Dominique Posted October 21, 2005 Report Share Posted October 21, 2005 The U.S. Department of Homeland Security Bureau of Special InvestigationsBSI"Honor, Valor, Integrity” OVERVIEW The Bureau of Special Investigations (BSI) is the branch of the federal government tasked with investigating “metahuman” crimes, paranormal activity, and any reported human contact with extraterrestrials. To accomplish this mission, BSI maintains a staff of several thousand Special Agents, technicians, and support personnel locate at a number of Regional Field Offices throughout the continental U.S. BSI Agents have full arrest and investigative powers when dealing in such situations, and share joint jurisdiction with the FBI, in terrorism cases involving metahumans. In cases involving the security of the President, Vice President, or their immediate families, BSI would work hand in hand with the US Secret Service to ensure their safety. BSI Special Agents are also located at US embassies overseas to act as liaisons with foreign governments. These agents coordinate their activities with the US Department of State’s Office of Metahuman Assistance, and the Diplomatic Security Service (DSS) on security issues involving dignitaries. ORGANIZATION BSI is organized into several “Branches” or “ Divisions”, including the Administration & Training Division; Field Operations, and the Support Operations Branch. The Admin and Training Division consists of the Bureau HQ complex Northern VA, The Training Academy located on the grounds of the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC) in Glynco, GA and its satellite facility in Maryland, and the BSI Crime Lab. ADMIN & TRAINING The Administration and Training Division is responsible for handling the normal day to day operations of the Bureau, and for ensuring that Bureau personnel are properly trained. Its personnel handle everything from payroll, to recruiting the next generation of BSI Agents. HEADQUARTERS BSI’s headquarters, the Thomas J. Tanaka Building, is located in Washington, DC, not far from the Capital. The building is named in honor of Special Agent Thomas “Tommy” James Tanaka. Special Agent Tanaka was killed during an assault on the building by the mutant terrorist group, The Oppressed, in late 2004 (see box below). In addition to a state of the art security system, which are rumored to include force screens, sophisticated electronic counter measures, and even man portable surface to air missiles, the building is protected by a small army of heavily armed security personnel (contract security personnel hired through the Federal Protective Service, and supervised by BSI personnel.), and an advanced security system. (The FBI is rumored to be extremely jealous). *Note* Unknown to the general public, BSI has discreetly made contact with several powerful mystics, who’ve recently emplaced a number of mystical wards around the facility to protect it from the growing number of supernatural threats the Bureau has been encountering lately. The building not only houses offices, classrooms, and the crime lab, but an indoor shooting range, a gym, a secure underground garage, a secure meeting room that rivals anything the military could produce, an infirmary, and a pool. In addition to the above ground offices, there are several sublevels below the main building. The Armory, EOC, and interrogation room, power generation equipment, temporary holding cells, and “The Vault” are housed. The Vault, is one of the most secure containment units in the world, housing a wide variety of objects for study in the crime lab, the Skunk Works, and Paranormal Investigations. HQ/Administration - Washington, DC. Office of the Director Public Affairs Office of the Inspector General Office Legal Counsel Office of Financial Management The Academy and Training Division Academy - BSI Basic Academy (FLETC) BSI Satellite Training Facility FIELD OPERATIONS The Field Operations Division runs the Bureau’s various field offices, and its personnel are generally what most of the public thinks of when they think BSI. With its main office is located at BSI headquarters, Field Operations is organized into several subsections, with each specializing in a particular type of operation. Operations Division - HQ bldg., Washington, D. C. Criminal Investigations “Super Crimes” Branch - Office of Metahuman Intelligence - Co-located with the HQ bldg. Paranormal Investigations Branch - ESPER Unit Crisis Management unit - Tactical Operations Branch BSI maintains Field Offices in the following cities: • Providence, RI • Boston, MA • New York City, NY • Philadelphia, PA • Washington, D.C. • Baltimore, MD • Charlotte, NC • Atlanta, GA • Miami, FL • Orlando, FL • New Orleans, LA • St. Louis, MO • Kansas City, KS • Chicago, IL • Detroit, MI • Houston, TX • Dallas, TX • Phoenix, AZ • Las Vegas, NV • San Francisco, CA • Los Angles, CA • San Diego, CA • Portland, OR • Seattle, WA The size of a field office will depend on the population of the local area, and the amount of metahuman crime. The New York field office is the largest with Washington DC, and Los Angles coming in as the next largest, and the Providence and Portland offices coming in as the smallest. Local residents may contact the nearest field office by phone at either the BSI tip line, 1-888-HELPBSI, or on the net at http://www.dhs/bsi.gov The "Supercrimes" section is the largest of the sub-units, and handles investigation of any crime involving metahumans that happens within the US, or metahuman crimes directed against US citizens overseas. Special Agents assigned to this section also staff the various liaison positions at the US embassies. A separate entity within the Supercrimes section is the Office of Metahuman Intelligence (OMI). OMI maintains files on every incident involving metahumans, r suspected metahuman activity. They access the various capabilities of known metahuman criminals, and on criminal organizations that make use of metahumans. They are also responsible for briefing the Director and other government agencies on these capabilities. The Paranormal Investigations (PI) section handles cases that would fall into the realm of what most people consider the supernatural (hauntings, the undead, magic, ESP, Telepathy, etc.). Its agents are frequently called in on cases where there is no logical way to explain why an event happened. Personnel assigned to PI are often referred to as “ghost busters”, by their fellow agents. But the comments are taken in stride. Several of its special agents and consultants are Psi-sensitive, and assigned to its special Extra-Sensory Perception (ESPER) unit. The ESPER unit is rumored to be responsible for protecting the President, Vice President, Congress, etc., from psychic attacks and mind control, although the Bureau refuses to comment on it publicly. The division also maintains a catalog of various magical power items such as the Holy Grail, the Spear of Destiny, Thor's belt, the Golden Fleece, and if rumors are to be believed, Pandora’s Box. The various items under their watch are stored in a high security vault located under BSI headquarters. Other items are reportedly stored in a secure bunker facility somewhere in the mountains of West Virginia. BSI METAHUMAN ATTACHES BSI maintains several metahuman attaches’ offices at various locations overseas. The agents assigned to these offices are responsible for providing liaison services to allied nation law enforcement agencies, and for investigating metahuman crimes directed at US citizens overseas. BSI attaches are currently located in the following cities: London, Brussels, Berlin, Tel Aviv, Rio de Janeiro, Tokyo, Moscow, and Ontario. At one time, BSI maintained a liaison office in Paris, but the office was shutdown after a counter intelligence team discovered the French DST had placed a number of electronic monitoring devices throughout the building s structure. Future plans call for new offices to be constructed or space leased in Sydney, Australia, and Johannesburg, South Africa. In addition to its foreign attaches, BSI also maintains extensive contacts with INTERPOL and routinely provides briefings on various metahuman threats to the Department of Defense, NATO, and other allied militaries when ordered to do so. Canada and the UK have law enforcement personnel permanently assigned as liaisons at BSI HQ to help coordinate their operations. Mexico, Germany, and Australia and Japan, maintain close ties, and their representatives can frequently be seen roaming the hallways of the HQ building. SPECIAL TASK FORCES BSI provides personnel to several special law enforcement “task forces” currently operating throughout the US. Two of the many units are detailed below. Asian Gang Task Force - A joint law enforcement task force drawing personnel from the FBI, US Marshals Service, DEA, ATF, IRS, ICE, CBP, and BSI. BSI personnel assigned to the Task Force primarily concern themselves with Asian metahumans working for the various Asian criminal organizations. As of early 2006, they were concentrating their efforts on the west coast, especially southern California, San Francisco, and the Pacific Northwest. Task Force Nemesis - A new BSI organized and lead joint task force, drawing personnel from BSI, DHS, Dept. of the Treasury, CIA, the military, and intelligence community. Task Force Nemesis’ primary mission is to deal with the growing threat posed by paramilitary and terrorist organizations such as SEIGE and Prometheus. The BSI SAC is Special Agent “Jake” Steele. His deputy, and military liaison officer, is USAF Major Dexter Green. While they get the job done, they don’t always see “eye to eye” on how it should bee accomplished. CRISIS MANAGEMENT UNIT The Crisis Management Unit, or CMU as it’s more commonly known, is one of several specialized groups within the Field Operations Division. CMUs subunits are responsible for handling “extra ordinary” situations that arise. It’s missions are beyond the capabilities of the average field agent, and considering some of the things the average agent comes up against on a daily basis, the situation must truly be dire for them to request assistance from CMU. CMU is collocated with BSI headquarters, and