Operation Albion

"Operation Albion was a multi-national mission drawing talented personnel from several countries -- France, Holland, Canada, the United States -- but the bulk of the squad were made up of British SAS soldiers. They made up the core of the team code-named Black Knight, with eight men broken up into four smaller teams and paired up with men from foreign countries. Each of these teams were supplemented with commissioned soldiers who were also agents with the Directory." --Desperate Measures
==The Mission==
The mission was to locate and recover a variety of magical "relics" (or artefacts) from locations worldwide.
The official word is that the missions to recover these relics failed, but the relics were stolen by the members of the team sent to recover them, or they were stockpiled.
The missions were suicidal, but some people survived and worked to get into advantageous positions, or disappeared.
==People Involved==
A specialist British SAS team was put together to do the missions, which was code named Black Knight. Known members of Black Knight are:
*Uther Pendragon
*Balinor Emrys
*Kilgarrah
*Mandrake
*Olaf Niedermann
*Solomon Bayard
*William Aulfric
*Robert Daly
*Zachariah Knucker (Adam West)
==Time Line==
Operation Albion already started during World War II (1939-1945), when it was the Axis Powers' sorcerers against Nazi-German sorcererers as seen by the notes that Arthur got from Hunith in Desperate Measures.
The war that Uther, Balinor and the rest of the gang were active soldiers in (and presumably hunting for magic relics, too) was the Vietnam War (1955-1975), though. (Footloose said this on tumblr a while back). (let me see if i can still find the link to that - christina) 
(ok, so i couldn't find where she said it, but i distictly remember that it was said because i had a nice, little theory and then it all crashed and burned because THE WAR they always talked about wasn't WWII, but the Vietnam War. aaaand i felt pretty embarrassed about it. so. uhm. here's the post. god, it does feel weird to link to it here. but uhm. ok. FOR SCIENCE. x) 
"Almost thirty years ago, Uther Pendragon was a member of a team of soldiers hand-picked by the British government to participate in a highly classified mission. It was an international team that travelled the world and executed incursions into enemy territory with a single objective: to locate and recover artefacts. " -Desperate Measures
==The Relics==
The Relics are magical objects, and could take many shapes, such as a knot, stone, cup, orb, trident. They were going to be used to turn the power of the Old Religion into a weapon.