MAJESTIC-12

Majestic-12 (also called MAJESTIC, MAJESTIC-12, MJ-12, or Majestic) was a counter-occult organisation of the United States federal government from 1947 until its fiery dissolution in 2001, wherein the former members of the organisation split into the renewed Delta Green, March Industries and many other smaller groups. Majestic, in contrast to their rivals/enemies in Delta Green proper, was infamous for its willingness to explore and study the unnatural towards their own ends, rather than simply destroy it.

## History

### Foundation

On June 24th, 1947, an alien spacecraft crash-landed in the vicinity of Roswell, New Mexico. President Truman ordered the creation of a special, secret unit in order to investigate, cover up and study the crash and the recovered spacecraft - and its sole surviving inhabitant, a 'Grey'. This unit, raised as part of Operation MAJESTIC, was called the 'MAJESTIC-12 Special Studies Unit' of the National Security Council. Many agents of the now-dissolved Delta Green signed onto the new organisation, but pressure from those who did not resulted in Delta Green itself being reconstituted as an inter-service military intelligence unit with the unofficial mandate of aiding Majestic in covering up alien technology and denying it to America's enemies.

The two organisations were intended to work in parallel, but the recalled members of Delta Green were well aware that flying saucers were not the only unnatural threats to human civilisation and were far more interested in countering those older threats than chasing saucers. For six years the two groups worked in forced cooperation until in 1953 the two groups were official separated, with Majestic being given full remit over all UFO-related incidents and Delta Green released to focus on their older enemies. The two groups could not have been happier with the decision, each seeing the other as a burden on the *real* mission.

### Segregated Twins

Following the official split from Delta Green in 1953, Majestic renewed its focus on investigating and researching the apparent alien threat to Earth. Key to this effort was the 'Bucket', the recovered Roswell craft which survived its crash almost entirely intact. The sole survivor recovered from the crash was cooperative, but too alien in nature and disposition to grant any useful intelligence. The study of the craft was the main backbone of Majestic research efforts until the destruction of the Bucket in the disastrous Operation REDLIGHT in 1972, but despite Majestic throwing the best talent of America's scientific community at it the operation and composition of the Bucket remained entirely beyond Majestic's understanding. Apparently miraculous technologies, such as gravity-projecting glyphs and armour incapable of being penetrated even by nuclear warheads, baffled the best minds of Majestic. Furthermore exposure to the Bucket, especially of the gravity-glyphs had disastrous effects on the human mind. By 1960 more than three dozen scientists were killed, committed suicide or rendered mentally incompentent after prolonged study of the Bucket.

Despite the similarities of their missions, Majestic and Delta Green remained nearly entirely segregated in their operations. Neither truly trusted the other or their attitude towards the unnatural, with Majestic viewing Delta Green's 'search and destroy' mission as little more than modern-day bookburning that threatened to undermine mankind's greatest opportunity for advancement since the discovery of fire.

Majestic had greater success in the detection of extraterrestrial signals, in particular detecting a large number of clearly artificial signals eminating from the Moon and beyond. After being briefed on these findings in 1961, President Kennedy approved of large expansions in Majestic's budget, and announced his support for manned missions to be sent to the Moon to investigate these signals.

### Blurring Lines

On November 22nd, 1963, President Kennedy was assassinated in Dallas. For the first time since their formation the leadership of Majestic-12 elected not to disclose their existence to the sitting President, choosing instead to wait for new discoveries or news before they would brief President Johnson. After this point Majestic would no longer disclose their existence to the President without developments to report.

During this period Majestic's operations took on a slow 'mission creep'. Initially intended to be purely extraterrestrial in nature, gradually Majestic would take on more and more operations dealing with terrestrial airspace, and then on land itself. On May 6th, 1966 an Air Force F-4 Phantom was destroyed by a "fast RADAR target" and, after awakening from a coma weeks later, the pilot would kill four before being subdued. MAJESTIC would cover up the incident, and the alien creature that was growing in the pilot's chest was recovered for study.

