Talk:Strategic Homeland Division/@comment-4617669-20170513031328/@comment-4685760-20170531023657

Seeing as how some people who look at this Wiki might not own the game or not feel like a scavenger hunt (to be fair I'm not a huge fan), I feel like it's still worth answering.

According to the recordings, The Division was created in light of the epic failure that was Op Dark Winter (a simulated bioterror attack). When the Op showed how bad it would get, in game, the President signs Directive 51 establishing the Strategic Homeland Division (or simply The Division). It's purpose is to "maintain continuity of government" in extreme crises. This just basically means the Division agents are technically on the same level of authority as the President of the US. Once things calm down and, supposedly, once the government gets itself together, the Division deactivates its waves and the sleeper agents return to their families.