Characters of the Network

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*"Then I saw her face, now I'm a believer*

*Not a trace of doubt in my mind..*

*I'm in love, I'm a believer*

*I couldn't leave her if I tried"*

-"I'm a Believer" by The Monkees, unofficial theme song of the Network.
At a time where distrust and paranoia abound, it does pay to have fellowships with like-minded people, especially in a group like the Network.

The Network attracts many people from nearly all walks of life; here, it is unsurprising to see ex-Peacekeepers drinking beer with Continental Minutemen deemed too "manic" for the Continental army, ex-Combine scientists disclosing files of unknown cryptids to Cryptid Chasers, and Nemo hacktivists discussing their next DDoS attack against the Syndicate, and people with utterly nothing left to do with their lives. It can even be said the Network destroys most of their enemies by making them their friends and allies.

Despite their various backgrounds, all share the drive to enlighten sheeple from all continents, to disclose the truth in all media, and to exact revenge against all those who manipulate the world's governments...

## The Inner Circle

### The "Third Eye"

"*Rule 1 and 2: Do **NOT** talk about the Third Eye.*"

- From the "Rules of the Network"
Of all the enigmatic people that walk the earth today, the Third Eye might be the one that is the most public, and yet very hard to fully track down. Just as how the Order of the Talon remains chasing the elusive leader of the Black Hand, so does the different intelligence organizations in their hunt for the Third Eye. The CIA has used the Network's connections with the Continentals to mark the Third Eye as a "subversive Communist provocateur" against the rest of the American citizens. The agents of SPIDER has paid numerous Legionnaires just to give the Third Eye's decapitated head to them in a block of ice. ACIN agents occasionally assassinate Network clubbers, while some reputed Network hideouts was found to be burned down just to draw out the Third Eye. However, though forceful are the methods they employ, none of them were successful in drawing the mysterious person alive.

The answer? The Third Eye rarely even travels outside wherever the aforementioned person is. This was after an almost-successful attempt to capture the Network's enigmatic leader, where CIA agents breached a rundown apartment in El Paso where the Third Eye is supposed to be hiding. The agents kick the door to the Third Eye's room, only to find out that the Third Eye's voice was just a portable video recorder, and how the room was booby-trapped so that the fire alarm will sound when intruders go in. The men in black was found dead right after, shot dead by a paranoid minuteman who happen to be next door. This has further exacerbated the Third Eye's utter paranoia, to the point where they believe that the moment they steps out of their room, enemy agents will slay them, if not track their movements.

Second, the Third Eye makes sure that they can relay secret information to the rest of the Network, and they do that by making their own portable video series, "Open Your Eyes". At this series, they talk about various issues worldwide and how they might be connected and/or how the conspirators manipulate them. There are even episodes where they dissect a movie, a song or a book to decode what occult meanings are hidden in them, and even interviews of confidential people that the Third Eye highly trusts, and many more. After an episode has been filmed, they order the personal guard standing by the door (via a peephole) to go to a portable video record store to publish the film for regular Clubhouse viewings. Throughout all of the videos (they have been doing this since 1955), the Third Eye's careful choice of clothes (they even wear a voice modulator) has so far rendered enemy agents unable to even make guesses about their gender and appearance.

To other people, the Third Eye is an ignoramus, a lunatic, a charlatan, and at worst, a terrorist. To the rest of the Network, however, the Third Eye is a messiah, a prophet, a wise man/woman (the Network might not be entirely sure about this, as they use different neologistic pronouns when referring to the Third Eye), and a Buddha-like figure that enlightens the ignorant with the words of truth. So far, there is even a large subculture within the Network devoted to cataloguing and keeping track of the Open Your Eyes series, to the point where simple arguments such as whether the Third Eye was taken by Aliens or Men in Black into outright shouting matches. The Third Eye's opinions on all of these are neutral at best; after all, while all of them might not agree with each other at some points, they all share the same goals: to preach the truth to millions and fight those who try to suppress it.

### "The Overlord"

**"I REFUSE TO GO ALONG WITH THIS AND IVE SEEN THROUGH ALL OF YOUR LIES BIRMINGHAM YOU WICKED WICKED DEVIL!"**

- "The Overlord" shouting through a walkie-talkie, as a message to the Allied PK.
Despite priding themselves to be free of any and all "shadow cabal" influence, they can still fall victim to the occasional informant who can play the role of a manic and paranoid conspiracy theorist very well, to the point they cannot even distinguish someone who's serious and who's not about their mission. A lucky informant relayed one of the most precious pieces of information to the ACIN before being executed by Conduit soldiers: the identity of their finest "general".

