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Chapter Two: Division of Labor
This chapter is about the inner workings of the New World Order, its organization and what makes it tick. We'll start with the second part.
The NWO believes in three main virtues of its members:
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Devotion. Being a technocrat is a 24/7 job and you can never retire. Dedication to your work, ability to keep secrets, and general discipline all compose Devotion.
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Respect. Respect for the Masses, respect for superiors, peers and inferiors. Mages fall to megalomania easily, and NWO wants you to remember that you are working for the good of humanity, not to stand above it.
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Vision. Be smart, but don't fuck up. An NWO who thinks outside the box and succeeds is a visionary. An NWO who thinks outside the box and fails is cocky, and cocky NWOs can lead to some big problems.
Different subfactions of the NWO value different values. Ivory Tower and the Watchers like their members smart and visionary. Operatives, being the boots on the ground, are all about devotion. The Feed is taming the digital frontier and wants the best members with all the virtues, which is why it gets so few members.
What are all of those? Those are Methodologies. We'll talk about them in a moment. But first, where does the NWO recruit?
Academia. Technocracy having the stranglehold on the Academia is one of the stranger things. The Technocracy was born in the nineties and is rooted in US conspiracy lore. US conspiracy lore is very reactionary and right-wing: evil (Jewish) bankers running the world, evil (Jewish) secret societies running government, evil (Jewish) scientists, evil (Jewish) academics teaching cultural marxism, etc. These are all reified through the various conventions: the Syndicate, the NWO, Iteration X and the Progenitors, and the NWO again. The weird thing about the NWO controlling academia is that academia has a strong tendency towards the left. If you're on the right, the horrible leftist academia and their critical theory cultural marxism is a clear sign of their participation on the Zionist conspiracy... but MtA leans left-wing, and suddenly has to try to paint the NWO's control of leftist academia as actually being a right-wing plot. Because science is evil and killing magic!
Anyway, Academia is the recruiting ground for the Ivory Tower. They scout out promising students, move them to special advanced courses, arrange contacts with the right professors, and turn them towards producing the technocratically-approved science, mostly in the liberal arts. The alleged downside to this is that Ivory Tower gets a lot of sycophants and toadies who are only good at sucking up to their professor. Ivory Tower doesn't care.
Police and Intelligence Communities. This is where Operatives get most of their members. Men in Black are spies and muscles, so recruiting spies and policemen helps them cut down on the training time. The Watchers recruit analysts and signal intelligence for much the same reasons.
The Fourth Estate. The media in general is the Syndicate's stomping ground, but the Watchers recruit from the stock of investigative reporters and paparazzi. Morally upright reporters who strongly believe in truth and personal freedom get corrupted with the promises of having a hand in shaping the world for the better.
Those recruited are the best of the best of the best, but upon joining the Technocracy they go back to the bottom of the pecking order. To get promotions technocratic agents have to go above and beyond their duties and demonstrate excellence outside of mission parameters. Simply doing your job is not enough - that's the baseline expectation Technocracy places on you.
But there's also a way down. Small offenses like mouthing off your boss are solved at interpersonal level. However, while NWO forgives, it never forgets. Every single success and misstep is forever on file, and you will be judged against them when the time comes. Major offenses are destruction of property and personnel, for which you could be demoted or sent to mandatory brainwashing. The worst offense is the treason against the Technocracy, and for it NWO takes out your brain and puts it in a jar for permanent storage.
Now, about them
Methodologies
The Ivory Tower
The tweed-jacketed nerds at the heart of the Technocratic Union, the Ivory Tower is dedicated to social sciences and formulates the main policies of the Technocracy. It is organized like a university, and like a university it is full of petty squabbles. Unlike Iteration X, the Ivory Tower is dedicated to philosophy and liberal arts. Their job is to maintain the spirit of the Technocracy and build the organization's global policy. The members of the Ivory Tower are generally more free-minded than the rest of the Union, to allow for different points of view in imagining humanity's future. Their Sympathizers are also more involved than usual, because muggles can think about politics just as well as the wizards do, and there's little obvious magic flying around.
The Operatives
These are everyone's favorite Men in Black and the guys you'll probably be playing as. Where Ivory tower is the brain of the Technocracy and NWO, the Operatives are the NWO's hands. These guys are extremely self-explanatory and are exactly what you think they are. There are three subdivisions of the Operatives. Men in Black run around and punch vampires. Men in Gray are spies and infiltrators. Men in White are the internal police in the Union and are the guys visiting you after you commit a thought crime. Also they are no longer called "Men in X" but "X Suit", because Ivory Tower recently aquired a Collegium of Gender Studies and forced them to change to gender neutral names. Failure to comply summons
Men in White White Suits.
The Watchers
The Watchers are the eyes of the NWO and operate all of its surveilance technology. The Watchers put CCTV everywhere, tap your phone line, and, together with the Syndicate, buy your browsing information from Facebook. Honestly, in terms of narrative these guys can and should be folded into the Operatives. The reason they are a separate Methodology is that Men in Black and Government Surveilance represent different parts of the conspiracy lore, rather than any sane reason.
The Feed
Our last and newest Methodology is all about the Internet. The Internet is getting way out of hand from the NWO's point of view, and the Feed is supposed to reign it in. They range from trend analysts to bot network operators, to deck cowboys who venture into the Digital Web and shoot Virtual Adepts with their trusty revolvers. The rest of the NWO pre-emptively assumes that they are a bunch of freethinking traitors leeching off the valuable budget, so the Feed is fighting an uphill battle for recognition.