currently operates out of the facility’s Emergency Operations Center (EOC). The EOC is manned 24/7, with staff members monitoring law enforcement and emergency communications frequencies for any signs of metahuman activity. In addition to the EOC, CMU also maintains several caches of pre-positioned equipment at various locations around the US and two air transportable mobile command centers (jokingly referred to as “death stars” because of all the high-tech gear carried on board the trucks). CMU is currently organized into a command section, the Tactical Operations Branch, the Dangerous Devices Unit, the Crisis Negotiations Team, and a small support staff. Tactical Operations Branch “Anytime, Any Place, To Save Lives” The Tactical Operations Branch is the BSI unit tasked with planning and executing paramilitary and SWAT type response operations for the Bureau. To help them fulfill this task, they maintain several specialized units, which are detailed below. Special Response Teams (SRT) - SRTs are BSI’s part time tactical/SWAT teams. Each field office is capable of fielding a SRT, with its size varying, depending on the number of agents assigned to that field office. Agents assigned to a SRT perform their “normal” investigative duties, only coming together for their monthly training sessions, or for an operation, or what the agents refer to as a “call out”. When large scale operations are called for, multiple teams will be used. Agents wishing to volunteer for a spot on one of the SRTs, must have at least three years of service with the Bureau, and must successfully complete a two phase selection process. During “selection” candidates will have their physical and shooting abilities evaluated. After completing a grueling obstacle course on very little sleep, candidates who wish to continue must successfully complete an academic exercise that tests both their memory and observation skills, as they may have to recall minute details of an operation in court. The SRT-I Basic Training Course runs 180 hours in length and lasts for three weeks. The first week of training is conducted on the grounds of the BSI satellite academy, while weeks two and three are conducted at the FBI Academy and Marine Corps Base Quantico, VA. Throughout the course, agents are reminded that they are law enforcement officers first and fore most, and that their primary purpose is to “save lives”. They are also reminded that as representatives of the US government, that any of their actions could be called into question in court. Their instructors impress upon them the importance of their jobs, and that they should at all times should at strive to carry themselves in a dignified manner at all times, and conduct operations in a manner that would reflect favorably upon the Bureau. The SRT-II course, which also lasts three weeks, is specifically designed for those SRTs that work with the Bureau’s STOP Teams on routine a basis. The course is usually run twice a year, (Fall & Spring), and takes place at the US Army’s Aberdeen Proving Grounds, MD, although other locations have been used, such as the US Army National Training Center (NTC), and the US DOEs National Test Site. SRT snipers undertake some of the most intensive training in the law enforcement community. They receive training form the US Secret Service, instructors from the USMC Scout/Sniper School, and BSI’s own cadre of firearms instructors. All agents assigned to an SRT must pass a quarterly weapons qualification, a semi-annual physical ability test, and 40 hours of “in service” training. In addition to their monthly training days, Agents also routinely participate in training exercises with other agencies such as the FBI’s Hostage Rescue Team and Regional SWAT Teams, the US Secret Service’s Counter Assault Team (CAT), Emergency Response Team (ERT) and Counter Sniper Team (CST), and Federal Protective Service SRTs. Dangerous Devices Unit (DDU) - BSI’s combination bomb squad, explosive breaching, and HAZMAT unit. They’ve been called in to handle everything from disarming nuclear weapons, to safely transporting alien artifacts to storage. They’ve handled everything from “backpack nukes”, to radioactive alien protoplasm, and bio-chem weapons. If it’s poisonous, explodes, radiates energy, or is just plain nasty to handle, then DDU explosive techs, HAZMAT specialists, and Special Agents are called in to disarm it, render it safe, and investigate the scene. All personnel assigned to the DDU receive training from the ATF, US Dept. of Energy, the US Army, and the CDC on basic render safe procedures for various types of explosive devices, and procedures for handling nuclear, biological, and chemical substances safely. But as so often happens with their work, many of the devices and substances they encounter have never been seen before, they just have to play it by ear. DDU personnel tend to have a very morbid sense of humor about their work. Until quite recently many of the DDU explosive techs wore T-shirts with the phase “DDU Bomb Tech. If you see me running you better catch up” blazed across the back. While most of the lower level staff found the shirts mildly amusing, BSI Headquarters staff took a slightly different view and banned their ware. Crisis Negotiation Team (CNT) - BSI’s CNT, which are part of the Crisis Management Branch, are BSI hostage negotiation specialists. Like DDU, CNT operates from BSI headquarters and is on call 24/7 to respond to any emergency that may arise. Agents who volunteer for duty with the CNT receive training at a number of training courses, including the FBI Hostage Negotiation School. CNT negotiators are some of most level headed people you will ever want to meet. They tend to be very charismatic, cool under pressure, and able to think on their feet. Special Tactical Operations (STOP) Teams - STOP Teams are specially selected teams of BSI Agents equipped with “Guardian” power armor suits. The suits were first fielded by BSI in late 1990, and since then their manufacturer (Quantum Technologies) has made a number of improvements. The specially constructed polymers are not only fire resistant, they also provide ballistic protection against rounds up a 7.62 mm in caliber. The suits batteries and life support systems are also good for six hours of continuous use. It’s built-in exoskeleton increase the wearer’s strength allowing him to lift over one ton of weight. The suits flight jets have enough fuel for two hours of sustained flight at speeds up to 225mph. Other specs for the suit remain classified, with only authorized technicians and technical reps from Quantum knowing the specifics. There are currently (7) regionally based STOP Teams: North East Region (New York field office), South East Region (Atlanta field office), South West Team (Las Vegas), Central Region (Chicago), North West Region (Seattle), West Coast Region (Los Angeles), Capital Region (Washington, DC). Unlike the rest of the STOP teams, the New York, Los Angeles, and Capital Region, STOP teams are full time units, with personnel training in the use of their equipment 5 days a week. Agents are typically assigned to a SRT four years, before rotating on to other duties (this is done to allow younger recruits a chance to rotate in, and to prevent burnout among unit members as using the suits is both physically and mentally demanding.) Prospective STOP team members are drawn from a pool of veteran special agents, with the majority coming from the ranks of prior military personnel and SRT operators, although this is not a prerequisite for selection. The basic STOP training program lasts 8 weeks and 3 days in length, and is conducted at the US Dept. of Energy’s Nevada Test Site. Training is divided into three phases (I, II, III), with phase one being mostly class room work. During Phase II, (weeks 3-6) trainees don their Sentry power armor for the first time. They are given instruction on basic handling procedures, basic weapons familiarization, and a chance to get used to using the armor. Phase III (weeks 7-9) involves advanced field work, additional weapons training and qualification, night operations, and hostile environments training. During the last three days, trainees undertake the Underwater Operations Course at Naval Station Indian Head, MD. Upon graduation, agents still are not considered fully qualified with a suit until they complete a one year probationary period, where, at the team leaders discretion, they may be removed from the team. STOP Teams train two days a month. In addition, they must attend quarterly training 3 day training exercises held at various locations through out the US. Some of these locations have included nuclear power plants, a nuclear weapons storage facility, a presidential emergency shelter, LAX, and the US Capital. Specialized Light Assault Mechs (SLAM) - The newest toy in BSI’s arsenal. SLAMs are armored assault Mechs that can be deployed when field agents in trouble request serious firepower. Only a small number of suits have been manufactured as they are expensive to produce and it takes several months for an agent to become proficient in its operation. All SLAM operators are volunteers from one of the regional STOP teams. The SLAMs are stored at a secure facility in suburban Maryland, near Andrews AFB. Normally a specially equipped BSI transport aircraft is on standby to transport the SLAMs, their operators, support personnel and equipment 24 hours a day. The aircraft is stationed at Andrews, AFB, Maryland. BSI also maintains a memorandum of understanding with the Dept. of Defense allowing the SLAMs to be transported on military aircraft. The DOD Joint Metahuman Security Task Force also maintains a SOLL (Special Operations, Low Level) II equipped C-17 at McGuire, AFB, New Jersey with a second backup aircraft at Charleston AFB, SC. SUPPORT OPERATIONS BRANCH The Support Operations Branch handles everything for janitorial services and upkeep of BSI’s vehicle fleet, to running the crime lab. Support Operations Branch – located in various buildings throughout the DC Metro area. BSI Crime Lab - Located within the HQ building Office of Scientific Research “The Skunkworks” - Washington, DC & Metro DC