The Red-Line Test

The Red-Line Test started as a recruitment technique of the HSA - Homeland State Authority as a shoot-off of the Black-Line test given to all primary students upon their graduation. While the Black-Line Test is very strict in it’s placement of students, the HSA is much less so (being known internally for scoping up the prospects that seem to have been forgotten about or discarded by the rest of the world as not fitting into the perfect little boxes society wants, it is known for turning these people into the best agents, most dependable assets, and most revolutionary scientists). First the HSA uses the Black-Line test scores, along with complex profiling of all students to detect which ones would be perfect for the agency (it is especially looking for students who just missed out on scoring where they wanted to, as desire counts for a lot in the eyes of the director). They are then brought to the HIPA training facility where they ostensibly begin their training as HIPA workers, not told about the HSA until it is clear they will not wash out of their training. Training agents who do will usually become HIPA workers at that point. They start of with a White-Line Test which sets an opening benchmark for their performance. Over the course of their training, they will take five more White-Line Tests, in which new high watermark benchmarks must be reached in order to stay in the program (a training agent will usually not let those they are training take the tests if they won’t pass them yet, unless they are trying to wash an agent out, as the goal is to pass as many agents through as they can). To graduate training and become a real agent (and find out what agency you’d really be working for) you have to pass the final Red-Line test. The various parts are Offensive, Operational, Situational, Fitness, Marksmanship, Technology, and Details, with each test having both a written/practical part in the training facility, and a corresponding real world operation to pass. Scientists/Doctors/Tech Analysts being recruited for HSA will usually have to take much less strenuous versions of the Red-Line subjects above (or have them admitted entirely depending on operational activation statuses) and instead will have to take Science, Technology, Engineering and Mathematics tests.