The Special Interstellar Naval Service (S.I.N.S)

Written by BritishOutaku

Special Interstellar Naval Service

Human Alliance Special Forces

Formerly of the United Earth Special Forces a branch of the United Earth Government Military

The Special Interstellar Naval Service (S.I.N.S) is a special forces organization of the Alliances Special forces units, specializing in sub-orbital-drop shock infantry and special warfare tactics as well as various missions in space in boarding and deep stellar reconnaissance. The S.I.N.S is one of the primary Special Operations units of the Human Alliance Military and is under the supervision of Naval Special Warfare Command. The S.I.N.S central HQ is located at New Nagoya, Terra Mistar.

Career

Qualifications

• First level certification from Alliance military academies, Though this may be overlooked with the below criteria meet:
-5 years military service alongside a superiors recommendation will permit consideration of entry. -Exemptions can be made in the case of non-military personal recognised for there skill and professionalism, again will be permitted consideration of entry
• Minimal 2 years active service in the various military branches of the Marines, Army, and Navy and from other various Special Operations Groups.
• Extensive background checks
• Completion of Level 5 Intense training

Career Progression

Upon entry any non commissioned officers will immediately lose rank and be demoted to Private. The system for advancement is as follows with various sub rankings within: Private Corporal or Lance Corporal Sergeant Lieutenant Captain Major Lieutenant-Colonel Major-General Lieutenant-General General Field-Marshal
Those seeking to advance are required to have served for a specified time for each rank in total service time and pass various criteria befitting of there increase of rank and responsibilities and specific rank tests.

Payment & Reimbursement

• A Salary of more than £14,700 as soon started training
• To later earning over £18,000 after completion, potentially rising to over £48,000 over career progresses
• As well as earning additional pay if for specialisation in various set disciplines, e.g. First Aid and/or Combat Treatment
• Six weeks of paid holiday every year

Other Benefits

• Free medical and dental care
• Free travel and accommodation within Alliance Space
• Excellent pension scheme
• Adventurous training
(Disclaimer)
• While is not an official perk or universal rule upon presenting a fellow S.I.N.S former or active member, it has been noted said person would offer as much help as possible denoting the reason or predicament

Perception

Purpose

S.I.N.S perform highly specialized, small scale, high-risk operations including

• Deep Ground Surveillance or Long Range Reconnaissance: Patrols in small groups, in uniform, usually far behind the enemy lines. While DGS units may direct air or artillery strikes against enemy positions, they strive to be unobserved, and have only self defence capability. Those performing Long Range Reconnaissance are able to remain hidden under the nose of the enemy for days on end, lurking concealed in dug out hides and on so-called 'hard routine' (no talking, no smoking, cooking etc) taking in detailed reconnaissance able to know even the sleeping habits of individual enemy combatants in long duration reconnaissance deep behind enemy lines.


• Direct Action: Short-duration strikes and other small-scale offensive actions conducted as a special operation in hostile, denied, or politically sensitive environments and which employ specialised military capabilities to seize, destroy, capture, exploit, recover, or damage designated targets. Direct action differs from conventional offensive actions in the level of physical and political risk, operational techniques, and the degree of discriminate and precise use of force to achieve specific objectives.


• Target Attacks/Behind The Lines Sabotage: S.I.N.S are experts at infiltration deep into enemy territory, destroying fuel dumps, communication lines, bridges and railway lines. and other indirect activities of subversion, sabotage, intelligence gathering, escape and evasion.


• Counter-Terrorism Operations: The response to terrorist threats and/or acts, both real and imputed, One Sabre Squadron is responsible for counter-terrorism duties, with a team on a constant state of alert. The SAS train to carry out anti-terrorist operations against all types of target imaginable. The SP team has to be able to rescue hostages from various vehicles atmospheric and space based, trains, buses, planes, shuttles unto stellar transports),buildings and ships.


• Counter-Contraband Operations and Personnel, Special Equipment Recovery/Capture: Missions undertaking the recapturing of smuggled/stolen goods. And the recovery/medical treatment of friendly personnel in combat environments, as well as the capability of capturing high valued individuals and any equipment.


• Close Protection: The S.I.N.S inspire of there offensive capabilities are masters at close protection duties (CP), overt protection e.g. Body armour and weapons carried in plain sight, intended to act as a deterrent and to ensure they can react with maximum firepower. Or low-key overt protection blending in with the surroundings wearing civilian clothing worn and concealed weapons but as a visible presence around the VIP who is free to interact with the public.

Social Status

The Special Interstellar Naval Service is the Alliances most renowned special forces unit. From the moment several black-clad red striped figures were first captured on video in the Silisto disaster , the S.I.N.S forces have become celebrities within Alliance space. And their corps motto encapsulated in time by its then leader Jackson 'Mad Jack' Churchill, 'Who Dares Wins' becoming part of the alliance military culture and aspirations to those in and outside the service.

Demographics

Due to the elite nature of the Special Interstellar Naval Service and the danger presented in that of there missions the requirements for the entry in to the corps, ensure a incredibly small faction when compared to other special forces within the alliance and a mere speck on the entire population.

