The Bureau of Special Investigations - long

[Dominique]

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I added a few additional paragraphs of info to the time line, and that brings them up to early 2006.

[John Desmarais]

Re: The Bureau of Special Investigations - long

 

Cool stuff!

[Dominique]

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Thanks, I'm glad you're enjoying it.

[jefffitz77]

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That's impressive work, I'm running a Champions Campaign in the same vein, where the Players work for a secret Dept of Defense taskforce. If you don't mind I'd like to borrow some material from you.

I've got my campaign setup so that all superpowers are top secret, sort of like Stargate SG-1. I'm trying to make the governmental aspect as realistic as possible, so if you've got any suggestions on agencies I should use, please let me know. Here are the ones I've got so far:

 

Dept. of Justice, Dept. of State, U.S. Intelligence Community, NORAD, and NASA

 

Thanks-

Jeff

[Guest Major Tom]

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That's impressive work, I'm running a Champions Campaign in the same vein, where the Players work for a secret Dept of Defense taskforce. If you don't mind I'd like to borrow some material from you.

I've got my campaign setup so that all superpowers are top secret, sort of like Stargate SG-1. I'm trying to make the governmental aspect as realistic as possible, so if you've got any suggestions on agencies I should use, please let me know. Here are the ones I've got so far:

 

Dept. of Justice, Dept. of State, U.S. Intelligence Community, NORAD, and NASA

 

Thanks-

Jeff

 

 

Given what you've said about super-powers being top secret, then the agency

that would most certainly figure prominently in your campaign is DARPA (the

Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration; at least, I think that's

what the second 'A' in the acronym stands for). In a world where superhuman

powers are largely hidden from the general public, but are known to ex-

ist by government officials, then you'd better believe that there are going to

scientists in Uncle Sam's employ who are going to be studying them with an

eye towards not only understanding how such powers work, but also how to

counteract them. Another purpose for such study would be the development

and creation of weaponry which duplicates the effect of certain superpowers

(for example, the development of laser/particle/plasma weaponry as an off-

shoot of research into the abilities of energy-projecting metahumans).

 

 

Major Tom

[Dominique]

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That's impressive work' date=' I'm running a Champions Campaign in the same vein, where the Players work for a secret Dept of Defense taskforce. If you don't mind I'd like to borrow some material from you. [/quote']

 

Feel free, it's why I post this stuff.

 

I've got my campaign setup so that all superpowers are top secret, sort of like Stargate SG-1. I'm trying to make the governmental aspect as realistic as possible, so if you've got any suggestions on agencies I should use, please let me know. Here are the ones I've got so far:

 

Dept. of Justice, Dept. of State, U.S. Intelligence Community, NORAD, and NASA

 

Thanks-

Jeff

 

Instead of NORAD, I'd just go with the Dept. of Defense as that's who NORAD works for. How realistic do you want your campaign? Very real as in something like Heroes, What I'd call "action movie" reality (say something like James Bond), or "comic book reality" ?

 

Also, what intel agencies (CIA, NSC, etc.) or military units (DIA, NSA, ONI, etc.) would you like info on, I can provide you with a lot of background material for real world agencies and units.

[Dominique]

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Given what you've said about super-powers being top secret' date=' then the agency that would most certainly figure prominently in your campaign is DARPA (the Defense Advanced Research Projects Administration; at least, I think that's what the second 'A' in the acronym stands for). In a world where superhuman powers are largely hidden from the general public, but [i']are[/i] known to ex-ist by government officials, then you'd better believe that there are going to scientists in Uncle Sam's employ who are going to be studying them with an eye towards not only understanding how such powers work, but also how to counteract them. Another purpose for such study would be the development and creation of weaponry which duplicates the effect of certain superpowers (for example, the development of laser/particle/plasma weaponry as an off-shoot of research into the abilities of energy-projecting metahumans).

 

 

Major Tom

 

Actually the second "A" stands for Agency. They're the good folks that provide the US military with all the new high-tech gear and weapons (well them and the various other military R&D centers NAVSEA, RD&E, Night Vision Labs, etc.). Lately DARPA's been working with the US Dept. of Energy on a number of leass lethal and Directed Energy Weapons (EMP, High-Energy Lasers, Microwave weapons, just to mention a few.), but I could see them being involved in reasearch into the various abilities.

 

Also the CIA was heavily envolved in "remote viewing" (Clairvoyance) research as an intelligence gathering asset. So they might run a seperate program from the military.