[natehale1971]

Stonycreek is something that i didn't bring up as bewing part of the Twilight 2000 world after nuclear exchanges. It's part of the first level of world going to hell.. Ie, Flashpoints... on a project that i've been working on for years.

The three levels that you can use for 'dail our own apoc' that i created for "World War IV: A World In Flames" goes like this...

Setting One. Flashpoints (the world after 9-11, full of intrige and plots)

Setting Two. Brushfire (two or more brushfire wars, wars like Iraq and Afghanistan, going on at one time)

Setting Three. Firestorm (the total global war... with every theather is active with combat operations going on)

I had thought of putting another stage between two and three... something that would bridge the gap between a couple of brushfire wars to an all out slugfest between everyone on the planet. I just couldn't think of a catchy title for it that fit in with the entire "WWIV: A World in Flames" naming.

I have already stated that Stonycreek has alot more than one way of getting its funding. These are just a few of the ways they'd get money.

1. Their PMC cover would be getting paid by fulfilling contracts (be they official government contracts from the DoD or State Dept, or private companies that have hired them).

2. Hackers and Forensic Accountants are tracking down the money networks that are fudning the terrorists, and they are swiping that money from their acccounts (something that i've been told Hackers are known to do for themselves, having the good guys break a terror network and then getting to use that money against the terrorist is just fitting).

3. The Other legit cover companies that came from absorbing the Giovanni Crime Family. The Crime family had been on the course pre-9/11 to go legit, focusing their attention on their legal activities... but post-9/11 they throw themselves into the Global War on Terror (something that happened in real life during WW2) by using their illegal network to help track down terror networks.

Believe it or not Organized Crime in the post-9/11 world have actually provided leads to Terror Networks IRL... smuggling (human or items) circles are pretty close... someone knows someone who knows someone.

Now, Stonycreek's basic premise is that they are to use the terorists own rules and resources against them. Something that alot of people have wondered why the government isn't already doing...

Case in point, the DEA and FBI have warehouses that are full of money that has been siezed from drug dealers, just sitting there waiting to be destoryed. not used to pay down the debt or provide a trust fund for the victims of the cartels or terrorist actions. It's just sitting there. Sometimes that money is used to help create stings operations. But the money is tracked to make sure it doesn't get back into circulation and is followed right up to the time and place it's burned.

The Congress could easliy act within the constraints of the Constitution to take all of that money that has been seized in the commission of crimes, they just haven't done it. There are hundreds (if not thousands) of billions of dollars that has been siezed that are awaiting to be destroyed.

Now who's to stay that money hasn't been officially 'destroyed' and not funneled into black operations funding?

In the drumroll period before the world goes completely to hell, that's the time and place that Stonycreek would be the perfect agency for a group of PCs to work for. They'd be going around the world dealing with the kind of things that would be the Flashpoints that could push the world over the edge into total war.