Factions

Each player character at APERIS is there as a member of one of nine Factions. These Factions are the few organisations that have full awareness of what is happening at APERIS. Each Faction has its own particular priorities, as well as a unique mixture of affinities and tensions with the other Factions.

Representatives of the North Atlantic Treaty Organisation, a political and military alliance of countries from Europe and North America.

The United States Antarctica Command (ANCOM) is a regimented and well-resourced armed naval task force, specialising in Antarctic deployments and responsible for logistics to American research bases on the continent.

The Geographic Research and Assessment for Imperial Lands Division (GRAIL) is a small but well-funded division of the British Secret Intelligence Service dedicated to environmental research and ecological surveillance.

The Bundesgeheimnissesamt (BGA) is an unconventional and underfunded German government department with a questionable track record.

Divisions of China and Russia's Joint Commission on Pseudoscience, dedicated to promoting scientific knowledge and countering the discrediting of science.

Unit 871 is the JCP’s internal elite branch unit, tasked with reducing the paranormal to material fact that can be explained by science and controlled by the state.

The 13th Independent Special Investigations Battalion (Unit 13) is a trap. Posing as a revolutionary occult militia, it infiltrates cults, occult forums, and other groups interested in the paranormal.

Representatives of the Global Environmentalist Network.

Sceau d'Or is an idealist, politically-neutral environmental charity based in Canada, advocating for oceanic ecology and responsible activism.

Terra Indomita is a radical environmentalist organisation, regarded by many as uncompromising eco-extremists and by others as the last true defenders of wilderness.

Groups otherwise unaffiliated with any particular coalition or government.

Petrogon is a powerful and widely-despised multi-national oil conglomerate.

The Society for the Preservation and Recovery of Historical Documentation (SPRHD) is a company and archive that works to ensure the preservation of information.