ARMCO

ARMCO
AGE OF ISOLATION  
ARMCO was formed in 1923 as a deal between the criminal organization known as the Cartel and the first grandmaster of the mandate, Ivan Petrov. It would be known as the “Forgotten Charter”, The Cartel would be transformed from a major criminal organization into the intelligence agency known as ARMCO. During 1923-1970 (ARMCO could be compared to the KGB within the USSR) it was mainly used during these years as a way for Ivan Petrov to kill off opposition to his rule,this use of ARMCO by Ivan Petrov would form ARMCO into seeing itself as the protector of the mandate and the orthodox christian faith. ARMCO for the most part would separate itself into 2 parts it’s criminal connections and organization; the other part is the intelligence agency part of ARMCO whose job is to help get rid of dangerous threats to the mandate. 
AGE OF PROSPERITY
ARMCO entering into AGE OF PROSPERITY would see it’s influence in the government waiver as many of the politicians that had hidden in fear of ARMCO during the Petrov adminatraction started to come out of hiding and showing that they would not longer hid their opinion this would anger ARMCO in many ways who during this time was trying their best to get rid of the new grandmaster Anya Semenov who they would see a traitor and thinking that Storalia may and used her to make the election go in their favor. They would attempt at least 3 attempts at her life before realizing that this may cause the downfall of the organization and instead decided to focus on themselves internally and their criminal assets gaining a complete monopoly of the criminal underworld of the mandate and even try to expand into Storalia and Kemet in a attempt to learn more on these nations and if need be learn how to undermine them and if possible manipulate them for ARMCO.
THE MODERN AGE
In the modern age ARMCO would attempt to regain some of their lost power of the past and would manage to do this convincing the then Holy Prophet Vladmir Gistoimov(he was a Holy Prophet under the paygrade of ARMCO) to attempt to run for the position of grandmaster. Vladimir Gistoimov would prove to be the asset that ARMCO needed to regain some of their lost power within the mandate;ARMCO would start with the creation of their puppet party The National Democratic Freedom Block the party would advocate for a centralized state and banning of all religions except orthodox christianity and would advocate for a ending of the democratic policies of the mandate for a more dictatorship state not to dissimilar to the Petrov administration.
DEFINING ARMCO 
ARMCO is the intelligence agency of the Holy Mandate of Serdtse Khrista; they were formed because at the time the mandate did not have an intelligence agency and so a deal was struck and ARMCO was formed.