ISB Investigators: ISB Investigators are the agents of the ISB who investigate alleged criminal activities or persons, and pursue known criminals and rebels. Surveillance Agents are assigned their targets at the request and direction of ISB Investigators in their efforts to gather evidence of wrongdoing and seditious activities. A large portion of the ISB's current Investigators are former standouts of the Surveillance branch of the ISB, as well as former CompForce agents. The professionalism and expertise of these agents is noticeably greater than that of the standard ISB Surveillance agents, due, in part, to additional training and experience. Typical Investigators possess the same training and knowledge of Surveillance agents, but at a higher proficiency, and are trained to analyze a subject's behavior and patterns, and to conduct analysis and investigations of information/leads/subjects. Investigators are also more competent in the skills of combat than Surveillance agents; this, combined with their stealth and disguise skills, makes any Investigator a very large threat to any rebel agent or criminal. Because of their duties, it is not always necessary for an Investigator to remain under cover during their investigation of a suspect. Their duty is to ask questions, analyze information, track suspects, etc., which all become much easier (if not more obvious) with a simple flash of a badge. The intimidation value alone of an ISB Investigator showing up at one's home or work place to ask questions about anything is typically enough to gain the cooperation of the questioned. When necessary, Investigators are more than capable of going under deep cover to ferret out suspects and rebels. Typically, Investigators work alone or in pairs on any given case at a single time, and employ the services of the Surveillance branch regularly. Investigators working in conjunction with Surveillance agents pose an even greater threat to rebels and criminals than the two working separately, as such a team is hard to detect and harder to stop. A far cry from the typical ISB Investigators in the rest of the Empire, these agents are not the "birdwatchers" most rebel agents or out-of-sector operatives are used to. They are intelligent, well trained, determined, and more than willing to seek out and find rebels and criminals, and cannot be taken lightly.
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