Common Core:Tiger Cooperative
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A group of religious fundamentalists who worship the changelings, the members of the Tiger Cooperative are as unhinged as they are dangerous, and will do anything to honour the ultimate lifeforms. Anything.
Children of the Stars
When humanity first found evidence of alien life in the galaxy, the reaction across Earth was mixed. Many were excited by the prospect, many were also nervous or even outright terrified by the idea of an invasion. And for some, the discovery had a darker effect. One such man was Alvin Shawn Martinson, a extremist Christian from the United States. His view was that humanity had been the chosen avatars of God, and that Earth was the only inhabited planet in the universe. As more and more evidence came to the contrary, his views began to change- but if humanity were not the chosen, who were? And so began Martinson's hunt for God's true chosen.
As his search expanded, he attracted fellow skeptics, and a cult began to form around him. The insular feedback loop would drive Martinson and his followers deeper into the depths of darkness, and eventually they would eschew society to create their own compound, far from civilisation. The isolation would make them even more extremist, and eventually they would turn to attacks on population centres to "lure out the true avatars". This obviously attracted legal attention, but when the TerraGov Federal Enforcement Agency showed up to the Cooperative's compound, they found it empty.
Unknown to everyone, the Cooperative had left to space, having grown tired of waiting for the avatars to come to them. And when their vessel attracted the attention of a changeling, they knew they had found them. The cult became dedicated to the changelings, viewing them as the incarnation of God on the mortal plane, and that these ultimate beings were to be worshipped. To be chosen by one for consumption is the ultimate act of devotion.
The Tiger Cooperative in 2564
The Tiger Cooperative are now spread across human space, with the location of their primary base of operations, the Cathedral of the True Angels, being hidden well. Members of the organisation now dedicate themselves to enacting the will of the changelings, which mostly consists of finding sacrifices to sate their hunger. To this end, the Tiger Cooperative have become a militant organisation, attacking populations to murder or abduct as many as they can. To aid with this, they often abuse powerful drugs, making them capable of fighting well beyond what a normal human can.
Their link to the Syndicate is tenuous. Many in the organisation would like to have nothing to do with the extremists, but the board Cybersun Industries has noted an important reason to deal with the Cooperative- their link to the changelings. These beings make for a powerful ally if they can be kept on side, and by dealing with them through the Cooperative, this becomes a possibility. It seems likely, however, that once the Cooperative has outlived their usefulness to the rest of the organisation that they will become an enemy.