Republican Secret Service

The Republican Secret Service, also known as the RSS, was the secret service of the Amarillian state, mostly during the first Republic of Amarillo.
== General history ==
The Republican Secret Service was created on the 8 august 2021 by Mayor of Puerto Amarillo (not called Chancellor yet) Salazar Van Den Green, with help from President Soronaca Trichechi (not yet called Aulian de Porphyropolis, not being married to Delta and Porphyropolis not being founded). While Green divided the RSS in several departments, each with specific fields of competence, this division had little to no impact on how the RSS actually operated.
The RSS conducted several operations for the first Republic of Amarillo, especially regarding the "state-sponsored squatter settlements". In less formal operations, it also served to gather intelligence for the republic, and to establish projects regarding foreign affairs, as well as to foil rebellious plans. Most notably, in february 2022, the RSS foiled a coup attempt sponsored by Yeslam aiming to place Soronaca as emperor of Amarillo, after Soronaca, that they told about their plan, denounced the coupers.
The organisation, which had not seen any activity for quite some time even before that, was completely abandonned after the Amarillian Civil war and the establishment of the Kingdom of Amarillo. It was however never dissolved and continued to be an Amarillian institution with a confused and shady status. Despite being a public institution, it had never been officially created, its existence had been kept completely secret from the public, most ministers and, after it had stopped being used, even to most presidents/prime ministers.
While the military status of the organisation was never made clear, Soronaca, as leader of the military and as the only former member of the RSS still in an official position, de facto became, after its abandonment, the leader of the RSS. He continued to lead the remains of the organisation afterwards, when he became king, when he became emperor, and even after he abdicated. At that time, though, leading the organisation was mostly just managing its archives, and sometimes giving some people access to them : it was not a very time consuming nor important job.He was the only one with permissions in its discord, and sometimes showed it to people, as jokes and innuendos about its old shady operations were sometimes made by the people who knew.Due to a similar situation, where the organizations were abandoned but never formally dissolved, Soronaca also controlled, at the end of Eldham the Salazarian League and the Covenant of Embers.
As it was controlled by Soronaca, after the second civil war and Amarillo's division into two, the RSS, despite still being called Republican Secret Service, became an organisation serving the independent Kingdom of Amarillo. It was even put out of its neglect, and participated in the establishment of a Nidaros Special trade centered around Porphyropolis in summer 2023.
Finally, in the last month of Eldham, in march 2024, the RSS carried out one last operation, closer to its original purpose. In a joint operation of the Kingdom of Amarillo, Zie Western Drakaes, and the Republic of Amarillo (which was part of Drakaes), the RSS organised the three countries' actions during the diplomatic crisis with Pasifa and, to a lesser extent, their relations with Valreach.
== Operations ==
=== Under the first Republic ===
==== State sponsored squatter settlements ====
The state-sponsored squatter settlements were three settlements built by the Republic of Amarillo on foreign soil. The goal of these operations was, at a time where Amarillo only controlled its capital, Puerto Amarillo, and Onumozaki, to build settlements in inactive or decadent countries. The settlement's inhabitants, secretly led by Amarillo, would have to either take over the country and then make it join the Republic, or to manage to become independent from it and join the republic with the biggest chunk of territory possible given the town's location and size. These plans, theorized by Salazar Van Den Green, were mostly to have mining colonies, but also simply to have more room for new citizens, as the Republic's population was constantly expanding.
===== Operation Mondragon =====
The first state-sponsored settlement built by Amarillo was Mondragon. Established in Kolssonafell, the settlement was abandonned and the operation cancelled when Kolssonafell joined the USSE. 
Without almost anyone knowing, as the operation was still a secret, Green, as a tribute, used the name of the settlement when he founded his town in Takavia, after Amarillo annexed it in the province of Takavia Rubia. When Takavia became independent, Mondragon became its capital.
===== Operation Serpentina =====
This settlement was established far in the north, north west of Quadakh. The operation was cancelled when, due to a lack of precautions in making the agents look unaffiliated to Amarillo, Quadaki people found out the settlement's link to the republic. The territory it was in was later annexed by Quadakh.
===== Operation Viridis =====
Established in Vaemore, Viridis was the most successful out of all the state-sponsored squatter settlements. Viridis was founded in Vaemore's jungle, and despite being noticed by Vaemore's leader, it strived and managed to recruit several citizens that were not Amarillian colonizers. The ties between Viridis and Amarillo were also never discovered. The operation was however cut short when Amarillo annexed the islands that would become Las Islas Doradas after the Valorant war, thus managing to expand its territory, making useless the attempts of creating other faraway oversea colonies. The citizens of Viridis emigrated to Las Islas Doradas, and joined Porphyropolis when it was founded. Along with a few immigrants from Puerto Amarillo including mayor Soronaca, the people of Viridis form Porphyropolis' first inhabitants.
=== Under the second Kingdom ===
==== Nidaros Special trade ====
In summer 2023, the RSS was used again by the governor of Las Islas Doradas, Soronaca, to set up smuggling routes from Nidaros to Porphyropolis, to allow for Porphyropolis' supply in Nidaros special. While it would probably not have been repressed by valrean authorities, Soronaca thought it was less risky for his business for them not even to know about it. This is why it was created secretly and with the RSS.
==== Operation Drunken Bargainings ====
Operation Drunken Bargainings, named after the treaty of Drunken Bargainings, between Regnum Drakaes and Barbossa, is the name given to the combined diplomatic and military efforts of the Kingdom of Amarillo, Zie Western Drakaes and the Republic of Amarillo, coordinated by the RSS, to prevent Pasifa from annexing Romantello, whether this annexation being the result of a Pasifan invasion or a rebellion of Romantello. While this operation was initially only meant to take control of Romantello through a coup of the city's leadership, its scope was extended to the entire diplomatic situation in northern Drakeslands, with Pasifa and even to some extent Valreach.
While the operation was launched on 14 march 2024, the crisis for which it was created began earlier, and it is only the last and most organised phase of Amarillo and Drakaes' efforts to deal with Romantello's situation at the end of Eldham.
In the end, the operation was a failure, not managing to take back full control of Romantello, due to a lack of time.OOC, Amarillo and Drakaes did everything that could be done to launch a war against Romantello, but the server staff was so slow that it was too late for a war to be launched before they answered, despite everything having been prepared in advance by the Amarillians and Drakaens. Romantello rebelled and joined Pasifa two hours before the Eldham world closed forever : it was forbidden by staff, as wars could not be launched anymore, so it was unfair for the ones they rebelled against, who couldn't respond, but it was still taken into account by one mapmaker. 
Given the OOC situation, it is hard to tell if RP wise, Romantello would have been in an open rebellion, fully in Andliria, or in a shady situation like it had been for a few weeks before Eldham closed. This is why this page displays a middle ground : it does not say Romantello was annexed by Pasifa, but not that it was still under Drakaes and Amarillo's effective control either.
== References and notes: ==
Category:Drakaes
Category:Amarillo
Category:Military
Category:Eldham