IBLEA strike team

Composition

Manpower

The IBLEA strikeforce consists of roughly 5,000 highly skilled and dedicated veterans from various military and police forces around the world. Members are continually cross-training each other. Infantry teach medics how to shoot and maneuver. Medics teach law enforcement experts how to treat wounds. Law enforcement experts teach evidence preservation to astronauts. Astronauts teach infantry how to operate in zero G.
The striketeam has exceptional competence in genetic forensics, bioweapon development, computer infiltration, infantry combat, law enforcement, public health, criminal prosecution, drone operation, space combat, combat medicine, improvised explosive de-activation, logistics, and personnel are fluent in over 80 languages.
Task forces are assembled on an ad hoc basis, with whatever personnel are needed.

Equipment

Strike teams are able to obtain whatever personal equipment they desire. They generally lease vehicles, and hire drivers/pilots as needed.

Tactics

Strike team make heavy use of cyber, drone, and human espionage before initiating an attack. Typically they will have two primary concerns - preventing the release of any virulent pathogens, and preventing harm coming to civilians. Most often this requires an extremely rapid attack, ideally with overwhelming intel and force. For example, one common tactic is to have live video from every room in a building (from a combination of tiny cameras, tiny drones, telephoto lenses, and sensors which can see through walls). Every hostile and civilian in the building are positively identified, as are the locations of pipes and structural elements in the walls. Then multiple sniper drones will simultaneously shoot every hostile in the building with armor piercing ammunition which easily passes through several walls before reaching the target (often with multiple sniper drones per target), killing all of them within a fraction of a second. Shots must be carefully steered around containers of pathogenic materials as well as rigid items which might deflect the path of the bullets before they have come to a stop.

Training

Strike team trains continuously. For particularly difficult operations they will build a full scale reproduction of the area of operation, and rehearse various different approaches to the operation. They will almost always at least build a digital replica, built up from layers of surveillance video, data from hacked electronic devices, and building plans.

Logistics

Logistical Support

Captured bioweapons are molecularly sequenced (genome plus any other important molecules), after which all samples are incinerated. Files containing the sequencing data as well as any collected data regarding non-obvious manufacturing techniques are encrypted using a unique key. The encryption key and encrypted file are kept in separate, air gapped, secure locations. The encryption keys are never allowed to leave the vault in which they are located. While this containment scheme is not impossible to defeat, it is generally considered easier to invent a new pathogen than to revive an old one from the IBLEA vaults.

Recruitment

Strike team members are widely regarded as the elite of the elite in their fields. There are roughly as many Nobel prize winners as there are strike team members, with the latter being generally regarded as the more difficult cohort to join.
The median age of a new recruit is 38. Average retirement age is 47.
Every member of the strike team is paid the same moderate wage for as long as they live, regardless of how long they serve. Were a team member quit after one day in order to reap the guaranteed lifetime wage, the strike team would look at this as dodging a bullet and consider the wage a small price to pay to avoid having a corrosive team mate.
Every effort is made to discourage careerism and other considerations which might distract team members from focusing on their missions. There are no ranks in the strike team. Operation commanders are appointed on an ad hoc basis.
Strike team members past their prime are retired by vote of their teammates. They are very often retained as unofficial recruiters, advisers, and trainers, however. In addition to their modest salary, anybody who has served with the strike team for at least a few years will be of great interest to the outside world. Paid speaking careers and publication deals are fairly easy to obtain should one's interest lie in that direction. Retired strike team members very commonly find lucrative gigs as consultants in their areas of expertise. As a result, it is quite uncommon for a retired strike team member's salary to make up the majority of their income.

History

Possibly their most famous operation was the Assault on Sanseong station.

Overall training Level

Elite

Used by

• UN International Biotech Law Enforcement Agency