[spycraft] Agency names

[MythandLore]

"The Agency"

I like the sterile and ambiguous nature of the title. It gives the mystique and officialness without being hokey or instantly indentifiable. That comes in handy during interrogation or deniability

-Who do you work for?
-The Agency
-Which agency.
-THE Agency.

No amount of sodium pentathol or torture is going to force out a direct name or answer....ever.

This name has the advantage of being vague enough for me to keep the actual goals of the organisation very secret, even from the players (bwa-hahahah)

Im using 'the Agency' in my game for the same reasons.
I say, the more nebulous - the better.

 

[Tonguez]

W O T C
World Organisation for Transgenre Correlation
World Office for Transnational Control

UNCLE United Nations Center for Law Enforcement

SPECTRE Society for the Prevention of Evil, Corruption, Terror, Revenge and Everything

The Company

yeah and I like the Agency too

 

[GMSkarka]

Couple of my personal favorites:

AEGIS: Agency for Emergency Global Intelligence & Security

MEDUSA: Military Espionage Division, United States Army

Of course, having watched every episode of ALIAS this season, I'm finding myself really leaning more towards meaningless letter-and-number agency names: sd-6, k-directorate, etc.

GMS

 

[Tokiwong]

one I am using is simply The Directive got the name from Aberrant from White Wolf... it just sounds cool...

 

[Azure Trance]

Was it just me or wasn't there some sort of java bot online that made words out of letters for you?

Example:

Put in the words R I E N and it spitted out NIRE ERIN etc. Might be helpful to make better words.

GMSkarka, nice ones I must yoink them.

 

[Jezrael]

I'm also using Foundation (Alpha Foundation) but more in the Asimov than Knight Rider vein.

I also name the divisions in it (not the same as departments)
examples...
R&D = Vulcan Division
Military Ops = Omega division
Intel (PC's division) = Proteus Division

 

[Bonehoard Taffer]

I tried to come up with some good acronyms, but they all ended up sounding too cheesy. My campaign, I have decided, will be loosely based on the TV show the Avengers, and perhaps a bit of the Prisoner. So, just ended up calling my agency The Ministry.

I was just thinking how nice it would be if I still had my Top Secret rules, I seem to remeber a pretty handy dictonary of acronyms and espionge related organizations. IIRC, they also had a dictonary of related espionage terms.