In 1970, Delta Green would embark upon Operation OBSIDIAN, a cross-border raid from South Vietnam into Cambodia. The operation was a collosal failure and alerted the Viet Cong to the possibility of an invasion from South Vietnam, leading them to entrech heavily. When the Army crossed the border as part of an unrelated mission they found their enemy well-prepared and were repelled in a humiliating defeat. Within the high echelons of the US military blame was passed back and forth, until the Joint Chiefs of Staff laid the entire debacle at the feet of Delta Green. President Nixon ordered Delta Green dissolved and their operations taken over by Majestic.

Thus Majestic became the sole official counter-occult organisation of the US government. Many former Delta Green personnel were offered the chance to join Majestic, though few would agree. Majestic quickly became aware that the former Delta Green agents were unofficially running their own operations in opposition to their official stand-down. Majestic leadership decided to passively tolerate these efforts. So long as Delta Green stayed out of their way, the old-guard agents could continue to play soldier.

Majestic would continue to track extraterrestrial signals during this period, gradually narrowing in on the reality. On March 23rd, 1978 they would find it.

### Greys and the Accord

On March 23rd, 1978, Project AQUARIUS, an NSA deep-space monitoring program that was run by Majestic, made contact with the rest of Grey civilisation on the moon. A program to negotiate with the Greys, Project PLUTO, was begun.

In just over two years PLUTO would yield its results. On October 31st, 1980, the first face-to-face meeting between humanity and the Greys was held and the survivor of the Roswell crash returned to them. The Greys presented their terms for a treaty with Majestic and, as a sign of good faith, two documents to prove that they were the benevolent aliens they claimed to be: the Cookbook and the Report

Majestic worked frantically to verify these documents. The Cookbook claimed to be an exhaustive treatise on the human body and how to manipulate it, offering everything from the reality of the working of the human brain to chemical formulas that could do anything from extending the human lifespan to ending it in the most painful way possible. Testing the Cookbook would take decades, but initial testing showed that the Greys were as good as their words in their mastery of the human body. To the more conventionally-minded of Majestic, it was the Report that was the real gem of the Greys. The Report was an exhaustive breakdown on the arms and armaments of every military force on the planet, ranging from the inner workings of the closed Soviet military bases to the rusted old AK-47 being lugged about by insurgents in Latin America.

On February 6th, 1981, after briefing President Reagan, the Accord was ratified by Majestic. In exchange for covering up their activities on Earth and in space, the Greys would provide regular updates to the Report and technological aid. Majestic was suspicious of the Grey's motives for this seemingly benevolent patronage, but the value of their aid was so great that such concerns were ignored.

The partnership with the Greys was not as equal as Majestic had first believed. The aliens were good to their word on regular updates to the Report and aid in deciphering the Cookbook, amidst other technological aid, but were not content to merely remain in orbit. In mid-1984 Majestic received reports of hundreds of abductions, whose victims remembered strange tests, surgical modifications and other odd events. These abductions were outside the scope of the Accord, but when Majestic contacted the Greys to discuss these events they were informed curtly that the abductions would continue and that Majestic would help cover them up or the Accord would end. Without recourse, Majestic agreed to do so.

Thus, Majestic became the enforcement arm of the Greys. In exchange for the valuable crumbs of technology which the Greys would leak to Majestic, operatives were put to work silencing abductees through means legal or otherwise and covering up all evidence that the Greys were interfering with the world. If the 'leaks' refused to be plugged by bribes or threats, then NRO Delta teams were sent in to 'plug' them. Whenever the interests of the Greys and the US government clashed, Majestic was compelled to take the side of the Greys. As Presidents became increasingly wary of allowing the abduction and murder of American citizens, Majestic tightened how much information was allowed to pass upwards to their nominal controllers.

In 1992, following the departure of President George H. W. Bush from the White House, the Majestic leadership decided that the Accord was too valuable to risk a President tearing it up because they were too soft to sacrifice a few lives in the name of the greater good. They decided that President Clinton, and all his successors, would not be briefed on either the existence or operations of Majestic until they deemed it appropriate.

### War with Delta Green and the 'Cargo Cult'

In 1994, Major-General Reginald Fairfield, the unofficial head of the cowboy Delta Green became aware of the Accord and threatened to go public with it. Such an act could not be tolerated and the General proved unwilling to be cowed by bribes or legal threats. An NRO Delta kill team was dispatched. The General was assassinated in his home and the act spinned as a natural death by heart attack. Some in Majestic believed that to be the end of Delta Green. However, whilst much reduced, Delta Green was resilient. Joseph Camp, a Delta Green veteran reorganised Delta Green into a cell-based conspiracy in order to both survive and fight back against Majestic.

