<strong>Black Spirals</strong><br/>There is a small scouting pack of BSDs near the city.  They have yet to infiltrate much beyond a few small sorties into the suburbs, however.  The pack is, appropriately enough, devoted to Kirijama, “The Hidden Foe.”<br/><br/>Other “turned” Bête (such as Carrion Crows) may exist, at the GM’s discretion.<br/><br/><strong>DNA</strong><br/>Offices: New Haven Biotech Project (a tech park in the eastern suburbs)<br/>Size Present: Small, new facility.<br/>Divisions: MF - mid-sized<br/>RD - major facility<br/>CBT - minor facility<br/>SI - mid-sized facility<br/>Local Director: Victoria Strassen (GM)<br/><br/>Site Appearance: DNA runs a fairly small office/lab on the east side of Sanctuary.  To date, the building is a two story faux stone structure standing on an acre of land in the New Haven Biotech Project.  Close neighbors include pharmaceutical companies and related firms.  The labs at the DNA office handle seemingly mundane R&D projects based on information provided by other labs.  Three or four GLS test subjects reside in special basement pens.<br/><br/>History (Local): This DNA facility was built in 1999 to replace the labs lost in New Orleans during the prior year.  Since it is a new lab, this branch has done little original work so far.  Ms. Strassen oversees the analysis and research based on raw data provided by larger labs.  Two years ago, SI caught one advanced case of GLS-1L and three cases of GLS-2.  all four are being held so that local analysts can attempt to reproduce the work of their colleagues.<br/><br/>Connections: To date, DNA has no contacts in the supernatural or mundane community.  However, Director Strassen has been made aware of the Arcanum and Society of Leopold.  Since she’s not sure where they are, she’s considering making contact somehow.  She’s unaware that neither group really cares about the Lupines.<br/><br/><strong>FBI Special Affairs</strong><br/>Office: Converted condo in an eastern suburb<br/>Size: One agent<br/><br/>The love FBI-SA agent in Sanctuary is there simply as a regional base of operations.  This agent has access to sophisticated intelligence gear, a small armory of military grade equipment, and recourse to call upon backup.  (S)He is not authorized to engage with any supernatural forces directly, without backup and central office approval.  Rather, the agent is supposed to observe, investigate, and compile data for potential use in future operations, specifically in regard to vampires.  Unbeknownst to the agent, (s)he has been rubbing shoulders with lycanthropes, magi, and the undead for several years.<br/><br/><strong>NSA</strong><br/>Office: Small downtown office building rented from an NSA front company.<br/>Size: 5-8 Field agents, 10-16 analysts, 10-20 support staff.<br/><br/>The NSA maintains a small office in Sanctuary.  Like most NSA offices, this one is unaware of supernatural activity beyond reports of wackos and cultists.  Otherwise, they ignore the other denizens of the city, so far, and are ignored in turn.  In fact, most of the city’s supernatural population doesn’t even know that the group has an office in town, or what the NSA actually does, beyond being a federal agency involved with the intelligence community.<br/><br/><strong>The Arcanum</strong><br/>Site: Posefski Manor – 18th century manor home on the eastern edge of the city<br/>Size: 10-15 full members, 5-7 partial members, 30-44 support staff<br/><br/>The Arcanum opened up a chapter house in Sanctuary in the mid-19th century.  Through a member’s estate, the group bought an old manor house from the early days of the city.  Arcanum members kept an eye on the city for some time, almost for the city’s foundation.  The NYC chapterhouse discovered the Nosferatu involvement, but were unsure of the motives.  So, the Arcanum did what it does best, watched and waited, slowly increasing its presence.  By the 1920s, the purpose of the Nosferatu was understood.  Since then, the house has been host to quasi-retired Arcanum members and some young initiates there to learn the organization’s methods in a controlled and largely safe setting.<br/><br/><strong>The Society of Leopold</strong><br/>Site: The Second United Congregational Church of Christ, west side suburb<br/>Size: Bishop, 3 priests, 6 deacons, 9 acolytes (3 teams of 6)<br/><br/>The Society of Leopold’s force and touch in the city is very small and light.  In part, this is due to the fact that the city only came to the Inquisition’s notice relatively recently.  The other major factor is that the Society is not quite certain what to do with the city.  Because the city’s Kindred population is so large, and relatively unified unlike NYC’s, the organization is still figuring out how best to proceed.  