Dominion of Epsilon

**Dev. Status** | Conceptualized

*"Leave your cares behind come with us and find*

*The pleasures of a journey to the center of the mind*

*Come along if you care*

*Come along if you dare*

*Take a ride to the land inside of your mind"*

-  "Journey to the Center of the Mind", the Amboy Dukes
The **Dominion of Epsilon** is the domain controlled by what was once the Epsilon Advanced Research Division, a top secret experimental science body within the Allied States that had come to expand and take control of many other advanced research divisions, planning their own conquests while seeming to serve as loyal members of the Allied States. But all while they seemed to be loyal and productive members of the Allies, they were constructing a great army backed by strange and exotic technology with never before seen methods of waging war; drawn from true believers in the ideals of the mysterious psychic known as Geoffrey, Allied forces who were disgruntled with the new path the Alliance was taking, or those who were simply indoctrinated or for the great majority, were simply created already loyal to Geoffrey. In the midst of the third world war, the Dominion planted a vicious dagger in the back of the Allies, and fought as their own contestant in the third world war; trading blows with the Comintern, the Alliance, the United Front, the Entente, the Reichspakt, and the Empire and its partners in crime.

At the end of the war, Epsilon had even threatened to control the minds of the entire planet with the Mental Omega device on Antarctica, only for a daring strike to put the weapon out of commission and forcing Epsilon to sue for peace before any of its enemies could focus upon it. Though officially only having de jure control over Anarctica, parts of the ocean floor and the under-earth, the Dominion has cells and bases all around the world to this day, concentrated in areas largely skipped over by the rest of the world such as well as numerous underwater or island bases and massive scale urabnisation of the Moon. Even with the foiling of its plans in the third world war, the Dominion yet lives to try for another grab at ultimate power.

## At a Glance

 **Motives** | World Domination, Human Ascension, Expansion of Religion

## Background

### The Shady Subordinates

Epsilon began quite humbly as an advanced military research division in the French Army that was meant to push the boundaries of what seemed to be possible. Originally meant to investigate paranormal phenomenon to see if there was any militarily useful data behind them, Epsilon made a break through when it analyzed the abilities of Tibetan monks, Indian gurus, and the most skilled of magicians. They came to the conclusion that psychic powers were real, and needed further investigation. And while they did get some research done in the 20s, it was with the ascension of Fuller and Edward's restoration in Britain that caused their funding to skyrocket. Virtually any strategic asset available to the Alliance would be utilized to the fullest in the crusade against Russo-Latino-American communism, and this would include even what was considered to be quackery not too long ago.

The man who would come to lead this project was a mysterious figure known as Geoffrey. A personal friend of Hubert Lyautey, the man; of apparently Transylvanian ancestry despite his French name and German accent, simply appeared from nowhere one day in Britain and integrated himself into Fuller's personal circle before his rise to power. Conferring extensively with an equally mysterious bald headed advisor by the name of Jacob; Geoffrey was in the perfect place to take over much of the Alliance's top secret research divisions once they were established. Unbeknownst to Fuller and the others, Geoffrey started to form a cult within the division, one that offered a path to enlightenment and human perfection.

He would form his own state within a state with other similarly mysterious figures who like him; simply appeared one day and managed to get on the good side of western European heads of state. These figures, Anca Albescu, Bashar al-Rashid, Lysandros, Dora Mendoza, Vlad Dracul, Omar Hussein, Attila Lakatos, Edina Sipos, Muhammed al-Addin, Pierre de Capet, Suarez Hernandez, Hannah Antionette, Horatio Nicolescu, and Aisha bin Assad and others would form the core of his Inner Circle, who would guide Epsilon to greater heights of research and glory as the years progressed. With their guidance, Epsilon went from a small research division into one of the largest and most powerful actors in the Alliance. A collection of fine men of thinking would gather to craft their vision of the Alliance.

