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The Bureau of Extra Territorial Indigenous Affairs (BETIA)

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Goals

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The history of America is one of colonialism and imperialism. First the European powers and then Americans themselves ruthlessly exploited the land for wealth and power while ignoring or outright fleecing the native inhabitants. The consequences to the political and cultural landscape from this exploitation have been profound and BETIA was founded to ensure that history will not be repeated, and that any natives of this new world get a fair deal from the exploring departments.

This is what it says in the BETIA employee manual and pamphlets they give to keep senators who are both too idealist to stomach real imperialism and too powerful, to keep out of the loop happy. In practice the BETIA has almost the expressly opposite purpose. To see that the new world is exploited to the benefit of the American government and people in every way possible as quickly as possible. If there is an opportunity to trade some low value trade goods for a territory the size of a state they'll take it. If that means igniting wars among the natives and hiring a third side to kill off the first two while they're weakened they'll do it. Anything it takes to gain a dominant position in the far world as quickly as possible. After all who knows if the Soviets might be able to replicate this technology. If they do we needed to be prepared with a firmly entrenched position for capitalism.

Ambassador at Large Nathaniel Hewitt

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For the past two decades Hewitt has served in one way or another in South America. His name does not come up much in public news, but that is not for lack of competence on his part. Instead Hewitt is the diplomatic equivalent a black ops specialist. He and his team are expressly assigned to regions where the USA wants something, but the locals are too intransigent to give in to more civilized diplomacy.

Hewitt has done things that most Americans would probably find quite unsettling if they were made public. He has never actually killed personally, but the arms deals that he's orchestrated have certainly increased the levels of violence. He's promoted the interests of local warlords more interested in power than the rights of their people, and willing to give in to US demands in exchange for that power. In a few very rare very confidential cases he's actually authorized the genocide of certain tribes who were just a bit too stubborn for their own cases.

In short Hewitt is the perfect man to operate a diplomatic team that will likely remain out of contact with the government for large periods of time, and one which will be dealing with primitive feudal societies. And given the limited nature of the portal any particularly nasty incidents he needs to orchestrate will be significantly easier to cover up. So in short order he was given the title Ambassador at Large to Extra Terrestrial Territories and given leave to pick his team.

Hewitt's Staff aka the Men in Grey

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Hewitt's hand picked team of operatives. Most of them have been with him for years, and whatever their employee handbooks say they know how he operates. They operate in the shadows of the law. Nothing which is exactly illegal, but that just means they know what all the loopholes are. And when the chips are down they don't mind trading their neat grey suits for a set of camouflage and demolition charges.

Stats (In preferred order)
Diplomacy (DIP)
Morale (MOR)
Espionage (ESP)

Fieldcraft (FLD): (Only if it doesn't unduly impact the other stats.)