Their famed military "Overlord" was revealed to be an unemployed, middle-aged, and obese man named Calvin Hensley, who lives in his parents' house which he inherited. Known for his commanding aptitude and bombastic fits of rage, Calvin unleashes his pent-up anger against those who he believes are responsible for his (and others') miserable existence on this world. A sickly man born to a strictly militaristic family, his father tried to mole him into being a war hero like him by signing him into a military school. There, he experienced what he called the "worst moment in his life." He never became popular there as he was constantly shunned by everyone (including the instructors), and he was regularly beaten by them , the bullies and his family in an attempt to strengthen him, with his screams of pain recorded to remind him of his ineptitude. Due to his status social pariah, he found himself under the comfort of his female classmates who only associated with him out of pity, a factor that led to his 'Love Crusade' later in his life.

In this time, it is said that he developed his unhealthy eating and drinking habits to drown his sorrows. But the worst part of it all was the time he served in World War 2, where he was reduced to a depressive man who can barely run due to his weight (he was only enlisted because he was really close to the weight limit), he has taken lots of non-fatal shots, he has carried wounded or dying comrades to base (with most of them dying), and how he desperately wanted for it all to be over by purposely taking a grenade from a Soviet Conscript while purposely running towards land mines, an act which granted him a Section 8, and many years of medical and psychological treatment (with minimal success on the latter).

After the Second World War, Hensley's hatred of the government controlled him more than his obesity and his drinking habits. Failing to even gain employment due to this mental history, he chose to live with his senile parents until they have passed on. This is where his wrecked mental stability and shell shock got the better of him, as he increasingly doubted the worth of his own military service. Why would governments send people like him to fight their enemies, he doesn't care, as long as he gets the revenge he deserves against them for making his father abuse him when he was younger. After finding out about the Network in a local magazine, he went to a Clubhouse and demanded that they let him in. After hearing his story, their empathy from him increased and their hatred for the Allies only grew stronger.

Perhaps bolstered by his own delusions, Hensley appealed to the younger and bolder clubbers, talking to them as if he was on their level. He relates to them the monsters he has encountered in his life, regardless if they are human, extraterrestrial, or supernatural in nature. He also says that he sympathizes with their feelings of disenfranchisement and oppression they receive from the ruling shadow elites, the world governments, and their parents who disagree with their life choices. Easily impressed by his rhetoric, many of the Network's clubbers immediately hailed him as second only to the Third Eye, in terms of leadership and tactical acumen.

But the other segments say otherwise. Hensley's only real skill is in letting the kids love him to the death, and nothing else, they say. After planning a catastrophic attack against Belmar, NJ which left countless clubbers dead and many clubhouses razed, Hensley has just took more measures to immunize himself from criticism other than actually improving his sense of tactics. Network members critical of him are immediately beaten to silence by his personal army, and recent defeats are angrily blamed on his 'haters' and enemies who are somehow working together to destroy him. These do not stop his critics, parading around the fact that he still has not given up on his quest to get a wife, to the point of harassing The Advocate just to be his girlfriend.

When not sitting around in his house (which is now used as a Network hideout) and commanding his troops, Hensley busies himself with his self-published comic series, *Raiden Rocket*, where he stars as the omnipotent ruler of Hensville pledged to fight the evil Allied Hobgoblins and getting a wife of his own. Given his plans to pitch the idea to either Marvel or DC Comics, its fate is yet to be known.

### "Sprawlestia"

*"We are NEMO. We are many legionnaires of one mind and body. We do not relent. We do not respite."*

- "Sprawlestia"'s closing statements after Julio Agostino's assassination at hands of a Satyr.
Anonymity has always Nemo's greatest strength throughout its entire history, and also its greatest weakness. This particular attribute has allowed them to launch their anti-Syndicate operations without having their identities by the so-called "Interweb police" at the same time. However, the fact remains that virtually anyone can be Nemo regardless of actual morality or loyalty has played a major role in Agostino's assassination as one of their own tipped off his location for a fair amount of lira. Not to mention that the Nemo is considered to be the 'ring of Gyges' scenario brought to life: a scenario that states that even normal and well-meaning people can develop antisocial tendencies when possessing enough anonymity.

