Updated: 15 August 1998
The New World Order
In 1894, the fledgling Technocracy attempted a coup in Paris through the Syndicate Convention: The Project ''Face/Face'' was decided as an experiment, to see if it was possible to eliminate two Supernatural groups by making one attack the other.
The Vampire group of undead sorcerers known as the Tremere and the Order of Hermes were known to be enemies since the Dark Ages, and each was thought to be influencial within their own supernatural group. If each was to believe (rightly) they have been attacked without justification, retributions and retaliations would quickly raise the violence and drag the whole supernatural community in the war.
The problem is that lack of information about the Kindred lead this war to a failure: The ultra-powerful Elders soon discovered the Syndicate's involvement. The war stopped as if it never had happened.
Disbelief, and soon panic appeared within the Technocratic bureaucracy: Something was up, and they had still to discover what.
Eleven years after the war, the State decided separation with the Church, thus weakening the Inquisition, which had been used by the Technocracy as scapegoats. The french New World Order leaders slept better until the Paradigm they had helped construct (and which had problems of consistancy) was disrupted by new discoveries. While Einstein's discoveries were enabled by the Ivory Tower, the ''school of Coppenhagen'', scientists who believed outrageous theories that founded the Quantum Theory, introduced statistics and probabilities that threatened the balance of the consensual Reality at the moleculary level. The Technocracy saw the Sons of Ether behind this, but soon realized the colossal amount of financial resources couldn't come from those old ''frankenstein freaks''. In the same time, their contacts with the intelligence of the french gouvernment was cut down, and the ''advisors'' who were to influence the french gouvernement disappeared, sending waves of unbelief, outrage and fear in the World Advisory Council:
The Vampires'influence had been largely underestimated.
Since then, the whole process to take the control of France was deeply changed. Passive Moles were slowly installed not far from key positions, and were to direct information to the new French Advisory Council.
Project: Cercueil (Coffin)
The definition of the mission of the D.C.R.G. in 1951 was in part due to subtle manipulation by the New World Order. Installing passive moles within the R.G. administration, it enabled them to collect normal and even sensible information, which proved their new approach of the french problem was right. Combining it with more orthodox information sources, they learned a faction of the Vampires calling themselves with the ridiculous name Toreador (probably to hide their true faction's name because it could give some sensible information about a possible weakness) were gouverning France. It was even believed they tried a similar masses conversion by using art they helped produce.
For now, the Project Cercueil is a success, and the Ivory Tower is pushing for more active action against the french Vampires. But the French Advisory Council, seeing some of their subtle manipulation fail completly, believe the Vampires have some way to manipulate mortals no matter the Procedure used by the Technocracy (Note from the Author: It is due, in great part, to the 6+level powers of Presence and Dominate, which can cancel all vulgar and most coincidental Technomancer Procedures).
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Project: Corbeau (Raven)
The other project is more insidious. Since the Napoleonic years, France created special schools to fill its needs in the administration, army, ingeneering, etc.. The New World Order infiltrated such schools, the principal being the E.N.A. (Ecole Nationale d'Administration / National School of Administration), created in 1945. In less than 40 years, most french politician graduated from one of these schools. And most french Haut Fonctionnaire (High Administrator, who have the responsibility of the functionning of most french administrations) came, too, from one of these schools.
The New World Order, unable to use the Intelligence Service resources to reach its aims, thus succeeded in controlling the french administration by the control of a significant part of the Enarques (Those who graduated from the E.N.A.). The problem is that the french Kindred want to keep the control over France, and thus actively search the most influencal Haut Fonctionnaires as well as politicians to control them through Presence, Dominate and/or Blood Bond (or simple blackmail). And as the supernatural influence of the Kindred is very powerful, it usually overwhelms the conditionning of the New World Order...
Still, Project Corbeau is considered a success.
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