Editing The Elite (section)

===Background===
The Elite started in [[San Francisco]] as 'Uppermost', an organization composed of [[rogues]], involved in production and entertainment.<ref name="intro"/> In 1998, Uppermost asked the PRT for assistance in managing the NEPEA-5 bill, which sought to curtail parahuman involvement in business and media, and was arguably targeted directly at Uppermost.<ref>In 1998, Uppermost reached out to the PRT for assistance in dealing with a bill (NEPEA-5) that sought to curtail parahuman involvement in business and media, arguably targeted directly at Uppermost. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Swjz8BZZNE4bq6lTkHanTK4sJ-K_xVlFudxA16mYjH4/edit#heading=h.ry6hr0z1e3p2 PRT Quest (Anchorage)]</ref>

After a great deal of consideration, the PRT’s head office turned down the request for assistance. NEPEA-5 was passed, and Uppermost disbanded.<ref>After a great deal of consideration, the head office  turned down the offer for assistance, the bill was passed, and Uppermost disbanded. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Swjz8BZZNE4bq6lTkHanTK4sJ-K_xVlFudxA16mYjH4/edit#heading=h.ry6hr0z1e3p2 PRT Quest (Anchorage)]</ref> Many former members of Uppermost joined either [[the Protectorate]] or [[Wards]] to manage the fines and fees that followed the bill’s passage and avoid bankruptcy.<ref>Many members of Uppermost found their way to the Protectorate and Wards as a way of avoiding bankruptcy and to manage the fines and fees that followed the bill’s passage. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Swjz8BZZNE4bq6lTkHanTK4sJ-K_xVlFudxA16mYjH4/edit#heading=h.ry6hr0z1e3p2 PRT Quest (Anchorage)]</ref>

However, Uppermost’s core group took a different course, with the support of [[Cauldron|outside investors]].<ref>Absent Cauldron's meddling, there's no [[PRT]] for one thing. There's no [[Suits]], no [[Red Gauntlet]], no [[Elite Sentai]] group or whatever I called them, no [[Elite]]; all groups that Cauldron set up or supported. Groups are formed but can't sustain themselves past tight Undersider-like groups of 5-10 individuals. Conflicts are more tightly contained and devastating, recovery is slower, and an area that ends up lost or fucked doesn't get the backup needed to revive. Such areas are abandoned or occupied by whatever groups are willing to make do with the aftermath/ongoing occupation by X gang or Y high-level threat. - [https://forums.spacebattles.com/posts/15024820 Spacebattles comment] by Wildbow.</ref> They divided themselves, and set up their own businesses within the new laws, while keeping in contact outside the PRT’s and public’s knowledge.<ref>The events that followed have been pieced together from hearsay and investigation - Uppermost’s core group divided and started up their own businesses and independent directions, still in the open, in keeping with NEPEA-5. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Swjz8BZZNE4bq6lTkHanTK4sJ-K_xVlFudxA16mYjH4/edit#heading=h.ry6hr0z1e3p2 PRT Quest (Anchorage)]</ref> By the time this became apparent, the members had combined assets, employees and businesses as a loose confederation, under the banner new group dubbed the Elite, quintupling Uppermost at its peak.<ref>Unbeknownst to the PRT and the public, this group of members were still in contact.  By the time it became apparent what they were doing, the new group, dubbed the Elite, had combined assets, employees and businesses quintupling Uppermost at its peak, and formed a loose confederation. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Swjz8BZZNE4bq6lTkHanTK4sJ-K_xVlFudxA16mYjH4/edit#heading=h.ry6hr0z1e3p2 PRT Quest (Anchorage)]</ref> Many core members have since been supplanted by a more ruthless leadership, titling themselves after elements of aristocracy,<ref>Many core members have been supplanted by a more ruthless leadership, titling themselves after elements of the aristocracy. - [https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Swjz8BZZNE4bq6lTkHanTK4sJ-K_xVlFudxA16mYjH4/edit#heading=h.ry6hr0z1e3p2 PRT Quest (Anchorage)]</ref> combined with ostentatious as possible costume choices.<ref name="27.2">There were capes I knew to be the Elite: Nonpareil and Patrician, Agnes Court and Blueblood.  They were the opposite of faceless, taking great pride in their appearance and their powers.  The Elite were an organized crime syndicate, shutting down anyone who tried to use their powers for profit, unless those people worked for them. - [https://parahumans.wordpress.com/2013/08/17/extinction-27-2/ Excerpt] from [[Extinction 27.2]]</ref>