Western Department

Unlike Projektabteilung Thorwald, the Tetsukiko, and the Technocratic Soviets, the Western Department of the Technocratic Union has no direct affiliation with the mortal governments of the nations it operates in. Instead, they are fighting the Ascension War by nudging science and policy from deep in the shadows, as well as targeting Mages from the Council of Nine. As a result, in the late 1930’s the Western Department is far behind their Axis and Communist confederates where mundane resources and access to information are concerned.

Despite its comparatively low level of integration with mundane powers, the Wester Department is not without resources. They control a number of nodes in France, Great Britain, and the USA. In both Great Britain and the USA, especially the New World Order and the Void Engineers have ties to both army and navy brass, as well as financial institutions and legislation through membership of clubs, lodges, and secret societies. The Syndicate also has unprecedented influence through their control of American financial institutions and stock exchanges.

There are currently three agencies where Enlightened agents interact directly with mundane intelligence services.

Great Britain has its Analytical Office, a permanent amalgam of NWO Watchers working inside the Secret Service Bureau since the agency's founding in 1909. The main goal of this amalgam is to collect and analyse intelligence from around the British Empire, focusing on projecting trends and identifying threats to the Paradigm.

In the USA, the Technocracy currently has two embedded operations. The Black Chamber is the oldest, established in 1911, and is very similar to the British Analytical Office in both organization and scope. The other is the Bureau 7, which is accredited as a Federal law-enforcement agency. Bureau 7 is a joint-convention amalgam headed by Agent Johnson, a Man in Grey, and is tasked with monitoring and containing Reality Deviants within US borders.

The concerns about the discrepancies in influence and power are acutely felt by the personnel of the Black Chamber and the Analytical Office. They are the ones processing information ticking in from Asia and Europe after all, and both amalgams have been circulating some truly worrisome reports over the last few years.