Optional Militarized Enforcement Network

The Optional Militarized Enforcement Network (OMEN) was a coalition of Bounty Hunter on Arcadia, formed during the collapse of the the Arcadia Patrol. It served as the primary law enforcement agency on the colony until it became the foundation of the Confederation Special Warfare Department in November of 2548. The name OMEN would later be used by Ivan Stanislav III. and the Spartans under his command upon joining the UNSC. The unit comprised mostly of veteran OMEN members.
== History ==
=== Founding ===
In 2538, two Bounty Hunters on the Outer colony of Arcadia, Ivan Stanislav III. and Rosalina Silva, were both contracted to kill each other. They began to trace the money with the help of Maximillian Adesso back to a high-ranking officer of the Arcadia Patrol, and from there, began to take apart a network of corrupt officers and officials. As the operation progressed, it grew to include a total of 13 bounty hunters. 
Once the operation was over, the group unified into a network, and grew to include dozens more bounty hunters, working to operate where the Arcadia Patrol no longer could. Within only a few months the organization had become known to the colony as the Optional Militarized Enforcement Network, a name originally used to refer to the group in a legislative meeting arguing the legality of the group. Though Ivan, and many others initially detested the name, it became too commonplace, and so they adopted it, and the acronym "OMEN".
=== Expansion ===
Slowly, the Arcadia Patrol collapsed under UEG neglect during the Human-Covenant War, and when it finally dissolved in 2542, many of it's assets fell into the hands of OMEN, as did many of the officers working with them. It was around this time that Ivan had begun running OMEN as a militia force, training thousands of regulars per year to defend their towns and cities from insurrectionist raiders, or to defend themselves in the event of a second Covenant Invasion.
Ivan also oversaw the training of an elite Colonial Guard, transported to a hidden ONI facility to receive special instruction from veterans, including several former ODST. These men and women were stationed at the ONI base as full-time soldiers, while most of the regulars served only a few weeks at a time, and only a handful of times a year, with annual training to keep them sharp.
=== Confederate Special Warfare Department ===
In 2546, OMEN would become the organizational force for a brief rebellion against the UNSC on the frontier colony of Tharsis. Once the colony gained it's independence, OMEN was used to form the basis of the Confederate Special Warfare Department (CSWD). Ivan Stanislav III. would become the First Commander of the CSWD, and Rosalina Silva it's First General.
== Trivia ==
* "Unlucky Thirteen" was a term used by members to refer to the original thirteen members of the group. 
* Of the original thirteen, only seven are alive as of 2567, Ivan Stanislav III., Rosalina Silva, Martina Muller, Alexander Nichols, Gideon Marks, and Maximillian and Talia Adesso.
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