Summary:

As the 9 ^th Legion of GDS, the Intelligence Legion acts as the intel and counter-intel force of GDS.

Unlike the other legions, there is not much if anything that can be disclosed regarding the operations or founding of the 9 ^th legion. Everything from their roles to their locations are classified at the highest levels, as discussion of our intelligence force in any meaningful capacity only serves to compromise the integrity of their work.

However, what can be discussed is the impetus behind their formation as it greatly differs from that of the other legions. Unlike other legions, the 9 ^th legion was not formed due to an expansion in operations or unmet contractual needs from a client.

The Intelligence Legion was formed due to a fatal mistake which claimed the lives of far too many legionnaires.

Not long after the Aeronautical Legion was formed, GDS was approached by another PMC to take part in a joint operation. This PMC, Torch Bearer Associates, requested that GDS provide a number of personnel to assist with a large-scale convoy that was delivering relief supplies to an active warzone. As we had no reason to reject such an offer, we accepted the contract and deployed three squadrons from the Security Legion to assist with convoy security. We had intelligence personnel, yet it could only do so much with so few personnel to cover the entirety of our operations at that time.
This was one of our greatest failures.
With the authorization of those orders, we unknowingly sent those legionnaires to their deaths.

Halfway through the planned route, Torch Bearer Associates executed an overwhelming ambush on the convoy and killed our legionnaires, their own personnel, and every civilian worker in the convoy as part of a false flag operation to destabilize GDS. We discovered this only after the fact, and while the problem of Torch Bearer Associates was solved shortly afterwards, it still wasn’t going to bring those legionnaires back to life.
Those men and women would never return home, would never see their families again, would never call their friends to ask how their day had been. All of this was our failing, and thus our responsibility to ensure it never happened again.

All operations, contracts, and deployments were put on immediate hold after the incident with Torch Bearer Associates. During this time all legionnaires either took extra training, visited their families, or just stayed on base until the all clear was given to resume operations. While many nations and clients protested this inactivity, the Administrative Legion handled the situation and balanced the accounts to keep bills paid and paychecks arriving until five months after the pause in operations was announced.
It was then that the Intelligence Legion was formed, with the other legions suddenly finding themselves in the company of legionnaires wearing overcoats and LOS sleeve patterns they’d never seen before.

Operations resumed after this stretch of inactivity, with the new Intelligence Legion working to fully vet any and all contracts, clients, and deployments before any legionnaires are assigned to the job. Further, the Intelligence Legion has protected GDS from infiltration by numerous agencies and governments, often with these adversaries never realizing they’ve been given false or misleading information that only leads towards dead ends and disastrous conclusions.
I have been authorized to give an example of this counterintelligence work, albeit in a highly abstracted manner.

In one instance, government agents had “exfiltrated” data from GDS regarding the creation of a special explosive compound. When this data was brought back to the agency’s lab for replication, their staff scientists quickly shut down the entire operation upon reviewing the data that had been acquired.
Should they have attempted to use that information in the fabrication of the compound it would have exploded halfway through the process, taking out the lab and any personnel within it.

Outside of this summary, not much else can be disclosed regarding the 9 ^th legion’s history, work, or methodology. In terms of contracts, the Intelligence Legion provides tailored intel feeds to federal clients and assists law enforcement agencies in areas such as missing persons, murder, manhunts, and kidnapping.

No special operations groups within the Intelligence Legion are declassified, and as such will not be discussed.

While you can reference Tome for further information regarding the two unclassified Intelligence Legion LOS codes, there isn’t much else available for general personnel to read. For those who have the clearance and need to know further information, they will already have the means to access those records.

-FrW Hansuke Ito