Agent Zmuchlan
Race: Various
Homeworld: Coraab
Era: Tu 3802 - present
The ingloriously known security agency Zmuchlan was created by splitting from parent company Lubro which caused permanent hostility between the two groups. While Agent Lubro fully specializes at diverse business and industrial espionage, Zmuchlan acts as an auxiliary unit of coraabish police forces. Their advantage is high mobility and vast know-how of the local bureaucracy, which often allows them to get to the scene before the police officials. Zmuchlan agents pass virtually identical training as planetary policemen. Their advantage is also better salary because they serve in private sector. Disadvantages on the other hand are lack of government-granted authorities and an obligation to use non-lethal weapons during interventions only.
Zmuchlan agents often present themselves at public as the government Lubro Agents to earn more respect. On the contrary Agent Lubro act as Zmuchlan in exposed situations especially when it is necessary for someone to blame for previous failures. Not fot for nothing are both members of police agencies jovially called Zmubro.
It is said that the agencies never actually split up and are still managed by one apparatus in the background. The whole situation is so unclear on the outside that no one can support this statement through any facts. Also rumor has it that Zmuchlan drowns permanently in red numbers without generous government support and is threatened by bankruptcy. Nobody knows whether the parent agency will buy it back eventually.
--Thoth 3. 4. 2012, 23:18 (CEST)
