secretive groups that have their own priorities. Its chief patron and ally, and its greatest threat, is March Technologies, a defense contractor managed by former MAJESTIC directors and researchers. March works closely with the Breckenridge Corporation, a pri- vate security company that served many MAJESTIC projects in the old days. Breckenridge made billions providing training, guards, and deniable black opera- tions to the U.S. government in the War on Terror.
Unknown to the Program, Breckenridge and March alike have quiet ties to GRU SV-8, the Russian intelligence division focusing on the unnatural. An alliance with GRU SV-8 offers the possibility of rapid- ly expanding March’s influence and power in Russia and then around the world, beyond the Constitutional restrictions they face in the U.S. In the short term, GRU SV-8 offers expertise and experience in confront- ing the unnatural and harnessing unnatural forces. This expertise includes consultants who can help build up those capabilities
in Breckenridge. That may make Breckenridge a viable alternative to the Program in capturing and exploiting
unnatural resources. As far as March Technologies is concerned, the Program has always been a recalci- trant attack dog.
More immediately, GRU SV-8 offers a mastery of techniques to influence public and political will. The GRU’s technical teams run elaborate hacking cam- paigns. Its intelligence officers orchestrate occasional leaks of U.S. government and financial secrets, calcu- lated to cultivate outrage and cynicism. Its disinfor- mation campaigns use social media to carefully target sympathetic American audiences and conspiracy theorists on the left and the right.
In 2017, with the White House poised to bolster defense budgets and reduce the barriers for financial cooperation between the U.S. and Russia, March Technologies and GRU SV-8 both see great opportu- nities. The Program, if it learns of their alliance, poses the greatest threat to their collusion. It’s only a matter of time before they take steps to isolate, expose, and neutralize it—or until the Program’s agents learn of the alliance and the threats it poses to the Program and the world.
» 17 NOV 2015:
Anti-abortion activist Robert Lewis Dear, Jr., shoots and kills two civilians and one police officer and wounds four ci
- vilians and five police at a Planned Parenthood clinic in Colorado Springs, Colorado. Dear is confined to a mental hospital after evalu
- ations find him delusional.
» 2 DEC 2015: Syed Rizwan Farook and Tasheen Malik, a married couple, shoot and kill 14 and wound 22 at an office party in San Bernadino, California, before being killed by police.
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PROPAVSHEYEPropavsheye (“The Missing”) is a little-known but influential off - shoot of the Ukrainian mafia. It began in the Brothers’ Circle, a loose federation of Russian gangs. Concentrated around former Spetsnaz soldiers and GRU officers, Propavsheye quickly earned a lethal repu
- tation and soon came to be left to its own devices. A high proportion of its members are vory v zakon: “thieves under the law,” elite and notorious gangsters.
Propavsheye has close ties to GRU SV-8. Its soldiers often assist SV-8 agents and conduct operations on SV-8’s behalf, and sometimes turn stolen SV-8 secrets to their own profit. In Propavsheye’s early days in 2001, it helped SV-8 assassin Yuri Krylov pursue members of the Karotechia, and its leaders kept some Karotechia remnants and se - crets for themselves. That included one of the Bischofe, a Karotechia sorcerer convincingly reported as dead.
Over the next 15 years, the Bischofe helped Propavsheye and SV-8 seek the scattered and burned secrets of Gunter Frank, including his reanimation formula. For all their hatred of the Nazis in the Karo
- techia, they recognized the value in the Nazis’ work. Propavsheye has launched companies to acquire ingredients that can be reliably found only in the U.S. The front companies export those ingredients to labs overseas, which work to perfect the incomplete fomula.
Propavsheye and SV-8 are not interested in creating mindless zom - bies. SV-8 wants military applications: helping soldiers withstand shock and the elements, and making them easier to resuscitate. The leaders of Propavsheye are more interested in the formula’s ability to give energy and the capacity to communicate to dead cells. They fore
- see a profoundly profitable revolution beginning in neuroscience and perhaps reaching to botany as life-supporting plants fail to adapt to rising atmospheric methane and carbon levels. They anticipate partnerships that may earn them billions while, incidentally, saving humanity. Agents of Delta Green, stumbling across resurrected horrors, may be well-poised to stop them.
