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OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: The intent of The Shroud is to provide a sect within Black Sun for PCs to be a part of and to explain how Black Sun manages to be way ahead of the game in terms of information
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- Links: CEID, Eclipse Consortium, House Vesnam, Malicar, Black Sun, Gad Calgaran
GENERAL INFORMATION
- Organization Name: The Shroud
- Classification: Criminal Intelligence Organization
- Affiliation: Black Sun
- Organization Symbol: N/A
- Description: The Shroud is an elite intelligence organization, that supports Black Sun, formed to gather, process, synthesize, and disseminate information.
GEOGRAPHICAL INFORMATION
- Headquarters: Nar Shaddaa
- Domain: Contacts, safehouses, informants, snitches, spies, and other assets spread across the galaxy
- Notable Assets: Synthesis Center located on The Ego and HQ located on Nar Shaddaa (these locations will be submitted pending Lore approval)
SOCIAL INFORMATION
- Hierarchy: The Shroud is overseen directly by Malicar, but it is run by the Director. Each functional geographical area is overseen by Handlers. Informants, spies, contacts, and other sentient intelligence (SenInt) assets report to the Handler. Handlers report = to the Director, who reports to Malicar.
- Membership: While the Black Sun membership of The Shroud actually consists of those who process the intelligence collected, spies, and Handlers, the criminal network of contacts, informants, loyal business owners, snitches, double agents, etc. are too vast to count. This aspect of The Shroud is spread hundreds of systems, within factions and independently, all across the galaxy. Black Sun members of The Shroud include intelligence analysts, spies, assassins, security personnel, slicers, information brokers, etc. to name a few.
No one applies to The Shroud. The Shroud members are handpicked. They are watched and studied for years, measuring many different aspects of effectiveness, but loyalty is the most sought after “metric”. Once a member is recruited, they undergo a battery of tests, including being exposed to truth serum and a myriad of different lie detectors to verify their suspected loyalty.
- Climate: The Shroud operates with a chip on their shoulder. Malicar has put them to the test, challenging them to become the most proficient intelligence organization in the galaxy. With a nearly unlimited budget, expertise and “know how”, not to mention the overwhelming number of informants at their disposal across the galaxy, The Shroud takes pride in their work. While there is a bit of intrigue that can occur within the organization, loyalty is something that The Shroud is known for. Despite their fanatical loyalty, information is still compartmentalized, much on a need to know basis. This prevents one person from being able to cause irreparable damage should they be captured and tortured for information. How the information is compartmentalized is handled at a very high level, often sorted by Malicar, himself.
- Reputation: Outside of Black Sun, The Shroud is just a swirl of rumors. Many large factions and governments cannot imagine that a criminal organization would be on the bleeding-edge of technology, organized, efficient and effective on a galactic scale.
- Curios: There are no defining marks on members of The Shroud.
- Rules: Be loyal. If you are bribed, let The Shroud match it. If you are blackmailed, let The Shroud fix it. If you are tortured, give truths veiled in lies. Betrayal always finds a slow death at the end.
- Goals: The goal of The Shroud is to protect Black Sun from failure before it happens. The goal of The Shroud is to become the most powerful intelligence organization in the galaxy. Black Sun spares no expense on this sect. There are always bribes to be paid and pockets to be filled across the galaxy, from a lowly waiter to a cantina owner to a prominent politician to leaders of large factions…the goal of The Shroud is to know a little about everything which leads to learning a lot about something of interest. The Shroud hopes to have informants in most every system in the galaxy so that they are never surprised…
MEMBERS
Gad Calgaran – Director of The Shroud
Bal’Falan Hasati
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
The Chiss Expeditionary Intelligence Division (CEID) is considered one of the most effective intelligence organizations in the galaxy. Malicar, one their Master Agents, was also the crimelord of the Eclipse Consortium. This unique position enabled Malicar to experiment with how to leverage the vast network of contacts in the criminal underworld and merge it with the cold efficiency of the CEID. Once Malicar was exiled from House Vesnam, his official membership with the CEID and House Vesnam ended…but his contacts and sources of information there remained.
When Black Sun expanded and saw rapid growth, it became clear to Malicar that the existing intelligence network run by petty criminals and the Eclipse Consortium was not going to be enough—Black Sun depended on information to survive. As such, Malicar took much of his newfound wealth and invested it into creating The Shroud. Th Chiss realized that in order for Black Sun to stay ahead of the game when in competition with much large, much more vast factions, they would have to one many steps ahead of their competition.
Using his expertise and knowledge from CEID, Malicar formed The Shroud from the bottom up, handpicking members and then depending on those members to handpick others. The first member he picked to run The Shroud as the Director was Gad Calgaran. A trusted associate of Malicar’s and an expert in all things covert, he was the perfect individual to entrust to guide The Shroud…
