Secret Service (Steel Plague)

The Secret Service is the covert operations and presidential security force of the Enclave in 2241. They are responsible for internal security, notably of the acting Enclave president, and carry out clandestine operations on the mainland.
==Background==
===Pre-War===
The Enclave’s Secret Service is directly descended from that of the pre-War U.S. government. Due to their closeness with the last president of the United States and his day-to-day duties, most key members were fully inducted members of the Enclave. They ensured that the president was safe, protected the secret of the Enclave’s existence from non-Enclave members of the government, and ensured that the president made it safely to Control Station ENCLAVE. After reaching the oil rig the Secret Service would provide protection for all future Enclave presidents and became the facility’s internal security force.
===Post-War===
After the initial chaos of the Great War, the Secret Service was given additional orders to ensure that all Enclave members remained on the rig. To keep the Enclave’s existence a secret they also launched several mainland operations to recover or eliminate members who had not made it onboard before the Great War.
Like most residents of the oil rig, the Secret Service assumed that everyone on the mainland would eventually die out due to the scarcity of resources and infighting. The Enclave’s scarce research on the mainland in the late 2100s discovered that most life had been horribly mutated, food sources were in short supply, and water supplies had been heavily irradiated. Despite all of these hardships, humanity was still clinging to survival. The Secret Service monitored the mainland and the activities of its inhabitants, including factions like the Brotherhood of Steel.
The Brotherhood would eventually destroy the fledgling New California Republic and become known as the Steel Plague across the New West. This new faction would slowly grow across southern California, engulfing communities like the Hub, Junktown, and Shady Sands. The president finally authorized the creation of the Enclave Californian Expedition in the early 2200s when it was painfully clear that their technological crusade would not end soon.
==Special Operations Division==
A branch of the Secret Service, the Special Operations Division carries out the mainland covert operations of the Secret Service and Enclave as a whole. As part of the Enclave Californian Expedition, the division gathers intelligence on wasteland communities, hunts down rogue Enclave members, and secretly provides aid for groups that might cause resistance to the Steel Plague. The agency has attempted to infiltrate settlements in California, however they have largely met with failure due to the Enclave’s lack of familiarity with wasteland customs and a general poor quality of training over the last 164 years of comfort on the oil rig since the Great War.
==Technology==
While the Secret Service typically uses the same equipment as the rest of the Enclave, several pieces of hardware are used exclusively by them to further the Enclave’s goals. Light, medium, and heavy Secret Service armors are commonly worn by the agency’s operatives on both the oil rig and mainland. T-65 power armor was developed to protect the president as well as U.S. gold reserves before the War and is still the standard power armor used by the Secret Service into the 2200s.