To hear "Sprawlestia" tell his story, he was an ordinary (by Sprawl standards) Sprawl-dweller trying to make a living in the environment he was currently in. An AURA technician working for an imageboard site, Sprawlestia was contacted personally by Agostino offering the former a chance to hone his skills further while doing something beneficial to society, according to him. Taking the pseudonym "Mechavelli" at first, thanks to Agostino's mentorship, he slowly shaped up to be a major threat against the Sprawl he lives in by publishing anti-Syndicate videos and announcements, leaking out confidential files that corporations were not to keen to share and harassing information out of employees and executives that they know are complicit in...whatever they are doing behind closed doors. Their actions together have reached a breaking point where the two main heads of Orthrus needed to be cut off, and that became the fate of Agostino who was unfortunate enough to be visited by a Satyr 'looking for his secret stash.'

Of course, Sprawlestia was devastated, knowing that all Agostino did was to expose the Syndicate for what it is in the dark. But it wasn't long until he realized that the first ones to be silenced or killed are the ones who say things that the local government/corporation/supranational body does not want to hear, and that drove him and some of his close associates to flee to The Network of Truth Seekers. Determined to hunt down and unveil the secrets that others have been hiding for too long, Sprawlestia has become the yang to the Third Eye's yin; their antithetical opposite in terms of leadership styles. When the Third Eye merely teaches, guides and enlightens the unenlightened and those who wish to learn more, Sprawlestia prefers ruthlessly seeking out the truth in any parts of the world by any means. Pragmatic methods such as usage of informants, extortion, blackmail, and even death threats are all fair game as far as he is concerned. Using his army of information brokers, private-eyes and even local criminalities, Sprawlestia prefers to use tactics that he learned with the Nemo: hunting down potential clues like prey and harassing people and groups of interest by whatever methods until they give up needed information. Proving himself to be a virtuoso at playing around with the human psyche, he can literally squeeze out knowledge from the most unwilling of subjects, turning them into sobbing wrecks when he threatens to spill the beans and their innermost secrets.

For all of his successes within the Network, he stands out as one of the most polarizing figures of the Inner Circle; either you approve of him or you abhor him. His detractors constantly point out that his underhanded methods of intelligence gathering means that the Network will only garner negative heat in the eyes of the law once they were leaked out. They back up their points that they cannot risk being cut off from the Continentals, given his history of insulting them for praising a "despot who nearly killed millions." He usually rebuts them by saying that while he believes that the Allies have overstepped their boundaries by infringing on the American government, Ackerman was no saint either to be praised while overlooking his mental history. There's also the many times that he openly ridiculed many low-ranking members of the Network for being "too-fantasy minded' for his liking. To quote Sprawlestia, "We have people who hold mole-men responsible for the Los Angeles earthquake, people who blame human-scorpion chimera for RFK's death, we're *sure* to be taken seriously, guys."

As for his supporters, they claim that Sprawlestia is only challenging his enemies at their own game. Believing that the Allies and their ilk love to cling to the high ground they claim to be taking for publicity, they at least applaud him for being honest with what he says. These are the same people that maintain that all Sprawlestia does is more for the greater Truth and the public who would benefit from it, and while the ethics of his actions are still debated even in the highest ranks of the Inner Circle, most of them have actually yielded beneficial information more than how any hapless clubber would gain in their life. As of today, he is talking about one of his overarching plans: that he and his circle of confidantes are working on a massive information leak that will sure deal a major blow to the Allied Nation's PR, a fallout that would be as big, if not bigger, as the Americans' reaction to the death of President Ackerman that would be of great help to anti-Allied forces around the world. While this piece of information might make his detractors back off for now, there are other factors that still stain his reputation in the Network.

The other elephant in the living room when it comes to Sprawlestia is how he flouts the principles the majority of the Network claim to possess (especially where fraternizing with the enemy is viewed as undesirable). Using his elaborate fake identities and ever-growing numbers of connections, he is not averse in secretly contacting even Allied commanders to to offer them their services. Most of the time, his middlemen meet up with agents of other intelligence groups to "assist" in their local objectives - while in actuality, his own inner circle rummages through the drawers of other commanders for any classified information. Establishing rapport with them is not a difficult task for him, as all he says is that the other faction has some juicy info waiting to be extracted and how he's willing to assist. Most of the time. This has led to some in the Network questioning his loyalty to the Network as a whole; clearly someone who possesses a massive wild-card streak would most likely betray them on short notice. However, Sprawlestia has been very defensive when it comes to these matters, preferring to retort by saying that for all of his duplicity with everyone else and less-than-favorable methods, he has been one of the only people concerned about the Network's legitimacy and safety as a whole. Especially when the Third Eye has no ability to put a leash in what their clubbers say. Especially when those same clubbers go different places with the First Amendment. *And* especially when their lack of restraint over what they say can lead to letting potential double agents and plants go free.

