Covert Operations (rho/rho)

Many people guessed at the existence of a ROM Covert Operations Branch, but only since the ComStar schism have those guesses been confirmed. A staggering number of Covert Operations agents defected to the Word of Blake, revealing the branch's operations and procedures to the Free Worlds League. The schism forced ComStar ROM to completely reorganize its Covert Operations Branch to keep its enemies from easily predicting its actions.

Covert Operations carries out all of ComStar's clandestine operations. Though ComStar essentially abandoned its assassination and misinformation strategies in the Reformation, Covert Operations agents continue to work throughout the Inner Sphere. As is true of most ComStar ROM divisions, most Covert Operations agents currently are involved in missions to counter enemy activity within the Free Worlds League. Operations against the Clans in the occupation zones have been transferred to the jurisdiction of the newly created Clan Liaison Department.

The Covert Operations Branch continues to represent the best-trained group within ROM. Though Primus Mori's reforms eliminated the doctrinal purity exams required by this division, candidates must still score within the top 4 percent on a battery of aptitude tests in order to qualify for Covert Operations. Those who pass enter an intensive training course that records show only one in five students completes. The specific training procedures for this branch remain shrouded in secrecy.

Demi-Precentor Lukas Freeman, a veteran operative who has served with the Covert Operations branch since his induction into ROM thirty years ago, currently runs the department.

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Will Day < willday@rom.oit.gatech.edu >
Apr. 20, 1996