Annual Non-Human National Threat Assessment Report

Joint presentation by National Threat Assessment Center of the United States Secret Service, and the following primary cooperating agencies:

Defense Intelligence Agency (Department of Defense)

Office of Intelligence and Analysis (Department of Homeland Security)

Federal Bureau of Investigations (Department of Justice)

Executive Summary:

Barring the sudden appearance of new Orc [1] armies that number in the millions or their unexpected embrace of more advanced technology, Orcs do not currently represent a major threat to continued human dominance of this world. However, efforts to control their population and safeguard against their acquisition or development of more advanced technologies must be maintained indefinitely. Our current level of technology provides humanity with an effectively insurmountable strategic advantage against which Orcs continue to unsuccessfully resist. Despite this advantage, vigilance on the part of civil governments, law enforcement, military services and the public at large must not be permitted to lapse.

After the initial incursion decades ago, where modern nation-state military forces quickly destroyed the bulk of the invading Orc population [2], their much-diminished presence is now considered a simple public safety issue to be addressed primarily by law enforcement, local hunters and civil militias. After many years of public awareness campaigns, the citizenry has generally grown more cautious in the wilds and those living in more remote areas now accept Orcs as just another of the many routine threat they face every day. Under laws now present in nearly every country, all Orc sightings, encounters, or discovery of related artifacts are required to be reported to local law enforcement (or other applicable local or regional government agencies). Such agencies are required to report all findings upwards, escalating requests for assistance to state, regional and occasionally national law enforcement and/or military services in the event more serious threats are discovered.

Most jurisdictions in the United States have declared Orcs to be a "nuisance" species which allows for unlimited, year-round hunting and extermination by anyone able and willing to do so. Attempts by activists to attribute legal status, protections and/or civil rights to Orcs have failed repeatedly and have met with both harsh public mockery and open condemnation. The continuation and reinforcement of intense public derision and hostility towards Orcs should be strongly encouraged. Sustaining efforts to prevent any form of legal standing whatsoever are critical to on-going Orc population control and eradication measures.

The results of the Orc invasion will not soon be forgotten: Military casualties exceeded six hundred thousand world-wide with civilian causalities estimated at more than thirteen million, with an additional one hundred and thirty million persons displaced. Over the course of the six-month conflict, total property damage is estimated at nearly four trillion U.S. Dollars, although this does nothing to adequately express the sheer magnitude of suffering and misery experienced by humanity during this time. The extreme figures for this brief but intense military event have been attributed the surprise appearance of multiple millions of Orcs planet-wide, arriving en-masse by unknown and undetected means. [3]

Footnotes:

[1] Use of the word “Orc” is essentially slang, adopted after the general public noted a number of coincidental physical similarities between the non-human invaders and a certain type of “monster” often seen in popular fantasy books, movies and television-- Orcs. Less commonly, the term “goblin” is also used. Due to their primitive and limited language (and/or our incomplete understand of it), Orcs do not appear to have words to specifically identify their own species, nor possess individual names in any conventional sense.

[2] The origin of this invasion remains a mystery. Forces responsible for the incursion numbered in the tens of millions and was initiated from numerous points around the globe simultaneously. Rapid victory by human forces has been attributed primarily to heavy aerial and artillery bombardment plus extensive use of armored vehicles, against which Orcs have no effective countermeasures. Infantry battles proved especially brutal, but Orc forces were routinely overpowered and outmatched by their human counterparts, using both massive technical advantages and vastly superior tactics, strategies, logistics, communication, and intelligence chains.

[3] As most of the surface of this world has been under relatively tight surveillance in near-real-time for many years, there is nearly universal support for the hypothesis that Orcs are not native to this world, having arrived on Earth to execute a large-scale surprise attack exploiting unknown means to implement their incursion. Continued research (especially into their unique genetic makeup) appears to support this conclusion. Hypotheses describing potential methods of trans-planetary movement of very large populations at military scales vary considerably and are still the subject of intense study. The motive(s) for the invasion are also unclear.

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