NationStates Jolt Archive

Let's not beat around the bush. Most nations have a covert operations department, whose duties usually involve assassinating politically inconvenient persons.

In Roycelandia, this is handled by the Imperial Intelligence Service.

The main assassination weapon for the IIS is the Nagant M1895 revolver with silencer- The Nagant, a 7.62mm revolver, is the only one which can be effectively silenced (it's a gas-seal revolver). The benefits of a revolver for assassination purposes are many, but no spent shells lying around the scene is a big plus.

Other popular weapons include Silenced Sniper Rifles, Piano Wire, Poison, and arranging "Accidents".

So, how does your Government get rid of people who need to be silenced permanently?

A joke thats so funny they DIE laughing.

Generally, the Callisdrunians will not play the political game of assassination. However, since the Great War, Callisdrun's neighbor has been continually in a state of anarchy and civil war between several factions. Because the Callisdrunian government knows that if ever united again, Altar Rang will seek vengeance upon Callisdrun, the military will occasionally assassinate a leader of a faction to keep it from getting too strong. In wartime, the large sniper corps is put to use attempting to hit higher ranking officers whenever possible.

A weapon held in high regard for this sort of task is the .50 cal sniper rifle. Only one out of every ten Callisdrunian snipers use these behemoths, the rest generally carry various rifles of the SAKO make. Research and development department is currently working on a rail gun that will basically shoot an ice bullet by magnetically propelling a small metal bead inside the ice bullet. This has thus far not been very successful though.

The ASA tends to take advantage of the rising number of psychics within the nation, using their abilities for an untracable kill.

The main weapon for the Black Guard of Ankhmet for a close to medium range assasination is a stripped down to the bones version of the HKMP5Sd, the first fully silenced automatic weapon available. Whilst this shows the somewhat outdated nature of the Black Guard's equipment, the 'Scorpion's tail' squad uses the OICW (Objective Individual Combat Weapon), capable of use as a semi-automatic rifle for sniping, or a fully automatic rifle, with a bottom slung grenade launcher. The weapon also features a 'threat asessment' feature in the scope.Using infrared targetting it highlights any person within a medium range distance, so the marksman can aim at leisure.

Members of our Euthanatos section take them for a walk "out back".

As "out back" is thousands of miles of arctic emptiness home only to polar bears, wolves, and other nasties, and has an average daily temperature of around -50 F (without the windchill from winds that reach up to 200mph)... lets just say nature takes its course.

The other option is a swim. In arctic waters. With a slight razor nick. Our Great Whites taste better, they're better fed. And if Noah doesn't get you, the water temperature insures a survival period of about 2 minutes. In "summer".

We simply send the Government Police after them, and have them arrested. After that, we normally shoot them. Of course, depending on their position sometimes they are granted the privilege to take there own life.

It is rare that people resist. After all, that would be unpatriotic.

The CLP has eschewed standardized violent methods of removing trouble individuals from its system and instead when a member of the CLP's credit rating slips below a certain point they are detained and forced back into a low ranking government monitored position.

If an offender continues to cause the credit of the nation to falter he/she is then conscripted into frontline service. A program where the offender is placed into a high risk squad in the nations millitary. Any further infractions are dealt with by the ministry of ReEducation. A program set up by the people to increase the productiveness of individuals who have proven themselves unsaveable. The offenders mental patterns are recorded and they are added to the grand database, then the Offender recives an implanted personality from the Personality Donor program. In which the minds of those victims pronounced DOA due to accidents or murders are artificially stimulated, scanned in, and rebuilt virtually.

Make them eat armpit cheese. and LOTS of it

We use an updated and modified version of the 19th century "Lemon Squeezer" assassins pistol (OOC: Which did actually exist, it was a very clever piece of work)

The gun has been upgraded to fire a standard 9mm bullet, whilst retaining the original shape and size.

Basically, the gun is a small, palm sized circular disk, with a small barrel that is placed between fingers. The assassin takes the shot, then leaves whilst panic ensues.

A joke thats so funny they DIE laughing.

Ah, Special Operations Wing used that very method to take-out the Fuhrer!
Venn ist das nurnstuck git und slottermeyer? Jah! Biegerhund das oder die flipperwaldt gespurt! HaHaHaHa!

I mean, WoS would never stoop to such uncivilised and cowardly levels as assassination!

*Thinks of giant can of pepper spray*

Ah, Special Operations Wing used that very method to take-out the Fuhrer!
Venn ist das nurnstuck git und slottermeyer? Jah! Biegerhund das oder die flipperwaldt gespurt! HaHaHaHa!

I mean, WoS would never stoop to such uncivilised and cowardly levels as assassination!

Yes, we tried to use The Funniest Joke In The World to take out some of the Lusakan Insurgents back in the '70s.

Our highly trained Comedy Technicians, working in Joke-Proof Conditions, laboured to translate The Joke into Bantu, working on one word each to prevent accidents.

Alas, owing to security breaches, several of the Technicians accidentally saw two words of The Joke and were hospitalised for some time. The plan was shelved shortly afterwards, as it was discovered that a bullet to the head was just as effective and not as deadly to one's own operatives. ;)

OOC: Gotta love Monty Python!