Epsilon began to entangle other research divisions; arranged according to the Greek Alphabet, into itself as it expanded the scope and horizons of its research. Upsilon's studies into biology, Omega's electromagnetic research, Mu's seismology, Omicron's examination of unconventional energy phenomenon, and Sigma's advanced chemical warfare and more were all soon feeding into Epsilon. While some programs managed to evade Geoffrey's grasp, he still could claim to be providing much of the Alliance's most exotic capabilities. And when war did come in 1950, Epsilon's "battlefield experimentation" task forces were there in the thick of things to put into practice many of the Inner Circle and Geoffrey's ideas.

These task forces would acquire a ghoulish reputation for experimenting on POWs and occupied populations as well as an aura of dread for their strange and frightening weaponry. However, post-war Alliance secrecy made it hard for the enemies of the Alliance to determine the magnitude of whatever abuses Epsilon committed, and with the higher profile targets of Blackwatch to go after, it was rather easy for Epsilon to avoid a great deal of scrutiny. However, while they avoided the hammerfall that slammed many of Fuller's associates following his death, they would find that his replacement was significantly less amenable to their goals than he was.

### Keep Your Thoughts to Yourself

The new Chairman, Thornley; was not a personal friend of Geoffrey nor did he desire such friendship. And with most of Fuller's more secretive advisors purged, Geoffrey found his influence declining in the new alliance. He still got the funding he needed but scientists like Lydia Winters and militarymen like Bingham continually found their stars ascending at his expense, a state of affairs that Geoffrey would not long tolerate. Was it not Epsilon that made the Alliance great in the first place? Epsilon's plans would need to be altered and accelerated. Epsilon was not yet ready to launch a coup, Thornley's position was too strong and consolidated, but Epsilon had plenty of room to grow in the forgotten corners of the world, grants to work in the depths of the black forest, the lonely alps, frozen Antarctica, the searing Sahara and Arabian, the humid landscapes of the Amazon, and deep in the jungles of southeast Asia and the peaks of the Himalayas were used as an opportunity to build an army in secret.

Epsilon became even more insular, neither seeking out nor particularly wanting extensive contact with much of the rest of the Alliance save for recruitment, budget requests, and continuing to demonstrate why it was worth the Alliance's continued investment. This suited the growing cult that Epsilon was becoming, the Syndicate was godless and could never be expected to attain true enlightenment; the Union of Anti-Communists was overly focused on petty questions of economics and primitive tools of keeping control; the Confederacy of Nationalists moribound on "purging" their nations of communism. The Technocratic Combine? What could they know of true knowledge while they tinkered with children's toys? The Raj? A bloated creature eternally needing to stuff its belly to avoid starvation. The Pahits? Primitive amateurs who struggle against backwards insurgents. And the Contingent? A collection of weak political nonentities.

All around, they could see that the Alliance was spiritually weak. Their quest for material advantages had left in its place a poverty of the Psyche. And these moves towards liberalizing the Alliance? May as well be written surrender documents addressed to the anarchist rabble of the Comintern. The world had become too concerned with questions of the community, the individual, the nation, the bottom line, and when they looked to faith, they looked to faiths with an incomplete at best understanding of the metaphysical. After all, how can anyone claim to match the spiritual and mental achievements of Epsilon when Epsilon was advancing so far and fast in the fields of biology and psionics? And armed with this superiority of mind, soul, and body Epsilon; Geoffrey argued, would be the deliverers of the world from darkness and ignorance.

And so they grew, a malignant cancer in the very heart of the Alliance that dreamed of nothing less than complete world dominance. A world made up of not just men, but supermen; unified of thought and prepared for transcendance. All under a faith that saw Geoffrey as its prophet and messiah. The Alliance proceeded largely unaware of the threat to the entire world that was building underneath its very nose. Epsilon's deepset roots in the rest of the Alliance and its own nigh on impossibility to infiltrate let it build its army in peace. Alliance planners around the world counted on Epsilon formations to aid them in the war to come. And not one of them, not ACIN, not SPIDER, not anyone was aware of the magnitude of the danger.

