# Corporate Security Forces: Structure and Operations

## Overview

GLMZ has no police force. It has six corporate security divisions, one military corponation, and a patchwork of private security firms that together provide the enforcement function that, in an earlier era, was the monopoly of the state. Security in GLMZ is a market — one where protection is a product, jurisdiction is a negotiation, and the quality of safety you receive depends on the price someone is willing to pay.

## The Big Six Security Operations

### Axiom Security Division (ASD)
Mandate: Protection of Axiom assets, facilities, and personnel. Strength: 3,500 uniformed personnel. Focus: Technology security, data protection, intellectual property enforcement. ASD is the most technically sophisticated security force in the city — its officers carry less firepower than Arcturus but compensate with superior electronic warfare capabilities, drone support, and predictive analytics that position officers before incidents occur.

### Tessera Protective Services (TPS)
Mandate: Protection of Tessera infrastructure, supply chains, and agricultural operations. Strength: 2,800 uniformed personnel. Focus: Infrastructure security, supply chain protection, anti-smuggling operations. TPS is the security force most likely to encounter Silver Thread smuggling operations and Ninth Circle manufacturing diversions.

### Sterling-Nakamura Medical Security (SNMS)
Mandate: Protection of Sterling-Nakamura medical facilities, pharmaceutical operations, and research programs. Strength: 2,200 uniformed personnel. Focus: Facility security, pharmaceutical anti-counterfeiting, and the protection of the classified research programs that occupy Thornfield's sub-levels. SNMS officers are trained in medical emergency response as well as security operations.

### Zheng-Dao Financial Guard (ZDFG)
Mandate: Protection of financial infrastructure, transaction security, and market integrity. Strength: 1,800 uniformed personnel. Focus: Financial crime prevention, market manipulation detection, and the physical security of Zheng-Dao's data centers and financial processing infrastructure.

### Ringo Public Safety Contractors (RPSC)
Mandate: General public safety in commercial districts and entertainment zones. Strength: 4,000 uniformed personnel. This is the closest thing GLMZ has to a public police force — Ringo's contract with the governance consortium makes RPSC responsible for public safety in areas that no single corponation claims. The scope is limited: commercial districts, transit hubs, entertainment zones, and the public spaces between corporate territories.

### Arcturus
Mandate: Military operations, border security, and high-intensity security operations that exceed the other divisions' capabilities. Strength: 8,000 active-duty military personnel. Arcturus is the hammer — called in when the other security forces can't handle a situation, which means corporate warfare, terrorist attacks, infrastructure threats, and the rare occasions when Leviathans or Superminds behave in ways that threaten critical systems.

## Jurisdictional Gaps

The patchwork security structure creates gaps — zones where no corponation has claimed security responsibility and no security force patrols. The Shelf, the Gulch, Sector Seven, and the Marrow tunnels fall largely within these gaps. Residents of these areas rely on community self-policing, informal security arrangements, and the services of private operators like Jerome Atlas's firm. The gaps are not accidental — they're the result of economic calculation. Patrolling the Shelf costs money and generates no revenue. The corponations prefer to spend security resources protecting assets that generate returns.