Our [name deleted] use the [name deleted] for most of their political assassinations.

(Like I'm really going to reveal info on my Black Sun assassins......whoops.)

ICly why would we answer this question?
OOCly

It would of course depend on the target and political neccisties and so forth however 3.) different options immediatly present themselves.

1.) The most likely approach.

A Ranger or would be tasked to the mission, He would likely set himself up along some travel root and wait for the target. Wherein the use of a Shurikan Sniper RIfle would be used. Silent and incrediably accurate the Sniper varient of the Shurikan Rifle also uses Shurikan that administer a wide variety of chemical or biological agents depending on the species of the target. To ensure maximum probabilty of success.

A varient on this approach would be to increase the number of rangers used and lay them out along the route the target will travel thus maximising chances of success.

2.) Where risk of capture and political fallout makes the use of a Ranger inadvisable the council turns to the Mon-Keigh security agency of it's Mars branch. Simply put it wipes an agents memory and implants false ones and an urge to kill the target and lets them loose,Thius way the council can deny everything if the agent is caught. The downside of this approach is such agents tend to be inefficent and likely to fail since they must appear untrained for the 'Crazy' defence to work.

3.) especially Rare but sometimes an option for those 'special' targets that might survive a Ranger are the Harlequins. They might use a maried of approaches including a direct assult of the Target the use of Harlequins is for when the Target really MUST die... So far they have only been used in a direct Military engagement in an attempted strike at Alkanphel himself, it is to this level of target the Harlequins are generally reserved for.

OOC: Depending on how removed an individual needs to become there are two options available, the publicly known SO19 group can apprehend an individual(s) and they are then sent to the Designated Zones - think Escape From New York but far more purpose built once in the DZ a life sentence normally equates in to a death sentence for the majority but this way we let them run around a bit first.

The second alternative is the employment of 'Tempesta' squads who will remove a target in whatever manner is appropriate and least likely to be linked back to the government and the organisation themselves.

Weaponry is a matter of suitability with silenced weapons not always being required, such as killing a suspect in the midst of a war zone or amongst high background noise.

What we use is strictly classified.

The first most standard way is covert "ghost" unit members move in and with a custom designed wrist dart launcher they can inject the target with a plasma that will eat at there heart causing the target to seem to have a heart attack. The second less comon way is a Spartan using a sniper rifle. Very bloody but effective. And the third and much rarer way is a elite with psyonic abilitys makes the target comit suicide through the way of projecting there voice in the target's mind causing false insanity. Anything further than that is just a simple tank shell to the target.
Also this is all stricktly OCC.

LRR doesn't have the capability to assassinate someone...well, actually there's the capability, but no will. Assassination is not an acceptable part of LRR foriegn policy.

All such issues are dealth with by "The Agency". Unknown to everyone, known to even fewer.

we use dna encoded nuclear weapons the only affect the target

The FFBI uses a varity of weapons.

The ASA tends to take advantage of the rising number of psychics within the nation, using their abilities for an untracable kill.
The interests I represent
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we use dna encoded nuclear weapons the only affect the target


...... you're kidding, right?

For our conventional, more common, er, operations, we use your modified conventional weapons (PSG-9, etc)

For more high profile, we employ nearly-undetectable poisons, airstrikes, etc.

For our highest priority targets, we have experimental weapons. What those are, I'm afraid I cannot reveal. But they are very effective and reliable and leave no trace save for a corpse.

Covert operations? Bah! Why bother hiding the fact that you just snuffed a guy out? When Das Sketch wants someone dead, we glass the country that we think that they're hiding in. And then we glass a neighboring country to show 'em we mean business. And if anyone complains, we glass them too! If you want to do a job done right, you better damn well do it with a thermonuclear warhead!

<insert continuous mananical laughter>

Covert operations? Bah! Why bother hiding the fact that you just snuffed a guy out? When Das Sketch wants someone dead, we glass the country that we think that they're hiding in. And then we glass a neighboring country to show 'em we mean business. And if anyone complains, we glass them too! If you want to do a job done right, you better damn well do it with a thermonuclear warhead!

<insert continuous mananical laughter>

Hehe. Hear, hear!

The interests I represent
have also been using
ASA's psychics
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AAAAaaaa, Assington has a puppet. EEeeeee.

Err, on topic, Valient does not endorse Assasination as a viable political tool.

STRICTLY OOC:

To take someone out in the middle of a city:

The assassins use a pen. Not just an ordinary pen, though. This pen, when you press in the gold clip, shows a small needle. Prick the guy in the ass, since autopsy's are always done face up, and inject the classified biological compound into the person, and walk on. THirty seconds later, the victim collapses, unable to move or speak, but the victim can hear, see, and feel. fifteen seconds later he is dead. Because of the compund's reaction with the body's chemicals, it erases itself, leaving no trace of poisoning. THe end result is that of what looks like a heart attack.

Otherwise:

A silenced sniper rifle will do. Or, a loud Uzi, depending on who you want to take the blame.