Thus began a tit-for-tat war with Delta Green. The conspiracy would trip up Majestic operations with unexpected press, or by quietly directing law enforcement to 'stumble' onto their operatives at the worst moment. In return Majestic would assassinate known and suspected Delta Green operatives and friendlies.

Whilst annoying, Delta Green was never an existential threat to Majestic as an organisation. Majestic, despite having quietly gone rogue from official chains of command, was still a sanctioned body of the US government and armed with both tremendous funding and legal authority. Majestic had hooks in every organ of the federal government and had material resources and technology far beyond anything that Delta Green could scrape together. However the threat lay not towards the organisation, but towards the Accord in particular.

Some within Majestic began to grow concerned with their direction during this time. Delta Green had once been an ally - if a misguided one - and yet at the direction of the Greys they had become enemies. Even within the highest levels of Majestic a growing awareness was taking root that they were serving an alien agenda which they did not understand, but were too fearful as to the consequences to dare renegotiate or repudiate. Without oversight to keep them in check, Majestic had grown into a tumour buried within the US federal government - a tiny bubble beyond legal consequence and capable of bribing their way out of any situation with alien technology they barely understood, if they understood it *at all*. More than a few would call this Majestic a 'cargo cult' for the Greys and their miraculous technology, in the same vein as the isolated societies of the south Pacific would turn to worship of the radios and wreckage of planes that washed up on their shores.

This clique of dissenters was ruthlessly kept far away from the levers of power within Majestic. Assassinations of those who grew too obvious in their discontent was not uncommon.

The 'war' with Delta Green was never more than a sideshow for Majestic, which continued their real mission unabated. However those within Majestic began to see the Delta Green attacks as an opportunity. The head of Majestic's counter-intelligence division, Gavin Ross, plotted to turn Delta Green into a weapon with which to purge Majestic of his rivals. Forrest James, a former Delta Green operative on the run, was recruited by Ross and inserted into A-Cell over the objections of Camp. Camp withdrew from day-to-day operations, leaving James - and thus Ross - in charge of the conspiracy's operations. Armed with a perfectly deniable measure with which to purge his enemies, Ross prepared to take full control over Majestic.

### The Fall of Majestic

As Ross prepared to purge Majestic, his enemies beat him to the punch. Sensing danger Adolph Lepus, the head of NRO Delta, launched a putsch. Facility-12, where Kroft and other senior Majestic personnel were evacuated to, was destroyed by a nuclear device, throwing Majestic into chaos. Lepus and his NRO Delta soldiers forcibly purged the organisation of his enemies, taking supreme control over Majestic. Lepus intended to consolidate his power by finally cleaning up Delta Green, baiting Camp to an ambush at the Fairfield Pond in Vermont.

However Camp would turn the tables on Lepus. The details of what occurred at the Fairfield Pond are unclear but neither Camp, Lepus nor any of the strike team were ever seen again.

As soon as the first shots of Lepus' coup were fired, many of the operatives of Majestic realised that the writing was on the wall and that Majestic's life was coming to an end. By the time the fighting stopped took control dozens of operatives and researchers had vanished, fleeing to other branches of the vast apparatus of government, the private sector and foreign nations with as much intelligence and technology as they could carry.

With Majestic falling apart at the seams, it was James who took the reins. Under the identity of Captain John R. Smith, USN, James became the new head of Majestic and worked frantically to hold together the organisation. James and Donald Poe, the new head of the conspiracy, met to discuss the future. James wanted for the conspiracy to come back into the fold, to join Majestic and restore Delta Green to what it had been before 1970. Poe, however, was suspicious. Government budgets came with government orders and oversight, and so Poe refused. Instead the two came to an agreement: the situation of 1953 would be returned to - Majestic would look to space and Delta Green would keep the terrestrial threats in check.

