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The Elite are an organized crime syndicate, they are major players in the world of Worm but they are not seen much within the story itself.

Goals and Methods

The organization forms a loose pyramid-style structure of cells. The head cell, based in San Francisco, manages interests on the national scale, while each step down involves a step down in scale. The Elite expect villains and groups to be beholden to the Elite and nobody else, Rogues are folded into the organization, and resistance is systematically crushed. Once an area is firmly under control, these resources are leveraged to expand elsewhere.<ref name="Wildbow PRT">Wildbow PRT Quest Archive</ref>

Each cell has it's own independence and operations, some are strictly corporate others are in the same league as the Slaughterhouse Nine.

Cauldron did not consider them to be developing fast enough to be useful.<ref>21.x (Donation Interlude</ref>

Members

Name:	Status:
Agnes Court	Missing
Nonpareil	Alive
Patrician	Alive
Blueblood	Alive
Uppercrust	Sick
The Gentleman	Alive
Regis Rex	Alive
Bastard Son	Alive
Entourage	Alive

History

Background

The Elite got their start in San Francisco as ‘Uppermost’, an organization for rogues by rogues, involved in production and entertainment, managed by parahumans.<ref name="PRT Quest">PRT Quest document P.25</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. After a great deal of consideration, the head office turned down the offer for assistance, the bill was passed, and Uppermost disbanded. 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.<ref name="PRT Quest"/>

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. 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. Many core members have been supplanted by a more ruthless leadership, titling themselves after elements of the aristocracy.<ref name="PRT Quest"/>

The Timeskip

Expanded in to Anchorage

Golden Morning

Attended Cauldron meeting at the starrt of the Golden Morning.

<ref name="27.2">Extinction 27.2</ref> Tried to set up a territory to restart civilization, failed, as they attacked civilians durng a time of crisis and punitive measures were taken.<ref name="28.5">Cockroaches 28.5</ref>

Trivia

Would have head-hunted Panacea had they been given the opportunity.<ref name="R1">Speculation by wildbow on Reddit</ref>
Regis Rex shares his name with Harmon Rex an enforcer character for an early version of the Elite whose traits would be broken up between the Siberian and Gavel.

