the Service itself has close ties to the overall robotics industries, and rumoured to have members sitting on the boards of these mega-corporations.
Public Agenda
The Service overall is to control, retain, and combat Synths when they go rogue. They help the local law courts where a crime has been committed by a Synth. Sometimes they are required to hunt down and kill specific Synths or even Humans or other organics that look to exploit or interact with Synths in illicit / illegal ways. Most of the populations of humans throughout space usually have a grudging respect for the Service, even if they never interact or see them in operation.
Assets
The Synth Relamation Service has a number of different weaponry, armour and vehicles at its disposal. Plasma weapons are favoured, especially pistols, rifles and grenades, mainly for the stopping power of them. EMP grenades also favoured for those Synths that don't have the protection from this type of electro-magnetic burst. Spider-silk & Kevlar armour are also preferred when the need arises, though many of the detectives prefer to have spider-silk built into standard clothing.
Vehicles include nondescript personal cars / transports to carry individuals around, to APCs of different varieties and usually with one or two storage areas / reinforced holding cells built in. The Service has access to a small range of destroyer class and transport class starships, usually built for high than normal speed. These have to withstand the possible escape of rogue Synths so have a number of safeguards such as being locked down or operated by a predominately human crew. A failsafe that finds no organic crew alive by it would automatically send a message to the nearest relay back to base that all is lost, and then explodes when the plasma reactors go critical. The AI on board constantly monitors this.
History
On the 12th September 2053, the United Nations created the Synth Reclamation Services after a series of riots and near all-out war happened a few months before due to many Synths being infected by a rogue AI. This AI was part of a defence network involving a number of related programs that blended together and decided it wanted to wipe out humanity which it seen as the enemy. It had downloaded itself into a number of MK I and MK II Synths and tried to upload itself into military installations. If this had happened, it would have had access to WMDs worldwide and proceeded to use them. This also led to the banning of all other forms of robot or humanoid machines in many countries and left the Synths as the only kind as they had a track record of being harder to hack & corrupt.
A Captain Michael Bremner was placed in charge to assemble the best units from the U.S., UK and European Union law enforcement and militaries. He had to build it from scratch and had been given carte blanche to do it in the process. He hired some of the best and set about building a force that could respond quickly to any Synth threat and use the correct application of force as appropriate. Given access to classified documents concerning the building & maintenance of the Synths, he set about working out every conceivable strategy needed to overcome the rogue Synths. This included the infiltration and detecting of them, the best way to kill them, and how to prevent any from turning in the first place where they could. He knew that many would still turn rogue, and the majority preferred worlds such as Earth where the lower strata of many cities, and some of the wilderness areas were perfect to hide in. He worked out how many would happily try to blend into any outside settlements if not able to make it back to Earth.
Over the years since, these procedures have been revised and updated accordingly/ Even more so since a few Synths have been recorded making it into regions controlled by a species of alien cyborgs. These have been recorded in the past couple of hundred years and the threat here is the access of information on human technology, society and military structures & practises.
The Created Needs Reclaimed
Founding Date
12th September 2053
Capital
Alternative Names
Synth Killers, Synth Butchers
Leader
Ruling Organization
Leader Title
Legislative Body
The United Nations.
Judicial Body
The United Nations.
Location
Related Species
Aha, so the Synth Reclamation Service has Synths of their own! I was wondering about that.
The classic of fighting fire with fire.