ZH BRANCH
GROUPS OF INTEREST
File Overview: The following groups, in contrast to other Groups of Interest, mostly communicate exclusively in Traditional Chinese. In addition, their presence and activities are reported mainly in ethnic Chinese society. The Foundation ZH Branch is therefore specifically assigned with the task dealing with them.
Fan-guang (繁廣) Chemical
Overview: Fan-guang Chemical has sold a variety of raw materials related with petrochemical industry and chemical addictive. Selling points of the material are the higher effectiveness or lower cost, but other features of the material tend to pose threat to the users. The areas of influence are restricted to Taiwan, Hong Kong, Macao, Singapore and Malaysia, where Traditional Chinese is employed. Initial investigation indicates that the cooperation utilizes anomalous objects to produce and sell items that are similar to certain raw materials. Item descriptions solely concluded that materials sold by the cooperation themselves are, compared to like products on the market, more efficient and the customers could gain the same results or atypical increase in the yield with less material consumption, lowering the cost.
The corporation only provides enough material for a single production run, and cuts off communication with each processor after the transaction completed. Attempts to gather documents about the material transportation and freight have failed, and so have attempts to capture salesmen of the cooperation. Interrogation of warehouse staff for each processor confirmed that they had been subject to memory manipulation. It has been suggested that the corporation is using the market to examine the properties of its raw materials, but the true goal remains under investigation.
There is a consistent feature in specifications sent by the cooperation to vendors. All contents in the documents are written in Traditional Chinese, including even numerals and technical terms.
Recovering items produced by Fan-guang Chemical is often challenging due to a lack of direct evidence or failure of pseudo-judicial means, and so monopolistic purchase has becomes a common measure. When an item goes into the retail market, buying everything on the shelves with cash is the usual practice, putting the finances of the ZH branch into regular deficit.
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Mu Yi (木易) Private Library And Museum
Overview: Mu Yi is a private library and museum set up in 1994. Its collections are mainly anomalous antiques and books. It does not open to the outside world, and appointments are required to view items or borrow books.
It was discovered by the Foundation during ██ event in 1978, and there has been a relationship between the two organizations since then. With the Foundation's assistance, Mu Yi Private Library And Museum has set up a branch in Hong Kong. In return, Mu Yi Private Library And Museum purchases and gathers anomalous collections on behalf of the Foundation, blocking the items from being transferred elsewhere. In addition, the group currently cooperates with the Foundation's Department of Archaeology, in research studying history and in excavations relating to anomalies.
Currently, The Contract of Manuscript summarized that the group should be supervised by MTF-"Usher to the Court"1-8 (Guard of Museum). Mu Yi is allowed to keep Safe class anomalies they had owned, and the Foundation is allowed to conduct experiments on its collections if the application is made two to three months in advance. The Contract of Manuscript may be adjusted anytime, as a response to any gray area or based on the Foundation's new policy.
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The 8th Department of the National Security Bureau, R. O. C.
Overview: The existence of this extraordinarily insidious organization had not been confirmed until recently. It is considered a former governmental organization once annihilated by the Global Occult Coalition and MI666 during the Cold War.
It is believed that the organization occupies anomalous areas in parallel universes and different dimensions (Nexuses) for private commercial purposes, developing on a large scale through colonization of Nexuses and enslavement of large numbers of native inhabitants.
The military force of the organization is considered highly dangerous. In addition to actively tracing GOC agents as assassination targets, it is also believed to be associated with other groups of interest, including the Serpent's Hand and Ambrose Restaurant, and to recruit substantial reality benders and thaumaturgists into its ranks to enhance its combat effectiveness.
It is extremely hostile to the Global Occult Coalition (GOC).
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The Laundry Department
Overview: The Camellia Laundry, Phantasm Orchid (hereafter called the Camellia) has signed a non-disclosure agreement with the Foundation. It provides the Foundation with anomalous washing technology and materials, and the Foundation ZH branch utilizes it not only to meet the increasing and complicated needs of soiled clothes processing, but to provide private laundry service as an extra monetization method. The Foundation ZH branch applies the Camellia's laundry barcode tag system and uses their database in data integration. In addition, there has been recruitment of personnel involved in the laundry service, and related task forces has been established.
The Camellia is mainly a subcontractor delivering the service of "Clean, Restoration, Maintenance". As long as a customer views a subject as "clothes or accessories", the Camellia will try its best to provide the service described above.
It is known that the Camellia is in partnership with other groups of interest, and there are service outlets of the Camellia in several anomalous regions. However, its scope of business is mainly focused on laundry service in Taiwan, Hong Kong and Macau; the rest of the world is covered by other branch companies. The headquarter of the Camellia, the Phantasm Orchid Group, runs the Laundry Department, and intelligence suggests that the predecessor of the Phantasm Orchid Group is an association of laundry industries across the world. To date, there are no conclusive information about the internal aspects of the Phantasm Orchid Group.
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Zero Team, Royal Hong Kong Police
Overview: Zero Team, Royal Hong Kong Police, formerly known as Zero Team, Colonial Police Force, was founded in 1934. It was directly under the command of MI666 (The British Occult Service), and was mainly responsible for handling anomalous events in British Hong Kong, being a major security force in some anomalous areas in Hong Kong.
