Team Operatives
There are 1128 surviving team operatives at the time of the Thorn Rebellion, distributed among 126 teams in 35 team facilities/military bases.
Team operatives with partial or full memory intact is estimated at 12%. Team operatives with false memories is estimated at 22%.
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Team 5
Team Rank | Primary Handle | Birth Name | Status | Special Ability |
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5.01 | Keeper | Ricalia Austin | GMH | Biogenerative |
5.02 | Flinger | GMH | Aggressive Telepath | |
5.03 | Touch | GMH | Touch Telepath | |
5.04 | Bearer | GMH | Empathic Transferrent | |
5.05 | Empath | GMH | Empath | |
5.06 | Ash-Rider | GMH | ||
5.07 | Star-Crosser | GMH | ||
5.08 | Dreamer | GMH | Reality Dimensional | |
5.09 | Swift | GMH | ||
5.10 | Time Weaver | Dominic | GMH | Temporal Dimensional |
5.11 | Sketch | Anna Kirsch | GMH | |
5.12 | Skipper | GMH | ||
5.13 | Float | GMH | ||
5.14 | Fire | Gina Lucas | GMH | |
5.15 | Ice | GMH |
One of the first teams to escape the Projects before the Thorn Rebellion, Team 5 fostered many close relationships with other teams, particular Team 7. Keeper comforted many of the children in the program before they were gathered, trained, then divided into teams.
Formation and Status
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Primary Operations
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Team 7
Team Rank | Primary Handle | Birth Name |
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7.01 | Brushfire | Alex |
7.02 | Burn | Jarod Browning |
7.03 | Lightsculpt | |
7.04 | Retriever | Jenna |
7.05 | Thought | Catherine Elena April |
7.06 | Universe | Shaina Sky |
7.07 | Hidden | Roisa |
7.08 | Tactic | |
7.09 | Quake | Justin Hansen |
7.10 | Singer |
Team 7 has been considered voluntary since Brushfire chose to stay during Team 5's escape. Despite their voluntary status, the marital privilege was consistently denied to Thought, who applied multiple times to marry Tactic. They ended up splitting over the strain this put on their relationship.
Thought's twin brother is Vision, leader of Team 14. They maintain contact telepathically.
Retriever, Lightsculpt, and Burn are best friends. Burn and Thought are training partners who consider each other siblings. Burn and Universe married in their teen years.
Burn's father volunteered him for the program when it launched, which his mother, Janine Browning, discovered only after the fact. She returned to active military duty and applied successfully to team administration, under the condition that she never mention her relationship to her son.
Formation and Status
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Team 8
Team 8 | |
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Facility: Base 17 | Also: Team 34 |
Core Competency: Strike Team | |
Status: Involuntary | Coded: Green |
RANKS | |
8.01 Red Wolf • Energy Sensitive | |
Former Roster: | |
8.01 Storm • 8.02 Whisper 8.03 Maker • 8.04 Surge 8.05 the Christian (deceased) 8.06 Minder • 8.07 Ashen | |
Team Administration: | |
Admin Manager • Tiffany Medical Officer • Gloria |
Team 8 is primarily a strike team. They are generally used for targeted, potentially lethal domestic operations but can also be deployed frequently in foreign operations. Team 8 is regularly deployed for clandestine or covert operations but generally does not engage in any long-term undercover assignments with few exceptions.
The roster for Team 8 has only changed twice, once with the loss of a member and once with the addition of a new one. The Christian died in an anti-terrorist mission, where Whisper's revenge earned her the rank of top assassin in the entire Department. Red Wolf arrived at the same time as Justus of Team 34, but he was able to undergo processing and lost all of his pre-operative memories. He rose swiftly in the ranks before Storm made him first and the new leader.
Team 8 has seven team members, all genetically modified humans. The team is involuntary, having never agreed to the work that they do, and they do not have any of the privileges afforded to teams with voluntary status.
Storm was originally coded orange status, a potential risk and threat due to his protective streak, ability to regenerate and recover from any injury, and his consequential unconcern for any punishment meted out to him. As the leader of the team, this left Team 8 coded orange until he gave leadership to Red Wolf. Moving the team to coded green status permitted them additional privileges and removed several flags from off the team.
The team has often worked with other teams, particularly those in their own facility. The relationship between Team 8 and Team 34 is respectful but tense.
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Team 14
Team 14 | |
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Facility: Base 8 | Also: Team 5, 7, and 21 |
Core Competency: General Purpose Team | |
Status: Voluntary | Coded: Green |
Preferred Language: Republican | |
RANKS | |
14.01 Vision • Cyberpathic Interfacer | |
Former Roster: | |
14.03 Mirage (rogue) 14.06 Green (rogue) | |
Team Administration: | |
Admin Manager • Tricia Medical Officer • Dr. Rybshka |
Formation and Status
Team 14 began as a general purpose team formed around Vision. His team members met his sister and became familiar with mental interfacing before the teams were separated and distributed among various facilities across the Republic. During this time, the initial core group that had formed his team added an additional five members, including Shadow and Taps.
In the time leading up to the Thorn Rebellion, this team retained its voluntary operative status but willingly participated in the Rebellion itself.
Membership
Vision is one of the operatives who never lost his memory. His twin sister is Shield or Thought from Team 7. Mirage also never lost her memory and has a twin in the program, her brother Storm, who initially led Team 8. While they bonded over this, Mirage eventually went rogue, unwilling to continue working with the Projects, and took Gloria with her. After Mirage left, all the team members ranked under moved up one rank. Those under Gloria ranked up two.
