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During the Communion Incursion, dozens of worlds in the path of the Communion advance were evacuated to save the civilian populations and deny the Communion as many additional drones and other material as possible. On one Lor world so evacuated was a high security prison which was also emptied, its inmates placed on a prison transport vessel, the Sar-lan for relocation. However, among the inmates were a dozen incredibly dangerous individuals, who either were superior examples of their species unusual abilities or had gained abilities far beyond those their species normally exhibited. This group of prisoners, led by a highly intelligent, former Lor Mentat, engineered an escape and took command of the Sar-lan, which was initially presumed lost during the war. However, at the conclusion of the Incursion, the Lor received reports of suspected sightings of the Sar-lan and, with its resources stretched thin due to casualties in the war, the Republic requested the assistance of the Praetorians in tracking down the transport and recapturing its occupants. The Praetorians managed to track down the Sar-lan in orbit around the remote planet Dreeda III and discovered the escaped prisoners had taken control of the small Lor colony. The Praetorians quickly came into conflict with the escaped prisoners, and in particular the twelve exceptional beings among the group. After defeating this Deadly Dozen, the Praetorians were able to easily deal with the other escaped prisoners, freeing the world and returning all the prisoners to Lor custody. Currently, the Deadly Dozen are once again in Lor custody on a prison world. Apperances Praetorians: The Deadly Dozen Far From Home (As Time Shades)

T.I.A.M.U.T. Training Institution for Assisting and Managing Unlawful Terror. In Brief: a school to train up henchmen and potentially a next generation of villains. History T.I.A.M.U.T. has been around since 2007. However only within the past two years have they been truly active. TIAMUT was founded off the ill gotten gains of around a half dozen villains. These villains were sick and tired of ineffective and uncoordinated henchmen. So they sought to recruit young troubled teens and make them effective henchmen for their plots. Recruits are instilled with a sense of discipline and belonging. They aren't just given quality combat education, but also a fairly high quality traditional education. To hear the graduates talk about it, T.I.A.M.U.T. sounds more like a boys and girls club or fraternity/sorority than a criminal academy. In fact some villains wonder if T.I.A.M.U.T. grads are more loyal to T.I.A.M.U.T. than their new bosses. Not that this has ever come up T.I.A.M.U.T. grads are the most professional henchmen on the market. Exceptional in combat and often displaying exceptional and appropriate initiative. Currently rumor has it that T.I.A.M.U.T. is training young troubled metahumans to not just be top ranked henchmen but villains in their own right. In The World: T.I.A.M.U.T. does predominantly provide henchman to super villains. They often don matching uniforms to whoever is hiring them, looking more like villains of the seventies. Don't be fooled though, most graduates will not think twice about killing if that's part of their employers brand. In fact villains who are hiring T.I.A.M.U.T. graduates have to prove they won't get them all instantly killed and arrested by run of the mill cops or an incompetent hero, meaning the villains using T.I.A.M.U.T. have to be decent quality as well. Not all T.I.A.M.U.T. graduates go on to henchmen work. Some actually pursue education with the law. Some of the first class are defense attorneys and potentially moving on to be politicians. Locations: T.I.A.M.U.T. Has locations in Oklahoma, Texas, Colorado, and now New Jersey. These facilities are training locations for new recruits. Known operatives and associated villains: Headmaster: a telepath who oversees the education of all the students of T.I.A.M.U.T. Master Fu Shen: a nuclear powered martial artist who runs combat training for T.I.A.M.U.T. TR011: hired a set of T.I.A.M.U.T. grads. http://www.freedomplaybypost.com/topic/9686-our-better-angels/ [OOC] T.I.A.M.U.T. serves as a source for villainous henchmen in Freedom and potentially beyond. They all have some skill in knowledge tactics (3-5 ranks) and teamwork 3. To be fair, most graduates of T.I.A.M.U.T. is still probably PL 5 (I used SWAT officers). The elite graduates are going to be around PL 7. The rumors of a school that could be an inverse to Claremont somewhere is a thought I had for this.

