Date: 	Sat, 5 Dec 1992 00:59:15 -0500
From: u36!twilight.kwnet.on.ca!pdevisse (Paul Devisser)
To: jerry
Subject: The Magical Groups (or some of them....)

The Holy Order of Gaea
 
        Founded in 2034 by a wealthy individual who watched his son 
die after being poisoned by fish caught in a mountain  stream.  The 
stream had been polluted by industrial waste that had been illegally 
disposed by a now defunct corporation.  However, the man was wrought 
with grief, and used his wealth to create the group, and set up a 
headquarters for it.  He was killed in 2047 by a couple of corp guards
that caught him and several other members of the group planting bombs 
in a waste treatment facility.
        The group maintains several contacts in the media world who 
dig up information regarding illegal operations by corps, especially 
those dealing with the environment.  They also maintain covert 
relations with several other organizations who are environmentally 
conscious to the extreme.  On occasions, members have accompanied 
these organizations, providing magical firepower to help accomplish 
goals such as destroying freighters with toxic waste, destroying 
manufacturing facilities, and high-tech research facilities that use 
animals and humans for testing.
        The group is centered in London, Ontario so that it is 
situated to the East of Detroit and the West of Buffalo and Toronto.  
Although London itself has a lot of manufacturing and chemical 
processing plants, the group has not yet begun to strike at targets in
the area and concentrated their efforts in Buffalo and Detroit.
        The leaders are primarily fanatics, and some are toxic Avenger
shamans, while others are Hermetic mages with similar views.  They 
feel no remorse if people get killed while they are spreading their 
message.  That's the risk one takes living in the Sixth World.
 
Name: The Holy Order of Gaea
Type: Dedicated/Conspiratorial
Members: 24
Limitations: Moral Code
Strictures: Belief, Karma, Link, Oath, Secrecy
Resources/Dues: High, $10000 (2000 nuyen) per month
Patron: None
Customs: A group of magicians who are dedicated to the healing of the 
earth that they claim was polluted and 'killed' by the 
megacorporations.  A few of the members are toxic shamans, and as a 
result many of their 'causes' will end in death for the offenders.^

Copyright (C) 1992 Paul Devisser
All rights reserved.

       
        Umm, just one note... The Human Aura doesn't have a 
headquarters listed in the file, while all the others do make some 
mention of their origin.  The reasoning for this was that they would 
probably be located somewhere incredibly secret, and their origin 
would be lost, shrouded in secrecy, confusion, etc....