Difference between revisions of "Section 13"

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Organisation

Name

Military Intelligence, Section 13

Purpose

Paranormal Investigations
Counter (Mutant) Terrorism

Leader

-

Headquarters

Thames House
(ex) RAF Pitreavie Castle

Branches

Operation Damocles

Affiliation

Security Service (MI5)
British Government

Members

Walt Harriman

Established during the Second World War, Military Intelligence, Section 13 was one of a total of nineteen intelligence sections providing information on Nazi Germany and her allies. In particular, Section 13 dealt with the occult aspects of Nazi research, particularly focusing on their search for religious artifacts and their ambitions towards breeding an Aryan race of superhumans. Amongst their early investigations, they discovered the first indications of what was eventually understood to be mutation, and the x-gene.

After the end of the war, Section 13 continued to operate throughout the Cold War: another aspect of the mutual preparedness of the various superpowers to go to war with each other on any level. Rather than aiming towards a supersoldier however, Section 13's members were trained more as covert operatives and secret agents, which could be deployed invidivually or in small teams.

Section 13 was retired in the early nineties, with the focus of threats and conflicts shifting from a Cold War standoff to the more overtly military operations of the Gulf War and other conflicts in the Middle East. Because of the covert nature of Section 13, it was felt that they could not be appropriately deployed in those situations.

Almost twenty years later, the political climate had changed; particularly with the Americans and British pioneering a "War on Terror". After MI5's secure database was hacked and various highly classified Section 13 documents were stolen, the cyber-terrorists responsible began hunting down and killing the retired Section 13 operatives across the world. Very few survived; in order to combat the terrorists, and also to respond to a swathe of mutant-related criminal and terrorist acts in Britain over recent years, the government reactivated Section 13: this time as a subdivision of the Security Service (MI5).

Originally, the headquarters of Section 13 was at Pitreavie Castle, near Fyfe in Scotland. However, the facility eventually closed in 1994, and has subsequently been converted into residential housing. As a subsidiary of MI5 after it was reactivated, Section 13 was given workspace at MI5's headquarters in Thames House.

Notable Members

• Walt Harriman - one of the original members of Section 13 from the Cold War, Harriman is now the Commander of the project codenamed Operation Damocles. Codenamed Longshot, Harriman's mutation manifests in an almost infallable accuracy with any sort of projectile or thrown weapon.

Associates

• Jace Harriman - the eldest son of Walt Harriman, Jace is a lawyer. His mutant ability allows him to telekinetically accelerate objects towards him, but the ability is only one-dimensional. His ability considered to be like gravity, Jace has been unofficially given the nickname Slingshot to echo his father and sister.

• Kat Harriman - twenty-two years old and the youngest child of Walt Harriman, Katrina recently graduated from studying drama at university. Because of her father's depression, her brother Jace became her legal guardian throughout her teens. Her ability allows her to telekinetically cause the molecules in an object to vibrate, thus causing it to heat up. Because of this, and because of her father's codename, she inherited the nickname Hotshot.