International Gem Logistics and Ordinance Organization

The **International Gem Logistics and Ordinance Organization**, or **IGLOO** for short, is an international bureaucracy on Earth that was created by the United Nations in response to the worldwide recognition of Gems. Directed by Esmerelda Bijou Leblanc, the mission of IGLOO is to prevent the Gems from harming Earth or undermining its laws. In order to do so, they supervise the Gems on Earth and maintain diplomatic relations with Homeworld.

## Objectives

IGLOO was created by the United Nations with these objectives in mind:

* Obtain as much information on the biology, beliefs, and history of Gemkind.
* Regulate the presence of Gems on Earth, to keep them from harming the planet or violating the sovereign laws of its nations.
* Maintain diplomatic relations with Homeworld, so as to secure a peaceful and beneficial alliance,
* Create a task force to deal with hostile forces from Gems, whether they may be Gems on Earth or Homeworld.

## Powers

As mandated by the United Nations, IGLOO has these powers in order to complete their objectives:

* Near-unlimited power to survey and monitor the Gems, with permission from the United Nations.
* Ability to enforce all laws mandated by local, state, federal, and international governments when pertaining to Gems.
* Ability to regulate the transportation of Gems between sovereign nations.
* Ability to communicate directly with Homeworld before other groups such as the United Nations or individual nations.
* Exclusive rights to researching and reverse-engineering Gem technology.
* A task force capable of ignoring sovereign laws and borders for the sake of protecting Earth from hostile Gem forces.

## Technology

Since its inception, IGLOO has been successful in examining and reverse-engineering several pieces of gem technology, specifically those from the fallen green Gem Warship. This allows the organization to have several unique pieces of technology at their disposal.

### Anti-Gem Weaponry

Those in IGLOO's task force are equipped with weapons that were made from destabilization technology. This allows these weapons to be especially effective in poofing Gems, with some weapons being capable of blocking gem abilities or firing the destabilization energy directly. Because of how new this technology is, it has only been outfitted to melee weapons such as daggers and swords.

### Anti-Gem Armor

IGLOO's task force is also equipped with armor that is similarly outfitted with destabilization technology. Because of this, this armor in particular protects the wearer from Gem abilities and weapons similar to that of Gem weaponry. However, this armor is reliant on being continuously charged, and as such, can run out of energy and become ineffective. With the exception of Esmerelda's armor, Anti-Gem Armor takes the form of full body armor suitable for space travel if need be.

## Personnel

### Director

The Director of IGLOO oversees everything that is done in the organization and only answers to the United Nations. As such, the Director has power over the Task Force, Intelligence, and Diplomacy departments. The current Director of IGLOO is Esmerelda Bijou Leblanc, and she resides in the main headquarters located nearby Beach City.

### Task Force

The Task Force is IGLOO's military branch, and is the main department in possession of the organization's Gem technology. It serves to enforce the organization's powers and to combat hostile Gem Forces.

Commander**:** The Commander oversees the entire Task Force, having direct contact with each of the Generals. They only answer to the Director of IGLOO, and also reside in the main headquarters.

**General:** The Generals are in charge of the Task Force in each of the nations that are a member of the United Nations. As such, they are in direct contact with the Commander and the Captains of the Platoons in their corresponding nations.

**Captain:** The Captains are in charge of the Task Force's Platoons, which are groups of Soldiers that can range in size from 5 to 1000 members. They are in direct contact with the Generals in their corresponding nations, and serve to act as the leaders of their Platoons in combat.

**Soldier:** The Soldiers are the lowest ranked members of the Task Force, and are simply foot soldiers meant to directly fight in combat.

### Intelligence

The Intelligence branch of IGLOO is in charge of surveying and monitoring the Gems, and is also in charge of researching and reverse-engineering Gem technology. This department is ran by the Progenitor, an administrator redsiding in the main headquarters that only answers to the Director of IGLOO.

### Diplomacy

The Diplomacy branch of IGLOO is in charge of maintaining diplomatic relations with factions such as the Crystal Gems and Homeworld. This department consists of multiple Ambassadors, which all answer directly to the Director of IGLOO. Due to the current Director's ambitions, however, roughly half of all diplomatic meetings end up occurring without them.

## Backstory

For the longest time, very few humans have actually acknowledged the existence of Gems on Earth. Most of the time, their landmarks are written off as being ancient phenomenon. Additionally, the few humans that were aware of them either remained silent or were written off as conspiracy theorists.

This all began to change during the events of Laser Light Cannon, when a Red Eye entered the Earth's atmosphere. This was detected by federal intelligence agencies such as the FBI or CIA, but was never revealed to the public. As such, Beach City was occasionally monitored afterwards.

Gems soon enough came into the worldwide spotlight when the ocean was temporarily missing, and a Gem Warship later attacked Beach City. This striked major debates among the leaders of the world as a result, fear having already been spread about the presence of supernatural aliens that inhabited gemstones.

For the longest time, there was no clear resolution having been made regarding the Gems. The Gems were simply watched from afar, in order to know more about them. Eventually, the International Gem Logistics and Ordinance Organization was created in response to the attack on Beach City by Yellow and Blue Diamond, and the world's countries passed many resolutions to recognize the Gems as beings equivalent to humans.

IGLOO now exists as humanity's response to the presence of Gemkind. Since their inception, they have quickly gained power and exerted their influence on the world. It is only a matter of time before the Crystal Gems and Homeworld discover what they are capable of.