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Originally Posted by johndallman
"SMS", which is short for "Special Monster Service", although that name is never used. It allows improvisation of references in speech that may be overheard, along the lines of "texting" and it has a few other referents.
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I'm guessing when they need coded references, they'll use the actual cover companies they work for.
A name for the monster hunters would be something they'd use among themselves. Technically they don't gain anything from it and it's probably a small extra, unneeded risk in terms of information security.
But humans are funny that way. They are tribal and feel the need to belong. If they fight and die beside a small group of other people, united by being in on a secret were few others know, and by all of them being courageous and capable, the odds are that they'll adopt a moniker that excludes outsiders.
It might be something simple, like 'The Team'*, but they'll have a way to distinguish themselves from every other security guard working for the cover companies as well as the others in the
Penemue's crew.
Do you see 'Special Monster Service' as resonating enough with them?
There is actually at least one former SAS man on board the
Penemue, though that still means that US SOF personnel heavily predominates in terms of numbers, whereas in terms of the founder effect and past and present leadership roles, former French Foreign Legion men are influential. There will also be some Caribbean and Latin American recruits, of course, both immigrants who've been in the US military and former military or police from Caribbean or Latin American countries.
*Well, except that while the eight man Penemue away team is the most prestigious and important monster hunting team, there are three other teams with four hunters each. And 'the Teams' already means something to US Special Operations Forces operators and those associated with them.