NAPLIAN IMPERIAL SECURITY FORCE

NAPLIAN IMPERIAL SECURITY FORCE (NISF)

The NISF were the state police of the Naplian Empire. There were three main branches within the NISF with some external organizations.

SANWEI

The SANWEI were the uniformed police of the empire. They worked routine police patrols, enforcement, and criminal investigations. They were also court security. Limited anti-partisan operations were often detailed to the Sanwei. The Sanwei encompassed virtually all of Imperial Naplia's law-enforcement and emergency response organizations, including fire brigades, orbital guard, and civil defense. In the prewar period, Ffawe General Ta At Niher and Tur Da Lug, chief of the Onwe Imperial Police, cooperated in transforming the police force of the old Onwe Naplian Empire into militarized formations ready to serve Benaltep and Bonate's aims of conquest. Police troops were first formed into battalion-sized formations for the invasion of Audria, where they were deployed for security and policing purposes, and taking part in executions and mass deportations. During the Terran Campaign, the force had the task of policing civilian populations of the conquered and colonized worlds beginning in 2680. Sanwei activities escalated to genocide with the invasion of the Hosan Obelisk. Twenty-seven million police battalions formed into independent regiments or attached to Naplian security divisions and execution squadrons, perpetrated mass murder and were responsible for widespread crimes against aliens and genocide of the civilian populations of the Hosanii, the Qomiti, and the Proq.

The Sanwei officer pictured above is dressed in the field uniform of the Sanwei branch. The rifle pictured is a standard issue Daish Imperial Arms (DIA) Daish Kashiton 458 “Furta” energy rifle. Furta is translated as “Judge” in Naplian dialects. The Terrans nicknamed it the “DK458 Longshot” due to its high capacity magazine.

DRUWEI

The DRUWEI were the internal security officers. They handled political prisoners and internal affairs investigations. In the Ffawe era, it was used to describe the Imperial political and criminal investigation security agencies. It was made up by the combined forces of the Surawei (secret Imperial police aka Sura) and the Krelwei (criminal police, aka Krel). 

Druwei in Onwe Naplia 

The term originated in when the Onwe Imperial Army set up the Sekat (Special Police Branch) as a militarized police force to act during times of riots or strikes. However, owing to the unpopularity of the army, it was renamed the Druwei to avoid attention. They wore a black uniform and were sometimes called the "Black Police." It was a military body, mainly recruited from the Onwe, with NCOs and officers from the old Naplian Imperial Army. 

Ffawe Era

When the Ffawe came to power, Naplia had myriad planet and systemwide police agencies, which were un-coordinated, with overlapping jurisdictions. Ta At Niher and his lieutenant, Goh a’ Vella planned to absorb all police and security apparatus into the structure of the Grissan Nast. To this end, Ta At Niher took command first of the Surawei. He then united all police forces throughout Naplia following Bonate and Benaltep's appointment of Ta At Niher as Chief of Naplian Police. As such he was nominally subordinate to Interior Minister Tal’ To Krif, but in practice Ta At Niher answered only to Bonate and Benaltep. 

Ta At Niher immediately reorganized the police. The Imperial agencies were divided into echelons: the Turawei (Discipline Police; Tura), consisting of both the Imperial uniformed police and the municipal police, and the Druwei (Security Police; Drew), consisting of the Krel and Surawei. Goh at’ Vella was appointed Chief of the Drew and was already head of the Ffawe Sekat and the Surawei. The two police branches were commonly known as the Tura and Drew (Krel and Surawei combined), respectively. 

The idea was to integrate the Ffawe agency Drew with the Imperial agency Tura. Most of the Tura members were encouraged or volunteered to become members of the Grissan Nast, and many held a rank in both organizations. Nevertheless, in practice, there was jurisdictional overlap and operational conflict between the Druwei and Surawei. The Krel kept a level of independence since its structure was longer-established. Ta At Niher founded the Grissan Druwei to create a centralized main office under Vella's overall command of the Drew.

TARWEI

The TARWEI were the secret service officers of the empire. They were in charge of security for government officials and high-level threat mitigation, including some special operations assignments. More about them another time.

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Artwork by Julian Schlottman

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