Department of Strategic Services

The Department of Strategic Services, also referred to in conversations and print as ​DSS, is the intelligence and counterintelligence agency of the Galactic Consilium. It is tasked with gathering of critical information of strategic importance relating to a wide array of concerns within the Consilium Government. Likewise, it is responsible for identifying and neutralizing the dangers posed by foreign agents implanted within the Consilium.

The DSS is split into three arms - Internal Operations, External Operations and Information Operations.

The DSS is a branch of the ConStat, with its director answerable to the President and Council.