Office of Supreme Naval Intelligence

The Office of Supreme Naval Intelligence (OSNI, typically pronounced phonetically as /osni/) is the intelligence service of the NXSC Navy. Overtly, the agency is just the NXSC Naval Command's information collection and analysis division. In truth, the Office of Supreme Naval Intelligence's operations extend much beyond conventional intelligence gathering.
==Structure==
The Office of Supreme Naval Intelligence is responsible for NXSC signals intelligence (SIGINT), nevian intelligence (NEVINT), counter-espionage, propaganda, and top-secret research and development programs. The agency mostly operates independently of other NXSC branches, and at times it contravenes the law and NXSC protocol to complete top-secret missions. OSNI's Commander-in-Chief (CINCOSNI), is Admiral Khalida Eureka, successor and protegé to Frederick Parangosky.
As it is responsible for intelligence matters across the NXSC, OSNI employs members of other military branches, and even civilians, to complete the division's shadowy work. Many of its functions and subdivisions, like the Sector Nine Division and the KNIGHT-II and KNIGHT-III programs, are enigmatic, and its personnel are regarded as mysteries by mainstream naval officers.
Technically, OSNI reports to the NXSC Naval Command. However, in actuality, OSNI's activities go much beyond intelligence gathering, and it frequently receives orders and directives from HIGHCOM itself. It is also fairly uncommon for OSNI to act without the knowledge or official authority of HIGHCOM, as was the case with the mission of the unit Fox Seven; indeed, CINCOSNI is widely regarded as wielding enormous power inside the NXSC and even the Unified Astronomical Government as a whole. All other competing intelligence services have been snuffed out long ago to ensure OSNI's supremacy; according to the OSNI's AI Nebula, "...there are no rival agencies. We castrated them all. We left them cowering in our shadow".
OSNI also had unusually large fleets, all emblazoned with their logo and their uniform colour scheme.
==Trivia==
===General===
*Khalida Eureka's leadership effectively rooted out all the corrupt personnel of OSNI.
*OSNI is responsible for the NXSC's periodical stained reputations due to their operations.
*OSNI hires vicious mercenaries for their security, evidenced by their non-uniformed combat gear and weaponry.
*Even Frederick Parangosky is unable to control the agency's unethical operations.
*At some point, OSNI mercenaries and NXSC Army soldiers would clash against each other on outposts and colony planets.
*Their personnel are called "Black suits". This is accurate due to their dominant black-clad uniforms.
* OSNI was charged for war crimes after the Nevian-Colossian War.
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