Allied eXecutive Endeavors / AXE

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Advocacy file ACR0498521227-A4D Allied eXecutive Endeavors
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Inter Advocacy Bureau Report
Active Dangerous Cults
File XVC-97
Originator : [CLASSIFIED]
Recipient : [CLASSIFIED]

[CLASSIFIED],
Hi, [CLASSIFIED], the currently branded ‘Organization’ called “Allied Executive Enterprises”, began its operations over 50 years ago as a ‘religion’ on the edge of UEE space. In all actuality calling them a religion gives them too much credit, they were more like a cult back then, attacking and killing, taking slaves and hostages and trading them for credits, and the very idea that they were somehow organized is questionable. It appears they were individuals working together, though some people think there may have been a rank structure or inner group, no one is certain, however; approximately 40 years ago, the group assaulted a major UEE stockpile of weapons. It was sometime after this raid that it became the ‘organization’ it now is.

Details of Operation Purge follow with some information redacted.
Date : [REDACTED]
Location : [REDACTED]
Operation Purge
On [REDACTED] a group of pirate organizations combined forces assaulted the [REDACTED] in the [REDACTED] system, this location housed an isolated and classified weapons depot near the [REDACTED] border to deal with potential threats. How the pirates located and uncovered this secret installation is still being researched.
Due to the sensitive nature of many of the weapons, Operation Purge was hastily planned, but flawlessly executed. It resulted in the recovery of all the lost weapon systems and the annhialation of a large number of pirate groups. Operation Purge centered on carrier group [REDACTED] and pulled in additional operating hardware from nearby supporting planetary based operating groups.
Operation Purge IV was the group detached to handle the small group that was located in [REDACTED]. It was a relatively unknown pirate organization consisting of less than 50 members, though exact numbers are unknown. The group detached to recover the stolen weapons centered on the cruiser [REDACTED] with [REDACTED] ships in support. It located the hidden operating facilities that they were using on day 3 of the operation. The pirates were still unloading the stolen military hardware, and were caught completely off guard. Of the more than 20 ships docked at their base only 4 managed to launch before the combined firepower of the task force had reduced the docked ships to slag, the boarding action on the lower docking array recovered the stolen weapons portion that the pirates had taken as their portion of the ‘loot’.
Of the 4 ships that launched, one was intercepted and destroyed while the other three went in different directions. Two were pursued to their jumps into [REDACTED] space. The third was pursued by [REDACTED] which was later found due entirely to its emergency beacon. All hands were lost. Evidence indicates that the pirates had several ships not docked at the time that came to the aid of the third ship, and were able to help over power it.
Results of Operation Purge IV : Mission Accomplished, minimal losses.
Surviving Pirates: 3 Small ships [REDACTED] Class, 10 persons in custody. Plus at least 4 more ships of unknown size.
It is known that some months after this event one of the two ships that had jumped away on its own returned to its pirate allies; this was the beginning of the “cult”. What little has surfaced outside the cult is that this ship had found its way to a previously unknown system.
The following reports come from [REDACTED] Hospital for the Criminally Insane on Terra. Date: August 4, ’23 Patient : Angus Michael MacCleud
The patient continues to babble on about the black stars in the white sky, he’s clearly gone mad beyond the point of repair, the only other coherent words I can make out are Aldebaran and Carcosa, Of course there is no known jump to Aldebaran, and the only reference I have been able to find to a Carcosa is in ancient literature.
Biochemical analysis shows however; something noticeably wrong with his brain chemistry, some key neurotransmitters have been discovered to be being produced incorrectly. Genetic tests have shown no mutations that can be responsible for this, though I am not ruling out the possibility of drugs or other external causations. We have tried corrective drugs, but the variants present in his head seem to be on the order of 10x more powerful, the drugs would have to be given in lethal doses to have any effect.
Date August 18, ‘23
Patient: Angus Michael MacCleud
