The Adjustments Branch of the Galactic Empire has been set up to silently keep control of the galaxy. While everyone knows about stormtroopers, TIE fighers and such military main stays, few people have ever known much about the Imperial Adjustments Branch. They are the unknown branch of the Intelligence Division. There are all kinds of parts to Imperial Intellegence. In the end, no one has the power of the Adjustments Branch. Whenever a situation is out of control, the Adjustments Branch steps in.
Regulations
The Adjustments Branch can be called in in a variety of situations. First of all, the Director must obtain the mission from which ever branch of the Empire needs it done. The Director essentially keeps in close contact with all branches of Intelligence, and even the military as well. He passes the information on to the Overseer who actually plans out the mission, tactics, etc... in consultation with a squad commander. The overseer is the only one that can request the needed equipment and vehicles. There are several squads within the Adjustments Branch. If the mission looks to require more than one squad, the overseer will pick the squads and designate a leader to lead the entire operation. It will be either of the Squad Commanders.
Once that has been settled, the Squad Commander will then designate responsiblities to the operatives. Most missions require only a few operatives. The most difficult tasks are beset upon the special operatives, while the rest of the load falls to the operatives. They fufill the misson as laid out by the Squad Commander and return. Extremely high priority missions will make use of only special operatives, who have a great degree of training even in comparison to operatives.
In general, the main tactics used are assasination or bribery. There are few problems that the Adjustments Branch faces that cannot be solved with these methods. For example, if you examine a recent case:
DATA LOG - Squad Commander X-11
The mission was successful. The target was successfully bribed into renouncing his plans for revolt against the Empire. He went remarkably easily when he was shown a townsperson's body on a holoprojector. We were forced to eliminate him in order to illustrate our point. He is still under the impression that we are from the Corporate Sector, and we have arranged that his payment appear to be coming from that source. The ruse of pretending to be Corporate Sector spies that were interested in leaving the planet under Imperial control worked perfectly...the man was a fool. I wish I could have killed him.
Log entries like the one above are common, however they are HEAVILY encoded so that NO ONE can read them outside the Branch.
Training
Training for the Adjustments Branch is rigorous. There are two main sources for Operatives: The Imperial Academy, or brainwashing talented captives.
Those that come from the Academy are quickly tested for their loyalty to the Empire. These tests go on for more than a year, thought no operative knows how long they go, or sometimes, that they are even being tested. Meanwhile, they train heavily, building on their skills from the Academy. The goal is to make them elite in all forms of combat since assasination and terrorist actions are often used to calm those that are disturbing the galactic peace. Those trainees that demonstrate proficiency in a specific area may concentrate on that area as long as the basic requirements are met as well. All forms of blasters, archaic guns, firearms, heavy weapons, melee weapons, and hand to hand combat are studied. If these requirements are not passed after the training period is over, you get one more chance to prove yourself. Should you fail, you die. No one can leave the training base without becoming one of the group for fear of exposing the Branch.
Those that were captives of the Empire, most likely for some hanus crime, are brainwashed. They are given new memories, if possible, and in some cases, entire lives. They are then put into training with the most loyal, intelligent, skilled trainers and commanders there are. This helps to focus their energy on their skills. They start at a more basic level than those that come from the Academy, but are granted a longer training period.
After all the physical training is complete, they must keep a practice schedule, where they will keep their skills sharp while also attending specialized classes on knowledge based skills, and things like con, forgery and the like. No trainee may leave without mastering these elements. They are integral to many situations, where talking to contributors to a disturbance is needed. They have to be able to handle the situation deftly, and without hesitation.
They are then ready to face any situation: small scale uprisings, planetary uprisings, asassination attempts on high ranking Imperials, terrorist threats, and even internal, Imperial problems. Even the Empire is not safe from the occasional detractor. The Branch may be used to find this problem, and eliminate it. They are the best of the best of the best and no one can stop them, and no one even really knows they are there.
For more information, go back and look at the personnel files and equipment data. There may be more information on this individual page sometime in the future...