Definition
An Authority Agent is an elite operative serving the Authority’s intelligence and enforcement arms—authorized to act beyond standard legal constraints to preserve systemic stability. Agents blend human precision with synthetic augmentation and are conditioned to absolute obedience and resilience.
Role & Function
- Divisions: Office of Internal Security; Cognitive Regulation Bureau (chains of command intentionally obscured).
- Jurisdiction: Planetary, interstellar, and temporal; supersedes governors and military during destabilization events.
- Mandate: Neutralize subversion, enforce cognitive compliance, retrieve or contain unauthorized technology.
- Operational Latitude: Agents interpret intent as law—investigators and executioners in one.
Training & Augmentation
- Neural Reprogramming: dampens empathy and hesitation; installs mission-priority schemas.
- Augmented Reflex Systems: kinetic dampeners and enhanced sensory arrays for near-instant threat response.
- Adaptive Armor: sealed exo-helmets regulate emotion, block psychic intrusion, and obscure identity.
- Cognitive Identifier Mask: a hardened digital persona that allows operation as an extension of Authority will.
Psychological Conditioning
- Layer Revisions: selective memory pruning preserves tactics while removing conflicting moral associations.
- Compliance Loops: biofeedback routines reward mission alignment and penalize deviation.
- Public Effect: the presence of an Agent induces predictive compliance in civilians and officials alike.
To most citizens, an Agent embodies the Authority’s invisible will—calm, efficient, and relentless.
Agent Thalos
Thalos is among the most feared of his order. His armor—featureless, black—conceals the void left by successive mental revisions. Unlike most, Thalos exhibits flashes of independent reasoning, suggesting partial resistance to his conditioning.
- Target Profile: Classifies Kor (later Vear) as a destabilizing anomaly to lawful reality, not merely a fugitive.
- Tactical Signature: patient pursuit, surgical escalation, intolerance for collateral unpredictability.
- Psychological Vector: pursuit borders on obsession—a personal proof that order can overcome chaos.