The Eye of Providence (Comstar)

## History

The Eye of Providence was formed in 2788 shortly after the seizing of Earth. When a small group of officers, administrators, analysts, and field agents saw the reaction and fear of the great houses, there was concern that one day, they would all turn on the newly formed agency. When these concerns fell on deaf ears, secret plans were then started.

Using their resources, the Eye would secretly erase systems from archives, shift funds, move trustworthy personnel to key locations. All in preparation for when they would need to hide from the wrath of the Inner Sphere. Over the course of the 1st Succession War, whenever possible, 'losses' amongst the houses would make their way to an Eye facility instead. Whatever Comstar knew, the Eye would know as well.

The organization would mainly stay out of the way, not wanting to interfere or risk becoming a target of ROM or get mixed up in the rivalries with any of the other factions within Comstar. As a result, the cabal went unnoticed during the next few centuries, staying true to it's mission of preparing for the inevitable.

The Eye of Providence would use the Explorer Corps to locate deep periphery bases and make bases and safe houses within the Inner Sphere and Periphery. It would use agents to follow up on leads to forgotten SLDF locations and lost colonies that it could use. Occasionally marking some for other agents to remove from records after the Eye had made their own record of the system.

It wasn't until the Battle of Tukayyid when plans started accelerating. When the Houses saw the force that Comstar was able to bring to bear, it unnerved them. The additional unpleasantness of the Schism, in which the Word of Blake made itself known and seized Terra from Comstar added to those fears. With these events, the cabal increased its plans to start moving supplies and personnel to their facilities. Efforts to begin erasing records and references to these hidden systems began. When it became clear that some of this information may have fallen or been exposed to Word of Blake agents, a clandestine operation to remove those agents began.

The fighting of the Jihad provided cover for most of the Eye's activity, with any deaths cause by them easily being blamed on one side or the other. However when the HPG network went down on what would be know as Grey Monday, and the Republic of the Sphere began to aggressively hunt and absorb Comstar, that is when the Eye would start to implement their plan, known as Operation: Vargavinter.

### Organization

The Eye is organized into several tiers. The highest being known only as the OS. This is a secret council that meets to decide what resources should be acquired, how, and what means should be used. They decide the over all course that the cabal takes in its actions. Historically, it has held with the idea that Comstar was meant to serve not only to guarantee that mankind would have the basic ability to communicate despite the politics of the Houses, but that knowledge should be saved and curated so as to not be lost for future generations. That advances in technology must be persevered at all costs so that mankind can continue advancing into the galaxy.

This has also shaped their policy with regards to sharing the knowledge and tech that they already have. Keeping it from those that would abuse it or use it for war has been a priority. The fear that the secrets they have falling into the hands of someone like the Master are prominent, and they have taken steps to make sure to prevent that.

The next level down would be their secret agency, aptly named RAM, after the computer term for Random Access Memory. This was used since RAM agents are recruited from all parts of Comstar and can be activated at any time, for what outside observers would see as random reasons, but when put together with the larger picture, the reasoning becomes clear.

The Eye has no official armed force. It recruits from former Comguard units and puts them on retainer. Most units in their service don't realize they're not working for Comstar or a Comstar remnant.