Military Divisions:
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First Responder: The Velukans have a strong military tradition and despite their best attempt, the State can hardly suppress the population's fascination with martial prowess. To compensate, this is tightly regulated, guns in particular, are only selectively awarded after special 'use and ethics' training following a detailed psychological profiling. After these training however, these people are awarded their weapon of choice, as well as the solemn duty to use it to protect those in need when emergency services are not present. This makes a great many of the common civilian armed and part of their 'Gun range group', which is a thinly veiled local militia. They might not have field experience, but these guys have enthusiasm on their side as well as vast knowledge of local geography.
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Local Police: Armed with machineguns and patrolling the streets in armored vehicles, these people are trained as much to handle single individuals as they are in handling 'Organized Mass Hysteria', meaning a group outnumbering them with gear and training similar to their own. It is notable that Velukans consider the use of chemical weapons to be trivial and the police will generally engage using gas, ranging from non-lethal to lethal agents working by inhalation or skin contact.
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Metropolitan Police: To answer the more pressing needs of large cities where you're likely to encounter hundreds of people you've never seen before, these 'cops' are equipped with advanced reality augmentation gear, allowing them to maneuver and identify suspects with better speed and accuracy in case of 'Mass Unrest', they are also trained and equipped in demolition and delaying tactics to resist while the bigger guns arrive. The last suit is the new Third Generation powered armor that is slowly coming into service.
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GLF Terrorist: The Global Liberation Front is the single largest organization operating against the state by a large margin, anyone looking to fight The State will seek them out... What they don't know, and what no chairman outside of the SIB knows, is that they are actually a SIB honey pot. Every act they do was selected by the SIB and its entire superior leadership is made of undercover SIB agents. These fighters, allowed to live only because they serve a purpose to the state, are veteran guerrilla warfare that have decades of fighting and terrorist activities under their belt, enjoying the use of ambush and last ditch suicide tactics to gain a upper hand on their would be enemies.
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GLF Operative: Trained and commanded by SIB agents, these fanatics have no clue they are being manipulated by their sworn enemies, but still engage in covert operation with extreme effectiveness. They are as willing to die for the cause as the ordinary terrorists, but are smart enough to put on a fight and make the suicide detonation a last resort to cause devastating damage rather than a more or less primary mean of attack. They have gear that was once extremely high tech but that now rival a slightly superior fighting force and not much else.
More to come...