Vision occasionally trained members from other teams in particular skills, e.g. ballet for Dancer from Team 84. Those operatives were generally brought to Team 14, as Vision was more valuable as the first voluntary team leader than as a floater.
Primary Operations
Team 14 specializes in retrievals, particularly of people, but have also been deployed in general operations on Thorn Republic soil and abroad. They are valuable anti-terrorism agents and capable at corporate and international espionage. They also covered multiple search and destroy operations in coverups on behalf of the Thorn Republic in addition to against foreign threats.
Relationships
Team 14 is familiar with other teams particularly through their leader, but they have worked in concert with other teams for certain missions, including with Team 7, Team 34, Team 31, and Team 68.
Individual relationships between team members and those of other teams are sporadic and few, primarily consisting of those made with trainees who floated in to Team 14. The team is large enough to be somewhat insular in its relationships.
Team 18
Team Rank | Primary Handle | Birth Name |
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18.06 | Spirare |
Spirare is known as "half-crazy", but is nevertheless a competent operative. She is one of only two pure oxygen elementals in the program, the other being Stream from Team 95.
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Team 21
Team Rank | Primary Handle | Birth Name |
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21.04 | Desert Fox | |
21.07 | Take |
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Team 31
Team Rank | Primary Handle | Birth Name |
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31.01 | Strike | Leyla |
31.02 | Blade | |
31.03 | Whirlwind | |
31.04 | Sword | Jonathan Asher |
31.05 | Keys | |
31.06 | Sparks | |
31.07 | Boost |
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Team 34
Team 34 | |
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Facility: Base 17 | Also: Team 8 |
Core Competency: General Purpose Team | |
Status: Involuntary | Coded: Yellow |
Preferred Language: Republican | |
RANKS | |
34.01 Shift • Shifter | |
Former Roster: | |
34.01 Watcher (departed) 34.02 Kilter • 34.03 Shift • 34.04 Sear | |
Team Administration: | |
Handler • Chandler Medical Officer • Gloria |
Formation and Status
The team formed primarily around Watcher, but also Kilter. Kilter and Shift quickly became her two right hands, weighing in the opposite sides of most issues. It wasn't until Meld refused to kill with his ability that their actual ranking solidified into second and third.
The team has always been involuntary status and has one of the worst handlers in the Department. Their status has fluctuated between yellow and orange, never being labeled as a safe, cooperative team to work with. Nevertheless, they are effective and hold one of the highest ranks for mission success rates.
Membership
This team has gone through several iterations, beginning with a different leader, Watcher, who established the "exception" each member of the team receives where they do not have to simply obey or be severely punished. Watcher struck a deal with her team's administration and left the team to become administration when Shift was sixteen. Instead of Kilter ranking up to first, Watcher gave Shift first and kept Kilter at second because he would be more effective at reining Shift in from that arrangement. Sear ranked up from fourth to third, but the rest of the ranks largely remained unchanged due to the arrival of Justus, who quickly earned fourth rank. He was never processed and has no special abilities or memory loss.
Primary Operations
Team 34 is a general-purpose team, deployed for a wide variety of scenarios. The languages they speak and various skillsets vary widely. Shift is the only member of the team that handles wetwork, but all of them are frequently deployed in situations involving lethal combat.
Relationships
Team 52
Team Rank | Primary Handle | Birth Name |
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52.01 | Ice | |
52.02 | Golden | |
52.03 | Sight | Joran |
52.04 | Armor | Darren |
52.05 | Glass | Nadine |
52.06 | War | Sepher |
52.07 | Wave | |
52.08 | Breathe |
Ice is deceased. In an incident where he endangered his team, Wave was killed and War stepped in to stop Ice, which resulted in his death. Prior to this, Wave and Glass had just started a relationship. After Ice's death, the team did not adjust their ranks to close the gap as normal.
Roommates include Golden and War, and Glass and Breathe. War married Plans from Team 111 while undercover when they were still teenagers.
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Team 68
The team that got the Code 48 on Red Wolf
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Team 78
Team Rank | Primary Handle | Birth Name |
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78.01 | Flame | Darren |
78.02 | Tremble | |
78.03 | Polar | Elia Hinoshi |
78.04 | Smooth | |
78.05 | Shadow | |
78.06 | Mist | |
78.07 | Signals | |
78.08 | Tongues | |
78.09 | Lifetaker |
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Team 84
Team Rank | Primary Handle | Birth Name |
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84.05 | Dancer | Elisabeth Saffer |
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Team 95
Team 95 | |
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Facility: Base 5 | Also: |
Core Competency: Intel and Direct Action | |
Status: Involuntary | Coded: Green |
Preferred Language: Kachan | |
RANKS | |
95.01 Wolf • Energy Sensitive | |
Team Administration: | |
Handler • Kessa |
Roommate pairs are Wolf and Ice Queen, Augment and Stream, Arc and Skylight, and Bridge and Math. Ice Queen and Skylight consider each other sisters because of an incident in Lorden when Skylight was ten years old. Skylight and Math marry immediately after the Thorn Rebellion.
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Team 111
Team Rank | Primary Handle | Birth Name |
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111.01 | Glow | |
111.02 | Plans | Jeho Hinoshi |
Plans is married to War from Team 52. Glow considers Shield (Team 7) and Shift (Team 34) to be her sisters.