S.P.I.R.E.
Supernatural Paranormal Investigation Research Echelon
SPIRE is a world-wide black operations organization responsible for protecting the average civilian from the paranormal and supernatural forces that threaten global security - the secret investigative arm of the most power countries of the world. Funded by top multinational government officials and a select few affluent individuals, SPIRE operates outside of normal international law to discover, identify, and combat supernatural anomalies, threats, and phenomena.
Located in a multitude of major countries and operating as the most classified of all agencies, SPIRE's main responsibility is to maintain the global status quo to allow the standard civilian to go about their lives in relative peace without influence from any outside supernatural forces.
SPIRE operates under one main mission:
Protect and defend the livelihood of all global civilians from supernatural threats and influences.
SPIRE achieves this goal using the following steps:
1.) Discover and Identify: Pro-actively search for paranormal and supernatural anomalies. Classify these anomalies through diligent surveillance, observation, and communication.
2.) Contain: Prevent public circulation of the newly identified paranormal or supernatural anomaly by relocation, concealment, or confinement.
3.) Terminate: The conditions for the termination order are extreme, and only the most uncontainable anomalies are administered one. But, when required, severely dangerous anomalies are often destroyed or eliminated to prevent a breach of global security.
4.) Maintain: Once either contained or terminated, information regarding these entities or objects are deemed classified and all efforts are made to slow or stop the spreading of information regarding the anomaly and the events surrounding it.
SPIRE is organized into seven major divisions:
The agents in this division are often considered the life and blood of SPIRE. They search for new unknown anomalies through media observation, government espionage, global reconnaissance, and local inquiries. New anomalies are discovered frequently. Applicants are required to be exceptionally intelligent, perceptive, and sensitive to multicultural traditions.
Investigation represent the very roots of the SPIRE organization. The men and women of Investigation are tasked with following up on intelligence gathered by Discovery to contact, communicate, understand, and identify current anomaly leads.They must then determine the course for the containment of the newly discovered anomaly. Applicants to Investigation must be well-rounded individuals capable of performing their duties with minimal support.
This is the largest, and most rapidly growing division in the entire organization. Containment agents and engineers must design, prepare, and deploy the various containment methods for each new anomaly based on information gathered from Discovery and Investigation. They are also tasked with maintaining each containment method, and when capable, improve on the current containment procedures. Applicants to containment must be intelligent, resourceful, and imaginative.
Assignments in this division are often considered one of the most dangerous of all duties. Termination orders are not given lightly and are usually reserved for especially dangerous anomalies that Containment cannot control. Termination agents are often well equipped and trained in the most modern law enforcement and military techniques available. Applicants to Termination are required to be adaptable, resilient, determined, and capable of working in a team.
The task of maintaining a shield of secrecy and concealment on the existence of SPIRE and supernatural anomalies rests on the agents of Obscuration. Preventing or slowing the spread of information is done is multiple ways including: alteration, spoliation, encryption, misinformation, and assassination. Applicants to obscuration must be strong willed, clever, and loyal.
Even the most modern equipment of the worldwide military sector are not always enough to discover, identify, contain, or terminate every anomaly. The researchers and scientists of the R&D division will often use information gained from previous categorized anomalies to development new devices to aid field agents in performing their duties. Research and development also include the experimentation, both ethical and not, of current anomalies to better understand and categorize them. Applicants to R&D must be inventive, observant, logical, and practical.
SPIRE provides their field agents, engineers, and researchers with the equipment and supplies they need to complete their tasks. This is done with the Requsition division, whom are tasked with the proper distribution, management, and delivery of these essentials. Logistics also falls under the responsibility of the Requisition department, and often have to deploy new ways to deliver equipment to field agents, especially when secrecy is paramount. Requisitions also includes various contracted laborers to build facilities and facades. Applicants to Requisition must be organized and coordinated.
