Satellicon
Disparate, desperate and driven, Satellicon is a small guerilla army formed from the scattered remnants of organizations that stood against war and now engage in a ruthless battle against the forces of the New United Nations Earth and the Anti-Earth Cooperative Federation.
Satellicon has few resources and little backing, consisting of several independent battleships unmoored from former allies: the former Mithril Submarine Tuatha de Danaan, the former Celestial Being ship Ptolemy and the Shuffle Alliance’s Freeden, supported by the Mazinger team’s Science Fortress and the rebel asteroid base Satellicon for which the organization is named.
Satellicon’s goals are narrow: the destruction of Amalgam, the Gaia Sabers, and the Space Revolutionary Army. For many in Satellicon, this is all they have left, be it out of desire for vengeance or survival. They have an uneasy alliance with the Dawn of Fold when their goals align, and individuals in Satellicon have friends in other organizations, but no outright backing.
Satellicon is for those who are hell bent on putting an end to one of the many cancers eating away at the Earth Sphere, to the exclusion of almost anything else.
Major Characters
Teletha ‘Tessa’ Testarossa - Captain of the Tuatha de Danaan, formerly of Mithril and the Shuffle Alliance. After Amalgam felled Mithril, Captain Testarossa and her Tuatha de Danaan represent Amalgam’s main opposition. The quest for vengeance is personal as well as professional for Tessa- and may be the only goal she has left.
Sumeragi Lee Noriega - A former Celestial Being forecaster and captain of the orphaned Ptolemy. She leads her crew in their war against the Gaia Sabers following their destruction of Celestial Being.
Jamil Neate - The captain of the Freeden, and a storied ace in his own right. While Jamil fears entering the cockpit again, he has a singular knack for tracking Newtypes, Whispered, and other exploited humans. Formerly a head of the Shuffle Alliance, Jamil and the Freeden have allied with Satellicon to try and continue their own goal of keeping the awakened free from NUNE.
Sayaka Yumi - Director of the Photon Power Labs, Dr Yumi has found her hands tied slightly by the fallout of the Infinity incident. Balancing the needs of Satellicon while preventing the impact of that on the Photon Power Labs is difficult- and while the OCU is independent from NUNE, it also does not back Satellicon. As long as they aren’t operating against the OCU, the PPL is safe- but as with any such balance, something will eventually have to give.
Cascade Vermilion - A creation of Dr Hell trying to find her own way, Cascade Vermilion is a proud advocate of Super AI rights and against NUNE’s treatment of Super AI as tools that need to prove themselves worthy of rights. Now fighting with Satellicon and the Photon Power Labs, Cascade is working out who she is, now that she’s more than a murder android - and how she can help others that the government doesn’t see as people.
Key Questions
- Will you do whatever it takes to destroy your enemy?
- How will you fight when a war of attrition will destroy you?
- Is there anything left for you when you achieve your goal?
Tension Points With Other Factions
Gaia Sabers: In addition to the obvious vendetta between the two organizations, the Gaia Sabers and Satellicon represent the locations where many of the other's enemies burrowed in as the world changed. Many ex-Amalgam executives who were more committed to power than to checks or balances dug into the Gaia Sabers infrastructure or the conspiracies surrounding it, and many of the Earth Sphere's brightest stars took up under the Satellicon banner after seemingly being crushed.
Space Assembly League: The Space Assembly League is where a fair number of Satellicon's... large... enemies list has dug in. Despite a lack of huge ideological opposition, there's a practical reason for them to be enemies.
Cathedra: While not overtly hostile yet, Satellicon uses a lot of unfamiliar technology with a high overall threat index. Were this technology to become more inherently dangerous or unstable, relations could go south quickly. As with many organizations, Cathedra's relationship to the other NUNE organizations could rapidly put a thumb on the scale of the dynamic.
NERV: On the one hand, there's a lot of close relations between what's left of the old guard in Earth defense from aliens and dinosaurs and stuff. On the other, that kind of makes it suck more that a lot of them -- even the really ruthless ones (maybe especially those?!) have remained within/adjacent-to the NUNE apparatus instead of going for real problem solving.
Grand Glorious Guard: Again, there's a lot of old comrades here -- and unlike NERV, the Grand Glorious Guard isn't wrapped up with NUNE nearly as closely. However, 3G is not as forthcoming with intelligence as Satellicon might like, and the extreme actions with low oversight might make 3G a little squirmy.
Terminal: Again, Terminal doesn't want the level of dirt -- or overt direct action -- that Satellicon has going on. Satellicon is more restrained than Dawn of Fold and its leadership more open to negotiations with Terminal, making the relationship slightly less problematic for both sides, but it remains tense.
Dawn of Fold: Actually, yeah! These two don't step on each other's toes more or less at all and have several of the same apparent enemies. While a few in Satellicon might get squirmy about Dawn of Fold's methodology, they don't actually have a great reason to oppose each other. The OCU is also discreetly backing both.
BioNet: While there's definitely no love lost between most of Satellicon and most of BioNet... what remains of Amalgam is still a mutual enemy. Despite very different visions of the future, there's a little room to cooperate here, if Satellicon has the stomach.
Anti-Earth Cooperative Federation: Despite everything, a lot of Satellicon still has the same problems it's always had with the organizations that go into the AECF.
Yaman Rebellion: Again, there's actually a lot of room for mutual cooperation here. The rebellion has its share of people who operate more or less like Satellicon does.