### "The Firebrand"

*"Semper Fidelis."*

- Motto of the Revolvers. To date several have been severely beaten by former US Marines.
Where must the Network focus more? The informational battlefield or the military battlefield? Must they fight back the lies by words, or by bullets? The Third Eye might vouch for the former, but when the enemy fights back with tanks and guns, can words penetrate through the thickest armor to sway them to their side? Or words will only be shrugged off, leaving it to the bullets to be the means of combat?

While the rest would suggest a healthy amalgamation of both, Jeffrey 'Firebrand' Conrad might as well be the patron saint of the latter option. His warmonger attitudes can be partly attributed to his family heritage, the latest in the bloodline of a proud military family with members serving in every war since the War of 1812. When the Allied-American conflict reached its climax, however, the Conrads remained strictly neutral about the Civil War, none of its members pledging to fight for either side. Except Firebrand.

Along with his best friends - Tim, illiterate anarchist sociopath, and Eric, cannabis-addicted stoner, Firebrandhas founded the "Revolver Nation", a "counter-communist" militia doubling as a hub for military and electronic entertainment aficionados after bringing with him secretly 75% of the guns from his mother's house (Giovanna Conrad is busy serving as a religious leader for Dominionists). Rejecting other Continental cells due to their not meeting his "standards", the 'proud Marine veteran' has instead assimilated the Revolvers with the Network, particularly the Conduit, for added punch against those who would conceal and distort the Truth.

Inside the Conduit, Strykker is somewhat of a personality; a constant source of firearms bought from his welfare benefits, technical knowledge when it comes to 'tacticooling' firearms, and recreational drugs also bought from his benefits. Fancying himself as a *true* American war hero, he and his army of 'Revolvers' have executed countless operations in the Network, such as the "Fullerocalypse" where Eric traveled to Saudi Arabia to rescue Bobby Fuller from the "GLA allied communists" taking him as hostage (Only to later be berated by the Continentals for wasting ammunition and money when Fuller was already dead in California), and the street racing incident where he challenged Valerie Solanas to a car race in order to shut down the 'femicommunist elite' for good.

This has gained the Overlord's enmity, especially after Firebrand's pyrrhic raid on an Allied fire base on Maine. For him, this "damn dirty hobgoblin" is taking away the credit for the victory (even if the Overlord somehow lost almost all of his troops sent for the attack) and is just one of the "jerks" taking away all the single women from him, despite Firebrand being more concerned with war more than love. Firebrand, in response, has fled to his personal 'Truth Bastion' somewhere in Massachusetts, an abandoned mental asylum-turned-battle fortress, assigning his own soldiers as his personal guards to prepare for anyone coming to take him to his mother's "revival camp.", after one the Overlord's threats against him. And given his actual psyche, some within the Network believe it is for his own good.

As it turns out, his military service is utterly fictitious, as well as his 'accolades'. In fact, his decision to join the Conduit has damaged his own relationship with the rest of his family, strangely enough, except for his mother who tries to steer her own son more to her agenda. Many military-inclined clubbers describe his own modded firearms as hideously impractical, cramped with too many attachments that could be more of a liability to the owner than an asset. Even his tactics are below par with more competent commanders, which mostly consist of blindly charging on the enemy with no regard for intelligence. Due to this, Tim has been more active in the design of his own 'culture war van' and amassing his own troops to usurp Firebrandas the leader of the Revolvers, and Eric's status is still MIA, although it is rumored that he might have been captured by the GLA or worse.

### "The Fixit"

"*If you ever see a black hand logo, shoot the guy with it immediately would you?*"

- A typical request made by the "Fixit"
One of the Third Eyes' closest friends, the mousy, bespectacled, somewhat exotic but charming and endearing bright red-haired mystery woman named "Saren Janice Gelt" but most commonly called "Fixit" is just as much of an enigma as they are despite her face not being a secret due to her peculiar complete absence in any form of public record until 1955 where she seemed to just appear fully formed from the ether. The story goes, though she has neither confirmed nor denied, that she was actually pulled from another timeline by an accident with a Chronosphere, which may explain why her accent is a bit strange and unplaceable and why she is deeply interested in technology that plays with spacetime as well as the fact that she doesn't have so much as a social security number. If true, the difficulties one faces in life with no documentation of any sort may explain why she joined with the Third Eye or why her seemingly impossible hair colour is in fact, natural. It also explains her occasional odd references to things such as a tragic extermination of the Jewry by a German ultranationalist regime or a "Global Defence Initiative" that she claims to have worked with. Why Geiger counters register her as slightly radioactive is anyone's guess, but she is the only member of the Network able to handle the sample of JADE they acquired at great cost without a special suit.

