Royal Intelligence Authority

The Royal Intelligence Authority Lay or RIAL is the main intelligence agency of the Ur-Han Kingdom. Founded in 2640 as the Royal Security Commission, its primary purpose is to protect the Ur-Han from internal and external threats to stability and security. 
Placed under the authority of the Prime Minister, the Director of RIAL is often the Under-secretary for National Security under the Department of the Interior. 
Initially founded to eliminate loyalists in the aftermath of the fall of the Empire, it rapidly became focused on opposing the Terrans in the Great War. However a large number of senior intelligence officers were killed in 2641's Operation Contemptful Afflict carried out by the ICA. This effectively paralysed the agency which became reliant on Surben aid and support from NOXO. Following the end of the war, RIAL was placed under a decade long supervision by the Terran Occupation Commission, during which it was effectively inactive. Only in the early 2660s did the agency begin rebuilding its strength with the help of NOXO and the Confederacy Security Directorate. Its principal opposing force is Terran intelligence.