Consular Operations: Keepers of the Peace
In the late 1960's, the President and his staff held a meeting to determine if the current security agencies of the world were equipped to handle the rising trends of communism, global terrorism, and fanatacism in general. These men, while disagreeing on many things, were able to see this: the current status of global security was such that no major nation was ready to handle a major threat to the peace and stability of the world in general. As a solution, a new agency was formed. Called Consular Operations, this new security agency would keep a massive list of contacts and a huge stockpile of information, while fielding a small number of highly experienced operatives. With so many resources - many of which were barred by in-fighting between other security agencies - and such flexibility, this agency quickly became successful. Working behind the scenes, the field agents and intelligence efforts of Con Ops prevented over two hundred possible wars by curtailing activity as it began. Con Ops was, by far, considered the best black ops agency to ever hold sway in the modern world. And it was kept a complete secret from the rest of the United States government; Congress, the Senate, the Joint-Chiefs, and even other agencies such as the CIA and FBI had no idea of its existance. The secret was passed from one president to the next, until none remained alive who knew the secret except the current president and the agents of Con Ops. However, the use of the agency seemed to decline as the years went by. With fewer and fewer massive threats to global security combined with the new effectiveness of other security agencies, Con Ops faded to the background. Its role and funding was decreased, and the names which would go down in black ops history - names like Paul Janson - faded to the background of the intelligence community. Now, in 2036, Con Ops is all but a ghost in the United States government - another under-budgeted project which lost its usefullness and is doomed to soon fail. However, some field agents still remain and the contacts and information gathering power of Consular Operations is still at its best. This is where this story begins.
Info
This RP is based upon an agency which Robert Ludlum alludes to in his novel, The Janson Directive. While not a real agency, I liked the idea of it so I expanded upon the agency with my own imagination. Some inspirations also came from Ludlum's work, The Prometheus Deception, and the Directorate which played a central role. You will be able to choose from a variety of roles - from field agent to operational support to informant - and will jump into the world of Con Ops. Like most military based RPs, missions will be assigned via the first few posts and characters will be informed of these through useful means (i.e. coded text messages or whatever). However, there will be a storyline. These missions will have an ultimate goal, and thus the RP will have an ultimate end. I'd prefer to think of this as a novel. Only that each character gets their own author. The ultimate plan won't be revealed, and most of what's going on won't become apparent until the very end.
Rules
1. Please follow the Gaia ToS. That's a given.
2. There will be fighting involved - that's part of the RP. Please be realistic in this; if your character is surrounded by twenty gunmen with automatic weapons aimed at your head and they fire, you will die. Basically, don't god mod.
3. Be literate - another given.
4. There will be bad guys in this RP. They will recieve via PM instructions on what to do.
5. No character is permanent. By that I mean that your character could die at any moment. Once this happens, you're basically out of the RP. I'm really pushing for realism in this thing.
6. Try to make posts more than eight sentences.
7. There will be a table of contents with page links to each "chapter." Chapters start when each mission starts, and will be marked with a post by me announcing which chapter it is.
8. If you disagree with something that's going on in the RP - be it plot or just another RPer - please PM me. Do not fill this topic with OOC posts arguing about it.
9. Be creative and have fun!
Table of Contents
Chapter 1 - Prelude: Page 1
Chapter 2 - ______: Page _
