S.W.O.R.D.

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S.W.O.R.D.
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Active: 1620.5654 AN.ASCPresent
Motto The Sword is sharp and swift
In use by: Ministry of Military Affairs
Allegiance: Shireroth

Type: Military Counter-Intelligence, Special Operations
Size: 27,975 + classified others
Nickname: Invisible Swords

Current Commander: Isabella Simrani-Kalirion
Conflicts & Deployments

S.W.O.R.D. (Shireroth's Warriors for Observation, Retribution and Deterrence) is a military organisation active on all possible fronts and in all possible ways to secure the hegemony of the Imperial Republic ranging from counter intelligence and personal protection to warfare. S.W.O.R.D. only answers to the Minister for Military Affairs. For this reason it has been customarily treated as an agency outside of the Imperial Forces as it derives its origins and mandate from a Ministerial Ordinance rather than the Martial Code of Shireroth.


History

S.W.O.R.D. was founded by Jacob Darylion-Verion after his appointment as Minister of Military Affairs. The powers of the organisation greatly expanded under his reign as Kaiser Verion I. The Kaiser also used money from the Imperial Treasury to finance covert operations of S.W.O.R.D.

S.W.O.R.D. along with Rrakanychan Watch was controversially deployed in 1639 as airborne light infantry during the final battles of annihilation along Posada Ridge during the endgame of the anti-Froyalanish insurgency in the Vale of Angularis. The casualties suffered during these battles, which amounted to 3,830 operatives out of a deployed force of approximately 6,000 field agents, proved to be a debilitating blow which limited the involvement of S.W.O.R.D. during the early phases of the Civil War in Goldshire to intelligence gathering and the provision of training and logistical support to the Jaysh al-Sathrati.

The rout, however, of this proxy force in late 1642 and the subsequent advance of rebel forces towards Cabbagefall forced S.W.O.R.D. to mobilise its cadres once more and rejoin the fray as the Battle of Holwinn developed.

Director of S.W.O.R.D.

The daily operations of S.W.O.R.D. are run by the Director.

List of S.W.O.R.D. directors

Ministries of the Imperial Republic

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