History

From the Onset of Human expansion in the unknown, solar systems beyond our own and the discovery of more and more habitable planets within not discounting the vast mineral and energy reserves able to a strained and decaying Earth, colonisation under the initial United Earth Government (UEG) a collection of the various nation states of earth, it would undergo massive population boom in its new colonies. Such over-population directly resulted in increasing disillusionment with the Earth government brought rise to a slew of independence movements which would soon become full-fledged insurrections assaulting the various colonial authorities loyal to Earth government. Faced with mounting causalities by the insurrectionist's irregular warfare, the various special forces of those nations were united under the UEG, alongside other branches of the military to form a single military force, under the banner of the United Earth Special Forces.
The S.I.N.S as they were at the time we merely ex-national special forces working together with members of the S.A.S. the Spetnaz and even the Japanese Special Forces Group. Such national groups were compiled as to accentuate their skill set best and deployed in tandem with main forces as strike teams to destroy vital structures or systems as well as deep reconnaissance, subterfuge, and sabotage. The most notable of its deployments was the neutralisation of the Martian Defence Grid built early on into its colonisation as a defense against pirates, asteroids and other threats due to the limited fielding of combat ships by the United Earth Government as a less costly alternative

Operations

Tools

S.I.N.S Combat Helmet Constructed with titanium, with a heat resistance coating to disperse heat and inlined padding to provide comfort providing excellent protection against small arms fire and small explosive attacks. The helmet's faceplate is made of a robust and glass-like material with the ability to polarise upon which it takes on a silver blue color to it, obscuring the wearer's face entirely. The helmet also houses a communicator in it. The helmet also provides the ability to perform EVA, and a provides a Heads-up display (HUD), giving the wearer necessary information including, ammo capacity and the subjects health as through the soldiers integrated Neural Interface to offer more tactical data to the HUD. The HUD also has the option of switching to thermal imaging and motion capturing displays.
AI Most Squads are equipped with there own AI's to provide data collection and cyber offense and defensive capabilities enabling links into HA, HAMC, and HASF systems at the local, national, and global levels, street-level navigational data, as well as secure real-time mission data. Vision enhancement, which outlines hostile, friendlies and other such items or personal. Certain exemplary individuals or officers can be outfitted with companions AI's to provide extended support in squads or as a lone operative.
Combat Backpacks Those Backpacks issued to S.I.N.S is an armored variant that attaches to the back of the armored vest with various options. Storing equipment from ammunition, medical supplies, explosives and communications radio and satellite gear. For more extended missions, operatives can carry larger backpacks with enough supplies for up to two and a half weeks without resupply. They are also magnetic allowing for the mounting of additional equipment such as weapons on the rucksack itself removing the need for extra straps or slings.
Combat Armour Body Suit The bodysuit is made up of several different layers and materials, an inner layer of Kevlar for small arms fire, alongside a temperatures regulator, to keep the user warm or cold and to match infrared signatures of the current weather negating infrared sensors. The outer layer of the suit is also coated in a heat resistant material and comprised of Titanium and Ceramic composite armor plating that covers the chest, shoulders, legs, and feet. The suit doubles as a pressure suit to allow an ODST to perform EVA.

Workplace

The S.I.N.S primary HQ is located at New Nagoya, Terra Mistar. Serving as a base of its operations for the various missions its teams and operatives are on, the HQ in New Nagoya also houses a specialized Hospital, Barracks, Garage, R&D complex and its own drydock for the ships under its command primarily the "Hub" altered Light Carrier but is also capable of housing its other ships also under its ownership. The dockyards are those formed out from natural ravines present near New Nagoya in its initial settling mined extensively before being abandoned and picked up by the Human Alliance military and transferred over to Special Interstellar Naval Service as for its usage.
It's Garage as attached to its dockyard is fully equipped to house and maintain its fleet of stellar and atmospheric capable vehicles as well as a sizeable number of assault vehicles many notable upgraded and modified for various purposes in its operations. Its Barracks and Hospital are notably standard among Alliance Military, though its hospital also acts an extended biological research division in tandem with the R&D complex present.

Dangers & Hazards

Due to the internet dangers facing those within the alliance military especially more so by the S.I.N.S special forces corp operating in some of the most dangerous and isolated theatres of combat and hopeful recruit and enlisted solider must be knowing of the dangers of:

• Death
• Maiming
• Torture Physical and Psychological
• PTSD and other such conditions resulting from service
• Disavowment and or abandonment in hostile territory in event of capture or failure of mission objetive

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Alternative Names

S.I.N.S

Type

Military

Demand

With the end of the Inssurections on Alliance worlds and the reorganisation of the Service, it had orginally been sidelined but with the readmergence of Insrrectionist leaders it had undrgone massive expansion with huge backing within the goverment.

Legality

The Special Interstellar Naval Service is an official branch of the Human Alliance Military and is mandated to achieve its mission objective within all available means, though it is still subject to most military law regarding usage of excessive force however such measurements of excessive force is exaggerated for the service in its missions, such examples would be the Phobos Disaster.