Pinkerton Ltd. / PINKERTON

Pinkerton Ltd. Est. 1850 A.D. Earth.

Pinkerton, founded as the Pinkerton National Detective Agency, is a private security guard and detective agency established in the United States of Earth by Allan Pinkerton in 1850 AD and currently a subsidiary of Pinkerton Ltd of the United Federation of Legal Space Entities. Pinkerton became famous when he claimed to have foiled a plot to assassinate president-elect Abraham Lincoln, who later hired Pinkerton agents for his personal security during the The Great Civil War. Pinkerton’s agents performed services ranging from security guarding to private military contracting work. Pinkerton was the largest private law enforcement organization in the world at the height of its power.

During the labor strikes of the late 19th and early 20th Earth centuries, businessmen hired the Pinkerton Agency to infiltrate unions, supply guards, keep strikers and suspected unionists out of factories, and recruit goon squads to intimidate workers. One such confrontation was the Homestead Strike of 1892, in which Pinkerton agents were called in to reinforce the strikebreaking measures of industrialist Henry Clay Frick, acting on behalf of Andrew Carnegie. The ensuing battle between Pinkerton agents and striking workers led to the deaths of seven Pinkerton agents and nine steelworkers. The Pinkerton’s were also used as guards in coal, iron, and lumber disputes in Earthen based United States of Illinois, Michigan, New York, Pennsylvania, and West Virginia as well as the Great Railroad Strike of 1877 and the Battle of Blair Mountain in 1921. The organization was pejoratively called the “Pinks” by its opponents.

The company now operates as “Pinkerton Ltd.”, Galactic Incorporation created by decedents of the Pinkerton family. The former Government Services division, PGS, now operates as Pinkerton Ltd. and is recognized by the UEE as a legitimate company that has been vetted for Top Secret clearance as a government contractor.