area. Office Detention & Transportation - Co-located at the HQ of the US Federal Bureau of Prisons (BOP). The BSI Crime Lab is considered to be one of the premier crime labs in the county, if not the world. The Crime Lab routinely works hand in hand with “Skunkworks” personnel, and shares its findings with other law enforcement agencies, such as the FBI, US Secret Service, US Postal Inspectors Service, the RCMP, and Scotland Yard. The lab itself is actually a series of buildings, a medical lab, a firearms range, and a secure storage facility located throughout the greater Washington D.C. metro area. The primary facility along with most of the lab’s staff members, are located in the BSI headquarters building. The Evidence Recovery Teams (ERT) are the lab’s rapid response units. They are tasked with being on the ground, collecting evidence within two hours of a major incident. Each field office maintains an ERT of varying size, depending on the amount of metahuman activity in the area. The New York and Washington DC, field offices are the largest. A national level ERT is on standby at BSI HQ to assist field office ERTs during major events, such as the attempted assassination of the UN Security Council buy the terrorist group, America First. The metahuman heroine, Starburst, was once employed there as an evidence technician, on one of the Bureau’s ERT. The Office of Scientific Research is the Bureau’s R&D branch. They are also responsible for examining "supertech" such as weapons, power armor, computer systems, etc. Its staff is composed of some of the finest scientific minds in the county. OFFICE of DETENTION AND TRANSPORTATION The Office of Detention and Transportation is the unit responsible for handling and transporting captured super criminals (responsibility it shares with the US Marshals Service and Bureau of Prisons). To perform this task they maintain a number of specialized transport vehicles and aircraft located at various locations throughout the US. These transport vehicles range from modified Ford F-350 vans to armored semi-trucks equipped with satellite tracking systems, and even modified versions of military transport aircraft (Flown by D&T pilots). Unlike the other law enforcement personnel working for BSI, to “D&T” Officers are not Special Agents, but they certified federal law enforcement officers with federal arrest powers in matters dealing with metahumans. Like BSI Special Agents, D & T Officers also undertake their initial training at FLETC. The Course runs ten weeks and covers a wide variety of subjects including basic federal law, firearms, driving, search procedures, advanced first aid (as D & T officers are usually the first trained responders on the scene), defensive tactics, physical training to list a few. To successfully graduate the course, trainees must maintain a GPA of 80%; successfully complete the Physical Assessment Test; score not less than 80% on the Basic Firearms Proficiency Test; demonstrate knowledge of basic defensive tactics techniques; complete the basic Defensive Driver/Emergency Vehicle Operators Course; and lastly they must complete a hands on evaluation where they must successfully transport a “dangerous metahuman” (usually one of several heroes who volunteer to role-play the part - many of whom really get into their characters) to secure containment facility. Upon graduation New D&T officers are assigned to either one of the local field offices, or to one of several federal detention centers. They're then assigned to a “Field Training Officer” (FTO) for a 12 month probationary period. During this time the FTO while monitor the new officer’s progress, offering suggestions and guiding them in the right direction. Officers are required to complete a minimum of 40 hours of “in service” training each year. In addition, they also routinely train with US Marshals Service, and Bureau of Prisons personnel. The Field Support Branch personnel are BSI’s tech support guys. Need a comm suite setup in a hotel room; your SLAM get banged up during a firefight? Run your vehicle constantly being outrun during high-speed pursuits? Then Field Support are the people to call. Field Support provides a wide variety of services to active field agents, everything from transport and communications support, to food service. Personnel assigned to the Field Support would have a wide ranch of skills, everything from computers, to food service, or mechanical and electrical skills. RECRUITMENT AND TRAINING Anyone wishing to become a BSI Special Agent must at a minimum possess a master’s degree, although many recruits have much higher levels of education. Many future agents are recruited from other federal agencies, or the military. Most have at least several years of work experience, with the “average” new agent being 29 years of age upon hiring. Additional skills such as fluency with a foreign language, piloting skills, scuba diving, medical, military or prior law enforcement experience are considered a plus, as agents routinely find themselves working in strange, austere, or hostile environments. New agent training lasts 18 approximately weeks and is broken down into two separate phases. Lasting 10 weeks, Phase One training, takes place at the Federal Law Enforcement Training Center (FLETC), located in Glynco, GA. The New Agent Training Course consists of basic investigative techniques, physical fitness, self defense, and firearms training and strives to prepare the candidates for the life of a BSI Special Agent. Phase Two takes place at the BSI satellite training facility located in Maryland. Trainees continue their physical fitness training, and receive additional training in dealing with the peculiarities of dealing with metahumans, including detailed briefings on a number of cases BSI has handled over the years. Guest speakers, such as former agents, are brought in to speak with the class. On one occasion, a reformed villain provided a lectured on how he was able to avoid capture for so long. The course concludes with a full blown exercise where the trainees are called in to investigate a crime scene where metahuman criminals have been involved. In addition to their own extensive training regime, BSI agents receive additional training from the FBI, the US Marshals Service, the Secret Service, the US military, and the CIA on an as needed basis. All BSI Special Agents are required to qualify with their primary duty weapon annually. In addition they must complete a minimum of 40 hours of refresher training every two years. Failure to do so could result in their termination. Equipment Due to he nature of the threats that BSI Agents have to confront, they have access to a large number of weapons not normally found in use with other law enforcement agencies. Weapons in use include the Glock 17 and Sig/Sauer P228 9mm pistols, Glock 23 .40 cal. Pistols (used by the SRTs), Heckler & Koch (HK) MP-5 9mm and MP/10 10mm series sub-machineguns, Colt M-4A1 5.56 mm rifles, Remington 700 7.62mm sniper rifles and Barret L82A1 .50 cal Special Applications Rifle, M-79 40mm grenade launchers, M249 5.56mm light machineguns, M240 and HK-21 7.62 general purpose machineguns, and Bofors AT-4 anti-tank rockets. Energy weapons in use by agents include the Quantum Technologies XM-12 “Beam Rifle” (a man portable laser weapons system carried by the STOP Teams), the Ballistech Armaments GL-22 30mm automatic grenade launcher (also carried by the STOP Teams) and a large number of experimental weapons systems. Vehicles in use include the Chevy Caprice sedan, Chevy Suburban SUVs, Cadillac Gage “Peacekeeper” armored cars for use by their SRTs, and a number of specially modified vehicles constructed in their own shops. Aircraft in service with BSI include the Bell 212 "Twin Huey", the Hughes 500, a civilianized version of the OH-58 Kiowa Scout, OV-10 "Bronco" surveillance aircraft, CASA-212 transports, "The Guardian" A specially modified EC-135 command and control aircraft that can serve as an airborne command post during an emergency. Unconfirmed reports have stated that BSI has recently entered into an agreement with Avery Aerospace to develop a VTOL "hover" platform capable of rapidly transporting it's STOP Teams. Although any such craft is undoubtedly in the early planning stages at this time. Notable Personalities The Director - James Wilson Deputy Director - Susan Wright Assistant Deputy Director Operations - Jeremiah Jones Assistant Deputy Director for Support - Harry Stanton Assistant Deputy Director for Training - Col. (Ret.) Walter “Bulldog” Stevens (USMC). He also acts as the Director at the training academy. Assistant Deputy Director for Personnel - Norman Davies Director of Scientific Research - Dr. Emil Skota, PhD. Special Agent in Charge (SAC) New York - Special Agent Alison Anderson SAC Washington DC - Special Agent Derrick White Special Agent Sandra Stevens - SAC, Office of Metahuman Intelligence David Goldberg - Office of Legal Affairs Teressa Jordan - BSI’s director of Public Relations (BSI’s public face) Jesus Alvarez - Field Support (That’s “Mister Alvarez” to his staff. He runs a tight ship, takes no stuff, is proud of what “his people” can accomplish when asked) Earle Lewis Greene- Office of Finance (BSI’s money man) "Chief" Milton Leroy Greene- House Keeping (Chief WO3 - USN Retired, his staff handles all the day to day clean clean up of BSI facilties, which can lead to some interesting situations) Special Agent Trent Cutler - FBI Liaison. He handles joint operations and makes sure they're not duplicating their investigative efforts. Sometimes he can come across as a bit of a know it all, but he's a generally a good guy trying to do the right thing. Lieutenant Colonel Sheila McVicers, USAF - DOD Office of Military Support. She's BSI liaison with the US Military. (A Recently divorced single mother, she's excited about her new position, but issues with her family have been interfering with her work) Mr. Gray - The Director of the Paranormal Branch. Very little info is known about Mr. Gray other than he's been with the Bureau for years, and he always seems to know more about you than you do. Gray has absolutely know sense of humor whatsoever, and