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Originally Posted by Xenarthral
I was pondering which term to use, as regardless of which non-investigative
group it would likely be met by "ISWAT is not X".
And it IS short for Interworld Special Weapons and Tactics.
You don't call in ISWAT because Homeline science finds no traces, evidence
or explanations (if you did, what do you use the rest of Infinity for?) - unless
you assume that only ISWAT gets psychics, mages and outtimers with
interesting skills. (Infinite Worlds is unclear on the issue, but since it appears
to be the normal I-cops and scouts who normally handle cabalists, zombie
plagues and whatever banestorms and gates dump on worlds where Nexus
Oversight hang around it seems reasonable to assume that they have other
options than immediately calling in ISWAT when magic or psionics show up, or
when science doesn't.)
You don't call in ISWAT because some cabalist soul jar-ed someone - that's
business as usual even though it's possible that all the mages capable of
easily fixing that are in ISWAT (so you call them in at that point).
You call in ISWAT when hostage rescues means giving a Great Old One an
unasked-for astral stomach-pumping. And at that point it is no longer an
investigation.
Of course, I tend to start with the assumptions that "Infinity personnel as a
whole is extremely capable" and that ISWAT, being even more capable, deal
with toppling Dark Lords, stopping full-scale parachronic invasions, putting
Elder Gods back to sleep and similar Crises.
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You have a point there. I had a bit too mundane image of standard Infinity agents while thinking about this.
Qoltar, here's another possibility:
investigator/cleaner
faceman/infiltrator
fighter/wheelman
techie/scientist
occultist/medic