National Office of External Operations

The National Office of External Operations or NOXO is the main external intelligence agency of the Surben Republic. It is an independent interminsterial agency which answers to the National Congress, specifically the Congressional Committee on Security Affairs (CCSA). It collaborates heavily with the internal security service, the National Security Service, as well as foreign agencies, such as the Confederacy Security Directorate and the Royal Intelligence Authority. Its principal opponents are the vast array of Terran intelligence agencies, most notably the ICA.