VALER

VALER are a privately-funded organisation of superpowered and exceptionally gifted people dedicated to security, investigation and rescue on a local and global level as well as having other specialized sub-agencies within related to the work they may do.

While having reach in other nations as what is essentially an organisation of mercenaries on behalf of various agencies, the group are classified as a counter-terrorism operation, and try to also act as security for the entire Eastern Seaboard of the US against superhuman and advanced threats the Police and Military cannot handle, against enhanced terrorist organisations and groups that threaten the integrity and social order of nations on a large scale.

They often engage with various sects of Redemption, The Harbingers the Federal Minutemen, Riot and the Proudbloods, the many variants of Honour-Watch, as well as being a thorn in the side of Crowe and Theo's attempts of world domination and immortality, the Skorps, and the return of the Legion of Disciples in the form of the Disciples of Leviathan, and the ever present threat of Black Labs and their Agents; in particular Trivium who has a personal vendetta against the group.

The organisation is rivalled by S.T.A.R. Force on the Western Shore who claim VALER are too reckless and militant and act too much like a business despite Anri, Robin and Ellie doing charity work often while VALER claim that S.T.A.R Force are too soft on criminals.

Like S.T.A.R. Force VALER is not a government agency and has made significant work in keeping out government and military interference, though it does aid the government and various military and police organisations, is strongly insistent they remain both politically and militarily neutral.

Unlike S.T.A.R. VALER try to not use the word 'superhero' to describe what they do, while the organisation does possess a high number of superhumans, it's goal is to aid in security and liberty and justice in the same manner any government or military agency would, and every member of VALER has a variety of opinions and ideals into what that is; as such VALER prides itself in being a fair and wide-casted net of people, each one bringing something different to the organisation.

### **History**

Named after the five main active members of the organisation; Volt, Anri, Leo, Elliot and Robin as a play on the word "Valour", the organisation was founded in early 2014 by Volt's grandmother Patricia "Skyren" Cannon, Elliot's father Clay and funded by Dylan Ostium via Ostium Bank and legally supported by the Ostium Law Enterprises firm.

Originally to be named Maverick Services International; after Volt's old security business venture with Fantom, Mynx (now deceased) and Gyzmo in New York City, however opted to name the organisation after the main members, the group are sometimes referred to as "*The Valour Organisation*" in writing or sometimes "*Organisation V*" especially by Volt who is often overjoyed that his codename is first.

In the spring of 2014 VALER's first active mission was to stop a riot in Charlotte, arresting Ox, Muck and Match, while Sim and Pip surrendered, faced trial and were eventually freed a few months later.

Their first overseas operation started quickly in that same year and saw tactical and security work in cooperation with government police forces and national guard of various nations, particularly in the US and Europe; they acted as a peacekeeping force during Crimea's Annexing in late 2014; these were especially important to VALER as Clayton possessed a large mine and smelting facility there and a contract with the Crimean Republic that was essential in helping build VALER's later infrastructure; facing Russian invasion would push his facility into Russian hands. While ordered to pull out when politics got in the way and the US refused to send in their own army for Clay, the group were left to defend the facility during Russia's push into the peninsula, and Slava Rossii were sent to remove VALER from what was fast becoming their territory. While Clay managed to move a degree of the remaining material (including a small but extremely valuable deposit of Kinzium) and expensive equipment, a lot was left and rather it fall into Russian hands, Clay and VALER destroyed the facility before pulling out, marking the mission was a technical failure but ensuring the precious material was theirs.

During these manoeuvres, Dylan allowed several American CIA agents to infiltrate Crimea and ascertain if the Russians were really after what they called an "enhanced combatant project" that had supposedly been created to battle against the Russian annexation of the region.

In early 2015 Slava Rossii infiltrated the US, and in an attempt to hack the Pentagon in Washington, Bora distracted VALER while Voin attempted to hack the Pentagon from an Apple store in a shopping mall, while VALER showed up at the mall, other Slava Rossii members attacked the VALER building, though were fought back thanks to Anri and Robin. Bora was caught and sent to Tartarus while the others got away with important information. Annoyed, the US Government worked briefly with VALER to increase cyber security.

In early 2016 Cerice and some her old contacts led an extraction of an ex-US Army group, 142nd Division, in Venezuela were wrongly accused of helping local rebellion by the Venezuelans after their US instillation to be overrun by the group, known as The Caudillo Reclamation, who were known anti-American and anti-immigration, and who wanted to reclaim the area as their own. The 142nd were mostly killed in the invasion and the US government were accused of leaving them all for dead, with an extraction not worth their time or effort. After they fled they were placed under bounties for local Hunter factions; when Cerice struck a deal (That Volt suggested may have been sexual in nature) with some of these individuals, one of them Juan Bravo who was in the country at the time selling weapons, she managed to extract the group and employ them as VALER's own militia Unit Zero (known by Cerice as the Gunstars).

While in South America, and with backup, Clay also asked Cerice and Unit Zero to look for a potential Mezzite and what Clay called Kinzium, an extremely rare, exotic metal; the group discovered that the site had already been raided by Sidewinder's group.

In that year Volt, Robin, Drath and Cerice were sent to investigate strange activity in Mexico during the Day of the Dead where Robin discovered an unskilled magi using strange cards that were powerful relics that unfortunately killed her, and ended up fighting Winter from the House of Seasons who also wanted the cards. The cards were contained and locked away by Robin before he House succeeded in taking them.

In late 2017 Volt, Elliot and Anri faced off against the Starr Siblings, GroundStarr, DayStarr and MindStarr, when GroundStarr destroyed much of downtown Harrisburg after a parade by the Proud Boys and the Federal Minutemen, killing hundreds in the process and claiming to be 'superheroes' saving the world from far-right extremism. However their recklessness forced VALER to act and fight the three until they were subdued and a US Army SCRT arrived to take them to Tartarus, however during transfer GroundStarr's sedation wore off quicker than expected and he escaped, freeing DayStarr while their younger brother was taken away. During an interview with Mindstarr he claimed that their father, Jack Starr "The Jackster" was a former mob boss who became part of the Minutemen.

Later that night the VALER HQ was attacked by DayStarr who managed to download a communique of the transport of MindStarr, and in the early morning and tracked it's location, sending it to GroundStarr who then attacked a small hidden airfield near Wilkes-Barre where he was joined later by his sister. Together they freed MindStarr from a plane as Volt showed up, but instead of fighting GroundStarr and his siblings fled. While Volt attempted to track them, Anri helped the soldiers at the base as much as he could.

In early 2018 Theo contacted VALER to offer a favour; to help capture what he called "rebots"; experimental robotic drones capable of assimilating technology and altering their form to resemble said tech, that had escaped a lab near the city of Cheyenne in Wyoming and causing chaos. He wanted VALER to shut down the machines before StarForce traced it back to him. While at first the group denied Theo's request, telling him that if StarForce found that he made these machines, that was his problem. Theo, however, explained that if VALER didn't stop them personally, they would detonate with tremendous explosive force; The machines were based on stolen CORE technology developed by Robin and only Robin's cores had the ability to stop them. Furious, and believing it was a trick to steal the core marbles themselves or further updated information and data about CORE systems, Robin initially refused. But when the rebots began getting bigger and more complex, the team decided to dispatch them before StarForce were notified.

The team destroyed several of the machines alongside ASC units, much to the group's annoyance, but were met by StarForce's Aquila, Gunblane, Tern, Wyre and Wrathfire.

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### **Composition**

The main financial and infrastructural operations are maintained by Dylan and Clay respectively, but only the main five can make final decisions on missions.