Extra-terrestrial Investigative Groups
TDC 01/15 Malcolm Thomas reviewed the other investigative groups. Daniel knew about the CIA's Special Assistance Group- he worked for it. (See Groups, {{Special Assistance Division, CIA.]] for more information on that group).
There were also other groups which had been formed for specific purposes.
THE FORTIS TEAM : CIA team that reports directly to the President on this matter. They’ve loosely allied with other classified projects funded and run by different departments. Fortis is all about shooting first and asking questions later. It makes no sense to say they’re protecting the Earth from dangerous aliens if it involves killing the very people they’re supposed to protect.Last time, it was a few hundred people (See TDC 01/15 for details of a bombed American town), but if they keep that kind of thing up, we could suffer war-level causalities from friendly fire, and that’s before we consider that we might push the aliens into doing something equally stupid. One well-placed bomb can wipe out an entire city of millions of people.”
PROJECT NEPHILIM: has been investigating alien artifacts for a while, but these days they are mostly errand boys for Fortis.
PROJECT RAGNAROK: A group that’s a little more interested in direct evaluation and reaching and contacting aliens, if only to assess them for threats. They also have a heavy focus on creating countermeasures to potential alien technologies or abilities.
Both those projects dump a lot of time and money into research, both government and civilian. A lot of people working on Ragnarok or Nephilim projects don’t even realize who is paying them. It’s all unconnected research as far as they’re concerned.”
THE ROGUE GROUP After Daniel takes on a "private" task" (retrieving the Nozzle), for one of the other agents at CIA S.A.D., he finds out that it was for a special group of rogue agents, who had formed because they felt that the CIA wasn't approaching things correctly, and that they were a "check and balance" group, who would also try to save the worlds. It originally consisted, when he joined it, of Malcolm White leader, Timothy Franklin, Daniel's mentor, Nessie, Daniel's boss, and perhaps one or two more. One could count them on less than two hands. After being recruited, Daniel also recruited Ronni (tech agent from CIA), and Ronni recruited The Big Gnome (tech whiz, TV show on new gadgets he invented), who recruited Madge, his winged elf cousin. Daniel also recruited the elf, Daisy, who had helped him out in Munich.