However there also exists counter-rumours that she may be a Japanese gynoid who achieved self awareness and decided to fight the good fight instead of serving the Emperor, pointing to the fact that she hasn't visibly aged at all over the past fourteen years or why she can knock a fully armoured conduit trooper through a wall in sparring sessions or that she stopped a bullet shot at her once with an outstretched hand and it made a metallic ricocheting noise. And that's not naming the twenty different competing theories on why she is such an odd person full of often bizarre ideas like a universal code for computerised displays of text or attaching phones to computers. Given her long standing presence in the network, most people have learned to just accept her, though plenty still try to pry all the same.

Of course some say that all this is just a load of horse manure that people cook up about a completely normal person who happens to have some clerical issues with her documentation to pass the time since no footage of her doing or saying any such thing exists and some people do just age much better than others. Though what is known is that Gelt is Jewish and seems to have no problem with dating men or women while also revealing nothing of value in her pillow talk no matter how hard one tries. But whatever the case she earned the name "Miss Fixit" because she's a vitally rare resource within the Network; someone who knows what they're doing. Whatever the truth about her is, she knows how intelligence agencies work and has a lot of often off-the-wall ideas for technologies that while unreliable due to "inferior materials", are capable of often amazing things, like the Computer network she set up out of acquired Syndicate and Japanese parts that while very prone to bugs, works quickly and easily and allows for information to be passed by hardline in short order.

While she definitely does seem to have a few screws loose with a habit of mumbling to herself, making bizarre errors in geography, continually being sad about how the Interweb isn't wireless, and a thoroughly scatterbrained personality that talks about five things at once on a slow day, the Third Eye trusts her enough to often personally deliver messages for them or to visit them on a personal basis; though Saren has flatly denied any rumours of romantic attachment on account of "unprofessional, no good."

Certainly, she seems to have the rapt attention of the Prometheans to the point where many call their fondness of her the "Promethean Cult" as many hang on her wisdom like the font of all knowledge itself. It has also lead her to having often unwanted attention, with perhaps the largest number of kidnapping attempts of any inner circle member being sent her way; though to date none have succeeded. Some worry though that she may be losing her grip on reality, as her ramblings have only gotten...stranger as of late and the sorts of projects she proposes only get kookier. However, being a friend of the Third Eye is a powerful bit of clout, and so most are content to just grumble about it.

### The Advocate

"*Open your eyes for once in your life.*"

- Sarah's appeal.
Sarah Rodman is a young woman and a certified class traitor whose family had a small media empire in Cascadia that had made its name fighting against white nationalism and for civil rights without one iota of concern for red-baiting on account of "that's there, we're talking about here" as her mother Tara would say in her criticisms of "people who think that just because the elite owned media tell you about how scary the Russians are while trying to bring back slavery behind your back". Clearly, someone didn't much care for Tara Rodman exposing the Dachau massacre where American G.Is under General Patton slaughtered a German communist youth group as well as their parents while pushing the Soviets out of Germany and then gunned down an African American company that tried to stop the killings from getting worse. The expose destroyed Patton's career, derailed the propaganda season and significantly undercut support for the war as well as started a wave of internal racial tensions that some blame for contributing to the US deciding to veto any effort to press into the impregnable fortress of the USSR itself lest the country's internal tensions rip it apart.

While Tara and her husband Rodney were covering anti-segregation movements and their work to coordinate with labour unions to force the government's hand in providing for a fair G.I bill to ensure that the troops coming back home would have fair and decent work though; Rodney would be killed by a senseless hit and run as he crossed the streets, deeply embittering the Rodmans to the American government whom Tara firmly believed was responsible. Tara tried to remain strong, but Sarah would increasingly delve into the esoteric to try and make sense of her father's death. By the time world war three started ten years later, she was neck deep in about a dozen different systems of esoteric and mystic knowledge. She was already running a successful magazine dealing with these subjects. Her mother would once again, through her ACLU connections, continue to be a critical voice against the war effort just as she had contributed to the unearthing of the sex scandal that ruined McCarthy's political career, has been cited as a factor for the rapid decline of his health leading to his early death, and greatly weakened the extreme anti-communist movement in the US that lead to her being idolised by many in what would later become the Continental Revolutionaries.