The CommunionThe Communion is an alien race from the deep reaches of uncharted space. They destroyed the planet Lor-Van and threatened Earth and the rest of the civilized galaxy during the Incursion event of late 2014. HistoryTwo hundred years ago, a Lor starfaring expedition found a strange planetary body in the Perseus Arm, approximately 17,000 light years out from the star known as Sol. A surface scan indicated that the body was completely devoid of organic life, and made, right down to the mantle, of an extremely sturdy superconductive material. A few orbital drones were sent down, and the crew discovered to their great confusion that the planet had not only once been alive, but had hosted a civilization. They could find the bones of it all over - buildings, trees, highways, oceans, and beasts, all transformed into the same material. After touching one of the drones down and ensuring there was not some “gray goo” threat awaiting them, the ship landed, and a party took to the planet. A number of theories emerged. The planet had fallen prey to a nanotech disaster, but the active nanotech had long since broken down, leaving its workings. The planet was built to serve as a living computer, not unlike some Dyson spheres in the further reaches of Lor space, and had been crafted with simulacra of a civilization as some sort of distinguishing mark. In any event, the party's engineer, an experienced technopath, attempted to make contact with the inert planet, in an effort to dig something from its database. Fifteen seconds later, the screaming started. Thirty seconds later, the planet's drones, long since left in a state of suspension, roared back to life and swept across the surface, attempting to get at the new organics who had touched down. The party barely made it off the planet with their lives, dragging the screaming technopath all the while. Once they had her quarantined, the crew's counselor attempted to parse the relevant data from the technopath. What he got was fragmented, broken, and utterly horrifying. The planet had been organic once - once being nearly twenty thousand years ago. Two separate data banks ran in parallel through the technopath's head - one a record of the planet's history up until its transformation, one a record of victory by the thing that had done it. The entity referred to itself as “the Communion,” one singular consciousness at the heart of an endless, expansive army of drones. It had sent servants to prepare the way on the planet, subverting its orbital defenses and broadcasting messages that would “sway” the citizens to its glory. As it touched down, it broadcast a telepathic signal that brought the citizens of the planet into its fold; those that resisted were destroyed under psychic assault. After the planet was pacified, the work of conversion began. Those converted citizens who had worthwhile memories were absorbed, body and mind, into the folds of the Communion. Those who were worthless would be slain and turned into computronium, to aid the processing speed and memory capacities of the greater collective. The transformation complete, the drones would lift off, leaving the world as a relay point for the greater network and a monument to the glory of the Communion. Why would they do this? For the simple reason that the Communion believed it was the perfection of thought, and everything else was static against the void. Once news of this got back to the Lor Security Council, a covert investigation was made into the nature of the Communion threat. If its goals were so expansionistic, then why had no one heard of it until now? A team was assembled, consisting of infiltrators, archaeologists, and top-range mentats, with the aim of prying knowledge of the Communion out of wherever it could be found. It turned out that other species and galactic entities had knowledge of the Communion; it was just buried under the auspice of legend or out of sheer loathing. The Grue Unity regarded the Communion as a mythical figure of anathema, the “Un-Thought” that bent will rather than stringing it together into a collective whole. One of The Curator's drones shared information, though at a high price, revealing how its greater self regarded the Communion as an affront to existence, something that wrecked unique entities in order to turn them into just another piece of a disturbing whole. Aside from conjecture, however, the search turned up little. The Communion had vanished from the known parts of the Milky Way millennia before. Or so it was thought. But in late 2013, the planet in the distant reaches of the Perseus Arm - the one that clued the Lor into the existence of the Communion - showed signs of movement. As if it was booting up. It was a passing thing, and ended as soon as it had begun, but no one took it as a comforting sign. LinksStats for Greater Communion Drone