Rayon

Previously known as "Le Projet Rayon" (The Ray Project) and currently being nicknamed "Euroforce" by several of it's own members, Rayon began life as an underground organisation started by Prisme after the EU banned vigilantism in 2006, it was a group dedicated to amateur superheroism in the purest way possible and many of the members were dedicated to peaceful vigilantism only. It was a learning centre for wannabe superheroes who were serious about training, as such many Rayon members were nonpowered vigilantes and adventurers who felt oppressed by the EU's laws and bullied by fascist police and terrorist threats.

Later the organisation became a legit private, but government-funded counter-terror operation that worked with the likes of VALER and Southern Ireland's Laoch de Éire, as well as aiding in rooting out secret internalised fascism in the EU.

### History

The project began in Paris as a gathering of Prisme's friends who wanted to help her stay hidden, but it gathered strength when anti-neo and anti-vigilantism riots hit France.

   In that same year MI6 worked with Interpol to take down a terror network smuggling Proteptomine16, a CIA-made chemical that could temporarily block neohuman powers, the French and German governments made sure that Rayon was seen as somehow aiding them, and that vigilantism was getting in the way. MI6 sent in Volt to keep them at bay and find their base, however when Volt and Prisme fought Volt began to realise that they were trying to help and had been sending info to the government for weeks. When Volt tried to convince Interpol of Rayon's intentions he was ordered to leave France, but MI6 asked him to investigate further. Volt and Prisme found several government officials linked to arms and technology firm Eurodyne and their security outfit Lycan which had splintered into a paramilitary network that MI6 called L2. While the British government had already established this weeks before hand Volt and Prisme finally had proof and were sent to shutdown L2 and recover the Proteptomine16 formula that L2 had used Eurodyne's labs to aerosolise into Proteptogen, which was a health risk to neos and humans.

Furious, the French government shut down Eurodyne utterly and ordered Lycan to disband, but there was one loose trail, the formula, along with a lot of other CIA-listed fringe chemical research and money was copied by a computer in Cuba.

Many years later in 2015 after Volt and Twist stopped Das Ursprüngliche Verhältnis from destroying the Berlin Jewish Museum, the Bundestag recognised Rayon as a counter-terror operation and it worked with the German government in a positive manner.

### Known Members

During it's early days, the project was composed of both active and passive vigilantes working on the streets and in online and behind-the-scenes operations, while some left to resume regular jobs and careers when anti-superhero riots hit Europe and the EU came down hard on vigilantes, many later returned in 2015 to facilitate the operation's transition from an rough collection of outlaws to a legitimate government-funded counter-terror organisation. Members included:

**Animax**: British/French chemical and computer network genius and son to an apparent researcher in Argent Scientific who was murdered when he supposedly leaked some of Theo's secrets to an early Whitefall who he felt were more ethical and environmentally aware. His son, Tomas Baffier used his father's research into splicing and secretly developed a way to attain temporary cybrid-like abilities by taking a vial of serum. Rayon provided him with a safehouse whilst on the run from ASU agents, acting as a both a vigilante and web expert. Animax joined the Guild for a short time where he did small missions to earn money, but later returned to Rayon as it became Europe's "Euroforce".

**Anvil**: Known by his German codename "Amboss", Eric was a mysterious, stalwart and quiet member of the old group, he spoke up very little and would not always follow The Code during this time, which irritated Prisme, he was a libertarian, a believer of action and firm discipline, and that the government and police were not to be trusted. He later quit the group with the intention of heading to America to see "a friend" and it was unknown what became of him. He was a bodybuilder and apparent blacksmith that used iron gauntlets with folding-down, anvil-like knuckle-dusters, mechanical arm bracers and an iron helmet which he never once removed aside from in private.

**Blackfox**: A masked vigilante and stealth expert from the Netherlands, he later became a part of the Netherguild, a faction of the Hunters, and took to working more with them post 2015.

**Clover**: The Clover mantle was possessed by two Irish sisters, the first Clover was Elaine Ryan, was a gun-wielding vigilante during IRA occupation of her hometown and joined Rayon to ask for support, but when Rayon refused to help her want of a counter-paramilitary strike, she became a solo bounty-hunter. The second bearer of the Clover mantle was Elaine's younger sister Alana, who was previously known as the shillelagh-welding Shamrock, who wanted to prove that she could solve issues without guns, a title that now belongs to her cousin Colm. While Colm got heavily-involved with the post-2015 organisation as the new Shamrock, Alana spent took to a more behind-the-scenes role, mainly to try and locate and reconcile with her sister, who she grew a deep distain for after Elaine began delving into more and more paramilitary and terrorist roles.

**Mindfire:** A Moldovan-Romanian neohuman who worked trying to bring Moldova to the EU, but also operated as an active agent of Rayon circa 2013 hunting Honour-Watch and Imperia Dominus factions. She later got involved with the Russian invasion of Ukraine in 2022 and was in communication with the Shields. She had the ability to create pinkish purple visual telepathic flames that can facilitate a number of telepathic abilities.