Evidently though, someone thought that her criticism of Ackerman's decision to continue to focus on the Soviets even as the Empire was occupying the American west coast was a problem, and a Battle psychic cleanly snapped her neck with Telekinesis after breaking into the location of her pirate radio station, several months before the Japanese were driven from the pacific northwest. Tara's death broke something in Sarah, prompting her to dive ever deeper into every bit of weird lore she could in an attempt to make sense of how her mother died. A spiral that only worsened when a strange light from the sky stole away her brother Andrew and his wife Darcy while he was out getting milk for his family. Forced to take care of three nieces and two nephews and deal with a shattered family, some said that Sarah went insane, especially those critical of her longstanding ties with the Network through sympathetic coverage, generous donations, and allowance of usage of what resources she had at her disposal. For she certainly abandoned the pretence of simply being a supporter and outright became an "Advocate", as she called herself, because only they took her ravings seriously.

In the Network she found peace and a road to recovery, and her inheritance of the Rodman media company gave the network access to both a source of capital and a means to spread their message farther than ever before. The eruption of the second American Civil War in response to myriad issues by a broad popular front though, was something of a hidden blessing, as it put the FBI's plans to seize the Rodman company's assets on ice for the foreseeable future, in essence tying her fate to the success or failure of the Continental Revolution and the Network's participation in that war. But in her capacity as a spokesperson, a charismatic, and the manager of the Network's primary access to public media, it was only natural for her to be promoted to the position of an inner circle member. Certainly she knew how to handle other people better than most of her compatriots who were all broken in their own ways, even if some of her ideas were "bugfuck nuts" as some would say whenever she goes on another lecture about the healing power of space crystals.

## Clubbers, Other Kooks & People

### Rod Serling

*"Picture another dimension. A dimension of sight. A dimension of sound. A dimension of mind. You're moving through a realm of shadow and substance, of things and ideas. You've just crossed over into the Network."*

- Art Bell, speaking to a recently joined cell
Hell is the impossibility of reason. War is hell. Ipso-facto, War is the impossibility of reason. Men return from it changed, and if they claim not to, they're probably lying for their own sake. You can't fault them for it, it's a defense mechanism. But men like Rod Serling didn't just come back from war changed. They came back willing to see the weirder side of the world.

Serving as a pathfinder in WWII, Serling saw firsthand the madness of war while part of "The Death Squad" (known for its exceptionally high causality rate), when after his first battles he watched from behind the lines as a fellow soldier was crushed by a crate of fruit. Even when discharged, Serling continued to suffer nightmares and vivid dreams thanks to what he experienced. Knowing he needed to get these out or burst, he created the series, "The Twilight Zone", a compilation of the most interesting stories of the age. Serling often helped to give them an added twist or lesson, whether it was the episodes "He's Alive" (Moral: Evil exists so long as its ideas are espoused), to "The Thirty Fathom Grave" (Moral: Surviving when others don't doesn't make you a coward). Whether it was the Purple Testament (Moral: Your enemies are people too) or The Obsolete Man (Moral: One man with conviction can bring down everything), Serling didn't dare shy away from criticism or controversy. Unfortunately for Mr. Serling, many of his advertisers didn't see it that way. Ambrosia Cola threatened multiple times to pull their ads from the program, along with the Beantil Corporation and others who didn't agree with Serling's messages. Left adrift, Serling tried multiple times to be picked back up by an audience, his most infamous being the midway cancelled season of "Unresolved Enigmas".

Technically, Serling isn't part of the Network, either by his own admission or anyone else. In fact the Third Eye has not said yea or nay on Serling even being an honorary member of the group. Serling himself is presently *incommudicado*, rumors swirling that he's taken to trying to find who was responsible for shutting down his latest project. His membership in the Network is an honorary title at best, and no one is sure he'll even accept being a part of the Network when he knows so little about it.

### "John Titor"

*“Every possible thing that can happen or will happen has already happened somewhere."*

-  "John Titor's" foreword in his forum profile, "TauPhiCongruency"
John Titor. Someone who could possibly either be the greatest "troll" in history - or an actual being. Many common people and Sprawl dwellers have not even reached conclusions whether if the majority of the things he says are factual or not. Maybe he is just well-versed in Interweb culture, particularly in the art of "trolling" - an act purposely made to frustrate, enrage or mess with other people. Or is he?

Whoever he is (they even doubt his true gender; what if John is actually a woman?), John Titor is a celebrity among science-fiction enthusiasts, conspiracy theorists, and people with too much free time in their hands for his predictions about the future and hidden secrets about the past. The most-accepted theory about how he does all these things is he might actually a time traveler that can travel through dimensions and alternate timelines through a device, a theory so common that he even convinced a couple of Japanese scientists to move to the Network to test Titor's theories if they can be considered facts. While Titor publicly declared the inner workings of his interdimensional travel device as a secret, he frequently tells stories about himself and the different timelines he has traveled to, in which the most notable of the them are:

1. A timeline with the "Bigfoot Riots" of '78, where an immense colony of *Homo hirsutus* rioted throughout major populations in the world with elaborately-designed weapons of war, protesting for their "right to be declared relatives of the *Homo sapiens sapiens* race." The "Bigfoot Rights Act" was eventually passed in most countries afterwards.

