The Skyglass Institute / SKYGLASS

“When T.C.E.F. was formed, they were our first defense against foreign terrorist attacks. They won’t even tell us how many Terran lives they saved” – Senator Hannigan, Terra

The Founding of the Institute:

In 2775, during the fading years of the cold war with the Xi’An empire, Terra came under attack from more aggressive and effective sabotage attacks. Following the bombing of the Grand Sataball Stadium of Prime, the U.E.E. green-lit the formation of a experimental secret special task force based out of Terra. Taking on only the best pilots, agents, soldiers and hackers from other agencies and military companies within the U.E.E, Terra Counter-Espionage Force was formed on the belief that only the very best, together, could be the final definitive defend against foreign and local terrorist and agents from further damaging our colonies.
We succeeded in that task.

Following the end of the Xi’An Cold War, part of the peace negotiations was that the U.E.E. was to dissemble the force. However, we looked unto Terra, and we saw we had much more work left to do. Corporations had come to depend on us for effective contract completion, and we had many people whose jobs relied on the force.

So we declined the order. We went private, and reformed the Skyglass Institute.

The U.E.E. attempted to disband us. They saw us as capitalistic terrorists. Fortunately, as a private corporation we had legal protection. In addition, following the tragic accidental death of the Chief of Police and the Data Purge of the U.E.E’s Terra Mainframe, the U.E.E. eventually hired us to track down their attackers instead (we found evidence proving it to be one of our more greedy competitors). Now the government hires us for contacts, finding us more efficient than their own tax-paid employees.
Over the years we formed into the Institute we know today, your premier Special Operations, Espionage and Personal Elimination agency within the Terra sector.

Timeline:

— 2775 : Bioweapon attack in the Prime monorail system kills estimate 1500 civilians, 870 of them foreign pilots traveling from the hangers into Prime.
— 2776: Terrorist attack at the Crusader Industries factories in Quasi. 3000 workers dead, massive damage to the commercial transport market.
— 2777: Cyber attack of the Royal Bank of New Austin. $1.5 trillion credits deleted from the mainframe, 225 million of which is never recovered.
— 2778: A plasma-fusion bomb planted at the Grand Sataball Stadium of Prime detonates during the final minutes of the Sector Sataball Championship. Estimates reach 160,000 dead, 20,000 injured.
— 2778: In an emergency meeting, the U.E.E. forms the Terra Counter-Espionage Force, dedicated to counter terrorism and the prevention of foreign attacks and cyber infiltration.
— 2779: Bioweapon attack in Prime is stopped. Xi’An terrorist planned to unleash an experimental nanovirus that induced permanent coma into a densely populated mall. Xi’An Empire refutes any knowledge of the attack.
— 2779: Police Headquarters of New Austin saved from cyber attack of its core mainframe by TCEF intervention.
— 2779: Operation Solar-Flare. 17 human agents, high suspected of working for the Xi’An, are arrested in core positions of Prime’s government and military.
— 2780: Head of a terrorist cult attempting to create a rebellion against the U.E.E. is removed by the TCEF. Collateral damage is minimal.
— 2785: Major virus strike Xi’An world, sending many into a permanent coma. U.E.E. investigates TCEF, no substantial evidence found.
— 2789: Peace is brokered between humans and Xi’An by Terra senator Terrence Akari.
— 2790: The TCEF is dissolved. Every operative is transferred to the new Skyglass Institute.
— 2791: The Data Purge. U.E.E. mainframe in Prime is ravaged by a massive cyber attack. Most of it files on Prime organizations are lost.
— 2792: Skyglass is hired to gather footage of the Garron 2 massacre by activists. We deny any involvement in the SSN/CAtv Nightly News hack.
— 2800: Skyglass is one of the private cyber-security companies hired to create mainframe protection for the Ark.
— 2824: After many years of prosperity, Skyglass is now Terra’s top used Private Intelligence Agency.
— 2837: The stock market crash. Trillions of credits lost. Many major defense companies collapse. SGI recovers.
— 2852: Skyglass prevents a major Vanduul raid on Terra by redirecting them to pirate planet.
— 2875: Skyglass, regardless of false accusations of corporate corruption, has become the Terra’s sector go-to organization for espionage.
— 2913: A rash of assassinations take out high ranking members of major corporations in Terra. Many are revealed to have illegal business practices or private operations, such as human smuggling or pirate cooperation.
— 2922: Skyglass announces its nano-tech science division, which begins developing the tactical camouflage cloak and stealth armour for its ships.
— 2935: Skyglass begins its experimental research into cyborg development, A.I. creation and brain augmentation to create the ultimate mainframe defense. Rumors are that they are also experimenting on psionic agents for espionage contracts.
— 2950: Today