Stories of Rheinland: Einsatzkommando [rated R]

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Rheinland Eisatzkommando.

Arguably one of the deadliest units in the intelligence and counter intelligence world. Their numbers are estimated to turn around 2000 active members. Their existence traces back somewhere during or after the Popular Revolution.

They are specialized in a wide variety of operations, going from assassination, sabotage, intelligence gathering to standard police patrol. For they are impossible or so to distinguish from the standard federal police forces.

The Einsatzkommando, unlike the BMI, which is under the command of the Military and acts exclusively within the Rheinland borders, is a division of the Federal Police Supreme (or Central) Headquarter, the powerful organization in charge of the national security. Einsatzkommando acts both as internal police and external field agent.

The men and women part of the Einsatzkommando are selected for trial at the age of 25 or 28 (with some exceptions), and were either previously in service as a pilot officer within the Military or Police forces. The training is of the harshest; of known data, we know these soldiers underwent various physically and mentally hard tasks. In one instance, they must resist interrogation techniques that involves the use of harmful instruments to the body.

The effects on each agent' mental balance is unknown at best. Scarce intelligence collected suggests burst of emotions from time to time, often unexplained. Among male personnel, it is generally sudden explosion of violence which passes away after about 20 minutes. For female personnel, we would mainly witness great moment of depression, including some recorded attempt at suicide, which lasts around 1 hour or 2.
As such, Einsatzkommando members are at all time kept under close surveillance, generally living close or within Central Headquarter itself, on planet New Berlin, where multiple psychologists and medical teams are ready to assist at all time.

A few rare case of the Einsatzkommando personnel have been known to suffer none of these syndromes. The reasons are yet unknown, as too many factors might be implied.

Most of the syndromes listed appears during the final phase of an agent' training.

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