2. An alternate timeline where in 1985, the newly-created American Confederation consisting of the former Continental Revolutionaries declares war on the Allied Nations, severely weakened after unfortunate Atomic Chinese bombs were dropped at important Allied military bases throughout Europe. In the resulting Fourth World War, the Continentals, along with the Neo-African League, leave most of Europe in ruins and the Allies completely destroyed, with the Soviet Union conquering the rest of the continent for themselves.

3. A timeline where an extraterrestrial being descends from the stars to offer a chance to "bring world peace" and "unite the world as one". Upon agreement, everybody in the world forcefully transforms to an amorphous green-colored liquid that covered the Earth's landmass.

4. An alternate timeline where the reckless use of time travel led to "time rifts" occurring all over the world, causing various disasters such as the Yellowstone Volcano eruption, pterosaurs attacking airplanes. and one on occasion, a miniature singularity resembling the Big Bang releasing untold amounts of cosmological radiation throughout North America.

5. The timeline where it was revealed that Romulus of the Mediterranean Syndicate, the the Atomic Chinese Viceroy, 'Jacob' of the 'Extraterrestrial Protectorate' and 'Seth the Undying' are all alter-egos of the popular British rock band, the Beatles.

If Titor's words are anything to go by, he was, is or will be an American "chronologist" that went or will go back in time from the year 2036 to retrieve certain Syndicate computers to fix a known bug that paralyzed 85% of the computer systems in the country, as he will not tell more of his personal information due to him angering many government agencies to the point they are going after him. The only thing he can say about this is some tactful and eloquent words of advice (reportedly compiled by his "friends"),

*1. Do not cause the event you're trying to prevent. If you come back in time to save a loved one from being shot, make sure you won't accidentally kill your loved one by scaring him or her to death, especially if he/she has heart problems. Want to prevent the extinction of dinosaurs? Make sure you're free of diseases first.*

*2. Stay away from your past/present/future versions of your relatives, lest you kill them or make them fall in love with you, causing serious ripples in the time stream. Don't even try to send them messages in any form, whether it be via-timecrowave or Pony Express, they'll just get framed out.. And most of all, try not to accidentally killed anyone who suspiciously looks like you, they might either be your cousin or your long-lost twin brother.*

*3. Stepping on a caterpillar while time-travelling is more than enough to cause a Pacific island to be swallowed by the ocean. Killing a dog can lead to a dystopia where humans become slave-pets to sapient wolves. Killing Leon Czolgosz will only lead to an early World War I. In other words, don't step or kill **anything**, unless if **necessary.***

*4. Want to stop a disaster or any other unfavorable event from happening? Be specific and prepared; make sure to know everything that will go down before you fix it. Know the events, the timetables, the people involved, the locations, implications and anything and everything that may happen. For example, if you want to stop Archduke Franz Ferdinand from being shot, make sure you do not rule out the possibility of other assassins, the possibility that me might get involved in a car accident, and the possibility that he's gonna suffocate on his food.*

*5. Before time-travelling, make sure you know about the time and relative dimensions in space, You don't want to either end up at the mouth of Mount Vesuvius, or at the cold fabric of outer space, right?*

*6. Even Zeus, Buddha, Odin, and Vishnu can neither argue with fate or destiny. So unless fate allows you to edit the past to your whims, you might as well lay off the time-travelling. When Fate says "Oh no, I'm not gonna allow you to change that event", better listen to her.ou Even if you do, Fate will only say, "Ha, you think you're so cool with what you did, but take a look what I will do." For example, you try to stop Mt. Vesuvius from erupting and destroying Pompeii, it'll only trigger the Yellowstone or Krakatoa eruption. Just like what Einstein did in one of the timelines when he attempted to stop Hitler, what the Allies only received was another more persistent if less evil enemy.* *(When asked, Titor refrained to elaborate on what's the importance of an obscure austrian painter)*

*7. The only reward you get for telling people from the past what will happen in the future is either ridicule or a ticket to the madhouse. For instance, in an alternate timeline where Lincoln wasn't shot by Booth, when I reiterated our version of events, they just looked at me the way they would look at a person at an asylum. Some suggested for me to be sent to the madhouse, while some asked me what team would win next year's Superbowl.*

