Talk:SB118 Starfleet Intelligence OOC Information

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Info to integrate

The following was from the SB118 Intel article, but it seems more OOC:

Comparison

In review, a large portion was dedicated to what’s defined now as Field Operations, which the bulk of the mission departments can be assigned to. Equating information also equally falls into Director of Intelligence, which in this case, the information contained within the Tower structure was more flushed out.

They have different names, but we can apply the same principles of how Starfleet Intelligence works today as it did prior. Field Operations here had a greater emphasis, Tower Ops (which is technically classified as Analyst) isn’t persay a training ground anymore as it’s a vital component of any intelligence agency, and Command, which does have its own chain structure.

The Core Issue

The principles behind the Tower when it was an active sim were actually well designed. Some, if not most, can be applied to how Starfleet Intelligence works today, five years later.

The right kind of simmer is able to play an Intelligence Officer without circumventing the Flag Officer’s ship chain of command and can be both a team player and contributor. However, when improperly played, Intelligence Agents have shown historically to ignore chain of command and instead operate the Black Tower as a completely separate entity they answer to first and only, which in actuality, was never supported by the core mission statement.

There was a mandate that specified that SFI can and does operate independently of the SB118 Fleet, however, that is the fundamental difference of what Starfleet Intelligence was at one point.

It does not operate with that mandate today.