when not running an operation can usually be found in his office or the Bureau's research library. *Note* He will never be found without the following items on his person (a small vile of holy water, a silver crucifix, and a small hand mirror) Jonathan & Jessica Swift (The “Twins”) - Psi sensitive brother and sister (twins) who work in the Bureau’s paranormal branch ESPER unit. Jonathan is a telepath with several other "special talents", such as the ability "read" objects. Jessica has the ability to see things with here mind (ESP), and sense the emotions of others. Six - Quite simply, Six is a witch, a "white witch" mind you, but she still gives some of the Agents and staff the creeps. How she came to work for the Bureau, or how she acquired her name is not known. All that is know is that Director Wilson trusts her with his life. Special Agent Jacob “Jake” Steele - Special Agent Jacob Steele is a 37 year old athletic male. He’s been with BSI for 11years. Prior to becoming a BSI special agent, he spent four years as an officer in US Army, working military intelligence, and an additional four years in the Army Reserves. When he’s on a case he’s relentless and he pushes his people hard. When he’s not working, he’s laid back and friendly. He’s a runner and it’s not unusual to find him out running well before the sun rises. Special Agent Tommy Tanaka At the time of his death Special Agent Thomas “Tommy” Tanaka, was 29 years of age, and had been with the Bureau for just under six years. After serving in the Houston field office for his first three years, he transferred to the D.C. Metro Field office. One year later he applied to, and was excepted into, the Bureau’s elite Special Response Team (SRT) program. On the morning of his death, Agent Tanaka, and the other members of his SRT, were assigned to “Quick Reaction Force/Counter Assault Team” (QRF/CAT) duties that day, as a congressional tour group was scheduled to tour the facility’s new Emergency Operations Center (EOC). Unknown to anyone at that time, the mutant terrorist group, The Oppressed, decided to make their public debut buy attacking the tour group. They hoped that a brazen daylight assault, on the country’s elected leadership, would draw attention to their cause. Their initial assault worked as planned and they easily penetrated the buildings defenses (many of which were inactive due to construction upgrades going on within the complex at the time), and catching the facility's security force off guard. During the battle's opening moments several members of the congressional party were severally injured. Agent Tanaka’s QRF began to engage various members of the Oppressed with small arms fire, and rendered first-aid to the wounded. While trying to evacuate on wounded congressional staffer, Agent Tanaka noticed that part of the ceiling was beginning to give way. With complete disregard for his own well being, Agent Tanaka used his own body to shield the staffer from the falling debris. In the process he sustained several broken ribs, a dislocated shoulder, a punctured lung, and a fractured collar bone. Refusing to allow pain to over take him, Agent Tanaka, managed to free himself, and the staffer, from the debris, and then dragged the staffer to safety. He then returned to ongoing battle raging in the sub-levels of the building. While making his way through the now smoke filled hallways, Agent Tanaka observed the Oppressed member, Jezebel, trying to gain entry to gain entry into a secure storage area, by pounding the reinforced doors with her fists. At that time, a vault in the storage area was used to store items collected by the Bureau’s Paranormal Investigations Section. He also heard the cries for help coming from to BSI secretarial staffers trapped in the area. Agent Tanaka immediately engaged Jezebel with accurate rifle fire until he had expended his weapon‘s ammunition supply. While the rifle fire proved ineffective in injuring her, it did draw Jezebel’s attention toward him, allowing the two staff members to make their escape. At approximately the same time, a radio message was broadcast announcing that a BSI STOP Team was making entry into the building, and for the SRT to disengage. Realizing that Jezebel would gain entry to the vault before the STOP Team arrived, Agent Tanaka made another heroic decision. Instead of retreating as ordered, Agent Tanaka drew his secondary weapon, a pistol, and began firing at Jezebel. Jezebel, know annoyed at Agent Tanaka’s continued acts of defiance, stopped pounding the door, grabbed a desk, and threw it at Agent Tanaka. The desk struck Agent Tanaka in the head and mortally wounding him. This last valiant effort on his part provided the STOP Team with the additional time they needed to reach the storage area. Unfortunately, Agent Tanaka had succumbed to his wounds by the time medical staff could reach him. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
levi Posted October 21, 2005 Report Share Posted October 21, 2005 Re: The Bureau of Special Investigations - long Great work!!! I would love to steal this organization for a 250 pt Champions setting. Low power level supers and trained agents working for the BSI would be a cool campaign. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominique Posted October 21, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 21, 2005 Re: The Bureau of Special Investigations - long Thanks for the compliments. I'm still working on a background, and other details to help flesh it out. What kind of info would you guys want to see included? Write ups on the training facilites? Agent packages? Equipment? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
clsage Posted October 21, 2005 Report Share Posted October 21, 2005 Re: The Bureau of Special Investigations - long Thanks for the compliments. I'm still working on a background' date=' and other details to help flesh it out. What kind of info would you guys want to see included? Write ups on the training facilites? Agent packages? Equipment?[/quote'] Packages and equipment get my vote. And as I'd been looking for a possible Hero compatible version of the "Threshold Group" (ie: the DHS team seen in the CBS TV series "Threshold") I'll probably be stealing a good portion of this....Thanks !! -Carl- Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Frisbee Posted October 21, 2005 Report Share Posted October 21, 2005 Re: The Bureau of Special Investigations - long Fantastic write-up, Dominique! That is certainly rep worthy in my opinion! Equipment and Base write-ups would definitely be welcome, but don't knock yourself out. Matt "Feelin'-pretty-stretched-myself" Frisbee Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominique Posted October 22, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 22, 2005 Re: The Bureau of Special Investigations - long Thanks once again. I'll eventually get around to some equipment and base write-ups, and if I get a chance ( and feel really motivated) a map or two. I'm working on a history for them, and have gotten up to WWII. I figure they started off as part of the FBI, and eventually branched off into their own agency. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ThothAmon Posted October 22, 2005 Report Share Posted October 22, 2005 Re: The Bureau of Special Investigations - long I must point out that any halfway savvy group of players will take the initials BSI and expand them to name the organization B U L L S H * T. Well, mine would... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheRavenIs Posted October 22, 2005 Report Share Posted October 22, 2005 Re: The Bureau of Special Investigations - long You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Dominique again. Consider this stolen with many thanks. I love when you do this. I get great idea's and info to use with my own game I run. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominique Posted October 23, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 23, 2005 Re: The Bureau of Special Investigations - long Updated - 10/23 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominique Posted October 31, 2005 Author Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 Re: The Bureau of Special Investigations - long Are you guys interested in seeing the rest of the stuff I came up with for BSI? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
hooligan x Posted October 31, 2005 Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 Re: The Bureau of Special Investigations - long Is a bear Catholic? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanguard00 Posted October 31, 2005 Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 Re: The Bureau of Special Investigations - long You must spread some Reputation around before giving it to Dominique again. Ditto that here, darn it. Good stuff! I'll thwak ya with the rep stick when I can. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Vanguard00 Posted October 31, 2005 Report Share Posted October 31, 2005 Re: The Bureau of Special Investigations - long Are you guys interested in seeing the rest of the stuff I came up with for BSI? Totally. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominique Posted November 1, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 1, 2005 Re: The Bureau of Special Investigations - long Updated 11/1/05 Let me know what you think of the new stuff. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominique Posted November 5, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 5, 2005 Re: The Bureau of Special Investigations - long No comments on the updated material? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Frisbee Posted November 5, 2005 Report Share Posted November 5, 2005 Re: The Bureau of Special Investigations - long This is truly fantastic work, Dominique! I'm stealing it! I'd rep it too, but I have to rep others before I can rep you again...wish I'd waited a bit so it would be worth (a little) more. