Who is Firewall?Index | Penumbral Shadows | Background | A Brief History | Who is Firewall? All the above brings us to the reason you’re here. Firewall. You’ve heard the term only recently if we’re doing our jobs right. There are some outside the fold that know of us, but we try to keep a low profile, and for good reason. We are an organization devoted to finding and combating x- risks- those existential risks to transhumanity’s survival, such as whatever drove the TITANs and whatever released the virus. Some of us have been in the fight from the start- from the moment some with power realized facts they couldn’t say out loud. Things like the fact that we learned nothing from the Fall other than novel ways to kill ourselves. That the disunity and mistrust that kept transhumanity’s factions from detecting the indicators of the rot growing within were alive and well post-Fall. Or that we still teeter on the edge of extinction, and we don’t even know the enemy we face. Firewall started out as part of other organizations. Some were part government intelligence or think tanks or research divisions. Others belonged to independent groups, like the argonauts or the Singularity Foundation. After the fall, battered remnants of these groups formed the Eye and information sharing network for anti-x-riskers. A series of virtual conferences on x-risk mitigation hosted by the technoprogressive argonauts led members of the Eye to form Firewall- a cell- structure conspiracy devoted to detecting and containing x-risks anywhere within transhuman space. This isn't a simple mission. Keeping the Eye's servers secret and secure is a massive task. Firewall organizes itself into working groups, called a server, led by one or more proxies- Firewall's core of facilitators, threat watchers, and logisticians. Servers oversee cells, comprising teams of rank-and-file agents known as sentinels. The distributed, anti-hierarchical nature of Firewall keeps power from accumulating in one place. On the upside, this keeps our operations secret and our decision making democratic, at least at the level of the proxies. On the downside, it means that factional disputes between Firewall servers sometimes turn ugly. As in wider transhuman society, reputation in the Eye matters. Servers or cells that go rogue too often quickly find themselves cut off from support from the rest of the organization. Operations are run on a shoestring budget, with proxies calling in whatever resources they can to get the job done. Cells range from long-standing teams to short-term alliances for a particular op, and span everything in between. Your recruiter chose you because you’re resourceful, you have needed expertise, or you saw something you shouldn’t have but handled it well where most would have fled in terror. You’ve passed our loyalty tests and proven you’re ready. One thing we all agree on: transhumanity stands on the brink of extinction. We all feel called to act, and with a viewpoint that’s galactic, not local. Now, you're being given a choice. Fight for the survival of transhumanity, or go back to whatever life we pulled you from, and this all becomes a bad dream. What's your choice?
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