UNB

Union News Bureau Intelligence Service of The Assembly.

The UNB was created to combine all civilian or non military intelligence services of the founding members and to assist new members incooperating their Intelligence services. The UNB never recieved the attention or the budget as NAVINT did. NAVINT officially being the Intelligence service of the Navy became due to its size more or less the prime Intelligence organization of the Union. All military Intelligence including Army and Space Force are branches of NAVINT. But the director of the UNB never minded that and actually took steps that the UNB became almost forgotten. There are no open annual reports to the Assembly, even though the UNB by charter is directly reporting to the Assembly. UNB does report to the Secret Services Council and of course to the Gray Ghosts. There is an UNB conntact office at the Assembly, where any Assembly member can go to ask for an Intelligence assessment on any given subject (As long as it is foreign) The UNB is not allowed to operate or have active operations within the Union, but has vitually no restrictions operating outside Union space. CLASSIFIED

The actual HQ of the UNB is on Pluribus, Presidents Continent, Presidents Park. They share training facilities with NAVINT on Pauli Station and have several secret bases outside Union Space. The UNB operates several very successful companies within and beyond Union Space and uses the profits to be as much budget independent as possible. This is done with the full blessing of the Grey Ghosts, to keep the document trail as small as possible. The UNB Wetwork Branch is so secret they are not even whispered about. The UNB is run by Cherubim, the ancient master assassin and immortal. She operates it without any moral or ethical restrictions. The Gray Ghosts and Cherubim know very well. that Stahl had to be kept in the dark as to what the UNB really did.

The UNB knew about the Peace Hawks. It knew about the 4899 affair of the President of the Union being an agent of the Kermac. In both cases they did not act openly to preserve their secrect status and to expose the power behind both attempts. To the UNB it was clear that even the Kermac were infiltrated by a even more sinister force. The Jellies War and extermination of the Jellies is a direct response to that. The UNB is searching for the ones that created the Jellies and believe there is a force behind it all that seeks the destruction of the Union. (The Narth Supreme agrees with that and fully supports the UNB)