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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Tokiwong" data-source="post: 785567" data-attributes="member: 961">Background InfoBrass Orchid Triad“These guys make Pantheon, look like saints, I am just glad they seem to take out their aggression on everyone, and not just us, baselines…”-Tadaka Hikaru, Japanese Businessman “I am a simple business man, I provide a service, and people pay for it.  Perhaps if people were not so, hypocritical they would understand, that I am a true believer in capitalistic economics.  Perhaps my methods are coarse, but in the end it is simply good business…”-Tao, during a court hearingA ruthless criminal organization, many consider them heroes, locally, but many more have felt the swift sting of the Brass Orchid Triad.  The Brass Orchid Triad, existed before the rise of the elites, but they were among the first to adopt the usage of elites and have risen to prominence in Hong Kong, and across Southeast Asia, and into the America’s.  At the heart of the criminal syndicate is the sinister, and mysterious, Silver Hermit, it is known that the leader is an elite, but and is perhaps an omega class.  His closest lieutenants run various operations across the globe, while the Silver Hermit seems content his simple Zen garden and bonsai plants he maintains at his residence in the hills outside of Hong Kong.Silver Hermit though, is no fool, he just likes to keep his hands clean of any wrong-doing, and in fact his son runs the show, and most believe that the young man Johnny Chen is the fabled Silver Hermit.  Johnny Chen is a canny baseline, and likes to be flashy with his money, and enjoys being a symbol of success.  The syndicate is split into various groups working different regions all answerable to Johnny Chen, and ultimately the true Silver Hermit.  The Boss of Hong Kong is Tao, a ruthless triad enforcer, who forced his way to the top, and now uses his elite abilities to keep a stranglehold on the crime in Hong Kong.  He has many of the cops in his pocket, and nothing makes a move in the underworld without his knowledge.  Recently Vanguard Secure Computing has begun to muscle on his turf, and he has found them to be much tougher then he originally acknowledged them to be.  A turf war is brewing in Hong Kong, and the collateral damage is going to be incredible.Tao though is an opportunist, and sees a chance to perhaps extend the influence of the Brass Orchid Triad into other circles, and has begun to court freelance mercenary elites, for more firepower so to speak.  He wants to eventually shift some focus from a full crime syndicate to a more legitimate “Problem Solving Agency” though he knows some members of the group may not accept the change.Vanguard Secure Computing (VSC)“We don’t make computer software, user-friendly, we make it people-friendly.”-VSC Corporate Motto“People ask me, if I like what I do?  Of course I do, I am 18 years of age, and own one of the richest companies in the world, I date supermodels, and I get to have fun, what more could you want out of life then that?  Microsoft?  Thing of the past, sure they still sell their OS, but you compare their latest Windows creation against Vanguard and you will see that they have a ways to go.”-Vincent T. Vanguard, CEO of Vanguard Secure ComputingSometimes good things happen to good people, but that wasn’t the case with the burnout genius Vincent T. Vanguard.  A rising star at the age of 13, earned his bachelor’s at age 15, and had a doctorate in Computer Science by the age of 17, his powers had begun to manifest at age 16, and grew into their own by the advent of his 17th birthday.  But there is a darker side to Vincent, a complex of superiority, he believes because of his intellect; he is the superior of just about anyone he meets, unless they can prove themselves the intellectually superior.  Vincent is driven to succeed, and is a thrill seeker by nature, and has turned his attentions to not only making money, but as much money as possible in any venue h believes he can master.  Which is any category, currently he wishes to corner the underground market in illegal cybernetic technology, and furthering studies into Artificial Intelligent systems.Vincent continues to keep the front that VSC just wants to compete in the cutthroat business of producing Operating Software, but he has moved into producing Cybernetic enhancements and offers them to the highest bidder including a certain dictator of the Congo Protectorate.  He is also busy trying to perfect an advanced AI for use with military applications, a totally artificial soldier with the power of a platoon and the loyalty that only a machine can possess.  Vincent has created limited AI creations but has yet to make something that he is fully proud of, and would consider mass-producing.Vincent though is not alone, his top cadre of scientists is similarly devoid of morals, and seek scientific advancement for the simple sake of science. But outside of the scientists, there is a ruthless shadow organization within VSC that furthers Vincent’s less then legal ends.  Head by Linda Walsh, CEO of Company Security, she is a baseline, but a very ruthless, crafty baseline.  She is wholly devoted to her work; she keeps her hands clean of any wrongdoing.  She works through intermediaries and sometimes assassins.  She employs several elites on a freelance basis, and well-trained baselines.  She also deploys cybernetic enhanced enforcers to great effect, since they can easily pass for baselines, usually in retaliation to someone who crosses Vincent or VSC in general.Linda is loyal to Vincent and works out of the company headquarters in San Francisco, and reports directly to Vincent.  Linda is a cold-calculating woman though and not to be trifled with, though her record is quite clean, and she keeps VSC out of hot water by eliminating any threats to VSC both externally and internally.  No one talks badly about VSC without her knowledge, no one.  She is very good at making people disappear, or changing minds, depending on the need.</blockquote>

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