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominique Posted November 6, 2005 Author Report Share Posted November 6, 2005 Re: The Bureau of Special Investigations - long Thanks for the compliments once again. I've got a few more ideas and some additional history (sidebars, character backgrounds, FYI type stuff) I may add, that's as long as you guys want to keep seeing it. I'm also working on a "standard" agent write-up. I already posted one for M&M, but I'm still tinkering with a 5th edition Champions one. So, if any of you guys want to take a crack at it, feel free. If you do decide to crank one out, could you send me a copy? Or post it to the thread. I'll compare it to what I've got so far. Once I'm actually "finished" (like that will ever happen), I may convert it into a PDF document for easier downloading. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominique Posted April 14, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 14, 2006 Re: The Bureau of Special Investigations - long BSI Historical Timeline Originally formed in 1936, BSI began as an overworked, and under funded branch of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, known as the Office of Paranormal Investigations. Here's a few tidbits of information on BSI's rather colorful history. I hope you enjoy them. 1936 - With the rise of a number of costumed “mystery men”, and supernatural occurrences on the increase, J. Edgar Hoover bows to presidential pressure, and orders the creation of BSI’s predecessor, the Office of Paranormal Investigations, within the ranks of the FBI. 1937 - OPI, with assistance from the costumed vigilante Midnight, disrupts operations of the “Black Hand” a Chinese organized crime group distributing Opium along the west coast. 1939 - FBI agents, form OPI, begin investigating reports of unexplained disappearances, and “strange going ons” in the small town of Goldsboro, Arkansas. They eventually discover that most of the town’s residents are members of a “satanic cult” devoted to the return of the other worldly being, “He Who Has No Name”. OPI, along with the occult investigator John Eldritch, the world famous adventurer Artemis Gold, and masked mystery man Tommy Gun, succeed in preventing the cult from opening a “doorway” that would have allowed the demonic being from entering our dimension. Hoover immediately orders the entire incident covered up, the files are buried, and the agents involved are forbidden to ever speak of the incident again. The cult’s leader, Jeremiah Jones, a disillusioned former Southern Baptist preacher, manages to escape. Jones would reappear up nearly 50 years later, as the leader as the immortal warlock, Lord Rune. 1941 - On the eve of the US entry into WWII, President Roosevelt signs a secret Presidential Directive separating the Office of Paranormal Investigations from the FBI. The document also grants the new agency additional funding and exempts their special agents from military service, after it's deemed their activities are vital to national security. The action infuriates J. Edgar Hoover, who believes the FBI should have kept the task. From that point on the two agencies have had an ongoing turf war over who should be in charge of certain investigations. 1942 - BSI Agents are assigned as government liaison to the new team of heroes, The Minutemen. 1945 - At the close of the war in Europe, BSI agents were called in to help catalog a number of alien and mystical artifacts seized from the Nazi's by US forces. They were then entrusted with there safe transport back to the US for study, and possible use during the planned Allied invasion of mainland Japan. Within a few short months their use becomes unnecessary. With the Japan’s unconditional surrender of Japan, and the planned invasion canceled, the artifacts are placed in a secure BSI storage facility along the Virginia/West Virginia border. 1946 - BSI agents begin digging through the massive amount of highly detailed records the Nazi’s maintained on metahuman activities. The data will eventually form the basis of what will become the BSI central database. 1949 - BSI was heavily involved in the cover-up of the crash of an "alien spacecraft" in Roswell, New Mexico. In reality, the "ship" was one of the escape pods used by pilots involved in a highly classified government space program. The program involved using captured Nazi rocket tech, which was itself was based on a reverse engineered space craft the Nazi's found buried in the Arctic. BSI agents infiltrated the town planting false rumors and basically trying to confuse the issue as much as possible. They also planted the initial news report "verifying" that a UFO had indeed crashed, and then had the article "yanked" to divert attention from what had really happened. 1951 - BSI personnel are deployed to the Korean peninsula to investigate reports of metahuman activity. They are able to determine a number of Soviet “advisors” are in actuality a team of specially trained Russian and East German metahumans providing covert support to North Korean forces. President Truman, using photos obtained by BSI as evidence, issues a secret threat to unleash a full scale assault against the North Koreans, and anyone found to be providing them with material support, unless the team is withdrawn, the Soviets capitulate and withdraw their team. 1952 - BSI agents hear the first rumors of a secret Nazi underground operating somewhere in South America. The organization, known as the Knights of the Iron Cross, is supposedly headed by the former Nazi supervillain, the Iron Knight, and funded by sympathetic western businessmen. From what little information they were able to gather, they learn that the organization still had access to a number of experimental alien technologies, including early Nazi cloning experiments; several advanced weapon systems; and a secret super-soldier serum used to enhance ordinary humans. 1955 - BSI responds to reports of cattle mutilations near the area the US military is conducting tests of atomic weapons. They eventually discover the cause, giant mutated ants. After several days, they manage to located the ants nest, and a small group of volunteers, lead by the local sheriff, enters the nest to destroy the queen and any eggs. One member of the party is killed, and several are injured before they can detonate explosives sealing the hive off from the surface. 1957 - BSI agents become involved in what will eventually become known as the “Minchville Incident”. Responding to reports of the residents odd behavior, BSI sends a pair of agents, posing as surveyors for a mining company, to the small town of Minchville, West Virginia. The pair find evidence of a hostile alien incursion. They discover that the town has been invaded by “parasites of extraterrestrial origin”, and that its residents are completely under alien control. Upon hearing their initial report, the US military initiates a quarantine of the entire area, and BSI is covertly sent in to deal with the situation. With assistance from Dr. John Meriwether, and his female research assistant, Cynthia Prescott, BSI is able to manufacture an “ultrasonic weapon” that’s capable of destroying the parasites without harming the town’s residents. A decade later the same technology is used by the supervillain, Soundwave. 1959 - A number of prominent Jewish businessmen working in South America are killed by a mysterious beam of light emanating from the sky. The situation comes to a head when the Israeli ambassador to Chile is incinerated while walking to his car. After the receiving a request from the Israeli Ambassador, BSI begins it’s own investigation. They soon discover that the Knights of the Iron Cross, are conducting a series of tests on a high energy laser weapon, and suborbital transport on which to carry it. They discover that the tests are nearing completion, and that their next targets will be New York City, and Washington, D.C. After receiving the Bureau’s report, President Eisenhower orders that all available means be used to stop the scheme. BSI begins planning for the operation, and asks famed WWII pilot, Ace Stryker, of Stryker’s Tigers, for assistance. Ace, then president of Stryker Air (now a subsidiary of Avery Aerospace Industries), requests that he be allowed to go on this one last mission. BSI refuses, but is overridden after Stryker calls in a personal favor for President Eisenhower. The BSI ground assault is successful in destroying the launch facility, but they fail to prevent the aircraft from launching. Stryker, disobeying a direct order, commandeers an unarmed version of the craft and gives chase. Without weapons, and time rapidly running out, Stryker valiantly sacrifices his life by crashing his aircraft into the one piloted by Knight’s operatives, mere seconds before it's to begins its attack on the New York. Stryker is given a hero’s burial. BSI’s current aviation facility, Stryker Field, is named in honor of him. 1961 - BSI agents manage to successfully foil an assassination attempt on President elect, John F. Kennedy, by agents of the Knights of the Iron Cross, earning them a permanent seat on Kennedy’s inner circle of advisors, and the animosity of the US Secret Service for “horning in” on what they consider their exclusive territory. 1963 - BSI Agents were involved in stopping a plot by the Knights of the Iron Cross to clone Adolph Hitler, using DNA samples smuggled out of Germany prior to the Allied victory. With information provided by BSI (including some gathered by the Israeli Mossad), the US based hero team, The Guardians, launch a strike against the Knight’s stronghold deep jungles of Argentina. The Knight’s leader, the Iron Knight, is reported killed by the accidental explosion of an experimental particle beam weapon. The operation, and the arrest of several of their US supporters by US law enforcement agencies, effectively crushed the Knights as a viable force. The Guardians, not sure what to make of the exotic weapons and cloning technology, turn it over to BSI, which results in the formation of what will eventually become “the Skunk Works”. Upon learning of this foreign incursion onto their “sovereign territory”, the Argentine government files a formal protest with the UN Security Council. The US Ambassador secretly informs the Argentineans that if they don’t withdraw their complaint, they will provide the UN with proof of their government's complacency in the Knights operations in their country. The Argentineans quietly withdraw their complaint, and publicly announce that they are turning over all materials, seized from the Knights, for study. 