Delta Green could be brought back onto the fold if it could provide solid evidence to the Office of Homeland Security that terrorism was at least partially sponsored by occult groups and religious cults.

The necessity of a Psychological Warfare Operations arm to break apart their bizarre theology would become clear. You'd require proof that groups like the Karotechia, The Black Brotherhood, and the Cult of Transcendence were working together. Gathering this intelligence would be A-Cell's short term goal, every Cell and every Friendly not engaged in active operations would be mobilised to obtain it...somehow. It would be the largest Delta Green operation since SIC SEMPER TYRANNIS.

The actual operations portion of the new Delta Green's portfolio would be covered much like in the OSS days, with the old boy network of people "in-the-know" supporting Field Agents working under the PSYOPS cover of the OHS.

The Office of Homeland Security seems to have two primary functions:
1) DAMAGE CONTROL: Co-ordinating a national plan for Civil Defense response to terrorist activity, this used to be under the FEMA umbrella and could lead to a struggle with Majestic-12; and
2) INTELLIGENCE: To serve as a clearinghouse for all terrorist related information gathered by the United States. They would be an intelligence consumer, not a producer. This is currently handled by the National Security Council, and we'll probably see a lot of old NSC faces at OHS, along with some terrorism analysts and other research grunts from the FBI, NSA, CIA, DIA, etc etc.

DG's current network of friendlies and Agents would serve as the cadre that the new network would be built upon. Career advancement now becomes increasingly serious for all Delta Green personnel, the new official status must be obtained and subsequently protected. Putting DG Friendlies into high places and key positions throughout the administration would be A-Cell's long term goal.

A more intermediate goal would be to seed OHS with Delta Green friendlies to lay the groundwork for a return to official status. This would be done by providing a steady stream of reports on terrorist and criminal activities committed by fringe religious groups throughout the world. Delta Green and it's allies undoubtedly have reams upon reams of files like this. This is where PISCES (the Shan have no love for rival Mythos Cults), and GRU-SV8 come in. It may be necessary to betray Majestic to the Russians in exchange for access to their files. This entails significant risk that will come back to haunt DG in the very near future.

The return to officialdom can transform Delta Green into a modern day political game, probably best suited to troupe style play: a group of high-ranking officials closely affiliated with the OHS, one group of ass-kicking, name-taking Shooters from a variety of places loosely affiliated with the OHS, and throw in a few part-time NPC's like scientists and techno-geeks.

The basic framework for Delta Green now is that the high-ranking folks and technical support guys are NPC friendlies, and the Players control one Cell.

The problems and obstacles to what I'm going to call OPERATION: IMMINENT DOMAIN are many and varied. If a Cell goes cowboy and creates some sort of Waco-esque debacle, it could easily shut everything down, especially in the early stages of intelligence gathering. Majestic will also be jockeying for position. Gavin Ross and Adolph Lepus seem to see the need for an outlaw outfit like Delta Green, although a more official foil for their rivals on the Steering Committee might be more useful to them. They must be convinced that official status for Delta Green will suit their goals.

MJ-3 as a unlikely ally could prove instrumental in the gradual leveraging of the OHS towards anti-mythos activity. Their role would be to minimise the influence of the OUTLOOK group while Delta Green manipulates a disastrous event to shatter the OUTLOOK Group's political credibility with the Majestic Steering Comittee. The OUTLOOK group might not be shut down entirely because of this. An OUTLOOK Group viewed as a political liability or security hazard could be removed from Majestic's influence and placed under the new OHS hierarchy (and thus Delta Green).

The key here is leadership. Strysik and Baker must be removed, and Perov and Yrjo must be convinced of the need to oppose the Mythos, or kicked to the curb. If Perov and or Yrjo can be recruited as a DG friendly, then OUTLOOK's stress cascade reactions can be used against mythos cults instead of the Delta Green cell structure. If a DG Friendly can be put in their place, then their pointless sadistic simulations will cease AND Delta Green gets to test OUTLOOK's Stress Cascade against maybe... the Cult of Transcendence.

In conclusion, the DHS provides Delta Green a huge opportunity to expand it's resources and to engage all it's enemies on an scale not seen since World War 2. It offers an excellent segueway between EMERALD HAMMER (downfall of the Karotechia) and THE GREY WAR (downfall of Majestic). The transformation into a political game played at the highest levels brings Delta Green into new roleplaying territory. The 21st Century Delta Green could be the reason why the ENDTIMES are delayed until well past 2030.

It should be remembered that the majority of active DG agents are government agents during their day jobs. Many of them could get involved with the new improved official DG as part of that job. DG (the conspiracy) could find themselves in the position of funnelling information to the official version to get some jobs done that were beyond the resources of the conspiracy.

PARIAH could find himself the target of audits and search warrants and surveillance a bit more annoying than ever before. Connections between Muslim extremists and a base in South America ("Damn, that guy looks like Otto "Scarface" Skorzeny. I thought he was dead.") might get more attention than before. Political contributions from Whole Earth Enterprises could be tracked and scrutinised. The mysterious owner is a gentleman of Mideastern background after all.


Agent Mark McFadden