On May 10th, 2001, James makes contact with the Greys and informs them that the Accord needs to be renegotiated. No contact was received from the Greys ever again. In an instant the entire Grey presence with Majestic died. The Greys physically present at Majestic facilities collapsed and died, all operational pieces of Grey technology under study went inert. Only the fragments of technology built by terrestrial sources remained operational. More crucially, the Report ceased to be updated. Whilst still in possession of the very last copy, no more would the Greys render Majestic more aware of the state of the Russian military than the Kremlin was.

Despite this setback, James remained convinced of the mission and the need for Majestic to take up the mantle of defending America from unnatural threats. Few on the Steering Committee were convinced. Some were pushed out; the loyalists of Kroft and Lepus, whilst others quietly retired with all the technology they could lay their hands on, vanishing into the private sector with warnings that any attempt to pursue them would result in dead-man's switches filled with sensitive information being leaked. At the end of the exodus, only three of the twelve-strong Steering Committee remained.

James wasted no time in his overhaul of Majestic. The Accord had been repudiated, no longer putting Majestic in a position where it would have to defend alien interests over American ones, and the vast apparatus of black projects Majestic was conducted was cracked open and examined seriously for the first time in decades. Whilst many of these projects were necessary, those who could not justify their ethical excesses or the human costs were dismantled ruthlessly.

In the summer of 2001, Majestic and the Delta Green conspiracy would work together for the first and last time. Delta Green operatives, aided by Majestic intelligence and support would hunt down and destroy the last safe-house of the long-pursued Karotechia, putting them to an end once and for all.

### The Global War on Terror

Just as it seemed that Majestic and Delta Green could once again tentatively call each other allies again the sun rose on the bright, clear day of September 11th, 2001, and the world changed again.

In the national hysteria that followed the 9/11 attacks, the US intelligence community was showered with funding and authority that they had not seen since the heights of the Cold War. Black-budget deployments skyrocketed, funding exploded, and the number of clearances granted the elusive 'top secret' label jumped from 200,000 to 1.2 million. The United States invaded Afghanistan on October 7th and signed the USA PATRIOT ACT into law on the 26th of that month. Counterterrorism, with all its secrecy and black-budgets, was suddenly on the forefront of every government agency in the country.

Majestic benefited from the sudden influx of funding and personnel which they could prune from the other agencies of the vast American intelligence apparatus, but they were also rendered vulnerable in a way they had never been before. After taking control of Majestic, James saw no reason to break the tradition of not informing President's of their existence which had stood since the start of the Clinton administration.

Then, roughly a month after the attacks, President George W. Bush was asked by his father, the last President to be briefed on Majestic, "has the Report been of any use?"

Instantly, Majestic was put under pressure that it had never experienced before. James was barely in his seat before huge numbers of former leaders across the intelligence community and the military were being summoned to the White House to be grilled on everything they knew about the Report and the agency that produced it. James was well aware that, despite being buried deep within the state, it was only a matter of time before someone leaked Majestic's existence to the President - and that none of them would survive the subsequent inquiry. The 'shell' of Majestic was thick but it would crack soon enough, and inside was little more than dark secrets and corpses.

Majestic had suffered heavily from the loss of the Grey Technology and the flight of research specialists that occurred during the coups, but what they still had put them decades ahead of every other player in the intelligence field. James made contact with Lieutenant-General Arthur Brunne, a former operative of the cowboy Delta Green and the Research Director of the NSA, and offered him a deal - all of Majestic's technology and knowledge, in exchange for burying the organisation within the NSA's black-budget. Brunne accepted.

The searching gaze of the White House eventually fell on Brunne and, when asked about Majestic, he reported that it had been part of a secret NSA project, Project DULCIMER, that predicted weapons stockpiles using an algorithm, now unfortunately too out of date to be of any use in this new War on Terror.

The NSA provided Majestic the cover and security they needed to survive the crushing weight of the White House's investigation, but this was only a temporary measure. James and his followers believed in the need for a new organisation capable of carrying out the mission of Majestic, and of its predecessors in Delta Green. Many old clearances were acquired from the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Majestic operatives implanted throughout the Justice Department, Department of Defense and the newly created Department of Homeland Security, granting them the authority and influence they needed to reactivate Majestic in a new form.