1966 - BSI agents succeed in thwarting an attempt by a new terror group, HAVOC, to seize control of a secret US nuclear weapons storage facility. Due to the activities of a traitorous member of the security force, HAVOC shock troops were able to penetrate the facility’s outer security perimeter. Upon learning of the assault, a BSI response force was immediately dispatched. The BSI force assaulted the compound, killing or capturing the HAVOC strike team. Unfortunately several of BSIs most highly trained and experienced personnel perished during the operation. So as not to cause a general panic, the entire episode is covered up, and explained as a large scale military training exercised designed to test the response time of military units guarding nuclear facilities. The military personnel killed in the operation were listed as KIA in Vietnam. HAVOC will go on to plague BSI for decades. As a result of this episode, BSI instituted a number of changes. They upgraded the amount and type of paramilitary training many of its field personnel received. They also negotiated a mutual aid agreement with the Dept. of Defense allowing them to call on the US military for support in future large scale operations. 1967 - BSI, with assistance from that era’s Guardians, take the costumed vigilante, “Johnny Reb” into custody, after evidence leads authorities to believe he’s involved in he murder of several black civil rights activists. He confesses “taking care of a bunch of uppity nigger trouble-makers”, and is sentenced to life plus 25 years for his crimes. 1968 - BSI became involved in the investigation of the "Manson murders". BSI helped orchestrate the government's cover story that Manson was a just one of many future psychotic cult leaders. In reality, Manson, a racist, and emotionally unbalanced would be messiah, had been possessed by an extremely powerful "other-worldly entity" (read demon), who's powers increased when he absorbed the energies released during his "followers" murder spree. BSI was successful in casting out the entity, at the cost of one its primer psychics, but the experience left Manson a complete basket case. That same year BSI agents were able to thwart a plan by HAVOC, to disrupt the 1968 Chicago Democratic National Convention. HAVOC agents had infiltrated both the Chicago Police Department, and small groups of protesters. The HAVOC agents, posing as police, had orders to open fire into the crowds demonstrating outside the convention center, and cause as much havoc and disorder as possible. Once that happened, HAVOC agents mixed in with the protestors would inform them of a "sympathetic" organization willing to provide them with weapons for use in their struggle against “the system”. BSI agents were able to successfully identify all of the rouge HAVOC cops, and seize their pre-positioned weapon caches before things completely got out of hand. 1969 - HAVOC tries to sabotage the Apollo 11 Lunar mission by attacking the launch facility. A BSI informant managed to tip off the local field office before the plan cold be implemented. A joint team of agents, drawn from the local BSI and FBI field offices, managed to round up everyone involved in the plot before any harm could be done. But, on direct orders from J. Edgar Hoover, the FBI conducted a press conference taking complete credit for the operation, once again spoiling what little trust the two agencies had managed to build up. 1973 - BSI agents accidentally discover that President Richard Nixon is being influenced by a secret mystic cabal known as the Dark Circle. Threatening to make their findings public, Nixon is forced to resign in disgrace. 1974 - The Soviet super team, the Red Vanguard makes it’s public debut. October - With a heavy loss of life, BSI, the FBI, DC Metro Police, US Capitol Police, US Secret Service, White House Police, US Park Police, and DC National Guard manage to stop an incursion by an advance scout team from the alien Sakkari Empire. While the overall response was deemed successful, bad blood ensues as each agency points the finger at the other for several unfortunate missteps. Agencies didn’t have compatible communications systems, overall command was never established, emergency response procedures for dealing with terrorist attacks had not be streamlined, and the list goes on and on. As a result, President Gerald Ford, appoints a bi-partisan commission to review each agencies response, and provide recommendations to keep the same thing from happening again. Gideon Pierce, the famed WWII hero, American Avenger, is appointed as the “Pierce Commission’s” head. His report, and its findings, is never made public. 1975 - BSI manages to infiltrate several agents into The Dark Circle, before suddenly losing contact with all of them. After weeks of searching, a lone survivor, Special Agent Ian Grey, is found wandering naked and confused on a county road in rural Massachusetts. During his subsequent debriefing he’s found to have no recollection of what’s transpired for the last several weeks, or what’s happened to his fellow agents. Agent Grey is so shaken by his experience, he’s removed from field duties, and asks to placed into desk position within the Paranormal Investigations Branch. August - BSI has its first of many run-ins with operatives of the hi-tech criminal organization Prometheus. While Prometheus is only partially successful in its goals, the incident proves a valuable learning experience for both. 1976 - BSI is instrumental in assisting the defection of three members of the Soviet sponsored super team, the Red Vanguard, to the US. July - HAVOC launches a series of attacks designed to disrupt planned Bicentennial celebrations in the Capitol and New York city. Luckily, BSI was tipped off to the plan in advance (by agents in the employ of Prometheus who fear that HAVOC‘s activities will disrupt their own plans). BSI, the Guardians, the new hero team, the Vanguard, and the US military respond with overwhelming force. HAVOC is soundly defeated and a number of their metahuman operatives are captured and taken into federal custody. One such operative, the super strong villain Roundhouse, eventually turns states evidence, providing BSI with information that allows them to successfully round up a number of HAVOC agents, and disrupt their activities for years to come. It takes HAVOC over decade to recover from their defeat. Roundhouse is later found murdered in his prison cell. The contract is believed to have been executed by members of The Silent Brotherhood. 1977 - Failing to head the warnings of Agent Grey, BSI decides to employ the services of a low level clairvoyant, to track down the whereabouts of its still missing agents. Within minutes of his first attempt, several members of team go berserk, killing each other in the process. BSI immediately ceases any further attempts to locate them. 1978 - BSI Special Agent in Charge, Leslie Watts, is caught providing classified information on BSI activities to the Soviets. Exactly how much information is not know for years, as Watts commits suicide in his jail cell. November - After tracing the origin of a number of hi-tech weapons systems, the trail leads BSI to a Prometheus research facility. The ensuing raid, and arrests, disrupt Prometheus plans for years to come, and force a complete change in the way the organization conducts business. 1980 - In the first test of its new policies, a Prometheus mole is successful in stealing several alien artifacts from “the Vault”, BSI’s secure storage facility in western Virginia. BSI’s leadership decides to move the artifacts to a more secure location near their headquarters. 1981 - President Ronald Regan is sworn into office. One of his first acts, after taking office, is signing authorization increasing funding for BSI and granting them complete control in any investigation dealing with metahuman, paranormal, or suspected alien activity. 1982 to 1983 - With metahuman and paranormal activities at an all time high, BSI undergoes a rapid period of growth, almost doubling in size. As a result, recruiting standards are relaxed and several agents who normally would not have been considered, are allowed into the agency. A mistake that would come back to haunt them within few short years. 1983 - The Iranian backed metahuman terrorist group, the Fist of Allah, strikes at US Marine peace keepers in southern Lebanon, killing or wounding dozens in the process. A small team of BSI personnel is dispatched to augment CIA and military personnel investigating the attack. As a result of their highly classified report, which is critical of US military commanders for not heading warnings of a just such a possible attack, and the lack of a proper response to such attacks, the CIA is authorized to form it’s own team of metahuman operatives. 1984 - With metahuman crime on the rise, several BSI Agents, believing that their organization has grown “soft” and isn't doing enough to address the threat posed by metahuman criminals, go rouge and form a vigilante organization known as the Nighthawks. Using information form official agency files, they begin conducting a “pre-emptive” campaign against villains and organizations they deem as a “clear threat” to national security. After the unexplained murder, and “disappearance” of a number publicly known mutant criminals, several of them band together against what they believe to be an officially sanctioned assassination program directed at them, forming the mutant terrorist group, The Oppressed. 1985 - A Nighthawk operation goes bad. Two undercover DEA agents are killed when the Nighthawks raid a factory used by the criminal genius, Elixir to manufacture the drug Boost (which allows its users to boost their physical abilities to near superhuman levels for short periods of time). When the ensuing investigation leads back to possible links to BSI, the Attorney General orders that he FBI conduct an investigation of many of BSI activities, a task that several of the assigned investigators under take with glee. This begins what many of the “old timers” consider the darkest period in BSI’s history. December - After a six month investigation, the US Attorney issues indictments for the arrest of 19 BSI Agents, two Supervisors, and the Deputy Director of Operations. Several of the Nighthawks flee, and are instrumental in forming the vigilante group, America First. 