The group had each of its members receive prototype memory consolidation agent injections, and was allowed to use paratechnology and/or anomalous humanoid entities to crack down on local anomalous criminals more effectively. At the same time, it was responsible for information screening and the concealment of anomalous events in British Hong Kong.
As the sovereignty over Hong Kong was transferred to the People's Republic of China, Zero Team was officially reorganized on Jul 1st, 1997. Most of the anomalies it possessed were taken over by the GOC and MI666.
The reorganized Zero Team was renamed "Cha Ling Police Station". It is currently in charge of security in New Cha Ling, an anomalous constituency in Hong Kong. It also assists in solving a part of daily life problems of the inhabitants while it continues to contain some low-threat-level anomalies acquired during British colonial period and confidential documents of its predecessor.
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Tsar's Seers
Overview: Tsar's Seers (Царская провидца), or simply called the Seers, were established in 1480 and had the name and mission changed several times over the six hundred years that they were in existence. Currently, the group's major mission is to collect anomalies that originated in Russia or belong to the Tsar's treasures.
Historically, the group was disbanded in 1920, but its members started to act secretly within a variety of organizations. Over half of their members are considered magic users ("Type Blue" in modern terminology), and their abilities are ranked at various different levels. Individual members of the Seers are harmless under most conditions, and even make great contribution to groups where they have inserted themselves. The exception is that they view GRU Division "P" as a major enemy.
The Seers are seeking to the previously mentioned objects, and it is possible that they intend to conduct research on or even utilize these objects. They can even create anomalous items themselves, and they believe that everything they create is somehow useful.
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Bell Thrower
Overview: Bell Thrower is an anomalous organization mainly operating in 47th parallel universe. Bell Thrower are mainly constituted of a humanoid species called "Honored Human", and their mission is to ensure the human rights and living space for Honored Humans.
The organization is highly differentiated. Among them are the Bell Throwing Hands Consortium, familiar with developing and producing anomalous products. The Consortium earn profits and rare materials for the total development. Generally, their products have clear purpose and good stability, and might be allowed to be transferred to or from Foundation Sites.
Since the outbreak of open war may possibly bring about an aftermath as severe as a SK Class: Dominance Shift Scenario, the Foundation treats Bell Thrower agents as friendly according to protocols, while remaining cautious at all times.
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Cobweb International
Overview: Cobweb International is a paranormal private military company founded in 1995, Macau. The business was started by a former Serpent's Hand member and retired GOC personnel, Ms. Valentina de Oliveira Martins. The company undertook various safeguarding contracts over the next twenty years, becoming prosperous on the basis of contracts in the Arab world, America and Three Portlands.
Cobweb International, as a Private Military Company (PMC), usually doesn't directly participate in attack or defense in a battle. Its jobs mainly include local safeguarding, protection of motorcades or fleets, as well as some paranormal military training service, and rarely the rescue of important individuals. It often cooperates with various NGOs such as Manna Charitable Foundation. As the company employs a lot of anomalous humans, it has become a paranormal force which the Foundation must be very careful of. Despite being a PMC, they also accept requests from non-war areas, serving as a security company.
Cobweb International seems not to care about the veil being remained or not. It do not spare any anomalies that it can control and will utilize them in missions. It also actively recruits various paranormal employees. This attitude makes the relationship between it and the Foundation and the GOC highly strained. However, this does not mean that it will never cooperate with the either of these organizations.
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YuanJi (遠己) Biomedical Inc.
Overview: YuanJi Biomedical Inc. (also known as YuanJi Inc. or YJ Inc.) is a well-known private medical and biotechnology corporation from Taiwan. It has been established for over 30 years and provides service of medication and private education in Taiwan. The company also develops and profits from biomedical merchandises. The organization used to be viewed as a normal group until several SCPs indicate that supervisors of the company may have unknown contact with Sarkicism, utilizing paranormal biotechnologies for internal projects. Except for a few noticeable cases, most of YuanJi Inc.'s activity are non-anomalous, and most of its employees are not aware of the existence of paranormal society.
Considering the influence YuanJi has on Taiwanese society, eradication of the organization is currently deemed both impossible and unnecessary. Since YuanJi Inc.'s awareness of Foundation and under-the-veil society has been evaluated to be extremely low, the current resource of Foundation is to be focused on monitoring the supervisors of the Incorporation and launching intelligence operations on its internal database and medical research.
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National Paracivilian Agency
Overview: Fully titled as "National Paracivilian Agency of Ministry of Interior, Republic of China (ROC, Taiwan)", the group can be briefly called "Paracivilian Agency". As a subordinate group of Ministry of Interior of Taiwan, Paracivilian Agency is generally in charge of coping with all under-the-veil affairs about people from Taiwan and its belonging islands. While it is usually cooperative with the Foundation, its bureaucratic nature can easily lead to conflicts with Foundation in investigations to paranormal events. The precise time of its establishment remained unknown. Considering ROC government's authoritarian nature before 1987, it is reasonable to suggest that Paracivilian Agency should become active after Taiwan's Martial Law got abolished by the year.
The organization seems to have no access to paranormal military forces. It also shows no interaction with NSB-8, a previously subordinated, but currently insurgent group of ROC government.
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