ROM

ComStar's internal and external security force, ROM (an acronym whose meaning has been lost to time) was formed in 2811 by ComStar founder Jerome Blake to help prevent leakage of technological information to the outside and to help thwart defection of ComStar personnel to the Successor States. This secret intelligence network would locate threats to ComStar and eliminate them before any damage was done. As per to Blake's proposal, operatives would work as undercover agents within the ranks of ComStar's technicians, as well as posing as citizens. Fear of ROM helped to ensure the quick adoption of the increasing mysticism of the ComStar Order by even it's most skeptical members.

Due to the actions of the more militant and mystical Primuses that followed Blake, ROM also engaged in an extensive covert war to cripple technological advancement of the Inner Sphere outside of the halls of ComStar. Through sabotage and assassination with each House blaming the others, ROM swiftly increased the slide into lostech for many technologies taken for granted in the Star League-era, all in the name of ensuring ComStar mission of being the sole protector of knowledge.

ROM reports directly to the Primus via Precentor ROM, who oversees the operations of the State Administrators, one for each Great House and major faction, who control and report on the day to day operations of ROM agents in their respective jurisdictions. After the ComStar Schism, both ComStar and the Word of Blake had their own ROM sections. Originally led by Demona Aziz, the Word of Blake commanded three fourths of the pre-schism ROM assets, giving them an edge in a brutal covert war with their secular brethren and against the Great Houses which allowed them to capture Terra and launch the Jihad.