Editing Dark Ring (section)

==== ''One in Fifty'' ====
The SHD is a massive organization containing tens of thousands of official and unofficial employees. Current SHD documents suggest that one in fifty living civilians in Qis work for the organization. This makes the SHD the largest single organization on the Dark Ring. 

''No Specific Powers''

It is difficult for foreigners to comprehend the exact reach of the SHD. This is on purpose because Soris gave no power restrictions on the SHD. They can act with complete autonomy and answer only to their king. If an agent of the SHD makes a threat the chances are high they can carry it out no matter how vast the scope. 

''Intelligence Gathering and Decomposition''

One of the SHD’s most important jobs is intelligence gathering. This is done through their usual spying techniques combined with “advanced interrogation methods.” Other nations along the Sea of Screams simply call it torture.

However, SHD torture goes far beyond the physical. Many times the SHD will not even detain an individual once they begin to torture them. Instead they employ a system called decomposition. In short, decomposition is a specialized psychological torture style meant to attack the vicitim’s mental health and sense of reality. Agents performing this technique employ mass gaslighting. They will sneak into a victims house to move furniture, steal items, or destroy documents. A long-time SHD agent who knows the victim personally might all of a sudden act as if they do not know the victim. The end goal is for the victim to doubt their own mental health and push them to the brink of sanity. With their grip on reality in free fall, the SHD moves in to gather information.

Using these tactics the SHD has one of the most robust intelligence gathering systems ever created. This web often expands to other nations as well. The SHD’s subtle yet effective techniques allow them to strike far behind enemy lines and interrogate a target without them even knowing the SHD is at work.