### The Program

On September 13th, 2002, James and his loyalists activated a new, highly classified group under the umbrella of the NSA. This group was initially called the 'Security Studies Group', but this name was changed frequently. It's insiders began to call it 'The Program'. This Program acquired a long-defunct security clearance - Delta Green - and began recruiting its former holders. This was too much for the remaining members of Majestic's upper echelons: taking the name of their former enemy and ideological rival. Many left, and large numbers of them congregated within March Industries, a company founded by ex-Majestic using Majestic technologies to make their fortunes. Given the shared histories between them, March Industries and the Program would work together closely.

The decision to reacquire the Delta Green name and clearance was not an accidental one; it was intended to send an open message to the members of the Conspiracy, telling them that the Delta Green of 1970 was back in business. Many joined up, eager to once again have authorisation and government backing in their crusade against the unnatural. Others, however, would refuse - accusing the Program of being little more than Majestic rebranded. Neither side refers to the other as Delta Green.

In the modern day Majestic, as it previously existed, no longer exists. The name is dead along with its structure, living on only in a few hardliners of March Industries. However Majestic's influence in the Program runs deep - having passed on its desire to study and learn from the unnatural rather than simply burn it.

## Structure

Majestic 12 was composed of twelve 'sub-projects', each of which went by its own code-name and had its own director. The heads of these programs assembled semi-regularly as part of a 'Steering Committee', where each could report on their own progress with their colleagues in pursuit of their ultimate aim. This Steering Committee was headed by a Chairman, who was also the head of the MJ-1 sub-project, and the de-facto leader of Majestic.

As time passed new sub-projects were begun and old ones were discontinued. Whether or not Majestic always held twelve sub-programs or if this number could wax and wane is not currently known.

As of 2001 the sub-projects of Majestic were:

* Project AQUARIUS (MJ-1): The administrative and financial organ of Majestic. Coordinated records, personnel, logistics and finance for the entire organisation.
* Project PLATO (MJ-2): The strategic planning organ of Majestic. Created contingency plans and drafted documents related to the Accord.
* Project GARNET (MJ-3): The counterintelligence and information security organ of Majestic. Operated the NRO-Delta death squad, and was responsible for information denial and coverups of Grey activity on Earth.
* Project SIGMA (MJ-4): The communications and cryptography organ of Majestic. Was responsible for analysing Grey language and technologies relating to commuications and computing.
* Project MOON DUST (MJ-5): The organ of Majestic responsible for intercepting and recovering alien craft and technologies across the planet. Operated the BLUE FLY asset-recovery team.
* Project PLUTO (MJ-6): The scientific and research organ of Majestic, responsible for analysing and reverse-engineering the technology recovered by MOON DUST. Hosted a large range of sub-projects with more specific goals.
* Project REDLIGHT (MJ-7): The aerospace development arm of Majestic, responsible for turning the technological developments of PLUTO in regards to terrestrial aircraft.
* Project DANCER (MJ-8): The xenobiology research arm of Majestic, containing and researching on alien bodies and biological material recovered from crash sites and maintaining the ICE CAVE facility.
* Project OVERVIEW (MJ-9): The deep-space monitoring organ of Majestic. Operated the Majestic satellite fleet and scanned the solar system for evidence of alien activity.
* Project SIDEKICK (MJ-10): The intelligence liason organ of Majestic, maintaining contacts with other military and civilian intelligence services within the United States
* Project LOOKING GLASS (MJ-11): The conventional intelligence organ of Majestic, collecting intelligence on foreign nations and their activities on Earth. Also responsible for monitoring foreign counter-occult organisations.
* Project DELPHI (MJ-12): The analysis organ of Majestic, collating and analysing the intelligence collected by all other Majestic sub-programs. Was responsible for the verification and issuance of the Report.

## Personnel

Majestic was composed of a very large number of personnel at its height, ranging from administrative personnel to soldiers in the BLUE FLY or NRO-Delta teams to intelligence analysts and scientists. However the vast majority of these employees had 'White Card' access, meaning that they knew only a very small amount about the true nature or mission of the organisation. Only the very few employees who had been given the rare status of having 'black card' access knew about the true scale of the threat Majestic worked to counter.

## Facilities

Majestic, despite its size and influence, maintained only a very small number of exclusive facilities. The vast majority of Majestic 'bases' were little more than classified buildings and rooms on regular military bases, or offices with restricted access.

Among the 'pure' Majestic facilities were:

* ICE BOX
* Facility-24