Complexes big and small began to sprawl all over the forgotten corners of the Earth. A network of mysterious devices was spread across the globe wherever Epsilon was able to. Secret pacts were made with with all manner of terrorists, pirates, loose cannon mercenaries, and other malcontents to both addittional recruits and make new allies. As ever, Epsilon's allies in the Cult of Acorpion would provide whatever assistance they were able to. Particularly when it came to dealing with attentions from a mysterious religious order that seemed hellbent on thwarting Epsilon's plans. But soon all would be in place as Epsilon's army of fanatics, clones, creations, and mind controlled puppets marched off to war with the start of World War 3.

### Instant Chaos, Just Add Betrayal

At first all seemed normal with the war. With the Alliance advancing deep into the International in the face of increasingly stiffening defense in depth meant to draw them in for destruction. The Alliance advanced significantly farther than it did in the last war, though the International was counting on overstretch. A surprise entrance into the war by the Axis the Solar Empire had formed around itself briefly delayed Epsilon's timetables, but soon enought they planted the dagger deep into the Alliance's back. While the Majestica, Empire, League, and Guardians were unforeseen elements, the Inner Circle was confident that they would crush them as well. Aided by overt support from the World Liberation Army formed out of the malcontents they contacted and covertly by the Cult, the newly declared Dominion vowed to bring the world to its knees.

With an arsenal unlike anything else in the world and the advantage of surprise, Epsilon's emergence from its hidden bases and its carefully timed betrayals of the Alliance units they were paired with proved to be devastating; declaring the birth of what the outside world called the Co-Prosperity Sphere and what its members called the Brotherhood of Nod. What was once a war with cleanly dileneated frontlines became a shattered mess of engagements all over the world. Regions that were supposed to be far away from the frontlines suddenly came under devastating attack as the Axis Powers and the many members of the Brotherhood ran rampant. And indeed, Epsilon's forces acquired a fearful reputation as an army of monsters and ghouls with fiendish powers. The Alliance in particular suffered heavily from both having to fight an enemy they had never made plans to, was unfamiliar to them, and having lost all the assets represented by Epsilon while decapitation strikes tore into many of its core members.

Whole branches of Alliance research were closed off to the blue army as the purple legions of Geoffrey carved their way across the planet and numerous divisions were essentially wiped out in Epsilon's great betrayal. Geoffrey was hardly foolish enough to believe that any would have accepted his demand to surrender at once and join with him, but he and the Inner Circle were confident that the world could be theirs soon. However, the failure to anticipate the Axis' participation had lead to numerous costly engagements with the Axis Forces who upon realizing the magnitude of Geoffrey's threat, turned numerous forces over to deal with them. Furthermore, they failed to anticipate how quickly the Alliance and International would rally to fight them. With no one willing to surrender to the Brotherhood, Epsilon inexorably found its initial zeitgeist fading.

While major successes were had, and the Psychic Dominator network that drew so much initial fear proved to be a distraction for Epsilon's real plans that its enemies bought hook line, and sinker, the squeeze was increasingly put on the newfound Dominion. By the late stage of the war, even with successes (smashing or limited) like the raid on Kukuoka to take out many of the Axis' high commanders, the assault on Lisbon and the battle of Acapulco, Epsilon found itself confronted by enemy strength it could not overwhelm. But this would all be for naught if Epsilon managed to activate the Mental Omega, a device that could control the minds of the whole of the solar system and echo into the alters of the primary timeline, defeating all the enemies of Epsilon and the Brotherhood in the push of a button. All the Psychic Dominators and Beacons in the world were meant as a preliminary tactic before the unleashing of this, which would deliver Epsilon ultimate victory.