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// Delta Green: Handler’s Guide //
TOP SECRET//SAR-DELTA GREEN
» 7 JAN 2016: ISIL terrorists kill 60 and injure more than 200 in a
suicide truck bombing at a Libyan police training camp. ISIL-related attacks will kill more than 1,400 and injure more than 3,500 by the end of the year.
» 17 JAN 2016: A baby is born in the U.S. with Zika virus. The mother
lived in Brazil in May 2015.
» 9 MAR 2016: The CDC reports 193 travel-associated Zika virus cas-
es in the U.S.
» 1 APR 2016: The CDC gathers 300 local, state, and federal officials
at its headquarters to coordinate the response to the Zika virus. » 21 MAY 2016: Emil Furst, aka Agent Aaron, enacts a ritual called “The
First Secret,” found in a book that he has studied for ten years. With it, he communes with an alien intelligence, which reveals things that help the Outlaws overcome dire threats. Furst begins to use the First Secret to save agents’ lives, and develops an obsession with it that blinds him to his own terrible danger.
» 12 JUN 2016: In the deadliest terrorist attack in the U.S. since
9/11, Omar Mateen shoots and kills 49 and wounds 53 at Pulse, a nightclub in Orlando, Florida.
» 23 JUN 2016: British voters decide to leave the EU in a referendum. » 14 JUL 2016: A cargo truck drives into a Bastille Day crowd in
Nice, France, killing 86 and injuring 434. Groups linked to ISIL claim credit.
» 29 JUL 2016: The CDC confirms four locally-transmitted cases of Zika
virus in Miami, Florida, the first of dozens, resulting in a travel warning for the city that lasts until 19 SEP 2016.
» 12 AUG 2016: Puerto Rico declares a state of public-health emergency
due to a Zika virus epidemic.
» 8 SEP 2016: NASA launches OSIRIS-REx to collect samples from the as-
teroid 101955 Bennu. It is due to return to Earth in 2023.
» 3 OCT 2016: The Director of the Program expands 2015’s Operation SOM-
ERSAULT, ordering it to review and act upon neonatal samples taken at U.S. hospitals.
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» 13 NOV 2016: Extreme isolationist group Americans Against Covert En-
emies informs its members that Indonesian terrorists murdered AACE tech backer Bert Warks and his wife and son, and used Warks’ comput- ers to compromise the AACE mailing list. The news causes some AACE members to withdraw but energizes most, leading to record-breaking fundraising and recruiting.
» 22 DEC 2016: Researchers announce finding the VSV-EBOV vaccine 70% to 100% effective against the Ebola virus.
» 1 JAN 2017: ISIL terrorists kill 39 and injure 69 in an Istanbul
nightclub shooting. ISIL-related attacks will kill more than 460 and injure more than 7,270 by mid-May 2017.
» 20 JAN 2017: Donald J. Trump is inaugurated as president of the Unit- ed States. Controversies immediately surround the Trump administra- tion: the flagrant dishonesty of Trump and his staff, the degree to which White House decision-making may be influenced by and affect Trump’s family and businesses, the influence and administration roles of Blackwater founder Erik Prince and his family, Trump’s seeming fondness for authoritarian leaders, FBI and congressional investi- gations of the Trump campaign’s and administration’s reported links to the Russian government, and so on. As the White House formulates plans to reduce the funding and activities of most non-military fed- eral agencies, leaks to the press and social media become more and
more frequent. The Program maintains its longstanding policy of not briefing the incoming president or vice president on its activities unless absolutely necessary.
» 2 MAR 2017: U.S. Attorney General Jeff Sessions recuses himself from
the Department of Justice’s investigation of the White House’s al- leged connections with Russia.
» 5 MAR 2017: Special Agent Curtis McRay, aka Agent Bernard of the Out- laws, is forced out of the FBI in mandatory retirement at age 57. He devotes himself even more fully to the Outlaws’ work, often acting as A-cell’s representative to Agents in the field.
» 29 MAR 2017: UK Prime Minister Theresa May begins a two-year period
of negotiations to withdraw the UK from the EU.
» 8 MAY 2017: Baltimore police arrest Curtis McRay for driving under
the influence and possessing 10,000 illegal painkillers. He pleads the charges down to a misdemeanor and begins looking for ways to use old Green Boxes to store his pills and help the low-rent drug dealers who supply them.