Faraday Unit

## Description:

Faraday Unit, also referred to as Turing Unit, Normal Company, and the "League of Mundane Gentlemen," was a British special forces unit founded by [REDACTED] in 1933 CE under orders of the British Parliament following rumors that the Nazis had begun a deep investigation into the paranormal. Faraday Unit maintained positive relations with its American and Soviet equivalents (CBPA and [REDACTED], accordingly) throughout the war, and actively fought the Fourth Reich into 1948 before being officially decommissioned; many of Faraday Unit's members went on to become Nazi hunters.

During its existence, the global public had no idea of Faraday Unit's activities or its members, although rumors of the Nazi paranormal inquiries and expeditions did get out over time. Records of Faraday Unit and its American and Soviet counterparts are still technically classified; the JPCU only has access to the Faraday Unit's information because Dr. Jason van Hellsing (operating under the alias of Jason Alexander Brenwood) was a founding member of the organization.

### Organization:

#### Headquarters: Canterbury, United Kingdom

Members of the League of Mundane Gentlemen each used the ranks they acquired in the standard military, although a military hierarchy was not adhered to. Due to the nature of their missions and the stakes at which they operated, squad composition was determined by the skills required by a particular mission as opposed to official standard; rumors within the group - rumors that persist even to this day - claimed that the group was run by the Knights of the Round Table, headed by King Arthur himself. No confirmation of these rumors has come to light as of the time of writing. Officially, the group was led by Captain [REDACTED], who supposedly answered to the Crown and Parliament directly; all other members of the group, regardless of public rank, social status, or original occupation were considered equal in rank below Captain [REDACTED].

During its existence, Normal Company recruited its members from the brightest minds in the United Kingdom, employing magic experts, occultists, mages and wizards, scholars, archeologists, etc. alongside well-trained and loyal special forces drawn from the mundane armed forces. Recruitment was voluntary, but no one turned down the offer. Members were given training in Magic, granted access to the UK's stockpile of magical and anomalous items and objects, and trained to counter the Nazi's pseudosciences and Magic. Faraday Unit was known to incorporate anomalous individuals from the United Kingdom into its ranks, offering education, payment, freedom, and recognition if the powered members accomplished their missions properly.

Turing Unit was dedicated to countering and sabotaging the Fourth Reich and its affiliate organizations' efforts to acquire or understand Magic or anomalous entities/objects. Although mankind's understanding of Magic was rudimentary at the time, Turing Unit worked to improve that understanding while also denying the Nazis their previous materials. Undercover operations, sabotage, infiltration and espionage, and covert operations made up the bulk of Turing Unit's existence.

Faraday Unit did not exist at the same time as the JPCU, having existed almost forty (40) years prior to the JPCU, but featured many of the original JPCU founders (including Dr. Jason van Hellsing) and Sir Reginald Bostonbrook, Dr. Nathaniel Bostonbrook's great-great-grandfather. The JPCU would integrate many of the ideas, techniques, and philosophies of Faraday Unit into its own organization, considering itself a spiritual successor.

#### List of Known Members:

1. Dr. Jason van Hellsing
2. Sir Reginald Bostonbrook
3. Josef, Golem of Prague
4. [EXPUNGED]
5. Prof. Anne-Sophie Arceneaux

### Equipment:

The League of Mundane Gentlemen wore uniforms standard to the British paratroopers at the time, a choice made to prevent easy identification of Faraday Unit members should they die on landing or be captured. Faraday Unit, like most militaries of the time, did not wear much armor; few of its members opted to wear the standard-issue helmets as they were believed to be too unwieldy and loud.

The technological capabilities of Normal Company were believed to match those of the United Kingdom during World War II, which also put them behind the Fourth Reich, who had access to incredibly ancient technology of [REDACTED], [REDACTED], and [REDACTED] make.

The magical abilities of Turing Unit were relatively minimal at first, despite their singular goal being the denial of Magic to the Third and Fourth Reich. As the war progressed, however, its members steadily came to understand the forces with which the Nazis were dealing, including Demons, Genies, Elemental energies, a strange energy source the Nazis called "Vril," and other supernatural forces. By the war's end, many of Turing Unit's original members were either dead, Missing In Action (MIA), powerful mages, or irredeemably insane; often, a mix of the aforementioned features expressed themselves in original members, with a few notable exceptions (*Note: Operation: Birdcage was conducted by [REDACTED] in the 1950's to attempt to find and reclaim MIA members of Faraday Unit; almost none of the Operation's intended targets were recovered*).

### Operations Undertaken by Faraday Unit:

1. [REDACTED]
2. Operation: Gravedigger
3. Operation: Clerical Error (1946)
4. Operation: Birdcage (1946--1948)
5. [DATA EXPUNGED]