The Collective

The Collective is the intelligence agency of the FTSR. It was created by Dain Kordridge back when Ticondera was still one nation. It is a completely decentralized organization, with various chains of command operating parallel to one another in a nearly autonomous fashion. It can be deceptively easy to infiltrate, and yet frustratingly difficult to learn anything of value. Scandian agents generally consider the Collective to be unbelievably inefficient and unaccountable, but amidst all the organized chaos is a group that is capable of managing thousands of tasks at once without anyone catching on to the bigger picture. The Collective employs some of the most widely experienced operatives of any national agency, due to the large number of ex-OmniSenters who sought refuge in its service. The sheer number of deep cover agents and double plants utilized by the Collective webwide would provide a nasty surprise to the rest of the world; many have been in place since before the dissolution of Ticondera, and silently await the day that Ticondera shall again become whole and united, ready to take on the next Leviathan.

The Collective is also home to the Superagent program, which uses cutting-edge gene therapy and advanced versions of Iron Army combat drugs to create elite operatives with enhanced abilities. Those few superagents that survive the process with their brains intact are welcomed into the Cadre, a close-knit fraternity of special ops known more for their destructiveness than for their subtlety. The Cadre is the only unit within the Collective where the individual agents all know each other, if not necessarily trust each other.