Heresy
My Brother’s Keeper
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Alrighty then here's an idea that I haven't seen before taking cues from hunter the vigil lets create various conspiracies of Cape Busters/Hunters/Killers in a superhero setting.
Let's start with one part what type of world would you and your conspiracy live in?
A world where there's a Justice League analogue in charge of coordinating super heroes to protect people and just like those groups there's supervillains all over the place some are silly silver aged idiots, some are noble demons with a code of honor and the last are the Jokers of the world nihilistic sociopaths bringing about death and destruction for the lulz and all get thrown in a cardboard prison equally to escape and get back to their own devices.
Or maybe you live in a world like Empowered where the heroes are humongous assholes that treat everyone like shit.
Or you live in a world where the villains rule the world controlling mankind either from the shadows like Wanted or blatantly open like Old Man Logan where they treat their servants and subjects like absolute shit.
The objective is to say fuck all that shit.
Next part is who you are:
Are you a politician/billionaire/high-ranked military official with near unlimited resources both on and off the books?
Or a group of worried common joes scrapping together a neighborhood watch against capes?
Do you hate some/many/all capes?
How would you go about organizing your own cape fighting conspiracy?
In what kind of world do you operate in?
How would you run it's administration?
What would be it's core tenants and Ideology?
What would be your organization's paradigm and focus? Planet busters and city destroyers or street level?
Here's my example:
Title: The Peacebringers.
World Type: Justice League type where the Heroes refuse to kill Villains.
Administration:
Founded by a mysterious council (or one person, nobody is sure and they don't dare ask).
It's a decentralized Cerberus style organization with people split into individual cells with a specific function led by a Manager that communicates to a Comptroller who has several other cells under their command, who in turn sends reports to an Executive in charge of them. Executives are in charge of no larger an area than a US state or the equivalent in other nations and are kept in the dark as to what the other groups do.
The only people aware of how large the conspiracy is HeadQuarters the leader(s) of the organization who keep tabs on everyone.
Cell Work is divided into 3 main branches The Suppliers, The Watchmen and The Blades.
Suppliers are in charge of aquiring things like money, weapons, gear and vehicles for the use of the conspiracy including supergenius designed equipment and gadgets.
Suppliers are given a large amount of leeway in how they do things and are generally the most trusted people in the conspiracy since they have the most knowledge of the other cells in order to supply them properly.
The Watchmen are the recruiters, intelligence specialists and blackmailers of the Conspiracy their main duty is to study the Conspiracy's latest target and look for any and all weaknesses while also creating psychological profiles about them they are the ones that often make or break operations while also keeping an ear to the ground for new leads or fresh talent including capes with an axe to grind and no patience for the current rules of engagement.
The Blades are the warriors and killers, the fanatics and madmen that fight the enemy and most are unaware of who is their backer.
The only person that is a True Blade and a member of the conspiracy proper is the Manager who recruits or leads groups of people with strong anti-cape biases or a simple penchant for violence. They can be random hate groups, local militias or gangs it does not matter.
The Blade will train them in anti-cape tactics, give them equipment from the Suppliers, and use the Watchmen's knowledge to guide these frothing fanatics to victory as officers.
Tenants: The Three Truths.
1. Avenge the Innocent and the Weak. Those that abuse their extraordinary gifts to treat their fellow man with cruelty deserve to have their extraordinary lives taken from them.
2. The Gifted are human as well. The Gifted are capable of great good and evil like all other men, and as such they must be judged on a trial by trial basis the idea that the only good cape is a dead cape must be rejected. For although they have power does not mean they cannot become powerless before the evil of others.
3. Protection of the Conspiracy. Secrecy is our greatest weapon, for we are a ruthless service fighting a ruthless people. Not doing our utmost to protect our identities and those of our brothers and sisters in arms will endanger all their lives. Remember better to be a dead hero than a living prisoner.
Their main focus is on C&D list Villains that cause significant damage to civilians but by and large don't require a very large or militarized response. They're not in the game to take down world ending threats because they don't have the power to, but they can take care of local vermin that can be eliminated by decently trained and equipped baseliners.
So yeah this is my conspiracy there's more details and I can share them if you ask me but by and large please post your own ideas.
Also ground rules:
No Worm. Period. Anything else goes but not Worm or else we'll get derailed fast as hell.
No morality debates please. Debate the political and practical aspects of murder and your methods of operation, not the morality of it or else we won't get anywhere.
No it's not a dickwaving power level contest between worlds. I don't care about power levels, or the feats of individual characters so much as how an organization in such a world can be made to work effectively on the level of your choosing.
You can either choose to create a cult of punisher expies focused on killing C&D list villains like I did or create a Cadmus/Shield clone that hunts down the big boys like the Juggernaut or Magneto.
No Genocide appeals. That shit has no place here, if you want to spend a thread hating on superheroes or crowing the awesomeness of normies make a Garth Ennis appreciation thread.
