Editing Eclipse Phase (section)

===Firewall===
The default protagonist faction, dedicated to fight against the x-risks and other threats to humanity by any means necessary. Before The Fall, there were many anti-x-risks organizations and state agencies who were not taken seriously, and after the shit hit the fan the remnants of these groups met and founded Firewall. Think a mashup of spy-thriller-style "highest-clearance-level" government organizations, the leadership of [[X-Com|X-COM]], the Imperial [[Inquisition]], a dash of the [[SCP Foundation]], a pinch of ''The Laundry Files'', and a heaping helping of ethical [[Shadowrun|shadowrunning]]. They are extremely compartmentalized in order to avoid the House of Cards situation, to the point that it is more accurate to say that there are lots of different groups that identify themselves as Firewall who are barely connected with each other (and then only by equally loose councils).

If you're wondering how they stayed relevant against other more organized factions, a friendly ASI's (the Super AI like the TITANs) influence might have had a hand in it.

Your typical PCs are Firewall Sentinels, a team of agents who are tasked to assess the potential problem without drawing too much attention and, if possible, neutralize it. If something is way above their capabilities or things goes south, the min-maxed all-combat-all-the-time Erasure teams are called in to purge everything in general vicinity, including the Sentinels if they are unlucky.

To avoid subversion and to increase recruiting pools, Firewall's internal political structure is much closer to that of the Imperial Inquisition than say, The Laundry or the Men In Black. Firewall cells do go rogue, they sometimes end up fighting each other, and Firewall has "puritans" and "radicals" who argue over what can be used and what must be destroyed.