Reclamation Authority

 

The Reclamation Authority, officially Department of Human Preservation and sometimes Rec Center or RecDep, is a global Harvester department, originally an office of the Urban Defense Department.

Overview
The DHP consists of Harvesters who have gone through intense training regiments to maximize their potential in reclaiming transhumans. Agents are divided into Cells, each of which is overseen by a Handler. Agents rarely work together. They receive individual assignments from their Handlers, only collaborating when large groups of transhumans may be present. Assignments are assembled when the Handler receives credible reports of potential transhuman activity.

Potential recruits are deeply scrutinized prior to being selected for training. Recruiters first conduct background checks, screening for any strong political ties or loyalties. Then they conduct rigorous physical, mental and emotional testing to gauge the efficacy of the recruit and also to ensure that the recruit is not a transhuman. If the recruit passes all testing, they are relocated along with any immediate family and begin training.

Agents of the DHP are capable of invoking authority over any government on Earth. This power is recognized by every Liberation state and many smaller states, though it only extends to federal institutions. Private institutions are not obligated to cooperate with the DHP without police orders.

The modified Ernst test is the primary tool of the DHP.

History
Formulated by Rubin Locke and Leon Odette in response to the passage of the Scarlet Mandate in '6, the organization was established as the 'Reclamation Division', a unit of the UDD within East Lambda. Its original charge was the capture or extermination of transhumans in and around Lambda territory. Odette and Locke spearheaded a squadron each, recruiting UDD officers of other departments, conscripting certain civilians and offering open bounties towards "reclaiming" any surviving transhumans encountered. As escaped transhumans were rounded up or reclaimed, membership gradually relaxed until the November Riots pressed the need for greater numbers and greater jurisdiction. What resulted was a global agency collaboratively formed by representatives from each Liberation state.

Locke suggested that RecDep Harvesters should be given the ability to supersede any authority relevant to the assignment at hand. It was reasoned that because a transhuman could feasibly occupy any position of any institution given enough time, all individuals not proven to be human are equally likely to be infiltrators. To avoid a scenario in which a transhuman uses a high-level position to avoid scrutiny, the representatives officially declared the DHP to exist above the jurisprudence of any government.