Service Firms

Service Firms

Service firms are the departments who keep Alpha Complex running, contracted out as private firms. In reality they act much like government departments, but are fragmented into hundreds of identical companies. Just to make the bureaucracy even more fun.

Armed Forces

Armed Forces protect Alpha Complex against external invasion by Commie mutant traitors. They also supplement Internal Security against internal threats. Tough, well-trained, well-equipped members of elite units like the vaunted Vulture Squadrons frequently serve as bodyguards and handle high-priority missions within Alpha Complex.

Central Processing Unit (CPU)

CPU is the central supervisory and administrative authority of Alpha Complex. An entrenched bureaucracy handles records, regulations, human resource engineering, justice, and executive operations. Certain CPU agents assigned directly by The Computer to projects of special interest enjoy unparalleled autonomy and discretionary powers.

Housing Preservation and Development & Mind Control (HPD&MC)

HPD&MC is responsible for primary clone services - housekeeping, creche management, education, entertainment, recreation, and retirement management. This is the largest, the least prestigious, and the least politically reliable service group. But as dispensers of propaganda, HPD&MC can sway the emotions of the masses, making it in some ways the most powerful.

Internal Security (IntSec)

IntSec is responsible for weeding out traitors and Commies and maintaining order. It combines the functions of law officers, secret police, and monitors of political orthodoxy. IntSec is cordially hated and feared by citizens in all other services. Its agents are everywhere.

Production, Logistics & Commissary (PLC)

PLC is responsible for agricultural and industrial production and allocation of resources. It prepares food and stores and distributes all consumer goods. PLC is only marginally more prestigious than HPD&MC.

Power Services

Power maintains the power plants and the primary habitat engineering systems of Alpha Complex - traffic, air, water, and waste. Disputes with Technical Services fuel a bitter rivalry between the two groups.

Research and Design (R&D)

R&D develops new technology and equipment for use by The Computer and citizens of Alpha Complex. R&D's bold advances are better known for their imaginative conception than their reliability. The Computer is unrestrained in its enthusiastic report for R&D's visionary projects.

Technical Services

Tech maintains robots, vehicles, communications hardware, industrial and production systems, and various electronic and mechanical service systems. In practice, Tech Services' and Power Services' responsibilities overlap. Vicious bureaucratic rivalry and infighting develops over which group is best suited to serve The Computer in disputed jurisdictions.