Templar Security Management Services / TSMS

OPERATIONAL POLICIES MISSING
ETA : TBD

OPERATIONAL POLICIES

1. Look after your own.
A mercenary band needs to trust one another in combat; whomever else you betray, you never betray your own. To break this commandment means never working as a mercenary again, because who else would ever trust you after that. You would also need to be damned sure to do that job properly.

2. You do the job and you get paid.
When you get paid, you do the job; when you do the job, you get paid. Never let there be an inequality in this if you ever want to get paid again.

3. Always have a contract.
Never do anything on the nod; always have a written record in case your employer decides to disown you and put the blame for his own misdeeds on you. A wise mercenary also has a get-out clause, so they never commit to a doomed battle.

4. Do not show up to battle with a hungover.
You should either be completely sober or completely drunk, because hungover people are never competent at anything.

5. Never betray your employer.
Use the get-out clause in the contract of you need to, but never double deal; that’s the kind of thing that makes people view you as disposable. If you have to break this rule, it had better be for your last big score.

6. Don’t crap where you eat.
Don’t throw your weight around and cause trouble anywhere you might need to set up shop. You won’t be effective in battle if you’re all dinged up from brawling with the local blacksmith, however much worse the other guy looks.

7. Don’t bring trouble back to the company.
If someone is leaning on you, the company has your back, but if you kick the hornet’s nest for shiggles and run back to us, we will throw you to the wolves.

8. Don’t sleep with the client’s daughter.
Or sister, son, wife, husband, brother or cousin; or the client. At least not while the contract is live. Best case scenario they’ll get annoyed; worst case scenario, they’ll try to set up a wedding and start thinking you should be fighting out of familial obligation.

9. No attachments.
You can get married and settle down once you take your last coin and retire to a farm or something. Until then have fun, but don’t get serious; no-one wants a conflict of interest.

10. No debts.
Don’t drink more than you can afford, gamble more than you have or make promises to anyone. Your duty is to the company and the company’s duty is to the contract. Any other debt or obligation means that the company can’t trust you and the client can’t trust the company, and that way lies the dole queue.