Espial

The Espial was originally created in 2001 to assist police in criminal investigations. Founded by former Detective Sergeant Ally Windsor of Adelaide, Australia, the Espial was revitalised in 2031 after its agents retired and a new breed restructured it. Now, it specialised in artificial intelligence, investigations, security and special protection and has outposts all over the known universe.

However, over the past nine centuries, the success of the Espial has seen over a hundred million guards and agents from all walks of life recruited for extensive physical and mental training, ready to not only help police battle some of the universe’s most devious breaches of the law but also help other emergency services.

Such was the success of the Espial, it was made a new government organisation in 2059, designed specifically to assist military and emergency services. Complete with its own starships and spacefighters, the Espial’s security systems and services are second to none. Five years after the creation of the Espial, Ally and her medical officer, Aaron Friedman, headed to the neighbouring state of Victoria where they began the recruitment process for their new branch. Little did they know that it would be the launch pad for the strength and population of the Espial for centuries to come.

An Army Reserve officer, Ally realised that the Defence Force needed an organisation that would assist them in local emergencies if and when the defence force were unavailable to attend themselves. Hence, in 2003, she assembled several of her colleagues from her Army regiment and created the Espial Paramilitary Group. With all the members of the group also being defence force reserve officers with military ranking, the group work well alongside officers of the regular defence force.

At the same time, Aaron, a paramedic with the Ambulance Service, had also noticed a similar problem with the organisation he worked in. He approached the Ambulance Service and offered to merge the two organisations. While it took some convincing, the ambulance executives eventually agreed and a minor branch of the organisation joined the Espial. In the next few years, medical and nursing graduates were also invited to join the Espial and, in 2005, this particular group became the Espial Paramedical Division.

Special Lieutenant Michelle Richards is responsible for the running of the Para-Military division while Special Lieutenant Tyna Gray is responsible for running the secret undercover and intelligence division known as the Dark Empire, which has also outposts all over the universe. In fact, it is so secret, no one but the Espial and StarPol know it exists.