[METSU] Metsuke Gendai

The metsuke are charged with the special duty of detecting and investigating instances of maladministration, corruption or disaffection anywhere in Systems, Metsuke ensure loyalty and obedience from friendly generals and keep your systems and armies safe from enemy subterfuge when positioned inside them. Metsuke can also bribe enemy garrisons, generals and armies, and detect, capture and destroy enemys in systems.

The Metsuke, literally meaning "censor", were the emperor's secret police. They acted the emperor's inquisitors and spies checking on the day to day activities of ministers and foreign diplomats, anyone who posed a threat. In history there were two forms of metsuke: the metsuke and the higher ranked ōmetsuke. The metsuke were charged with focusing on those ranking below daimyō (the Tokugawa Shogunate use of the word means feudal lords and not warlord) status; and their counterparts, the ōmetsuke, were responsible for supervising the activities of officials and members of the daimyō.