The Initiative

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The Initiative
Ideology	Exploit
Description	The leaders of this shadowy cabal reveal little about themselves or their methods. In some regions, they are behind rampant rumors that the alien arrival is a fabrication by Earth's governments and corporations; in others, they have founded companies selling products that allegedly protect from a fictitious alien disease they seem to have made up.
Goal	Exploit the alien arrival to gain power
Ideological Position (Important for Missions and Public Opinion.)
Leader
Name	Soren Van Wyk
Leader Title	Chairman
Leader Quote	"Every circumstance is an opportunity. Our test is to recognize and seize it."

General LoreFaction ProjectsProfession AffinitiesProfession Anti-Affinities

Faction Leader

The leader of The Initiative is Chairman Soren Van Wyk. He has held various positions within arms manufacturer Western Armories from 2004 to present, including chairman of the board since 2014. Holds a minority ownership stake in DWKY Industries, which has diamond mining partnerships with the governments of Botswana and Namibia. He is occasionally criticized in activist media for labor practices of his various interests, but no formal investigations are known to have taken place.

Interaction with Other Factions

Factions with Similar Ideology

Contrasting the defined stances and values of other factions, people who support The Initiative are either opportunists like the faction’s leadership, or in possession of false beliefs about the aliens that serve The Initiative’s ends. Accordingly, they find the most 'common ground' with Undecided humans, who, having no particular bias towards supporting or opposing the aliens, are easier for the equally apathetic Initiative to induct.

Eventually Initiative finds common ground with most members of Humanity First. Initiative is sympathetic to Project Exodus, seeing them as failsafe for dangerous societal elements and their corporate-friendly structure, as well as more cynical members of the Protectorate due to their methods.

Factions with Opposite Ideology

Initiative is most opposed to the the Academy, because they consistently call them out on being worse than Hydras.

Initiative is in natural conflict with the Resistance, who want to both close the wormhole and preserve traditional power structures.

The Servants are seen by the Initiative as an ideology of fanatical alien worshippers, therefore a primary target for liquidation.

Project	Type	Research Cost	Full Cost	Base Unlock Chance	Available To:	Guaranteed Unlock for:
Megafauna Mastery		50000	187000	100%
Executive Protection		5000	35750	100%
Wormholes		30000	108275	100%
Policymaker Behavioral Analysis		20000	350750	90%
Water Purification Techniques		15000	33250	40%	All
Salamander Autopsy		5000	6500	100%
Predictive Abduction Modeling		20000	189250	90%
Strategic Deception		10000	75750	100%
Pherocyte Emitter		10000	141250	40%	All
Idea Injections		10000	457250	50%
Appeals to Fear Messaging		5000	46750	100%
Xenological Culls		15000	327750	100%
Social Media Campaigns		10000	46250	40%	All
The Choke Point		40000	168275	100%
Regional Security Sweeps		20000	334750	90%
Pherocyte Mass Emitter		20000	276250	100%
Community Policing Drones		20000	219250	90%
Battlefield Pherocyte Decontamination		30000	342250	50%
Pherocyte Inoculations		35000	102000	100%
Means to an End		2500	12500	100%
Alien-Adapted ECM		5000	68025	100%
Public Behavioral Monitoring		30000	88250	90%
Company Engineers		2500	68250	100%
Pherocyte-Enhanced Interrogations		8000	146750	25%
Security Measures		5000	32750	75%
Security Accountability Chaining		15000	116750	90%
Network Intrusion Protocols		15000	229250	50%	All
Pherocyte Liability Theory		10000	27750	90%
Hunter-Killer Tactical Units		20000	347275	90%
Pherocyte Quarantine Protocols		10000	47750	90%
Maskirovka		15000	166775	50%
Operational Misdirection		20000	368750	50%
Pherocyte Exposure Network Tracing		20000	154250	90%
Pherocyte Decon Operations		25000	179750	100%
Pherocyte Scanners		10000	81250	100%
Counteralien Operations Teams		5000	146250	70%
Industrial Atomic Assemblers		10000	114275	40%	All
Rapid Fissile Enrichment		20000	111750	40%	All
Molecular Beneficiation		20000	86750	40%	All
Rapid Distillation Techniques		15000	45250	40%	All
Externalized Costs		5000	8000	10%
Invasive Species Containment		30000	360250	100%
Alien Red Teaming		15000	174750	90%
Rapid Response Teams		2500	6000	100%
Advanced Xenological Monitoring		20000	226250	90%
Transnational Investments		1500	14500	50%	All
Talent Development		500	1025	100%
Battlefield Pherocyte Deployment		30000	155000	100%
Xenoflora Defoliants		5000	5500	100%
Total War Framing		5000	41250	100%
Reverse-Engineered Alien Small Arms		10000	20025	40%	All
Capitalization		500	3500	100%
Enslave the Masters		75000	325775	100%
Hydra Interrogation		20000	45000	100%
Pherocyte Mastery		50000	125000	100%

Profession Key Stats Total	Stats	Missions	Scientist Traits	Other Notable Traits	Faction Affinities
Tycoon 18-33	2-5 1-3 1-3 3-5 7-8 1-4 3-5 4-16			Crim: 1% Tech: 5% Vet: 5%	: Good : Good : Good : Ban
Evangelist 14-24	7-8 1-2 0-1 1-4 3-5 0-0 2-4 6-16			Crim: 1% Martyr: 25% Vet: 5%	: Good : Good : Bad : Good : Ban
Politician 18-31	6-8 3-5 1-4 1-3 4-6 0-1 3-4 2-14			Gov: 100% Martyr: 4% Tech: 5% Vet: 5%	: Good : Good : Good : Ban
Hacker 18-29	2-4 4-5 5-6 0-1 1-3 4-6 2-4 4-16		: 50% Total: 50%	Gov: 5% Crim: 25% Surv: 5% Vet: 5%	: Good : Good : Ban
Tech Mogul 20-31	4-6 2-4 1-3 1-2 4-6 5-6 3-4 5-17		: 5% : 25% : 5% : 5% Total: 40%	Inno: 18.92% : 20% Tech: 10% Vet: 5%	: Good : Good : Good : Ban
Kingpin 22-31	4-5 1-4 4-5 4-5 5-6 0-0 4-6 3-17			Crim: 100% Martyr: 3% Surv: 20% Vet: 5%	: Good : Good : Good : Bad : Bad : Ban

Profession Key Stats Total	Stats	Missions	Scientist Traits	Other Notable Traits	Faction Affinities
Journalist 15-25	6-8 6-6 3-5 0-0 0-2 0-3 0-1 5-17			Gov: 5% Crim: 5% Martyr: 3% Surv: 2% Vet: 5%	: Good : Bad : Ban
Professor 17-29	4-7 5-6 1-4 0-1 1-4 5-6 1-1 5-17		: 10% : 10% : 10% : 10% : 10% : 20% : 10% Total: 80%	Gov: 1% Martyr: 3% Inno: 28.98% Vet: 5%	: Bad : Bad : Good : Good : Ban
Inspector 22-31	3-4 5-6 2-4 4-5 4-5 0-2 4-5 6-16			Gov: 75% Surv: 3% Tech: 2% Vet: 5%	: Bad : Bad : Good : Ban

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