![]() ![]() The three main societies all know of Gaia, as they recruit many of their agents from those awakened by the Bees, and all are familiar with Agartha as a rapid travel system: they all respect Gaia to a degree, and know not to spit in the eye of one of their main resources. Anyone not touched by Gaia is said to go mad upon entering, and most entrances to Agartha are guarded by Gaia's servants ("The Bees," literal magical bees) in an effort to prevent innocents from being harmed by premature exposure to the Hollow Earth. Known commonly as the Hollow Earth, Agartha is an inter-planar nexus that allows those touched-by-Gaia (awakened with super-powers like the player) to travel from one point of the globe to another in a matter of minutes. Tesla's technology was particularly advantageous to the Red Hand, as it allowed them to generate electromagnetic fields capable of isolating areas from spy satellites and telepathic voyeurism, ensuring that their facilities would remain hidden.Īt one point, the Red Hand actually attempted to do what no other society had done before, and invade Agartha - presumably for use in mounting a larger invasion of the Soviet Union's enemies across the globe. They even claim to have poached Nikola Tesla from the Illuminati's potential recruitment drive (forcing the Illuminati to settle for Thomas Edison instead, a fact that Kirsten Geary bemoans to this day). To this end, they acquired agents from countless fields: professional black-ops teams, crackpot scientists, rogue magicians, and many others - including the super-soldiers acquired from their own labs. Having emerged from government programs rather than the millennia of history that led to the development of the other secret societies, they maintained a single-minded focus on ensuring the U.S.S.R.'s supremacy through science, technology and even magic. Whereas the Templars strove to annihilate evil wherever they found it, the Illuminati aimed to force their way to the top of "Darwin's ladder," and the Dragon aspired to become real-world engineers of fate, the Red Hand devoted itself to the future of the Soviet Union. However, because of the society's influence, few of these abuses were ever investigated unless any of them became grounds for a potential security breach. As such, the Red Hand became notorious for its use of human test subjects over the course of its experiments, with at least one facility earning the name "The Slaughterhouse" for the many casualties that occurred behind its walls. Like the other great secret societies, the Red Hand had its own way of doing things: in territory directly under their control, caring for local citizenry was a minor concern at best, with barely the faintest lip service paid to the idea people were little more than resources to be exploited when necessary and discarded when inconvenient. Despite their apparent subservient to the U.S.S.R., they possessed the authority to direct and administrate the affairs of several allied countries, such as Romania, East Germany, and Mongolia they even had influence in Greece and China. ![]() Given their immense importance to the Soviet Union's military development, the Red Hand commanded influence in the highest echelons of government, and was in turn allowed considerable leeway in pursuing their goals. ![]()
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