Cryptology
Within the Intentions division of Alliance Intelligence, and subsequently within the New Republic Intelligence Service, existed a department called Cryptology. The function of Cryptology was to try and decode Imperial codes. Despite having access to the most advanced communications droids and computers that the Alliance could obtain, Cryptology only achieved a fifteen percent success rate with civil codes and a mere five percent with military ciphers. Their main task involved deciphering the scandocs that were encoded by Imperial Intelligence, which had resisted all of Cryptology's attempts. Thanks to the actions of Alliance Special Forces, Cryptology acquired a scandoc decoding computer, with the expectation that it would provide them with deeper insights into the mechanics of the scandoc coding process.