Whiteshield

Whitesheild, (also officially known as the Whitesheild Division Joint Special Threats Operation and "MI0" on paper) were a secret British post-war joint subdivision of MI5 and MI6 that operated throughout the 50's, 60's and 70's, whose main purpose was to, among other things, investigate unusual activity considered "paranormal", prevent the development of what was then considered highly top-secret fringe science technologies, particularly atomic technology, by foreign parties who wish to destabilise Britain and it's allies. Whitesheild operated within the functions of both domestic counterintelligence *and* foreign counterintelligence and allied with the United States' Division-S in some circumstances. It also secretly monitored a number of wars and battles during and after WWII for signs of advanced technology or superhuman activity. It was shut down in 1978 by unknown orders and all evidence of it's existence wiped.

### **History**

Whiteshield was thought to have been founded by biology genius scientist Dr Grant Thomas in the end of the 1940's, a gifted student of Oswald Avery whose work with proteins, cells and human life-sciences was brought the attention of the UK government, who at the time were heavily involved in the war efforts in Europe.

While much of the Secret Service's operations during WWII was focused on preventing Nazi Germany's completion of an atomic bomb, something the United States later accomplished against Japan, various sub-organisations related to Von Braun Industries, MI6 had reason to believe that the Nazis had somehow given legitimate superpowers to a British POW. Though the evidence and proof surrounding the stories, that became later known as the Case of Harding and Johnson, was never actually legitimised, Thomas' work concluded that it was possible to 'enhance' a human being using extremely complex chemical systems; which he proved by experimenting on his own body.

The result gave Thomas enhanced strength, durability and the ability to heal at an unprecedented rate, though he later admitted ", *since the experiments I have not felt... right. It took something from me and replaced it with a turbulence of heart I cannot explain. Scientifically, I assume it’s merely some kind of chemical imbalance, but I wouldn’t wish this upon anyone.*”

While the Ministry of Defence view his self-experiment as reckless, MI5 was interested in the use of his powers dealing with smaller criminal elements in Britain, and gave the go-ahead, with the Ministry's nod, to activate Whitesheild as a "cross-department operation" in the October of 1947.

One of Whiteshield's most controversial members at the time was 13-year-old Georgina Godfrey, who later became the super-spy known as the Vixen; the daughter of high-ranking secret-service officer Huw Godfrey, she was one of the United Kingdom's top, and youngest spies and tacticians and heir to a vast fortune, wanted to keep his daughter safe after suspecting her mother, communications transcriber Lowri, was secretly a Nazi spy, and ordered an investigation.

While no real evidence of Lowri as a spy was found, she was beyond offended and she filed for divorce quickly. Huw's paranoia, however didn't end there, and he trained his daughter, Georgina to become a fighter from an early age.