The Spectrum Organisation, is an armed military force established through a charter approved on Thursday, 7 July, 2067 and signed on Sunday, 10 July, 2067. Its Commander-In-Chief, or CINCSPEC, is answerable solely to the President of the World Government of Earth.
Overview[]
Purposes[]
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. 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. 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.)
Headquarters[]
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 Skybase.
Communication[]
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. It is similar to the codes of "10-4" and "Roger" that other, similar organisations use. If they do not acknowledge or if something is wrong, then they use the code S.I.R., for "Spectrum is Red." (Sometimes, Spectrum personnel have emphasised expansions on the acronym to indicate agreements under protest.)
Membership[]
Since the Spectrum Organisation is an international armed military force with facilities and bases in every location belonging to the World Government, it has numerous personnel, not all of whom are colour-coded, serving at many of these facilities and these bases, but the exact number is classified. Thus there are almost certainly many more Spectrum personnel, colour-coded or otherwise, than have actually been shown in New Captain Scarlet (one example being the personnel on Base Elysium and its late volunteers).
Members of Spectrum[]
Spectrum Officers[]
The Spectrum Organisation's colour code-named senior officers are special, talented personnel, all of whose skills from their previous lines of work are used for the efficiency of the organisation. They each wear special uniforms, not sporting rank insignia, whose radio-caps, tunics, and boots are coloured in their respective colour code-names.
- Captain Scarlet - (Paul Metcalfe) - Field Officer
- Captain Blue - (Adam Svenson) - Field Officer
- Colonel White - (Sir Charles Gray) - Commander-in-chief
- Lieutenant Green - (Serena Lewis) - Communications Officer, aide to Colonel White and Second-in Command
- Captain Brown - (Ricky Nolan) - Field Officer
- Captain Grey - (Iain Taggart) - Field Officer
- Captain Ochre - (Elaine McGee) - Field Officer
- Captain Magenta - (Mario Maro) - Field Officer
- Captain Indigo - (John Roach) - Field Officer
- Doctor Gold - (Mason Frost) - Medical Officer
- Lieutenant Silver - (Bethany Craig) - Secondary Communications Officer
Angels[]
- Destiny Angel - (Simone Giraudoux) - Fighter Pilot and Pack Leader
- Harmony Angel - (Rebecca Drake) - Fighter Pilot and Second-in command
- Rhapsody Angel - (Caroline Foster-Finch) - Fighter Pilot
- Melody Angel - (Esther Jackson) - Fighter Pilot
- Symphony Angel - (Yuko Inukai) - Fighter Pilot
Honorary Members[]
- Captain Onyx - (Ash Ketchum) - Field Officer/Dimensional Liason *(Despite acquiring the title by the time of Season 2, Ash is otherwise mostly referred to by real name during his prior and continued service to Spectrum)
- Captain Rufous - (Kiawe) - Field Officer
- Captain Fuchsia - (Lillie) - Field Officer/Dimensional Liason/Backup Angel
- Captain Zaffre - (Lana) - Field Officer/Backup Angel
- Doctor Olivine - (Mallow) - Field/Medical Officer
- Lieutenant Saffron - (Sophocles) - Field Officer/Technical Chief
Trivia[]
- Following the events of Ash's Adventures of New Captain Scarlet followed by a further two fan-seasons, Skybase's engines are outfitted with multiple T-Drive components to allow it to travel between dimensions. As such, the organization sometimes joins many adventures when the global threat level is low enough for other Spectrum personal on the ground to handle in the seniors' absence until they return.
- After following Ash and friends on a few of their adventures and ending the war of nerves with the Mysterons once and for all, Captain Scarlet and the members of Spectrum go on many solo adventures in the Captain Scarlet's Adventures Series, though they still join Ash on some of his future adventures when the situation calls for Spectrum's assistance.