The Initiative

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Faction Ideology
The Initiative conspires to gain wealth and power by exploiting the chaos of the aliens' arrival.

The motto of The Initiative is: "Every circumstance is an opportunity. Our test is to recognize and seize it."

Faction Leader
The leader of The Initiative is Chairman Soren Van Wyk. He has held various positions within arms manufacturer Western Armories from 2004 to present, including chairman of the board since 2014. Holds a minority ownership stake in DWKY Industries, which has diamond mining partnerships with the governments of Botswana and Namibia. He is occasionally criticized in activist media for labor practices of his various interests, but no formal investigations are known to have taken place.

Factions with Similar Ideology
Contrasting the defined stances and values of other factions, people who support The Initiative are either opportunists like the faction’s leadership, or in possession of false beliefs about the aliens that serve The Initiative’s ends. Accordingly, they find the most 'common ground' with Undecided humans, who, having no particular bias towards supporting or opposing the aliens, are easier for the equally apathetic Initiative to induct.

Factions with Opposite Ideology
The Initiative is most directly opposed to the equally neutral yet more idealistic Project Exodus, who wish to use the funds and resources of Earth to build a starship and flee the Solar System altogether.

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