Now that that's done please post your ideas I'm really curious to see what you guys create.
Let's start with one part what type of world would you and your conspiracy live in?
A world where there's a Justice League analogue in charge of coordinating super heroes to protect people and just like those groups there's supervillains all over the place some are silly silver aged idiots, some are noble demons with a code of honor and the last are the Jokers of the world nihilistic sociopaths bringing about death and destruction for the lulz and all get thrown in a cardboard prison equally to escape and get back to their own devices.
Or maybe you live in a world like Empowered where the heroes are humongous assholes that treat everyone like shit.
Or you live in a world where the villains rule the world controlling mankind either from the shadows like Wanted or blatantly open like Old Man Logan where they treat their servants and subjects like absolute shit.
The objective is to say fuck all that shit.
Next part is who you are:
Are you a politician/billionaire/high-ranked military official with near unlimited resources both on and off the books?
Or a group of worried common joes scrapping together a neighborhood watch against capes?
Do you hate some/many/all capes?
How would you go about organizing your own cape fighting conspiracy?
In what kind of world do you operate in?
How would you run it's administration?
What would be it's core tenants and Ideology?
What would be your organization's paradigm and focus? Planet busters and city destroyers or street level?
Here's my example:
Title: The Peacebringers.
World Type: Justice League type where the Heroes refuse to kill Villains.
Administration:
Founded by a mysterious council (or one person, nobody is sure and they don't dare ask).
It's a decentralized Cerberus style organization with people split into individual cells with a specific function led by a Manager that communicates to a Comptroller who has several other cells under their command, who in turn sends reports to an Executive in charge of them. Executives are in charge of no larger an area than a US state or the equivalent in other nations and are kept in the dark as to what the other groups do.
The only people aware of how large the conspiracy is HeadQuarters the leader(s) of the organization who keep tabs on everyone.
Cell Work is divided into 3 main branches The Suppliers, The Watchmen and The Blades.
Suppliers are in charge of aquiring things like money, weapons, gear and vehicles for the use of the conspiracy including supergenius designed equipment and gadgets.
Suppliers are given a large amount of leeway in how they do things and are generally the most trusted people in the conspiracy since they have the most knowledge of the other cells in order to supply them properly.
The Watchmen are the recruiters, intelligence specialists and blackmailers of the Conspiracy their main duty is to study the Conspiracy's latest target and look for any and all weaknesses while also creating psychological profiles about them they are the ones that often make or break operations while also keeping an ear to the ground for new leads or fresh talent including capes with an axe to grind and no patience for the current rules of engagement.
The Blades are the warriors and killers, the fanatics and madmen that fight the enemy and most are unaware of who is their backer.
The only person that is a True Blade and a member of the conspiracy proper is the Manager who recruits or leads groups of people with strong anti-cape biases or a simple penchant for violence. They can be random hate groups, local militias or gangs it does not matter.
The Blade will train them in anti-cape tactics, give them equipment from the Suppliers, and use the Watchmen's knowledge to guide these frothing fanatics to victory as officers.
Tenants: The Three Truths.
1. Avenge the Innocent and the Weak. Those that abuse their extraordinary gifts to treat their fellow man with cruelty deserve to have their extraordinary lives taken from them.
2. The Gifted are human as well. The Gifted are capable of great good and evil like all other men, and as such they must be judged on a trial by trial basis the idea that the only good cape is a dead cape must be rejected. For although they have power does not mean they cannot become powerless before the evil of others.
3. Protection of the Conspiracy. Secrecy is our greatest weapon, for we are a ruthless service fighting a ruthless people. Not doing our utmost to protect our identities and those of our brothers and sisters in arms will endanger all their lives. Remember better to be a dead hero than a living prisoner.
Their main focus is on C&D list Villains that cause significant damage to civilians but by and large don't require a very large or militarized response. They're not in the game to take down world ending threats because they don't have the power to, but they can take care of local vermin that can be eliminated by decently trained and equipped baseliners.
So yeah this is my conspiracy there's more details and I can share them if you ask me but by and large please post your own ideas.
Also ground rules:
No Worm. Period. Anything else goes but not Worm or else we'll get derailed fast as hell.
No morality debates please. Debate the political and practical aspects of murder and your methods of operation, not the morality of it or else we won't get anywhere.
No it's not a dickwaving power level contest between worlds. I don't care about power levels, or the feats of individual characters so much as how an organization in such a world can be made to work effectively on the level of your choosing.
You can either choose to create a cult of punisher expies focused on killing C&D list villains like I did or create a Cadmus/Shield clone that hunts down the big boys like the Juggernaut or Magneto.
No Genocide appeals. That shit has no place here, if you want to spend a thread hating on superheroes or crowing the awesomeness of normies make a Garth Ennis appreciation thread.
Now that that's done please post your ideas I'm really curious to see what you guys create.