1986 - With BSI still reeling from the Nighthawk fiasco, Prometheus takes the opportunity to expand its operations, infiltrating its operatives into several US defense contractors, aerospace, and communications firms. Their new low key approach will pay dividends for years to come. With several BSI Agents under investigation, incarcerated, or on the run, moral hits rock bottom. Rumors of their impending merging with the FBI are rampant. Several high ranking supervisors opt for early retirement, others request transfer to another agency. Late fall - Under intense pressure to either “fix” BSI, disband it and have the FBI absorb its personnel and mission (a plan favored by the FBI and its supporters in Congress), President Regan appoints Gideon Pierce as the agency’s new director. 1987 - Within a few short months Director Pierce manages to turn the agency around. He cleans house, under performers are let go, recruiting standards, which had been lowered during their rapid growth, are tightened, and potential recruits are more closely screened before beginning training. A new Office of Professional Standards is formed with its head reporting directly to Pierce. He appears before Congress explaining not only the changes he’s made, but his plans for the future. He also initiates several new programs designed to streamline agency operations, and improve their relations with fellow law enforcement agencies. The first batch of metahuman attaches is selected from seasoned agents, and stationed at the US Embassies in Canada and the UK. Several unpublicized initiatives include the creation of the ESPer unit within the Paranormal Investigations Branch; beginning of the design work on the MK-I Guardian Power Armor; and the design of the first maximum security prison specifically designed to hold metahumans. 1989 - HAVOC, thought to be on the ropes after their crushing defeat over a decade ago, explodes back onto the international scene. Operating under the new leadership of the mysterious Lord Havoc, it instigates a series of brutal attacks on US businesses and military installations throughout Europe. Director Pierce, fearing that the worse is yet to come, appeals directly to President George H. Bush for additional funding and manpower. Bush concedes, signing a Presidential Directive granting BSI lead authority in all investigations involving metahuman crimes against US citizens or interests overseas, and providing additional funding to conduct such operations. The FBI is furious as they had hoped to be granted the authority now ceded to BSI. The additional funding also allows BSI to expand the Liaison Program to most of western Europe, Japan, and Mexico. Pierce’s Capital Hill lobbying, and his agency’s new mandate, is seen as a “power grab” by those in power at both the FBI and CIA. One specific clause causes much heartburn and animosity at the FBI, as it allows for the “rendition” of foreign metahumans involved in crimes against US citizens, by US law enforcement authorities. The rendition clause also causes some friction between the BSI and the CIA, as the Agency fears BSI is trying to circumvent its authority in such matters, and that if BSI undertakes such an operation, it might potentially disrupt their own activities, or endanger the lives of CIA personnel. Unknown to all but a select few members of the military, the NSC, and the intelligence community, The CIA, who’s own team of metahuman operatives, the Foreign Operations Group (FOG), had covertly been involved in the capture of several metahuman terror suspects, and covertly conducting missions against foreign backed terrorists, and metahuman criminal organizations since the middle of the decade. Director Pierce eventually manages to convince the DCI that his agency will in no way affect the way the CIA does business, and as a peace offering to the FBI, he “suggests” that they provide a permanent liaison to his agency. The FBI agrees to Director Pierce’s terms, as a man on the inside will allow them to keep tabs on their rivals, and make law makers on Capitol Hill happy by seeing both agencies “striving to work together”. 1990 - The first maximum security metahuman correctional facility, the Richard C. Rhodes Metahuman Correctional Facility, or MHCF - North, comes online. BSI is tasked with testing the facility’s security procedures, certifying it suitable for use, and escorting the first group of inmates sentenced there from their current locations. The additional duties of now operating as a “baby sitting service” for super criminals eventually leads to the creation of the Office of Detention and Transportation. 1990 - BSI Agents, making use of their newly acquired MK-I Guardian power armor, barely manage to stop by the Saudi terrorist “Al Shahid”, and his army of Djinn, from assassinating George H. Bush, after President Bush orders US military units deployed to the Arabian Peninsula, in response to the Iraqi invasion of Kuwait. 1991 - US Military commences Operation Desert Storm, US Army personnel engage elements of the Iraqi Republican Guard, and manage to capture two members of the “Fist of Allah” who’ve been working with the Iraqis. Both are turned over to BSI for escort to the US for their part in the 1983 attacks on US Marines. March - Following the completion of Operation Desert Storm, small teams of BSI agents, criminologists, and technicians from both the BSI crime lab, and the “Skunk Works” deploy to Kuwait, Iraqi Kurdistan southern Iraq. The team manages to piece together evidence of war crimes by Iraqi metahumans during both the Kuwaiti occupation and the ensuing war. The also find evidence of testing of a modified version of the WWII Nazi super-soldier serum on both Iraqi Kurds, and the Shiite Arabs living in the southern marshes bordering Iran. 1992 - The mutant terrorist group, the Oppressed attack MHCF - North to free two of their members, Shrike and Outcast. Several staff members, along with a responding BSI STOP Team, are injured and a member of the facility’s SORT Team is crippled. April - BSI is successful in it’s first “rendition”. BSI, working with help from the DSS, manages to track down, El Aguila Negro (the Black Eagle), a member of Las Agujas Del Negro, The Black Needles, a group of metahuman operatives employed by the Cali drug cartel. He’s suspected in the deaths of two DEA agents, and number of Colombian nationals. Luring him into a brothel, BSI agents manage to overpower him. He’s sedated, and quickly placed into the truck of an unmarked car, before being placed onboard an aircraft and delivered to the US for trial. 1993 - HAVOC launches Operation Bitter Harvest, a series of attacks designed to wreck havoc on BSIs leadership. Several high ranking BSI personnel are assassinated, or have their family members targeted. A HAVOC strike team attacks the home of Director Pierce’s grandson, Jerold Pierce, a former US Army officer and agent with the Diplomatic Security Service, kidnapping Jerold’s daughter, and severely inuring Jerold’s pregnant wife. Despite warnings not to "make it personal", Pierce and informs his staff that “As of this moment, the kid gloves are off. I want those bastards served up on a platter.” He vows that there is no place on Earth that they can hide, pledges that he will stop at nothing to get his great-granddaughter back safely. He orders an all-out assault on HAVOC, and decrees as far as he was concerned, anyone found to be providing them support is to be considered just as guilty as they are. Jerold Pierce, wanting to do more than just sit around and wait, resigns from DSS and requests permission to undergo an updated version of the process that turned his grandfather into the American Avenger. Gideon Pierce knowing that nothing he says will persuade him to change his mind, reluctantly grants permission for Jerold to begin the process. The month long process is successful, and within 5 months, a BSI response team, lead by an all new Avenger, storms a suspected HAVOC chemical weapons facility in Idaho. Information gathered in the strike leads BSI on what will become a world-wide manhunt in search of HAVOC facilities, and their leader Lord Havoc. 1994 - After a brutal 13 month campaign, BSI tracks the final remnants of HAVOC to a small island off the coast of Africa. Director Pierce personally supervises the assault, while his grandson leads the BSI strike force. In the final battle, Avenger manages to free his wife, but is severely injured by Lord Havoc, in the process. Lord Havoc, realizing that defeat is immanent, tries to make his escape in the last remaining HAVOC aircraft. As the craft begins to lift off, Director Pierce, now on the ground to supervise the clean up, spots him, and manages to get off one last shot before the craft is out of range. The missile strikes the aircraft’s engine, causing it to loose power. The aircraft, now unable to maintain its altitude, rapidly begins to spin out of control, before crashing into the sea. The force of the impact shatters Lord Havoc's armor, instantly killing him. When Lord Havoc’s remains are recovered, it’s reveled that he is actually a clone of Gideon Pierce’s WWII foe, and former leader of the Knights of the Iron Cross, the Iron Knight. 1995 - With HAVOC effectively destroyed, his grandson’s family recovering from their ordeal, and BSI well on it’s way to becoming one of the world’s leading law enforcement agencies, Director Pierce resigns from his position, so he can spend more time with his family. He dies peacefully in his sleep seven months later. President Clinton orders that flags at all US government facilities be flown at half staff in honor of Gideon Pierce’s many decades selfless service to his country. Pierce Hall, the BSI training academy, is named in his honor. 