Office of Strategic Services

The Office of Strategic Services are a governing agency that was originally founded in 2098 as a legal and official shadow agency that existed to gather intelligence on the possibility of a violent resistance to the ratification of the Alliance Charter in 2098. This would be an true revelation when in 2103 Rio de Daneiro would be subject to a violent terrorist attack when the Red Faction would detonate a Cold War era nuclear bomb in the heart of the city killing millions and launching the United Earth Governing Alliance into its first war. This would lead to the "official" announcement of a intelligence agency which would help in the creation and formation of what would become the Unified Military Command.

History
The Office of Strategic Services would be seen as a necessary evil under President Hanson who had seen the danger of not having a intelligence agency to preserve national security. In 2098 she would sign a executive order forming the Senate Security Commission which would serve as a official government body that would have the ability to create clandestine government "shadow agencies" which could operate on black-budgets, and with limited oversight. However, they would respond to the Senate and the President directly. It also would form Oversight who would be the main committee on maintaining a ethical and moral standard.

The fears of President Hanson and the Senate Security Commission would come to fruition when in 2104 the Brazil, Rio de Janeiro would be nuked by a violent Neo-communist, fascist organization known as the Red Faction which refused to recognize the United Earth Governing Alliance as an official state. This would result in several countries within South America and Asia breaking off and forming the Coalition of Independent States which would refuse to co-operate with the UEGA. Officially war would be declared on June 22, 2104 when the CIS would assassinate a newly elected President Kamen who had gone to Brazil to negotiate terms of a cease fire and for a formal apology.

The assassination of President Kamen would result in the all-out war against the Coalition of Independent States in what would become known as the Rain Forest Wars of the 2100's. A quarter of a century long conflict that would result in millions dead, and the near collapse of society once more. During this war, the Office of Strategic Services would officially become a government agency within the Ministry of Defense which would see the formation of several major military's across the world form the United Defense Front which primarily consisted of military's such as the United States Military Core, Texas Rangers, and the Russian Federation Military who would train other countries militia members in the art of war. The UDF would join the OSS in a join-cooperative venture to demoralize and demonize the Red Faction in what would become known as Operation Red Scare which would be a massive propaganda scheme and several scape-goat schemes which would see entire towns evacuated and burned to the ground and a "survivor" would blame the Red Faction for it. This would later not be nearly as effective as thought, but it did help to create a demoralization of forces in limited areas, as well as creating allies within certain regions.

The next major action they did was Operation Troy which would see talented UDF and Unified Military Command members pulled from their units and trained in espionage, sabotage, intelligence gathering and assassination. Known as a Ghost Program these members would often have no paper trails, and strings attached. Their identities were wiped, and they were integrated into the ranks of the Red Factions across Asia and South America. They would successfully gather information on the leaders position and of military movements within regions. On June 22, 2124 the Ghosts would be activated where they assassinated high ranking officials, captured them, disabled artillery, and relayed the position of Red Faction guerilla forces resulting in the groups being nearly defeated within 4 months. This program would be one of the most successful and used continuously throughout the life of the O.S.S and later the Office of Naval Intelligence.

Following the formation of the Unified Military Command and its various branches, the O.S.S would remain predominantly independent through much of the history of the United Earth Governments early history. However in 2360 under Article 15 when the declaration of war was made against the Independent Colonies of Earth it would officially dissolve the Office of Strategic Services into the Office of Naval Intelligence which would be integrated into Special Warfare Command Group III within the UMC Interstellar Naval Command which would allow little to no oversight. The remaining O.S.S Agents would remain as such as dedicated to government intelligence but without their previous clandestine abilities they became nearly ineffective, and would later be dedicated in the sole protection of Government Agencies.

When the Emergencies Declaration Act was signed in 2400 however the O.S.S would be "dissolved" and turned once more into a Shadow Agencies when rumors of the Office of Naval Intelligence becoming ever more corrupt. This would lead to the O.S.S becoming one of the greatest assets during the war, when it would be revealed in 2559 that the Office of Naval Intelligence had been a driving factor of why the Expanse Sovereign Union broke the peace treaty of 2405. In 2562 when the Emergencies Declaration Act was revoked and government powers restored and resigned by the military, the President of the UEGA launched a formal investigation against the Office of Naval Intelligence, formally making the O.S.S the lead intelligence agency to lead the investigation. This would lead to multiple arrests, and jail sentences. One such arrest was against Director Kremic who authorized the assassination against Admiral Forest who had been a major whistle blower in 2553, when he was forced to take his own life, in order to protect his best friends son, and his own family.

Following the ONI Trials of the 2560's and 2570's the Office of Naval Intelligence would be dissolved and the OSS would become officially the lead intelligence body, while ONI would remain as only a Naval intelligence agency, they lost nearly all their funding, and Oversight would take actions to prevent such travesties such as the Kittomer Incident from happening again, as well as the release of people imprisoned at ONI Black Sights.