Introduction
A powerful and highly dangerous organised crime group - Human Pride - is threatening the universe’s safety and privacy, unleashing fears from all walks of life. In response, a special police force is developed to fight it off. That’s where StarPol makes its autocratic presence known.
Housed within the sturdiness of the spacestation alone, there are more than 2000 courageous officers on guard aboard each of the police starships, ready to grapple some of the universe’s most devious breaches of the law.
They’re no ordinary officers either. Having officers from all over the universe with different talents and areas of expertise, StarPol governs some of the universe’s most experienced officers - ranging from ex-military personnel to medical and engineering professionals.
With the help of a non-police undercover agency known as the Dark Empire, the intellectual deductions of the detectives, the physical and mental versatility of the Tactical Elite Unit and the communication flexibility of the administrative staff, it’s almost impossible for Human Pride to commit a crime and get away with it.
Brace yourselves as the StarPol officers take you through a captivating underworld expedition unlike any other. Be prepared to experience the human side to each of the six characters - including the androids - as they carry out the hazardous job of protecting the innocent occupants of the universe from Human Pride’s criminal masterminds.
Conceived in 1996 by creator Caetlyn McLean, Governance is an action sci-fi series over 20 years in the making.
The series focuses on the officers serving on the policeship, the Equanimous. The Equanimous is the first policeship built for the fleet of the InterGalactic Investigative Division (or IGID for short). Hence, StarPol officers of all ranks see it as a distinguished privilege to serve on such a ship. Over the centuries, it has been renovated and updated to meet the criteria for modern crime-fighting and is at the cutting edge of technology. Any officer working in the IGID are said to be the pick of the crop. So, it’s not surprising that their colleagues serving on the Equanimous are hailed as the very best of the best in StarPol.
Getting onto the Equanimous crew isn’t easy. With about 700 billion officers in StarPol in total from all alien life-forms, only 2000 of those are applicable for service on the Equanimous so the odds are astronomically small – about 1,250 million to 1 in fact!
The Tactical Elite Unit had been a new division of the Starfighters created in 3107. It had been noticed that criminals were becoming more and more cunning in recent years and a special police division was needed to fight it off. Tactical Elite Officers are special Starfighters who are also trained in other aspects of StarPol, including emergency medical procedures and computer electronics. The training program is said to be the toughest in the universe with only 5 per cent of applications successfully surviving to the very end.
However, one advantage of having graduated from the course is that Tactical Elite Officers then have a higher authority over StarPol officers of equal rank. It is hoped that all Starfighters will eventually take on the position as Tactical Elite Officers.
Not one to be easily deterred, Human Pride is a highly powerful crime group that constantly challenges the authorities of law enforcement agencies throughout the universe. There are rumours that several members of the crime group are affiliated with a number of corrupt senior Government officials which makes bringing them to justice that much more difficult.
It’s not known exactly when Human Pride was created but historians have found documentation by police authorities of severe crimes being committed by them in the late 2100s. Their technology, it seems, has developed in leaps and bounds over the years and possibly much more sophisticated that those of law enforcements. Most of their technological advances are second-hand, however, preferring to steal research and personnel for later replication through their own black-market means.