Traditions & Orders

Knowledge grants power, and true knowledge should be restricted to those with the appropriate respect for the power it contains. As masters of information and indoctrination, the agents of the New World Order alter data to enforce their vision of a perfect world. Masses, as these Technocrats understand, remain safest when they’re kept blissfully, ignorantly asleep. Humanity prospers best in a world where deviance is hidden, science is predictable, and controlled technology empowers those people who have the training to handle it.

The group’s now-infamous name comes from the philosophies of 18th-century idealists. Proposing a global state in which random elements such as primitive societies, art, magic, and even religion were abolished in favor of benevolently imposed order, these heretical masters began disseminating the concept through secret lodges and assorted allies across the world. During Queen Victoria’s reign, this group consolidated its power within the existing Cabal of Pure Thought. Moving that group from a religious foundation to a secular one, the idealists purged their superstitionist peers through campaigns of truth reform and rhetorical intrigue. Reason replaced religion as the paragon of their newly ordered world. Joining forces with Inspector Rathbone’s Skeleton Keys, those idealists forged their metaphorical Ivory Tower with London at its center and Victorious Britannia its figurehead. By the time American conspiracist Robert Welch began spreading the term among the Masses in the early 1970s, the New World Order was many decades old.

The bedrock of this group involves control of information… and thus, of possibilities. To this end, the Convention employs a three-pronged strategy: eliminate dissent and Reality Deviance, consolidate information and Enlightenment, and propagate the image of a safely governed world. Using all three elements to reinforce one another, the Order strives to bring chaos to heel. It’s a titanic labor, to be sure, and one in which open conflict remains undesirable. Therefore, the NWO prefers covert action to overt action. Beneath a cover of secrets and misdirection, the rampant elements of deviant reality can be taken down, erased, and revised to fit a more productive truth.

Information provides the cornerstone of NWO operations. And so, the Order employs advanced surveillance, field agents, and data-tracking processes to collect and assimilate intelligence throughout the world. Meanwhile, those field-agent teams also hunt down deviant elements for elimination or recruitment. Captured RDs get subjected to intense Social Conditioning sessions – refinements of the same Conditioning that errant members of the Technocracy undergo in order to bring them back into line. By the end of that programming, those Deviants either join the Union as productive citizens or else become will-broken ragdolls in the Order’s hands. Either way, they no longer threaten the Consensus.

Consensus shapes reality. The world we see is the one the Masses want.

At the moment, that vision is obscene. We will fix it for the betterment of all.

Stereotypes

The Traditions: A promising field of potential recruits poisoned by toxic ideologies and disruptive tendencies. Convert them when possible, exterminate them otherwise.

Fellow Conventions: We know their secrets; they do their jobs… or else.

The Disparates: The persistent heirs of primitive cultures. Convert or exterminate as necessary.

Organization: Reflecting that three-pronged strategy, the NWO employs three primary Methodologies to implement its goals. The Operative group sends agents – typically the Black Suits, though it employs less obvious agents too – into the field to address threats and collect intelligence. The Ivory Tower handles administration and implementation throughout the entire Technocracy and also disseminates controlled truths through Sleeper academia. Meanwhile, the Watchers collect information, simultaneously circulating messages of control and complacency among the Masses so as to minimize chaos and dissent. All three agencies report to upper-echelon supervisors, who direct operations from safe distance.

Meanwhile, two other Methodologies – Q Division and the Feed – provide support for the other operations. Technically a cross-Convention imperative, Q Division provides the field gear for Technocratic agents (NWO and otherwise), and the Feed assesses and guides the growing power of the Internet and its many social technologies. Within all NWO divisions, an ascending order of seniority (Black Suits/ Gray Suits/ White Suits) reflects what the Order calls the “purification of genius” and the formality of control.

Initiation: By reviewing standardized academic and vocational tests, scanning databases, and coordinating covert surveillance efforts, the Ivory Tower selects potential recruits. Generally, a new recruit dies to his oldlife and enters a newlife as a NWO trainee. Other recruits get converted from among the Union’s enemies, by way of the Order’s sophisticated Social Conditioning techniques.

Because these tactics can be very resource-intensive, the NWO bolsters its ranks with clones: unEnlightened constructs trained to act in unison, empowered with a telepathic hive mind, and chemically altered to disintegrate upon death. As a matter of course, the NWO subjects its agents to varying degrees of indoctrination and social conditioning, depending on individual performance and their roles out there in the field.

Affinity Spheres: Mind or Correspondence/ Data.

Organization

Reflecting that three-pronged strategy, the NWO employs three primary Methodologies to implement its goals. The Operative group sends agents – typically the Black Suits, though it employs less obvious agents too – into the field to address threats and collect intelligence. The Ivory Tower handles administration and implementation throughout the entire Technocracy and also disseminates controlled truths through Sleeper academia. Meanwhile, the Watchers collect information, simultaneously circulating messages of control and complacency among the Masses so as to minimize chaos and dissent. All three agencies report to upper-echelon supervisors, who direct operations from safe distance.

Focus

In A World of Gods and Monsters, Might is Right and Tech Holds All Answers. Social dominion and the command of consciousness – that is, the influence, harnessing, programming, and reprogramming of the homo sapiens mind – provides the cornerstone of this New World Order’s techniques. To that end, psychic training, information manipulation, perceptual conditioning, and symbolic connections (like a man wearing a formal black suit and carrying a badge) provide the essential tools for NWO Procedures. Physical media constitute the second level of manipulation, with the third and most brutal level – force – channeled through guns, armor, gadgets, hypertech vehicles, advanced weaponry, and the martial arts training all operatives receive. Paranoia, however, is the Order’s strongest weapon. If people believe you can do something, after all, their belief tilts reality in your favor before you even begin to act.