However, the Comintern forced an assault on the Antarctic Peninsula upon detecting the Mental Omega and landed a massive amphibious assault to destroy the device at any cost, creating a large enough breach in the Antarctic fortress for the rest of the world to bear down into the centre of Epsilon's madness. French Commander Antione Capet, American Marshal Elizabeth "Betty" Ross, and others would come to the floor of the world in a desperate twilight struggle. With battles still consuming the rest of the world, it was recognised that ultimately the fate of the human species would be decided here, in the one continent that humans had never inhabited before the modern age. Mighty superweapons such as the Paradox Engine, the Tenno Judicator, the Mobile Steel Veil and more descended to challenge the forces guarding Geoffrey's tower of babel. While Geoffrey sought to distract his enemies with a number of ploys farther to the North, culminating in a battle in Drakenhof in the benighted region of Cisylvania commanded by the man in person, Horowitz, Hajdu, Aries, Rahn, and others planned the defence of the Mental Omega device.

While Geoffrey was indeed victorious at Castle Yuristag, enabling him to effect his return to Antarctica, the Mental Omega would be heavily damaged by the sacrifice of the Paradox Engine (and the death of Ross) and then left unable to fully operate by a last minute combined Allied-Comintern strike force lead by Manning and Davidova after the former had finished overthrowing Thornley. With the Psychic Amplifier network that the Mental Omega device was designed to use deliberately and steadily targeted for reduction by Epsilon's enemies throughout the world, Epsilon's dreamed of unimind was incomplete, limited to where Epsilon still had territorial control and influence. Though Geoffrey would return, it was clear that his plan had not succeeded fully. They had power and established presences, but never again could they rise from the shadows to strike an unknowing world as they did before.

Their foes knew them now, and were prepared to counter their arsenal, and the Brotherhood, with the arrival of the prophecised green crystal from the stars, now had a new purpose to seek out and deal with. The first messiah, Kane, had emerged, and Geoffrey remained a faithful disciple of his teacher. Plans would change with purpose, and Epsilon, as one of the largest and most powerful members of the Sphere, or the Brotherhood as they preferred to call it, would have a very duty to fulfill. After twenty years of war, the world did indeed need peace, but it would never lose the need for one vision, and one purpose.

## Missionaries of Epsilon

*"There is a fundamental difference between the appeal of a mass movement and the appeal of a practical organization. The practical organization offers opportunities for self-advancement, and its appeal is mainly to self-interest. On the other hand, a mass movement, particularly in its active, revivalist phase, appeals not to those intent on bolstering and advancing a cherished self, but to those who crave to be rid of an unwanted self. A mass movement attracts and holds a following not because it can satisfy the desire for self-advancement, but because it can satisfy the passion for self-renunciation."*

- From *The True Believer* by Eric Hoffer
### Buildings

***"Geoffrey is master"***

-Ominous whispers heard inside a suspected Epsilon compound

### Superweapons

*"Be one with Geoffrey"*

- Psychic Dominator blast in effect

### Defenses

*"An open mind is like a fortress with its front door unbarred and unguarded."*

- - Unknown

### Advanced Defenses

*"The gates of heaven shall be closed to you."*

- - Unknown

### Infantry

*"Seekers of Enlightenment!"*

- Initiate Corneli

### Mutations

*"Come to papa!."*

-  Brute war cry

### Bio-beasts

*"He who fights monsters must make **damn** sure that he himself doesn't get feasted on by these freaks."*

-  Peacemaker Ladislaus Rasmussen

### Vampyrs

*"Behold, mankind's future!"*

-  Anonymous Vampyr

### Construction Vehicles

 File:IconYuri.png | Convert | The Convert is a means of setting up Missions which can spread the building zones of Epsilon and thus spread the word and the will of Geoffrey.

### Psi-Corps

*"Looks like you've had a bit too much to think!"*

- Adept Olimpia Vãduva, in a telepathic message to an Alliance commander