The 5th Army's Internal Service Core

The **5th Army's Internal Service Core** (**ISC**), is an agency apart of the **5th Imperial Army of OverWatch** responsible for preserving and promoting the OverWatch ideology as well as to ensure loyalty. The unit supports OverWatch and the ongoing civil war.

Throughout the second era of OverWatch, the ISC serves as a tool for ensuring loyalty and promoting OverWatch's politics on colonised, occupied and even sanctioned planets. Speaking of the latter, the ISC has immense influence on Earth's various leaders and ensuring the 5th Army never reaches the eyes of humans on Earth. In addition the ISC serves as an umbrella organization that consists of multiple sub-divisions, such as the Coalition Prevention and the OverWatch Youth Group.

## History

During the early years of the 5th Army, a group of loyalists formed a populist movement of OverWatch to spread and keep influence across LANIAKEA supercluster. Among the founders were grand administrator Z's son, Crest. After a few years of service, the ISC was assimilated into the 5th Army's government and now serves as a tool for loyalty and politics, falling under the Union of the Interior.

Sub-groups were then assimilated and formed under the ISC, among them were the Coalition Prevention, the Internal Service Force and the Internal Affairs Bureau as means of keeping loyalty within the 5th Army. The ISF specifically acts as a military police and are said to be the most loyal of members in the 5th Army. The Internal Affairs Bureau investigates misconducts and crimes within the military and government. Coalition Prevention takes the "no alliances" policy within the constitution to an extreme, and investigating non-OverWatch alliances within the government and military.

Shortly afterwards the OverWatch Youth Group was formed as a program to promote the OverWatch ideology among the youth. 57% of youth group members end up being either enlisted in the ISF, while the remaining 43 either enlists themselves in the military or enroll in an officer academy.

In the aftermath of the Sector C Civil War, bill C-2006 was passed by the senate, which saw an exponential increase in the budget for the Union of the Interior, funding prominently went to the ISC and all of its daughter agencies.

During the joint session between the 5th Army's Ruling Council and the Joint Staff of Sector C, the ISC's directing committee was present at the meeting. Oz Striaton, the chairman of the entire ISC was naturally present as the leader of the committee.

In the aftermath of operation: DAY-BREAK, Administrator X was killed. The ISC was on full alert, trying its best to uphold the 5th Army's dignity and reputation. Crest commenced a clean house operation in the both the entirety of the UoI, which led to a purging of several high officials in the ISC. Chairman Striaton remained loyal to Crest and cooperated with him in the purgings, which did earn him an appointment as an interim permanent senior member of the 5th Army's ruling council as Administrator X's temporary replacement.

The ISC were known for ensuring an OverWatch victory among the loyal occupied and colonised planets during the second civil war, and thus far the effort had been declining within Sectors C and B.

## Organization

The ISC is led by the chairman. Each bureau and branch under the arm of the ISC has its own directors and chairmen, who either reported to eachother's agencies or the OWISCB. The ISC is under governance of the ISC Directing Committee, that's head by the chairman of the ISC.

As the Second Civil War broke out, the OverWatch Armed Forces had grown considerably. The civilian arm of the government followed the carefully crafted template of the ISC heavily. All ISC branches are housed in a skyscraper called "ISC-Nexus", that's located within the Citadel of Chikara's range on Homebase Central.

## Structure

### Coalition Prevention

Sub-bureau of the ISC, its main purpose and responsibility is to monitor the civilian relation between the government and citizens of the 5th Army, as well as ensuring the OverWatch ideology is applied across the universe and to ensure no coalitions or third party forces influences the government.

### Internal Service Force

Paramilitary; the armed forces of the ISC, and acts specifically as military and on occassions secret police. It's a special force unit that is used on many military bases and OWGRO outposts.

### Internal Affairs Bureau

The 5th Army's internal intelligence-gathering, enforcement and anti-insurrectionist division tasked with ensuring morale, loyalty and adherence to OverWatch. The IAB has several sub-units, such as surveillance, interrogation, re-education, enforcement, investigations, internal affairs and special operations. The IAB is also tasked for the secrecy of many OWGRO and military weaponry.

### OverWatch Youth Group

The 5th Army's youth organization that's sole purpose is to recruit teenagers from the age of 14 and stays in the OWYG up until the age of 18. Apart from indoctrination, the organization also gives purpose to motivate politically curious youth and even those not seeing eye to eye with the 5th Army. Most members apart of the youth group are constantly trained to be ignorant of the darker aspects the 5th Army has.