significant npcs in wtd 1.0r :: hecaton special operations

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HECATON SPECIAL OPERATIONS Not a single person in Taskforce Valkyrie doesn’t know about the conspiracy’s glorious history, particularly the historical records and accounts from the conspiracy’s precursor in the HECATON Special Operations Unit. Named for the many-armed monster both because of what it symbolizes and because they wanted to do homage to the Unit’s “mascot” Brigade, HECATON made the Taskforce what it is today, right down to the values that the conspiracy is supposed to uphold. Once the conspiracy within Taskforce Valkyrie’s conspiracy, operating in secret within their own organization with the express goal of reforming Taskforce Valkyrie before the end of 2012. HECATON is the actual “head” of the institutional beast that the Taskforce is in tonight's Vigil, comprised of the best that the conspiracy has to offer. Their members are 70% supernatural, and operate off the books. The remaining 30% are Deadwalkers (or secretly Sleepwalkers) who moved things within TFV and the American government for their companions. Joshua Larue's rise as a Malice King, however, marked HECATON's break away from Taskforce Valkyrie following the rising dark within the Vigil, and the corruption within their own ranks. HECATON’s agenda goes far, FAR beyond creating a safe and friendly Vigil for the Americas and any friend to the United States. They’re out to reform their own Taskforce, preparing it for the coming of the New Age – something that is only going to happen after they stop the Apocalypse. They’re out to purify the Vigil, to restore it to what it was meant to be the day that the Dragon decided to form the Methuselah. They’re out to bring an end to this war between the Kings, and the best way that they’ve determined how to act on that is to continue helping Hikaru Shinta and Riley Falner. They plan on doing this at all costs, even if it means fighting their own comrades.

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THE WINGS :: General Lincoln Hawke, Commander of the Phantom Corps

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LINCOLN HAWKE Alias: None FOUNDER OF TASKFORCE VALKYRIE; COMMANDER OF THE PHANTOM CORPS / GRAY KNIGHT [LION] VAMPIRE [BLOODLINE: DAYWALKER] Records laud Commander Lincoln Hawke as the founder of HECATON Special Operations, and perhaps one of the greatest military minds in the United States of America. This is just the tip of the iceberg. The truth of the matter is, Lincoln has been on American soil since the Civil War, carving out a place for a conspiracy that could one day rise to help his sire and father figure Riley. Everything he has done, he has done in the name of a Vigil that could stood for the principles that the Methuselah once embodied. Taskforce Valkryie wouldn't have been able to rise so high were it not for Hawke's efforts. Hawke is like a father to all of the "originals" in Special Operations, most especially to Brigade, Josh, Cindy, and Jill. Some of them, in fact, are much more attached to him now than before, with the deaths of their mortal families. Hawke himself views all of HECATON as his family. He wouldn't be this close to Golconda without them, for they have always taught him what it means to be human. PLOT POINTS AS OF 06 OCTOBER 2016 Hawke was, in many ways, Rilea Heartnet's real nemesis in North America. Prior to her unbinding from the God Machine and gaining free will, they were the ones fighting for control over the continent. That's all water under the bridge now, though. The Daywalker line is recognized by Kindred scholars as a "proto-Bloodine", distinct from the Five Clans of the Fifth World because on top of the ability to learn the blood secrets of all of the Clans, its clan members have access to Disciplines that were thought to have been lost with the first Long Day. Hawke appears to be Riley Falner's only childe.

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