*8. Be careful that you do not end up in an endless recursion of time. If you do end up in an endless recursion of time, you will be stuck in that endless recursion of time unless you find a way to edit that endless recursion of time to neutralize that endless recursion of time. But if you fail to release yourself from that endless recursion of time, you just have to deal with the fact that you've entered an endless recursion of time. Of time. Of time. Of time...*

*9. When you meed your past self, don't do anything stupid to him/her, you wouldn't want yourself or others to make your existence to be paradoxically impossible and disappear to nothingness, do a favor to yourself, please.*

*10. Contrary to popular belief, time is not a stream that only flows forward, rather, it is a big cluster of worldlines, events, places, people and everything where anything can happen. For that, even I cannot explain it in full detail. So sorry about that.*

*11. If anybody offers you a wish in exchange for a contract, back away immediately. (When asked, Titor said he is not going to elaborate further.)*

-  Some quotes from Titor's "413 Things you need to about Time, the Universe, the Alternate Universes and Everything".
Skeptics, and other common people view all of Titor's "facts" and "adventures" to be fanciful imaginations of the human mind. After all, any person would easily label him as a "delusional miscreant" upon reading any of his writings. But even so, the Network (the organization where he is hiding from the agents sent against him) regards his events as absolute truth and is even trying to convince the rest that what he said was true, after all, time travel and multiverses do exist, though not just in the extent he said what will be. Unlike the Bigfoot uprisings, some events he foretold and narrated are entirely plausible, and it will not even be a surprise to them if those actually happened. After all, if what the things he saw in the past, present and the future of this timeline and other alternate ones, how would this world fare? And what will happen if the "government agents" catch up to Titor?

### Art Bell

*"Tonight, sightings of strange aircraft over the Sea of Japan have many asking who truly controls China's airspace. Then later in the program we sit down and talk with Dr. Franz Klausson, expert in chronotechnology, and ask why the Allies have yet to comment on the recent disappearances in the legendary Bermuda Triangle."*

- Typical intro to Art Bell's radio show
Some men fight with bullets. Others fight with words. Art Bell is one of those rare individuals who does both. Currently serving in the US Air Force, Bell is quite possibly the Network's most valuable player in keeping the common man informed.

Born to a US Marine Corps captain and his drill instructor wife in Jacksonville, NC, Bell took an early interest in radio broadcasting, and even says his ultimate goal is to attain the Extra Class License, the highest rating the FCC can approve for a broadcaster. A goal that may be much harder to attain with how Bell is currently spending his service.

On paper, Bell is a medic in Texas' Amarillo Air Force Base, one of the last bastions of Allied power so deep into Continental territory. This is subverted by Bell's pirate radio station that he operates in his free time, broadcasting songs the Allies have refused to play on their military channels such as Barry' McGuire's "Eve of Destruction" or CCR's "Fortunate Son". However, his content has shifted in recent months to include discussions on topics like conspiracies, the paranormal, and government corruption.

The truth is that Bell is a member of the Network using the technique of the Big Lie, going out of his way to act like a member of the Network so that no one suspects he's a member of the Network (even though in actuality Bell is possibly the most stable member of the Network on Earth). His radio show is billed as "pure entertainment", but hundreds have pointed out that the show is filled with good questions; why are the Allies so keen on allowing ACIN to run free? Why is there suddenly a GLA conflict in peaceful Palestine? Who did kill RFK?

Bell doesn't have much contact with the Network proper, instead focusing on his broadcasting. This has made him quite the subversive influence in Amarillo; the enlisted troops can see the merit of Bell's arguments, while the brass are quickly getting suspicious about Bell's real loyalties. For now, Bell is trying to focus on the more "outlandish" paranormal stories: Ghosts, cryptids, anything to draw the heat off.

Bell considers himself a patriot, but not in the same vein as the Unionists. His patriotism comes from the willingness to call out a government for what might be the wrong practices. At the same time, he's cast his own dispersions on the Confederacy. Many are asking whether or not this is truly going to change America when the war is over thanks to Bell, since he's pointed out that the same power brokers in Washington before the war are leading the Confederacy now.

Most astounding of all is his willingness to call out members of the Network who contact him for whatever reason he sees most fit to mention. He's willing to call out fundamentalists for being too unmoving in their views on religion. He's argued passionately with extreme leftists who claim that, "Communism was never truly tried" by pointing out the many failed red states. He's even cast dispersions on the Third Eye, claiming that his constant anonymity will soon get old and that people will eventually want a face.

Whatever might be the argument of the night, Bell continues to broadcast to anyone who will listen. While not a major force in the media just yet, Bell is certainly someone many, *many* people are now keeping an eye on.

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