RAvE

RAvE  a special branch of the Citizens Office. Not exactly secret, but kept out of the public eye as much as possible.



Criminals, Abductions, Slave and pirate raids affecting families and citizens either happened outside Union jurisdiction, or involve cases that cross into Freespace or regions controlled by unfriendly or hostile societies are handled by the Crime and Catastrophe Victim Assistance department of the CO. If pirates or criminals abduct a citizen and demand ransom to be paid, if Slave raiders hit a town or city on an undefended planet and drag them to Slave markets. The Union cannot send military or police. Cannot simply pay ransoms or buy slaves (doing it creating demand)

So RAvE hires private civilian Mercenary units and groups to retrieve hostages, rescue slaves or avenge them and execute the ones responsible (Retrieve, Avenge, Execute) One or several members of RAvE accompany the Mercenaries or sometime travel by small civilian ships for many years across Free and Open space, hiding their Union identity and Rescue Avenge or Execute for the Union. There is not a more dangerous Union service job with a higher mortality rate.

The of Tree of Freedom at Memory Park (south of the Assembly) is made of small golden name plates with only the first name of the RAvE agent who died. The many million metal leaves attached to the branches stand for each citizen they rescued or avenged.

