The Long View

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Not all internationalists trust the nationalists; or rather, most internationalists distrust them, but few do something about it. During the struggle in the 10's, especially the Autumn Raid, many networks formed to combat the old power elites and their tools. Since then many of them have dissolved, become respectable or turned into special interest groups. Still, a few remain in the depths of the net.

The Long View was originally founded under another name to find and stop the Autumn Raid in 2014. It was funded by wealthy investors in the network economy and staffed with burning net freedom activists, counterhacking experts and infowar analysts. While it failed at tracing the attacks, it played a significant role in hampering them and harassing whoever was involved with them. Afterwards, it continued its work of protecting the Net and the emerging internationalist movement. It never became official, and concentrated more on pre-emptive strikes or sabotage against potential enemies. As one of the founder put it, its goal was to take the long view and not just tactically strike at nationalist strongholds. Instead it should work quietly, undermining anything that stood in the way of the freedom of the growing internationalist movement.

Over the years the Long View has changed little. It consists of a distributed network of collaborating members either themselves skilled in infowar or hiring unknowing consultants to do the work. They have also acquired connections able to send out people in the physical world to perform manipulations, sabotage or even violence if necessary. Funding is still good, it has solid investments deep within many of the old and trusted institutions of the Net. They constantly scan the nets using their netwhales and contacts for information that can spur them into action.

The current goals of the Long View is to make sure no nation or other unexpected force can ever threaten the internationalists. Most work is low key propaganda, memetic sabotage and infiltration, but occasionally they focus their attention on a problem. For example, they have worked hard to keep Brothers of the Land splintered and in some cases directly sabotaged their projects in order to keep them out of international politics. Another success was their quiet decapitation of the Milian-Zorn Association in Chile, a powerful nationalist think tank that were spreading some dangerous ideas about nationalising some TAGs.

The Long View is a quite useful opponent or ally of the player characters. It has a vast information network, quite able to discover when something odd is going on and send investigators. As an enemy it is both clever, powerful and subtle.