Editing List of Possible Futures (section)

===The [[Brockton Bay]] [[Elite]]===
The Elite are a West Coast organization and as such have largely stayed there, beyond some minor involvement. An expansion into New York means that they've secured the entire west coast (from Alaska to California) and are now pushing into major Eastern Cape cities including New York and Brockton Bay. Such a major project requires a secured home base and means that the larger organization will have committed resources that they can bring in for a rotating selection of capes when they move into the city, the rotations preventing opponents from forming a proper counterattack.

They will start off with a charm tactic against various Rogues and Independent heroes; Parian, for example, would receive a substantial payment, access to the Elite's networks and everything she'd need for her clothes shop to become stable on the fashion front, with a threat of violence if she doesn't join the Elite in a timely manner. They would even bring in New Wave as a [[Corporate Team]] and for a brief time cause a momentary peace in the city, before they turn their attention to the other villain groups.

[[Empire Eighty-Eight]] would present an obstacle but the Elite are capable of matching or even exceeding their manpower and possess superior strategic resources. Harassing individual E88 members with three of their own, carrying out targeted strikes on key members both in the field and at home and doubling down on any manpower advantage the E88 might try to bring to bear. Even with the E88 bringing in parahuman resources from [[Gesellschaft]] and the [[Herren Clan]], the Elite can bring in more capes as several established Elite bases throughout the West coast can safely strategize and send instructions to the members they will be contributing to such an effort, while the E88 are besieged in their home city and under constant pressure. Finally, as the PRT is already established on the ground with a previous animus to the E88, the Nazis will eventually have to withdraw from the city.<ref name="EB2">I'm imagining matching or exceeding E88 in numbers and beating them in strategy. Member of E88 goes out in costume or undertakes some activity? Elite sends out three to dish out the hurt. E88 sends out five people? Elite move out in force with double their number, a surprise attack, and the right capes to counter one or two key powers.<br><br>If E88 draws in tight & only moves out with their full numbers, they lose ground as they can't cover every approach. If they don't, they lose a war of attrition.<br><br>So what unfolds is that E88 probably taps the clans - the organization of families and groups that Othala and Victor were drawn from. They tap Gesellschaft, and borrow a few top-of-the-line capes, and they put up a good fight. It makes for a tough nut to crack, but the sheer resources at their disposal (the sheer number of bodies with a given cape potentially providing an answer to a given problem), the fact that this move out to the east coast is an initiative that Elite teams all across the western coast are contributing to, and the fact that they can't touch the Elite at home (it means they're fighting the PRT aboveground and the Elite belowground) while the Elite can most definitely hit them at home? It's a battle they eventually have to concede - likely with E88 backing off, ceding Brockton Bay & going elsewhere to regroup. - [https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/5h4rzv/_/daxlqql Speculation by Wildbow on this What if, cont.]</ref>

The Elite will have brought its most dangerous members to the fore during this action against the E88 and other villains, like [[Bastard Son]] and others, before swapping them out with more stable Elite elements. Though the end result is the Elite as a stable villain faction, nominally set against the PRT as the stable hero group of Brockton Bay. All other factions, hero and villain, will have been pushed out, murdered or assimilated. While the larger [[PRT]] considers such a situation undesirable, they accept that Rogues will be inducted into the Elite as the cost of the stability, though the final decision of how the local PRT acts would be up to individual Directors.<ref name="EB1"> - [https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/5h4rzv/_/daxgr0n Speculation by Wildbow on this What if]</ref>