Requisitions
The Union is a cornucopia if you're one of the chosen few. Although individual agents own very few of their own devices, they can get hold of things most wizards would give their eyeteeth to possess. The trick is making nice to your Supervisor and keeping good relations with other Conventions. A good agent can requisition special items for herself or her team and expect to get them. An op with the right connections can outsource items that normally belong to other groups. And a Technocrat who can "borrow" devices from other groups and get high-level stuff is a lucky boy (or girl) indeed!
Assigned and requisitioned gadgets come from the special labs and Q Divisions of each individual Conventions: An Iteration X cyborg gets new weapons, a Man in Black gets espionage gear and a Void Engineer gets some new Dimensional Science tech. To obtain them, you place a request with your Supervisors, play nice and hope you get what you want.
Outsourcing -- a Syndicate Perk -- follows the same process, but it jumps across Convention boundaries. Under most circumstances, the cyborg can get It-X gear, but not Progentor gear. The Syndicate sidesteps this obstacle through its Disbursements Division. That department draws up contracts between the requester and the requestee, then transfers the tools to agents who need them or stockpiles them in special armories until they're needed. This option's downside is that the Special Projects Division -- a.k.a., the Pentex Front -- has a steady pipeline into the requisitions process. From time to time, tainted gear winds up in the hands of innocent agents.
Every so often, a really connected agent can jump protocols and borrow stuff from his friends in other Conventions. Doing so is illegal, of course, and it may result in punishment for both parties. Even so, it is done occasionally; if the agent is working on a secret project (like Invictus), he might be able to get a higher-up to get gear for him.
