Triple-S

Triple-S is the shorthand form for the Sovereign's Security Service, responsibility for the protection of the Sovereign, taking in not just day-to-day protection duty for the Sovereign, but as a wide-reaching spy network, protecting the man or woman currently occupying the office, but the office itself. A powerful organisation with near parity to the powers of the Sovereign, and Black Fleet Staff Command. The Director has the power to second Black Fleet personnel to the service, seize control of Black Fleet craft for covert operations, and even amend direct orders from the Sovereign.

In exceptional circumstances the Director of Triple-S can actually countermand orders given by the incumbent Sovereign if their actions are likely to cause significant political or reputational harm to the office of Sovereign, such as when Sovereign Edgar Phipps intended to invade the mobster controlled world of Steimz after an assassination left him severely wounded, and cost the lives of many Triple-S protection officers. Publicly he left office early due to the extent of his injuries, without the public every discovering that he was removed from office to prevent him contravening the security stipulations that held the Protectorate together by launching an illegal planetary invasion.

The action to prevent this was taken by the current Director of Triple-S, Veronica Finch.