Homebrew Organizations

[Mightybec]

What organizations have you created from scratch, and what is its modivation, theme, and powers?

Mightybec

[Agent Escafarc]

TAROT

No relation to the V&V group(I didn't even know about them until about 5 years after I came up with mine)

They are the power behind all the other groups in the world. The Major Arcana are the leaders(The Magician thinks he is the leader but in reality it is the Fool) and the suits are the varios departments. And I used several well known villians to fill some of the roles.

PURITY

My short lived anti-mutant group. I got real bored with the whole concept and had the heroes defeat them for good.

[Syberdwarf2]

FIST - The Foundation for International Standardized Technologies.

This was a Japanese-based Megacorp from a cyberpunk game I was running. The campaign had a strange twist on it though. Drawing inspiration loosely from the prophecies of Nostradamus, the leader was a Japanese 'Third Antichrist' that caused all sorts of very mystical things to happen in a world that no longer believed in God (in any religioun/incarnation), or faith, etc. This of course only facilitated his and his corporation's rise to power.

[Enforcer84]

The Divine Right, a group of superpowered would be monarchs and the agency that worshiped them. They were fairly standard VIPER types but they had more class.

[Patriot]

I also did the Tarot, but they were a sub group of the card sharks

Basicly just a more diverse group of characters stuck with the major arcana

[Karma]

Originally posted by Mightybec
What organizations have you created from scratch, and what is its modivation, theme, and powers?

Mightybec

A.C.E. (Armoured Combat Exoskeletons)
Makers of quality power armor for ... well anyone who can meet their prices.
Motivation: Pure, simple capitalism. Mo' money.
Theme: Think Stark industries without a concience.
Powers: PA for every occasion. Saves many of its best designs for its own use.
Why?: The PCs all had suits from this organistion that had 'fallen off the back of a truck' literally. They made a good Hunted for the group.
Ps. the campaign was called ACE High. Guess what the PCs were in their off hours.

[Klytus]

I have a few, but these two are my favorites.

PURITY: Sort of like Genocide, only they go after ALL meta-humans, not just mutants. They don't use robots, only agents. What makes them dangerous, though, is that they have the most advanced tech on Earth. They have teleportation tech - something no one else has - skin-tight uniforms that protect like heavy battle-armor, small but powerful blaster pistols... and all of their gear disintigrates if handled by non PURITY members or kept away from PURITY agents for more than 1 minute. Makes studying the tech impossible :smirk:

The Dominion: A group of mentalists bent on world domination. Not through conquest, but by using their powers to either control important people or learn their secrets for blackmail. Thier existance is an open secret, but no one knows who their leaders are, or even how many members they have. The agents they do use for muscle have been mentally conditioned to be unable to betray Dominion secrets.

P.S. It nice to not be Incompetent anymore...

[MisterVimes]

AEGIS - Allied Espionage and Global Intelligence Service These guys fill the PRIMUS/SHIELD niche, except that they are a NATO based group. Their powers are like those of the FBI but their jurisdiction expands into NATO countries and they deal directly with Metahuman Phenomenon. To get around the UNTIL/National Soverignty issue. Each NATO member has a branch of AEGIS that reports directly to them The entire structure uses NATO as an oversight group. They have high-tech weapons and equipment and wear spiffy blue-black leather outfits.

Their symbol is a gold shield/badge with a medusa head on it.

[tiger]

W.O.M.E.N. : Women Organising Mens Elimintation or Nuetralization. Came into being when every hero decide to take won't hit/fight a women, figuring it was a safe disadvantage that wouldn't come up. Most groups that have women also have men therfore, they fight the men while someone else handles the women. OOPS All women group appeared!

Knights of Genitic Purity: Took over genocide and is far maro active and deadly

Dynamo: All Mutant group lead by a mutant that can explode

Arrangers: A villian help group. Fences, scientist, base builders..You name it they can do it.

Other than that I use several existing HG groups

[Klytus]

Originally posted by MisterVimes
AEGIS - Allied Espionage and Global Intelligence Service These guys fill the PRIMUS/SHIELD niche, except that they are a NATO based group. Their powers are like those of the FBI but their jurisdiction expands into NATO countries and they deal directly with Metahuman Phenomenon. To get around the UNTIL/National Soverignty issue. Each NATO member has a branch of AEGIS that reports directly to them The entire structure uses NATO as an oversight group. They have high-tech weapons and equipment and wear spiffy blue-black leather outfits.

Their symbol is a gold shield/badge with a medusa head on it.

I am such an idiot. I could never figure out how to get the U.S. to willingly be a part of an international organization with jurisdiction within its borders. I never even considered the NATO angle.

I sense some changes being made in my universe in the near future...

[MisterVimes]

Originally posted by Klytus
I am such an idiot. I could never figure out how to get the U.S. to willingly be a part of an international organization with jurisdiction within its borders. I never even considered the NATO angle.

I sense some changes being made in my universe in the near future...

Hey... it's all you. To be frank I sat with a pencil in hand and thought for about an hour and then screamed NATO! My wife jumped and it was this whole big thing....

ANYWAY. I figured that each AEGIS chapter would be answerable to the Nation that they were based in but if they needed assistance that they could call on other chapters. They have a council made up of a single representative from each member nation and a tribunal of the three highest ranking members that serve as the last court of appeal. This also eases extradition without violating national soveriegnty.

[Lord Liaden]

First-rate idea, Mr. Vimes! Entirely logical that this would develop in a supers-infested world, and your structural concept is well thought out. And the acronym is cool and actually makes sense.

I'm filing this under "good ideas to work in later" (with full credit, of course). Thanks!

[MisterVimes]

Well since everyone liked my first one...

UNICORN - United Nations Intelligence Council's Operational Response Network This is my UNTIL/UNCLE. Though they have uniformed agents that work abroad, this group is essentially the UN's spy-network. Since the member nations don't like getting spied on, who ARE they spying on? Aliens, Meta-Human Terrorist Cells (Eurostar, et al.) These guys are the intelligence gatherers, the people that provide the Heroes with the Info and the Missions to take out Dr. Destroyer's Hyno-sattelite.

The Field agents are VERY public, it helps to hide what the real agents are doing. The field agents are what happens when the problem needs a rapid response and the UN needs man-power in a hurry. Stationed around the globe, these units exist to help with natural disasters and to aid local police forces with hot-spot incidents. Beyond an invitation to help, UNICORN is helpless (or so people think).

The spies are the real trick here and the more covert the better. They gather info on every meta-human they encounter, because the one thing the UN can agree on is that they don't fully trust the metahumans in their midst.

[MisterVimes]

Originally posted by Lord Liaden
First-rate idea, Mr. Vimes! Entirely logical that this would develop in a supers-infested world, and your structural concept is well thought out. And the acronym is cool and actually makes sense.

I'm filing this under "good ideas to work in later" (with full credit, of course). Thanks!

Why thanks... I feel all contributory.

[Klytus]

Ok, Mr. Vimes, Consider UNICORN stolen as well. I never did like the IPIL acronym I came up with, anyway.