Department of War Operations Planning

[CO. Slate]

Department of War Operations Planning
Department of War Operations Planning

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The Liberty Security Force is not just missile-toting Battlecruisers. The sheer bureaucracy that goes into putting a single fighter, much less a flotilla, in the air would boggle the mind of anyone not intimately familiar with the structural inefficiency of any large organization. Every fighter must be ordered from DSE, who then has to put in the work orders to produce them. They then have to be flown to their new pilots, on deployments anywhere within Liberty. Warships have it easy, the waiting list for commanders out of West Point is short and lacking major conflicts at present, capital attrition is minimal. Deployment of the ships, as well, is done through layers of bureaucracy. Warships taking up station are in general expected to be there in the bureaucracy's eye. But these individual ships aren't the focus here.

Analysts, bureaucrats, theorists, and unofficial observers sit in meetings and plot out how to make sure Liberty comes out ahead in any expected conflict. This is the Department of War Operations Planning (DOWOP). DOWOP observes aggregates of industry, corporate maneuvering, and underworld politics. The DOWOP maintains its own apparatus of informants and agents, given shocking amounts of free rein to engage with the rest of Sirius. The most successful such network is overseen by Case Officer Slate.

Dramatis Personae

Case Officer Slate - Click here
Case Officer Crimson - [CLASSIFIED]
Art Driscoll - Liberty Navy officer (ret.)
Auditor Clark
Auditor Jenkins
Commissioner Trask
... and several analysts, profilers, and theorists, whose combined work ends up in the hands of the above.
Corporate advisors
Jebediah Dupont - Deep Space Engineering representative.
Ivy Young - Ageira Technologies representative
Adrian Robinson - Synth Foods representative.
Arch Quayle - Cryer Pharmaceuticals representative.
Iris Brooks - Universal Shipping representative.
David O'Hara - Liberty Police, Inc. representative
Warren Barnes - Interspace Commerce observer.

Notes

Think tank, not a faction. Leave feedback or whatever below anyway.

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