It is similar to the codes of '10-4' and 'Roger' that other, similar organisations use. The organisation employs the code acknowledgment call S.I.G., for 'Spectrum is Green,' meaning that they acknowledge, or are acknowledging, a message or order. The Spectrum Medical Service, another such component agency of the organisation, has not been so mentioned or depicted, and its existence is inferred from fanon sources. The elite of Spectrum's most senior personnel are all stationed at its command headquarters this facility is not actually located in any nation on Earth, but instead above all of them, aboard a flying aircraft carrier that has come to be known as Cloudbase. (In New Captain Scarlet, Spectrum's command headquarters is called Skybase.) The true identities of all these elite senior personnel are considered highly classified information to protect people who may be close to them from being harmed, owing to the dangers that such personnel regularly face, with at least one fanon source describing the requirement for 'Rainbow Clearance' to be permitted to know them, and thus these identities are protected by code names drawn from the colours of the rainbow.Īgencies within the Spectrum Organisation that have been mentioned, and in some cases even depicted, include the Spectrum Intelligence Service, the Spectrum Police Department, and the Spectrum Research Centre.

Fanon sources specify the duration of training for its personnel as one year.

The primary Spectrum Academy for training its personnel, especially its colour-coded senior personnel (see below), is its Koala Base, a military training facility located in the Outback of Australia. It is thus the armed military force of Earth, as a direct result, that has unfortunately found itself forced to do most of the fighting on the 'front lines' of a war of nerves against a powerful alien force from Mars known as the Mysterons. As the ultimate task team, with its Commander-In-Chief, or CINCSPEC, answering only to the President of the World Government of Earth, it is required to face the ultimate challenges to planet-wide peace. The Spectrum Organisation is tasked, in its charter, with keeping peace throughout Earth, especially between the member nations of the World Government of Earth and the political leagues whose member nations have refused to join the World Government, where the World Armed Forces-the World Army Air Force, the World Navy, the World Marine Corps, and the World Space Patrol-cannot act as effectively.

2.1 In Captain Scarlet and the Mysterons.

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