References

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 The '''Elite''' are an organized crime syndicate, they are major players in the world of Worm but they are not seen much within the story itself.
-==Background==
-The Elite got their start in San Francisco as ‘Uppermost’, an organization of rogues organized by rogues, involved in production and entertainment, managed by parahumans.
-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.  After a great deal of consideration, the head office  turned down the offer for assistance, the bill was passed, and Uppermost disbanded.  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.
+==Goals and Methods==
+The organization forms a loose pyramid-style structure of cells.  The head cell, based in San Francisco, manages interests on the national scale, while each step down involves a step down in scale.  The Elite expect villains and groups to be beholden to the Elite and nobody else, Rogues are folded into the organization, and resistance is systematically crushed.  Once an area is firmly under control, these resources are leveraged to expand elsewhere.<ref name="Wildbow PRT">[https://docs.google.com/document/d/18xcEYRK0Ts-k6--ZOuDFh-ILK9hLzcgkDTIf6L_G90s/edit Wildbow PRT Quest Archive]</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.  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.  Many core members have been supplanted by a more ruthless leadership, titling themselves after elements of the aristocracy.
+Each cell has it's own independence and operations, some are strictly corporate others are in the same league as the [[Slaughterhouse Nine]].
+Cauldron did not consider them to be developing fast enough to be useful.<ref>[[21.x (Donation Interlude]]</ref>
+<!--relevant quote: The Elite, a villain group expanding a subtle control over the western seaboard of America, putting pressure on rogues to bring them under their thumb as performers, thinkers, designers and innovators.  He could see the numbers, extrapolate from the data to gauge their rate of growth.  They were developing too slowly to be useful, not developing fast enough to outpace the predicted end of the world.  They’d reach Brockton Bay in about a year.  There would be time to decide if countermeasures were needed in the meantime.-->
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-The organization forms a loose pyramid-style structure of cells.  The head cell, based in San Francisco, manages interests on the national scale, while each step down involves a step down in scale.  The Elite expect villains and groups to be beholden to the Elite and nobody else, Rogues are folded into the organization, and resistance is systematically crushed.  Once an area is firmly under control, these resources are leveraged to expand elsewhere.<ref name="Wildbow PRT">[https://docs.google.com/document/d/18xcEYRK0Ts-k6--ZOuDFh-ILK9hLzcgkDTIf6L_G90s/edit Wildbow PRT Quest Archive]</ref>
 ==History==
-[Coming Soon]
+===Background===
+The Elite got their start in San Francisco as ‘Uppermost’, an organization for rogues by rogues, involved in production and entertainment, managed by parahumans.<ref name="PRT Quest">[https://docs.google.com/document/d/1Swjz8BZZNE4bq6lTkHanTK4sJ-K_xVlFudxA16mYjH4/edit#heading=h.ry6hr0z1e3p2 PRT Quest document P.25]</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.  After a great deal of consideration, the head office  turned down the offer for assistance, the bill was passed, and Uppermost disbanded.  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.<ref name="PRT Quest"/>
+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. 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. Many core members have been supplanted by a more ruthless leadership, titling themselves after elements of the aristocracy.<ref name="PRT Quest"/>
+=== [[The Timeskip]] ===
+Expanded in to Anchorage
+===[[Golden Morning]]===
+Attended [[Cauldron Compound|Cauldron meeting]] at the starrt of the Golden Morning.
+<ref name="27.2">[[Extinction 27.2]]</ref>
+Tried to set up a territory to restart civilization, failed, as they attacked civilians durng a time of crisis and punitive measures were taken.<ref name="28.5">[[Cockroaches 28.5]]</ref>
 == Trivia ==
 * Would have head-hunted Panacea had they been given the opportunity.<ref name="R1">[https://www.reddit.com/r/Parahumans/comments/4arfdp/spoilers_all_what_if/ Speculation by wildbow on Reddit]</ref>
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+<!--Weaver noticing the Elite:
+Extinction 27.2 said:
+We were joined by a group of the Yàngbǎn, in flowing uniforms that fit somewhere between martial arts outfits and army gear, with masks like multifaceted gems. Faceless, with only numbers to identify them. 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.
+Tattletale telling Weaver that Leviathan is going to "visit" the Elite:
+Cockroaches 28.4 said:
+“We got Bohu, but she doesn’t move fast at all,” Tattletale said. “Leviathan’s on his way to pay the Elite a visit. Collateral damage could be ugly there.”
+The Dragonfly crew passing into another world and noticing the damage did to the Elite and the city they made:
+Cockroaches 28.5 said:
+The Dragonfly passed through the portal.
+Heavy rain showered down around us. The Dragonfly faltered for an instant as it changed settings, very nearly nosediving into the ground beneath us.
+Defiant pulled the craft up.
+Agnes Court, I thought. I’d studied all of the major players in anticipation of the end of the world, I knew who the Elite were, and I knew who had built this.
+She fit somewhere between Labyrinth and the Yàngbǎn’s Ziggurat. Organically grown structures. Seeds that swelled into pillars, stairs, houses and bigger things, given enough time in proximity to their master. The wood-like substance hardened to stone of varying colors after she terminated the growth.
+In the span of two and a half days, she’d grown a walled city, one with an elaborate castle at the northmost end, with shelters and what looked like a sewer system, if I was judging the perfectly round hole in the cliff face below right. It was gushing water.
+Two days to make this.
+Leviathan had taken less than an hour to demolish it.
+The wall, taller than some skyscrapers, was shattered in three places, damaged enough to serve little purpose in others. A shallow river flowed through the spots where the damage to the wall reached the ground.
+Leviathan had perched himself atop the castle’s highest tower, though the tower wasn’t broad enough for him to put anything more than two clawed hands and two feet on the very top. His tail wound around the structure, in one window and out another.
+Even through the rain, his five eyes glowed.
+“Oh no,” I said. “The civilians. The refugees.”
+“Relatively few,” Tattletale said. “That’s… yeah. I don’t think we offed people in any substantial numbers.”
+Weaver and Tattletale defending their choice of sending Leviathan to the Elite:
+Cockroaches 28.5 said:
+“They were attacking civilians.”
+“They were nonviolent. Refugees in the vicinity of the portal were evacuated. The Elite then made contact with possible settlers who they thought would be interested in paying a premium for good shelter, for resources and supplies. If not paying with cash, then paying with skills. Doctors, talented artists, scholars… it was one of our best bets for re-establishing a hub of development across all of the Earths.”
+“They broke the truce,” Tattletale said.
+“Again, they were an asset. They were cooperating. The truce hardly stands in this dark hour.”
+“They broke the truce,” I echoed Tattletale. “The code has been there since the beginning. If a bigger threat shows up, we band together. We don’t distract each other with attacks or murder attempts, we don’t take advantage of the situation to fuck with civilians. The truce is there for a reason, and it has weight because everyone knows that they can’t handle the trouble that gets express-delivered to their doorsteps when they’ve defied it.”-->
 [[Category:Groups and Organizations]]
+[[Category:Rogues]]
+[[Category:Villain Groups]]