Predacon Secret Police

From Axalon RPG

Spy, covert ops and enforcement agency believed to report directly to the Tripredicus Council. Deals with both Maximal threats and reigning in rogue elements within the Predacon ranks, of which there are many. Knowledge of the organization's inner workings is almost nonexsistent, even among many of its agents, but the Decepticon spymaster Soundwave is believed to play a leading or major advisory role.

The PSP is often confused with the Commissariat, and indeed it is very unclear whether the Commissars are a division of the PSP, or vice versa, or a totally seperate entity also reporting to the Tripredicus. PSP officers often cooperate with the Commissars, but there also seems to be a rivalry between the two organizations, mostly over differences in preferred methods. Commissars tend to make themselves well known to those they are watching (there is typically a post of Commissar in the command crew of each Predacon Navy vessel for instance) and tend to favor intimidation tactics and omnipresent surveilence. PSP officers prefer stealth and precision strikes against key targets, and have little interest in wasting resources on trying to actively control the rank and file. It is questionable whether either organization is completely loyal to the Tripredicus.

It is worth noting that there also exists a Maximal Secret Police, popularized by the character Jungle. It has somewhat more of a military special ops focus.

Members

• Ravage, from the original Beast Wars and G1 Transformers series. In Beast Wars he was sent to prehistoric Earth as an agent of the Tripredicus to arrest the Predacon Megatron, but turned and joined Megatron's renegades after being shown a message from the original Decepticon Megatron, with whom his true loyalties lied. The PSP was mentioned in a single line when Ravage arrested Megatron.

• Lightspeed - Trained primarily for electronic warfare but used increasingly as a field agent as her career progressed. Eventually leaves the PSP for a more lucrative career as a mercenary, however given that she still has connections with the Tripredicus, and that the Tripredicus often prefers to use unofficial, and therefore deniable, agents, it is unclear whether the distinction really means anything. Though Lightspeed is all over the RPGs, her field agent or ex-agent status, plus her proclivity to act independently according to her own interpretation of the Tripredicus's and/or her own best interests, means her character has not given much insight into the internal workings of the PSP.