Ah, the seventies! What a perfect decade to set a Trinity-campain in! Lots and lots of classic crime-, action-, horror- and sci-fi-flics to draw ideas from. But since it could take a while until we get some official material for the seventies (if ever), it could be fun to invent some Allegiances for a seventies-setting.
At First: I would suspect, that the seventies in the Trinity Continuum are somewhat of a "little Brother" of the Classic Aventure!-Era. There are a lot of Inspired characters - lots of Daredevils as well as some Stalwarts and Mesmerists. "Pulpy" stuff can still be encountered (for example, adventurers could still stumble across Skull Island) but are, at least somewhat, rarer than in the 1920ies. So, all those weird Super-Spies, Martial-Arts-Masters, Cyborgs and mutated Animals, movies from the Seventies are known for, should have their place!
And now to some ideas for Allegiances from the Seventies!
The Ubiquitous Dragon Society
Asian Martial-Arts-Movies got really popular during the Seventies. So, of course all that "Kung-Fu-Stuff" should play a role in Trinity - Maybe, in form of the Ubiquitous Dragon Society! As we all (probably) know, the original Ubiquitous Dragon was a nefarious criminal mastermind during the 1920ies. But sometimes, just as heroes can Fall from grace, villains can redeem themselves. During the 1930ies and 1940ies, in the dark times of the japanese occupation, UDs organisation frequently fought the Japanese and even formed functional alliances with do-gooders like the Aeon-Society. Gradually, the organisation transformed from a criminal network to a group of honourable freedom fighters. Today, the Hong-Kong-based Ubiquitous Dragon Society battles organised crime everywhere in the pacific area, utilising martial arts as well as its in depth knowledge about several asian criminal organisations, the UDS worked with, when it was still evil itself. As a "byproduct" of its alliance with Aeon, the UDS also stands for friendly dialogue between East and West. Interrestingly, the UDS still has a vile reputation as an utmost dangerous crime-syndicate and sometimes uses this bad rep for its advantage.
GSG10
It is widely known, that in 1972, after the Munich Massacre, the Gouvernement of West-Germany founded the special counterterrorist unit GSG9. What considerably less people know, is that there is also a GSG10 - West-Germanys secret special Unit, that deals with all kinds of "abnormal" threats. Be it terrorists, who utilise superscience, leftover Nazi-experiments or strange creatures - GSG10 deals with it. Fast and efficient. Since the BRD is a Nato-Member, the GSG10 frequently works with Branch 9 and other, Western Secret Services, when "brute force" is required. Although, GSG10 can be considered to belong to the "good guys", a lot of people, who know the organisation, see it as shady, because it not only fought but also recruited former Nazi-Experiments. A small number of Cyborgs created by the German Wehrmacht during the last days of WW2 Work for GSG10 - hoping to get revenge in the Nazi-Scientists, who turned them into "Monsters".
Project Gaja
Those whole "Nature-strikes-back-trope" is a staple of Seventies Cinema. Of course, this should be reflected in Trinity. A lot of strange phenomena in the Seventies can be traced back to enviromental hazards and mutations caused by "Z-Waves" (would they still use this term in the Seventies?). Of course, the Aeon-Society has a branch, that deals especialy with those kind of threats. Where ever greedy industrialists poison landscapes, where ever Nature runs amok, where ever Spiders develop a hivemind and where ever Piranhas learn to fly, the idealistic scientists of Project Gaia try to save the day. But since a lot of Gouvernements still have no great enviromental conciousnes, this rag-tag-band of Ecologists, Rangers, Ex-Hippies and Enviromentalists all to often does mit only have to fight mutations but also local authorities.
At First: I would suspect, that the seventies in the Trinity Continuum are somewhat of a "little Brother" of the Classic Aventure!-Era. There are a lot of Inspired characters - lots of Daredevils as well as some Stalwarts and Mesmerists. "Pulpy" stuff can still be encountered (for example, adventurers could still stumble across Skull Island) but are, at least somewhat, rarer than in the 1920ies. So, all those weird Super-Spies, Martial-Arts-Masters, Cyborgs and mutated Animals, movies from the Seventies are known for, should have their place!
And now to some ideas for Allegiances from the Seventies!
The Ubiquitous Dragon Society
Asian Martial-Arts-Movies got really popular during the Seventies. So, of course all that "Kung-Fu-Stuff" should play a role in Trinity - Maybe, in form of the Ubiquitous Dragon Society! As we all (probably) know, the original Ubiquitous Dragon was a nefarious criminal mastermind during the 1920ies. But sometimes, just as heroes can Fall from grace, villains can redeem themselves. During the 1930ies and 1940ies, in the dark times of the japanese occupation, UDs organisation frequently fought the Japanese and even formed functional alliances with do-gooders like the Aeon-Society. Gradually, the organisation transformed from a criminal network to a group of honourable freedom fighters. Today, the Hong-Kong-based Ubiquitous Dragon Society battles organised crime everywhere in the pacific area, utilising martial arts as well as its in depth knowledge about several asian criminal organisations, the UDS worked with, when it was still evil itself. As a "byproduct" of its alliance with Aeon, the UDS also stands for friendly dialogue between East and West. Interrestingly, the UDS still has a vile reputation as an utmost dangerous crime-syndicate and sometimes uses this bad rep for its advantage.
GSG10
It is widely known, that in 1972, after the Munich Massacre, the Gouvernement of West-Germany founded the special counterterrorist unit GSG9. What considerably less people know, is that there is also a GSG10 - West-Germanys secret special Unit, that deals with all kinds of "abnormal" threats. Be it terrorists, who utilise superscience, leftover Nazi-experiments or strange creatures - GSG10 deals with it. Fast and efficient. Since the BRD is a Nato-Member, the GSG10 frequently works with Branch 9 and other, Western Secret Services, when "brute force" is required. Although, GSG10 can be considered to belong to the "good guys", a lot of people, who know the organisation, see it as shady, because it not only fought but also recruited former Nazi-Experiments. A small number of Cyborgs created by the German Wehrmacht during the last days of WW2 Work for GSG10 - hoping to get revenge in the Nazi-Scientists, who turned them into "Monsters".
Project Gaja
Those whole "Nature-strikes-back-trope" is a staple of Seventies Cinema. Of course, this should be reflected in Trinity. A lot of strange phenomena in the Seventies can be traced back to enviromental hazards and mutations caused by "Z-Waves" (would they still use this term in the Seventies?). Of course, the Aeon-Society has a branch, that deals especialy with those kind of threats. Where ever greedy industrialists poison landscapes, where ever Nature runs amok, where ever Spiders develop a hivemind and where ever Piranhas learn to fly, the idealistic scientists of Project Gaia try to save the day. But since a lot of Gouvernements still have no great enviromental conciousnes, this rag-tag-band of Ecologists, Rangers, Ex-Hippies and Enviromentalists all to often does mit only have to fight mutations but also local authorities.
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