1996 - The terror group America First makes its public debut. Vowing to “Make America safe for real Americans”, the group destroys several Chicago area businesses that harbor illegal immigrants. Unknown to the general public, the group’s leader, Commander Cross, is former BSI Deputy Director of Operations, and Nighthawk 1, Adrian Cross. 1997 - BSI forms its Asian Gang Task Force to investigate the increasing number of crimes being committed by metahumans associated with Asian organized crime groups, such as the Jade Dragons. October - The second metahuman prison comes online, MHCF - South, opening its doors October 15th, 1997. 1998 - BSI Agents are assigned to work with teams, investigating reports of metahumans engaging in “ethic cleansing” in the former Yugoslavia. Their report to the World Court accuses all sides of engaging in war crimes, and names several Serbs, a Croat, and a Bosnian Muslim by name. All sides dispute the report as "propaganda" and refuse to turn over suspects for trial. 1999 - BSI raids an illegal research facility, operated by the rouge geneticist, Splice, and clash with MERC provided muscle for the first time. Both groups go away liking their wounds. October - BSI Agents, and members of the Young Guardians, raid a Trinity Foundation compound, after informants tip them off to the group’s plan for a mass suicide on New Years Eve. The Group’s leader, the “Rev. Jason Wright”, is in fact Night Bringer, a member of the Dark Circle. He had planned on using the energies released during the ceremony to increase his powers to untold levels. With his plans now in shambles, he flees to an undisclosed location. December 31st - BSI personnel are on high alert as fears of the Y2K bug run rampant. BSI STOP teams are staged near MHCF - North and South. 2000 - The mutant terrorist group, The Oppressed launch an assault against BSI’s new headquarters complex. Over a dozen personnel are severely injured, and Special Agent Tommy Tanaka is killed before the assault can be driven off. May - MERC and Prometheus clash for the first time. Several innocent civilians are killed in the battle. BSI assigns several agents to the investigation full time. July - Agents catch a break as the Skunk Works is able to trace the origin of several components used in the manufacture of MERC's weapons systems back to Titan Corporation. Legal stonewalling, and Lazarus Stone’s, the company’s president connections on Capital Hill prevent the investigation from proceeding any further. 2001 - With information provided by BSI, the core membership of the Oppressed is captured by the Guardians, and turned over to BSI for prosecution. Jezebel, the member responsible for Agent Tanaka’s death, manages to elude capture. Shrike, Outcast, and Freak Show receive life sentences for their part in the assault. September - Several BSI agents are killed by the September 11th terror attacks on the Twin Towers, as their New York field office is housed in the buildings. November - As a response to the 9/11 terror attacks, America First initiate a series of brutal retaliatory attacks against “Arab terrorists” killing or maiming dozens of innocent Arabs and Muslim immigrants. Their metahuman operative, Purge is personally responsible for almost half the body count. December - Operating on direct orders from the President, BSI is ordered end America First’s bloodthirsty rampage, and do whatever it needs to bring it’s leader, Commander Cross, to justice. 2002 - BSI tracks America First operative Warhawk, to the group’s Idaho stronghold, The Bunker. After a 39 day standoff, BSI is ordered to launch a full scale assault on the compound using STOP Teams, SLAMs, and armored vehicles barrowed from the US military. Commander Cross is killed in the battle, but Purge and Warhawk manage to escape under the cover of darkness. Summer - BSI Agents deploy to Afghanistan to investigate possible metahuman ties to Al Q da. While no direct links can be found, BSI does manage to find that Al Qaeda has shown definite interest in recruiting metahumans to its cause. December - Mark Johnson, Peacekeeper, completes augmentation as part of the reinstituted Project Genesis and is assigned to BSI as a field operative. 2003 - BSI repels a second incursion by Sakkari troops, this time their target is the Young Guardians member, Nautica, who has been forced into exile here on Earth. BSI personnel had assisted her in applying for refugee status, and obtaining a spot with the Young Guardians. June - A special team of BSI agents and investigative personnel are called to Iraq, after the military stumbles on what they at first believe is an Iraqi chemical weapons facility. The facility turns out to be genetics research facility, using alien technology. Personnel from BSI’s Skunk Works begin dismantling the facility for shipment back to the US. July - Prometheus, after years of laying low, hears rumors of the facility and dispatches several of its new Cybernauts to recover whatever materials they can. It’s a bloodbath as dozens of US troops, and several BSI techs are slaughtered. Prometheus operatives then move in and manage to make off with most of the equipment before US reinforcements arrive. With Prometheus using some sort of advanced stealth technology, US forces are unable to track them. September - Construction is completed on Ultramax. BSI Detention and Transportation personnel are assigned the task of transporting inmates from their old locations to the new facility. Peacekeeper, and several BSI STOP Teams are on hand in case an emergency develops. The US Department of Homeland Security is formed. BSI, and several other agencies, are placed under its administrative control. Their mission doesn’t change, just the logos on the wall and the patches on their field uniforms. November - Ultramax receives its first inmates,several former members of the Oppressed, as the top secret “Deep Freeze” nears completion. 2004 - America First fugitives, Warhawk and Purge, raid a National Guard Armory, in Montana, stealing dozens of weapons, before disappearing again. BSI believes that local citizens, sympathetic to their cause, are aiding them in eluding authorities. March - Deep Freeze opens for business. Few are even aware of its existence, much less it’s exact location. Not even the Director Wilson is privy to that information. April - Peacekeeper submits his proposal to form a team of metahuman operatives operating under the direct control of BSI. 2005 - January - Peacekeeper’s proposal is approved by Director Wilson. Thanks to the Bureau’s good standing on Capital Hill, funding for the project is fast tracked, and Peacekeeper receives permission to begin selecting personnel for the new team. October - BSI’s new metahuman strike team, the Metahuman Emergency Response Group, or MERG, makes its debut. The group consists of Peacekeeper; the power armored hero Sentry; the energy welding former BSI employee Starburst; the female archer Crimson; the super strong former NFL star Steadfast; and the density controlling hero Shift. The team’s newest recruit, the super-speedster Rush, is still undergoing his initial training. Halloween - BSI investigates a series of strange murders in he days leading up to Halloween. Things go completely wrong, two agents are killed, and the SAC requests MERG back-up from HQ when the individual behind the murders is revealed to be Lord Pumpkin, the Spirit of Halloween. Peacekeeper, the most experienced member of the group, knows that they can’t take on Lord Pumpkin alone and calls on the guardians for help. In the ensuing battle, several dozen innocent civilians are serious injured or killed, and The city of Salem, Massachusetts sustains millions in dollars of damage. 2006 - February - A congressional inquiry is convened to investigate the “Salem Incident”. After several months, it’s determined that without MERG and the Guardians intervention, the loss of human life could have been in the thousands, and that no member of the team in any way contributed to the carnage. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
TheQuestionMan Posted April 14, 2006 Report Share Posted April 14, 2006 Re: The Bureau of Special Investigations - long Nice too see yah Posting here again. I'll comment later, gotta go. QM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominique Posted April 14, 2006 Author Report Share Posted April 14, 2006 Re: The Bureau of Special Investigations - long I've been posting off and on, mostly in threads that catch my eye. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Weldun Posted April 15, 2006 Report Share Posted April 15, 2006 Re: The Bureau of Special Investigations - long "You have given out too much Reputation in the last 24 hours, try again later." - 'Nuff Said! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominique Posted April 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2007 Re: The Bureau of Special Investigations - long After many moons, I've finally gotten around to updating the BSI time line. Take a look and let me know hat you think of it. I'll also be posting info on MERC, and Prometheus in the near future. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Trebuchet Posted April 8, 2007 Report Share Posted April 8, 2007 Re: The Bureau of Special Investigations - long Repped! Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Major Tom Posted April 8, 2007 Report Share Posted April 8, 2007 Re: The Bureau of Special Investigations - long I just tried the link to the BSI site, and all I get is a message saying "The foll- owing website was not found". Is there a problem with the site? Major Tom Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Dominique Posted April 8, 2007 Author Report Share Posted April 8, 2007 Re: The Bureau of Special Investigations - long I just tried the link to the BSI site, and all I get is a message saying "The foll- owing website was not found". Is there a problem with the site? Major Tom Since there is no actual site (the link is just part of the write-up, along with the bogus phone number), I can see where you may have run into a problem. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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