Sentinel Rights & Responsibilities

• Rights
• Responsibilities
• Threat Levels

Sentinel operatives and teams are part of a much larger organization, with extensive resources (e.g., contacts and alliances, data, experts, influence, etc.). Operatives are bound by certain rules of conduct and engagement. The following is a brief summary of some relevant Sentinel protocols.

Rights

An operative may:

• Call on Sentinel for aid, usually through the commanding officer
• Call on local, state, and federal government, including law enforcement and military for aid (e.g., armed support)
• Order supplies
• Purchase goods or services using Sentinel funds
• Access to the Aegis Network
• Use Sentinel facilities, including room and board, training, and recreation
• Call on Sentinel support personnel
• Use extraordinary Sentinel resources, when essential to mission objectives

Responsibilites

An operative must:

• Adhere to Sentinel rules and regulations
• Focus on mission objectives
• Report to commanding officer on schedule (schedules vary by assignment and mission)
• Report unexpected extraterrestrial or extradimensional activity as soon as possible
• Protect civilians
• Minimize disclosure of Sentinel secrets, including Sentinel's true nature, the existence of the paranormal, and operatives' paranormal abilities; this includes destroying Sentinel assets rather than let them be captured
• Minimize collateral damage to noncombatants and property
• Warn first; only fire when fired upon, unless under dire tactical circumstances (e.g., confronting a marauder known to be hostile)
• Detain suspects and incapacitate enemy combatants when possible; lethal force should be a last resort
• Report for personnel readiness exams on schedule; exams include checking for physiological and paranormal causes for concern

Threat Levels

Sentinel has protocols and contingencies for esclating levels of threat. Every operative must be familiar with these threat levels, particularly since an operative may have standing orders not to engage threats above a certain level.

• Level 1: a mundane threat
• Level 2: a paranormal threat, but weak in power and/or used without proper understanding or intent (e.g., accidentally)
• Level 3: a paranormal threat, strong in power and/or used with proper understanding and intent
• Level 4: as Level 3, with one or more marauder elements (i.e., extraterrestrial and/or extradimensional entities), but without strategic malice
• Level 5: as Level 4, with strategic malice

Examples

A past Sentinel mission illustrates the threat levels. A team was investigating suspicious events in a low-income neighborhood. First, a street gang attacked the team (Level 1). After defeating the gang, the team captured and interrogated one of the gang members. The gang was hired by a mysterious man with a strange amulet. The team located the mysterious man and discovered he was a mundane mercenary. He was wearing an amulet that enhanced his charisma and persuasive abilities, but he was unaware of its true nature (Level 2). The mercenary had been given the amulet by an arcanist, along with cash to hire the gang. The team found and incapacitated the arcanist. A mental probe revealed that she had created the amulet, and that she had other paranormal powers and skills (Level 3). The arcanist was an apprentice, and the mental probe revealed the location of her master's stronghold. After battling their way into the stronghold, the team confronted the master, who provided to be a cloaker (a Reaver-human hybrid) (Level 4). The team slew the cloaker, and then searched the marauder's private chambers. The team found evidence that the cloaker was an operative for the Reaver Combine, and had been building a jumpgate to allow a Reaver force to invade the neighborhood (Level 5).

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Last revised 14-Aug-2011