The patient was found dead today. Though outwardly no cause could be found, the suspicion is loss of blood, he had written one word on his room wall, “Hastur” this was written in his own blood, but the only injury was a finger he had chewed off his own hand. The next of kin on listing for him works for some band of criminals whose last known location is in the outer systems near Banu space. We have dispatched a message which will likely take several days to reach them.
Date: 3 September, ‘35
Patient : Joaquin Zharptitza
New patient arrived today from transfer via Advocacy. He was arrested weeks ago as a trafficker and since has insisted that he isn’t the same person they arrested. He claims that each day he is reborn as someone new. Should be an interesting case.
Date: 4 September, ‘35
Patient: Joaquin Zharptitza
The patient is a member of the same cult as a previous candidate, but this one doesn’t rattle on about random ideologies. Instead he insists that each night he dies, and is ‘resurrected’ as a new person the next, and that the Regent of the cult gives out new orders based on this fact. When asked if he recalls previous ‘lives’ he answers “of course I do.” We have begun talk therapy with the patient.
Date: 14 December, ‘35
Patient: Joaquin Zharptitza
The patient refuses to speak to us now at all, he insists he is not the same person, and shouldn’t be held accountable for the actions of another man. We are considering more primitive methods of therapy at this point in his case. Perhaps even a lobotomy.
Date: 28 February, ‘36
Patient: Joaquin Zharptitza
After the January outburst we had no choice but to lobotomize the patient. During his unconscious period before the surgery began he was chanting, the words were hard to make out, but they seemed to be Hastur, Aldeberan, and Carcosa. When the lobotomy was over, he screamed black stars, then went comatose.
Date : 4 April, ‘37
Patient: Joaquin Zharptitza
The patient was found dead today in his room, autopsy reports inconclusive.
Angus Michael MacCleud was a citizen who had served well his time of service. He had been honorably discharged, and was a decorated combat veteran. People who knew him during his time of service claim he was a very level headed individual, but after joining the Agents of the Xanthous Emblem became steadily more withdrawn. His last communication with anyone outside the cult was one year prior to his being captured and sent for psychiatric evaluation. It was to his sister and it simply said “Now I know too much, and soon I will know even more.” Attempts to contact him after this communication led nowhere, and his sister died in a pirate attack 6 months later. When captured his medical file included a contact near Banu space as the next of kin. What could drive a man so insane?
Joaquin Zharptitza was a pirate, who operated everywhere he could, eventually he was captured by the UEE and brought to trial, during the trial it was discovered he had a ‘psychological fault resulting in a unique type of dissociative identity disorder’ and was remanded to the same hospital that a few years earlier had seen a man that likely would have been known to him as a member of the same cult. Zharptitza never served in the military, and had no citizen’s rights, but he had managed to bribe his way successfully through several systems. By doing this he managed to stay ahead of UEE authorities looking for him.
The cult over the next decades has acted in bizarre ways, sometimes as pirates, other times as mercenaries, and even occasionally as pirate killers helping ships escape a terrible fate. Their ships have been seen exploring, prospecting, raiding, defending, and in general doing whatever they want on a day to day basis. When they show up you can’t tell if they are going to attack you, or defend you, or even ignore you. There was one report of a time when they were seen attacking one of their own pilots, half way through the battle all but one turned sides and attacked the one that didn’t turn. No person who has joined the inner cult has left it, and there are suspected to be many external members, people who fly with other banners, even as part of the UEE navy, who were active members of the cult.
There have been only three captured members of the cult, most fight to the death, or kill themselves before capture. The third file, is classified, and I have not been able to access it at all, but I do know that the captured person wasn’t sent to a correctional facility or an asylum. In the recent past, the cult has rebranded itself as a ‘legitimate’ organization, though its members are often found engaging in piracy, and there is still a large amount of chaotic behavior in their movements. The ‘legitimate’ activities they have been known to engage in are as follows, Exploration and trade, at last accounting this was a mere 10% of their total effort, with far more being placed into Freelancing, Pirating and Smuggling.