The Watch Guard are a form of "Time Police" who try to
keep the past and future safe from careless time travellers.
They operate in a base that exists during the last possible moment in the
universe, the last nanosecond before entropy ends everything, called Vanishing
Point. They do not depend on consent; they enforce compliance. They have
virtually no territory, their domain is simply and solely time. Within the time
and space of their jurisdiction, they regulate what time travel goes on. The Watch Guard is an organisation dedicated to the
preservation of the timeline, without control or predetermination by the
conscious manipulation of the past, in which the decisions and choices made by
free willed beings living then will determine the course of their lives. The
Watch Guard believes in the right of every being to make choices based on
conditioning elements arising from the free choices of beings living in their
past, and condemn as unjust the distortion of that right by the manipulation of
history with the benefit of hindsight. Imposed conditioning elements direct
history in a way chosen by those who impose them; this is incompatible with the
continued freedom of those who will live in the changed future. In short, the
Watch Guard fights an eternal war to defend the integrity of the past, and
ensure the freedom of the future. The Watch Guard exists and acts because
it must, to preserve creation itself. If an individual is in possession of
anachronistic information or technology, they have the ability to influence or
limit the freely made decisions of others, controlling them and manipulating
events to the benefit of the controller.
Standing guard over history, the Watch Guard opposes those who would risk the existence of everything for a taste of personal power. They protect the right of life to find it’s own way, whatever that way may be. Sometimes it means standing back while murder is committed, while war is raged and people’s lives are destroyed. Sometimes it means pain. Sometimes it means death. Sometimes non-existence. Always it means adventure. Most Watch Guard agents have a number of different postings during their career, as their skills and abilities change over the years. The Watch Guard is an unprecedented achievement; thousands of different sapient species united. Bigotry, racism and xenophobia are not tolerated within the organization.
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The Operations Section |
| This is the heart of the Watch Guard. The Section Director has ultimate responsibility on a day-to-day basis for all Watch Guard agents. It is his duty to ensure that the agents of the various divisions within Operations are well motivated, equipped, briefed, trained and performing to the highest possible levels in the field. All of the Watch Guard’s 200,000 active field agents belong to this section, and are sub-grouped into divisions for ease of management. While the majority of the divisions do not specialise in period or function, a small number do. These are listed below. |
| Tempus Arbites |
| Though technically part of the Operations Section, this division has complete autonomy, reporting only to the Hour Council. This division is responsible for maintaining the Watch Guard’ security against both external attack and internal corruption, and does so with extreme vigour and zeal. They are the Watch Guard version of Internal Affairs. But they do more than just that. Security personnel stand guard as sentries in restricted areas, secure classified data, maintain intruder deterrent systems, monitor the citadel, man the armouries and small arms lockers, and control and distribute safe, door and force field combinations and clearances. |
| Tempus Astronomicus |
| This division studies the nature of the known parallels, maps the location of new parallels, and analyses their interactions to study the chronoverse in general. They get to explore new timelines first hand. |
| Tempus Clandestinus |
| This branch of the Watch Guard performs all strategic information gathering activities, and provides detailed scenario briefings for the Operations Section. They are the spies and undercover agents of the Watch Guard. |
| Tempus Divinitus |
| This division consists of about 5000 of the Watch Guards’ most gifted Chronoal Sensitives. Usually assigned to the various Operations Divisions, their primary responsibility is to scan the histories covered by their assigned division, providing an early warning of any intrusion or discontinuity. This division of the Watch Guard monitors and records the flow of time, reporting any temporal disturbances that may indicate potential discontinuities or intrusions. |
| Tempus Ingenium |
| Divided into several specialised units, this division consists of meta psionics, magicana manipulators and supernatural entities. They provide training and support to the many Watch Guard agents capable of developing their true mental and spiritual potential. This includes those that are metagene active (also known as mutants) and who can eventually be transformed into a Phase Warrior (although this represents only 1%). As yet the Watch Guard has been unable to recruit any Chronal Walkers and remain wary of their activities. |
| Tempus Libris |
| This section performs the monumental task of gathering recording and providing detailed historical information and every single new timeline that was created and eventually restored to the original. Libris will perform research on request for any other section of the Watch Guard, with requests from the Operations Section having the highest priority. Frequently, the staff of Libris will conduct extensive debriefs of agents on their return from the field, or request specific research missions. |
| Tempus Medicus |
| The continued good health of Watch Guard personnel is the responsibility of this division. Medical Division uses tailored viruses, gene therapy, cloned organ replacements, enhancement therapy, and nanite implants to ensure that each Watch Guard agent is fully protected against any biological hazard they might encounter in the past, and are as fit as their missions require. The Medical Division is also responsible for the reversible cosmetic surgery frequently required for agents to blend in during missions. The Watch Guard requires that at least one team member on any mission in the field is a fully trained Med-tech, so this division has the majority of it’s staff assigned to the Operations Section. |
| Tempus Proeliatus |
| This is the standard force of the Watch Guard, consisting of agents recruited from throughout time. These agents act as escorts, recon and shock troops. |
| Tempus Scientus |
| This section is responsible for the providing the technical and theoretical advances in research and design that allow the Watch Guard to function with maximum efficiency and minimum risk. Areas covered by this section include palaeontology, planetary and stellar cartography, meteorology, botany, zoology, biology and the other physical sciences. |
| Tempus Taciturnitus |
| These black ops agents are specially trained for offensive operations against those who would alter history. The operations are highly secret, revealed only on a need to know basis. |
| Tempus Tormentus |
| This division focuses on several things. First off they conceive, design and test the devices and equipment used by the Watch Guard, from the chronal vehicles, to the equipment and weapons. Second they repair and maintain all of the hardware located at Watch Guard facilities. They can produce everything from starships to broadswords, on demand. Finally they are responsible for the construction, maintenance and removal of Watch Guard buildings, facilities and bases. Using advanced technologies, they can construct facilities capable of lasting up to half a million years, and then dismantle them so completely that absolutely no trace remains to disrupt the flow of established history. |