The TSA and their Enforcers are from the anime Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha and its sequels. Looks like the first two seasons have been licensed, so animesuki
only has the third season available for download.
http://www.animesuki.com/group.php/799.html
It introduces some new characters, though, and explores aspects of the setting that weren't seen previously, so the first two seasons aren't actually
necessary to enjoy StrikerS, I think.
They just make it more awesome. ^_^
Short version is that the TSA is sort of an interstellar/interdimensional cross between Starfleet and Gundam Wing's Preventers. Their main objective seems
to be to suppress 'mass weapons' (technological devices that let, for example, any ten-year old child that picks them up go out and kill people for a
Cause. In other words, guns and bombs as Earth knows them.) on their signatory worlds, so as to prevent nuclear and industrialized wars from killing people by
the billions. Officially, the local version of Earth is known as Nonsignatory Planet 97, and has no visible contact with the TSA... but there are signs (and my
own pet epileptic trees) that point to more extensive 'grey' and 'black' contacts between the TSA and Earth.
Instead of 'hard technology', the TSA uses Sufficiently Advanced Magic, complete with spaceships and AIs. The Enforcers are high-ranked mages; canon
details about their actual duties are sketchy, but my conjecture is that they seem to be equivalent to US Federal Marshalls, roving investigators, or both; a
quite reasonable choice to investigate something Utterly Bizzare like a powerful ancient artifact of unknown provenance.
Yes, the TSA gets more than enough of those to have established procedures.
EDIT: ...dur. Better explanation: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
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"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."
only has the third season available for download.
http://www.animesuki.com/group.php/799.html
It introduces some new characters, though, and explores aspects of the setting that weren't seen previously, so the first two seasons aren't actually
necessary to enjoy StrikerS, I think.
They just make it more awesome. ^_^
Short version is that the TSA is sort of an interstellar/interdimensional cross between Starfleet and Gundam Wing's Preventers. Their main objective seems
to be to suppress 'mass weapons' (technological devices that let, for example, any ten-year old child that picks them up go out and kill people for a
Cause. In other words, guns and bombs as Earth knows them.) on their signatory worlds, so as to prevent nuclear and industrialized wars from killing people by
the billions. Officially, the local version of Earth is known as Nonsignatory Planet 97, and has no visible contact with the TSA... but there are signs (and my
own pet epileptic trees) that point to more extensive 'grey' and 'black' contacts between the TSA and Earth.
Instead of 'hard technology', the TSA uses Sufficiently Advanced Magic, complete with spaceships and AIs. The Enforcers are high-ranked mages; canon
details about their actual duties are sketchy, but my conjecture is that they seem to be equivalent to US Federal Marshalls, roving investigators, or both; a
quite reasonable choice to investigate something Utterly Bizzare like a powerful ancient artifact of unknown provenance.
Yes, the TSA gets more than enough of those to have established procedures.
EDIT: ...dur. Better explanation: Magical Girl Lyrical Nanoha
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===============================================
"V, did you do something foolish?"
"Yes, and it was glorious."