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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Andrew D. Gable" data-source="post: 1960177" data-attributes="member: 4144">Delta Green is a taskforce that has recruits from most other government groups.  So FBI agents, CIA operatives, soldiers, all can be part of Delta Green, all the way right up to National Security Advisors.  All that about what agency you were formerly in, though, has no real game effect except for helping determine which of the Spycraft divisions you're in -- for example, a former NSA agent is much more likely to be in Computer Espionage rather than Urban Warfare.  There's also a network of Delta Green friendlies, which are folks that are more than citizens but less than agents.  Friendlies are, as the name suggests, friendly and offer aid to agents in need, but are clueless on the mission of Delta Green.Delta Green's purpose is to fight agents of the Cthulhu Mythos -- so more-or-less Call of Cthulhu, but the campaigns have a very different flavor and, being Spycraft, Delta Green is much more survivable.  Unlike Cthulhu, there's a chance you could actually have a high-level Delta Green agent.  The way it all pans out, picture James Bond mixed with The X-Files mixed with Call of Cthulhu.A bit of history.  Delta Green was pretty much born from the Federal raid on Innsmouth (a brief throwaway line at the end of "The Shadow Over Innsmouth").  In WW2 they came into conflict with a group of Nazis called the Karotechia, who were involved in reanimation research (a la Herbert West).  When Roswell happened, Truman (I think that's who was President then?) formed Majestic-12, which was a group involved in researching the alien wreckage.  Delta Green, though, really blew it during Vietnam.  I forget the specifics of the operation, but a mission was really flubbed up and Delta Green was disbanded.They went underground throughout the 1970s.  In the 1980s and 1990s they began to resurface as an illegal force, conducting operations in the shadows and trying to hide their existence from the rest of the government.  By this point, they'd started having a lot of antagonism towards Majestic-12, who'd made a pact with the Greys and gotten a load of genetic data.  They're basically hellbent on exploiting Grey technology and science.  Then, in 2003, as I stated in my first post, they were reactivated.  So you can now work in the open.Other major groups include the Karotechia (thanks to neo-Nazism, they haven't ever really gone away) and The Fate, a Mafia-type consortium based in NYC whos leader may or may not be Nyarlathotep.  And that's just the stuff from the main Delta Green book.  The Countdown sourcebook adds more conspiracies and groups.There's a secret about the Greys which some Delta Green agents might know if they've been around a while, but which newer recruits won't -- not right away, anyway.  Synchronicity knows what I'm talking about. <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f609.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=";)" title="Wink    ;)"  data-smilie="2"data-shortname=";)" />Like I said, I'll get more information on the campaign specifics out here in the next few days.</blockquote>

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