Black Ops

## Summary

The Black Ops are covert operatives which execute special missions/assassinations and investigate disturbances that take place both in the Cube and outside of it. The existence of the unit is covered in a bunch of myths and conspiracy theories that are meant to work as a distraction from the unit true nature. Only Graff, Illyricus, Maia and members of Elite 4 know about existence of the unit. The leader of the unit is Kuro, but due to amount of work he has as the 2nd in command of Ministry, Minister of Health, occasional assassin and now the leader of a new unit, it wasn't humanly possible for him to manage all that while sleep-deprived. Therefore, he delegated the actual leadership to Zombi and became the figurehead leader of the unit who occasionally checks up to see if everything is right. Kuro is actually 2nd in command or oversees the Black Ops when Zombi is missing.

**Known members of Black Ops:**

## Recruitment

There's no official campaign/ad for recruitment as this unit doesn't exist on paper.
The only way to get recruited is by being scouted by one of higher ranking Black Ops members.
Letter of Recommendation doesn't really work as each member is tested in cover-up company.
One could retire by giving magic oath to not betray the secrets and existence of Black Ops.
That said if member sustains mental injury or physical injury which can't be healed and impairs functioning in Unit then they are paid with refund money for rest of their life, assuring good quality of life. Expulsions and punishments are much more harsh compared to Official Unit due to increased stakes.

The mildest expulsion is being thrown out of Black Ops with magic oath and if target resists, memory erasure. Harshest expulsion is execution, although so far there had not been precedent for performing highest form of punishment.

Expulsion is warranted for:

* Targeting/killing passerby's
* Insubordination.
* Mission Sabotage
* Fratricide
* Revealing Identity
* Membership Trading/Selling.
* Treason.

## Divisions

### Intelligence Gathering Network

Network under leadership of Zombi, they are Zombi's eyes and ears in 3 realms. Bm sometimes uses that information for his cases, as his job is to solve mysteries.

### Analysis Division

Lead by Kofuku, main task of this division is to decrypt any coded information.
Ranging from Inscription on ancient stones to encrypted messages containing valuable information
Knowledge gained from this unit helps Ministry grow even more hence it gets lots of funding.

### Investigation/Monitoring Division

Division lead by ... , main task of this division is to monitor the environment energy levels and any phenomena arising. They are close to Analysis Division as there is often information which could help decipher the mystery. That said Taygete is one solving the phenomena, even before this unit was created.

### Interrogation Division

Division lead by Thulu, division task is to extract information through peaceful or forceful ways.
Depending on person sometimes they merely erase memories of interrogation and unit, sending person back without any harm. Though in extreme cases they send target to Damon as a test-subject.

### Containment Division

Division lead by ... , the purpose of this unit is retrieval and isolation of dangerous artifacts from common use, containment of dangerous pathogens and creatures, elimination of phenomena or restriction to level of least harm possible. Jokingly called Biologists, this unit also works on environmental preservation and restoration, Damon is closely associated with Containment division, so that they can dial each other quickly.

### Media Division

One of most safe divisions to work in, It is lead by ... . This division task is covering the footprints of Black Ops agents, from medial side. So they won't be pursued or at least they will have their backs covered. Attention diversion is common tactic, it is simple but it works so well.

### Shadow's Squad

Team of 6 which conducts the assassinations. Yato isn't part of it.

## Trivia

* Celaeno and Taygete are only Black Ops members who aren't official Ministry members.
* Unit has of course more members, Zombi's Intelligence network, Shady's squad and other divisions.
* Bm's Lead Tracker role could mean both footprint tracker and Black Ops main tracker.
* Bm's Bounty Hunter role is something that was given to him after he joined to Black Ops, initially he was intended to be Detective/Tracker but seeing how effective he was with capturing targets they acknowledged his role as Bounty Hunter.
* Yato is not exactly archetype of assassin given his previous experience on battlefield although there was no trace left after him.
* Black Ops is much more smaller than Official Ministry, that is to limit the amount of weak links and ensure that only the well-equipped and trustworthy individuals are part of unit.
* There are training faculties and programmes for newbies.
* I was going to create another elite squad but they would turn jobbers, so yeah no way it's gonna happen.