Black Velvet

The **Black Velvet** is the Monterisso's confidential espionage faction; largely composing of highly skilled, and attractive female nevian athletic women. It is funded by Mother Magdalene and Amalas Garde takes full responsibility as the leader.

It has been repeatedly mentioned in some occasions. PROJECT even took note of their resilience against their rule.

## Structure

The Black Velvet functions like a special operations regiment of a military, usually because most of their missions consists of espionage, infiltration, deception and sometimes typical warfare. Also, most agents are sent usually with light infiltration squads rather than a platoon or a fire team. In fact, they barely had casualties when joining military operations. Also, they get paid exceptionally when they do there job very well, and they are treated fairly, no biases or extra treatment as a compensation for their authoritative life.

The Women chosen are invited through a variety of ways; Although abducting or conscripting is the standard procedure. After passing the so called "interview" they are put through strenuous daily training, including hand to hand combat training, acrobatics, weapons training, espionage, deception and tactical skills. Occasionally two women are chosen to spar against each other; weakness is not tolerated and the loser is knocked out by the opponent. Also, the *mandatory* test for measuring a woman's durability through punching or kicking their stomach 5-10 times, if less than five is what the recruit can handle, they are cast aside, but if they absorbed at least five, it's accepted. Also, they are required to practice ballet, to further enhance flexibility.

Inside Magdalene's castle on Monterisso, the headquarters of the faction; All female trainees lived on a controlled, authoritative lifestyle. Taught with standard values and manner; As well as the *Five Virtues*: Obedience, Humbleness, Sentimentality, Forthcoming, Cooperation, Fitness, Efficiency and Loyalty. The trainees are expected to avoid the *Four Vices*, consisting of Ego, Anger, Jealousy and Treason. Sasha Galloway is a notable practitioner of the four vices.

The "Graduation Ceremony", which takes place after the agents have successfully passed a series of physical and mental tests, involves the adult/young adult women being forcefully sterilized. Removing their ability to bear children, supposedly makes the Black Velvet graduates better killers; they never have to experience such weakness as worrying more about a family than their mission, though Rachelle Palmer, Amalas Garde, Jade Saraya and Catherine Nexima are the only ones to not bear the standard semi-brainwashing that average members have.

### Members

* Magdalene Velveteen - Founder
* Sergei Rubicon - Shareholder
* Rachelle Palmer - Senior Operative
* Amalas Garde - Senior Operative
* Seyrhona Bruhka - Senior Operative
* Catherine Nexima - Senior Operative
* Jade Saraya - Senior Operative
* Yvon Altyna
* Megan Springs
* Cassandra Collins
* Saki Urai
* Amanda Rose
* Melanie Dawkins
* Samantha Bishop
* Trisha Valerie
* Nikki Colace
* Yassi Scott
* Leah Warren
* Dana Baldwin
* Sasha Galloway
* Alice Backlund

## Vehicles and Weaponry

### Ground Vehicles

* Kisaragi OBSIDIAN
* NINJA 078

### Equipment

#### Uniforms

The Black Velvet agents are wearing a two-piece, fireproof flight suits with a Rubicon Ultraspec camouflage that has it's design inspired from the one piece suits worn by Aerospace Panamoan Air Force as a standard. However, these are only worn when in not engaging in their covert operations.

Agents/Assassins and spies on the field are required to wear a Black Velvet suit, that is actually a special, fireproof, tear-proof, flexible and skintight catsuit when doing the task of their missions. They are black, and dark indigo leather intricate combat catsuits that are zipped up the front with a Nevium zipper and had leather, hi-tech gloves with a greyish black Black Velvet logo on the shoulders. It had two belts, one of which was a body-hugging waist belt on it and the other serving as a utility belt. It also had a thigh holster and pouches.

The catsuits are only worn when the female agent has a waist line of at least 28 (and if the woman has a svelte figure or voluptuous figure), and are concealed through normal clothing, then discarding the clothes in order to engage.

##### Paraphernalia

**Black Velvet** assassins are equipped with state-of-the-art paraphernalia to aid them in their intense espionage, infiltration and assassination operations at hand. Agents on the other hand are more akin to police in terms of daily equipment they carry.

* **Retractable Grappling Hooks**: Agents, assassins or spies are equipped with a retractable grappling hook, that can launch the user to the destination with a 200 meter long cable made from Nevium nanofibres. It is mounted on both wrists, though it is easily concealed when not in use. It can also be used as wrist plate for deflecting blade attacks.

* **Hi-Tech Gloves**: Gloves that are capable of using smartphones by touch, and able to bypass security scanners, scan multiple objects with ease. It can also grow knuckle padding to enhance melee strikes and avoid fracturing the hand while hitting the assailant hard.

* **Miniaturised Flash Grenades**: Circular, flash grenades are located on the rear pouch of the assassin/agent's catsuit. It will activate when thrown to a flat surface to disorient the enemy with high-powered artificial smoke.

* **Ultrasonic Tasers**: Retractable tasers are mounted beside the grappling hooks. They deliver a charge of 300K volts per accurate shot; Enough to disable and injure any type of assailant, regardless of size and build; Though actually useless to Nevian Alphas such as Wolf. It can be also used as a defibrillator to any unconscious individual.

* **Daggers**: A pair of Daggers are concealed on the upper portion of the suit's boots, and from the left or right thigh of the user's suit. They are used for stealth takedowns, kills and last resort weapons.

#### Personal Protection

When a large scale conflict ruins their covert operations, they can request to utilize a high tech armor. The standard field combat suits would be adorned with several pieces of Nevium fibre strips on its shoulders and frontal torso. Multiple FDE harnesses, straps, and holsters were also wrapped around each user. Their gloves and boots had a mechanism that allowed the wearer to adhere to and scale walls to a greater degree than without the suit. The boots also had small claws on the toes, meant to enhance kicks in unarmed combat. All of this gear was peaked with a creepy looking Vindicator helmet with purple goggles serving as a high tech visor.

## Trivia

### General

* Monterisso is the central location of their headquarters. PROJECT was unable to seize it, fortunately.
* Though they are sterilised, they still have freedom to enjoy their lives. Which was always promised and proven by the recruiters.
* They live through an authoritarian lifestyle, though not the same case when they are already experienced members on the field.
* The Black Velvet merged with COALESCENCE during the *PROJECT-G/NEX War*, and seemingly disbanded at the end of the war, leaving their legacy lost in Monterisso.
* The only reason they keep Sasha Galloway is due to her suspicious activities and sloppy fighting skills that can be exploited with ease to avoid their attention from galactic-level media.
* No one is killed in training to compensate for their sudden abduction, Especially those who are not conscripted.
* Due to their exceptional skills, the faction has been picked up by the Galactic Republic as a covert operations division at some point.
* More than 90% of the member's parents agree to their allegiance and membership to the program.

### Developmental Notes

* This faction is only a plot device.
* They are disbanded since 2915. Since then, Monterisso relies on their local agency for security.
* The Black Velvet has a rich arsenal of spy gadgets and firearms.