The lesson of NYC and all the collateral damage there has served to make the local Inquisition bishop a bit nervous about attempting the divide and conquer technique, if it would even work in the relatively peaceful city.<br/><br/><strong>Mummy Info</strong><br/>Given the nature of the city, there may be one Mummy operating in the city.  (With a good story, the GM may allow a PC Mummy.)<br/><br/><strong>Pentex</strong><br/>Offices: Sherman Industrial Park, southern suburb<br/>Size Present: Small branch office (1 First Team)<br/>Divisions: PCD – major facility<br/>AQD – midrange facility<br/>OPD – major facility<br/>SPD – minor facility<br/>Proj. Aeneid – minor facility<br/>Local Director: Eliza Pearsh (GM)<br/>First Team: Jaz Smith, team leader (GM)<br/><br/>Site Appearance: Part of a small industrial complex, Pentex’s local office is a non-descript three story building with the corporate sign by the parking lot driveway.  For a range of about twenty yards around the mirrored windows, groundskeepers maintain a carefully groomed lawn.  Inside, the office is home to a few labs and scores of offices/cubicles.  There is a restricted and closed garage housing some company vehicles.  In the basement and subbasement, closed off from most employees, the First Team and less physically acceptable employees live and train near special labs.<br/><br/>History (Local): Pentex established the Sanctuary branch office in 1998, so the locals are still settling in and feeling out the scene.  Ms. Pearsh has run the branch for that whole time, in fact her mentor recommended the office’s establishment.  With most of the labs up and running projects full time, the local directive has been to lay fairly low and maintain contact with local supernaturals who might be good allies.  The branch grew enough in its first few years that it was awarded a First Team to aid in endeavours back in 2002.  To date, the Team has only conducted recon and light raid missions while mundane officers secure the facility.<br/><br/>Connections: So far, the only strong connections Pentex has are with the local Young Bloods.  The Sabbat refused their proposal of alliance years ago, something hat’s bothered Ms. Pearsh.  Recently, a group of ghouls called the Sanguinaries and some Dancers have come to the corporation’s attention.  Methods of approaching both groups are currently in committee.<br/><br/>Other Corporations:<br/>Global Networks - GN maintains a downtown office from which it controls roughly 20% of the local industry, though it is shooting for 50%.<br/><br/>Consolidex Worldwide - CW keeps a brokerage in each suburb of Sanctuary as well as a downtown office.  It was the second Pentex tendril into the city.<br/><br/>Herculean Firearms, Ltd. - HFL maintains a plant in a crumbling, economically downtrodden suburb, where it employs nearly 70% of the locals for minimum wage.<br/><br/>King Breweries - KBD was Pentex’s first tendril, back in the 1960s.  It paved the way for the home office with a southside brewery/bottler.<br/><br/>Magadon, Inc. - This branch has a major research facility built in concert with Sanctuary College and the University of Virginia, Sanctuary branch.  There is no production in town.<br/><br/>Rainbow, Inc. - RI keeps a manufacturing plant on the eastside, employing nearly 40% of the suburb’s workforce directly or indirectly.<br/><br/>Vesuvius, Inc. - VI runs a publishing house downtown.  It mostly handles magazines and comics, tapping SC and UVA students for talent.<br/><br/><strong>Shinzui Industries</strong><br/>Offices: Mid-sized office building in a southern suburb<br/>Size Present: Moderate (1 Drone, 3-4 Garou, 9-12 Kinfolk)<br/>Local Director: Paul Lederer, Mr. (GM)<br/>Notes: Garou are all Hakken or Glasswalkers<br/><br/>Site Appearance: The Sanctuary branch of Shinzui Industries sits apart from any other building by several dozen yards.  Its facility is surrounded by a chain fence topped by barbed wire with a guard posted by the gate.  A sign out front proudly claims the facility as a defense contractor.  From the street, it is virtually impossible to see within the mirrored windows of the office by mundane means.  Umbrally, the site is literally crawling with thousands of spirit spiders of various sorts.<br/><br/>History (Local): Shinzui created this office as part of a Department of Defense contract back in the 1980s.  The project was a long term one that is still being researched and developed.  In the meantime, the company has been secretly building powered armor and developing means of getting technologic wonders into the Umbra.  According to the Garou view, not that they share this, the devices are being built to allow kinfolk and others to help in fighting off the Wyrm.  The truth, as always, is rather different.<br/><br/>Connections: Obviously, the company has contacts with the federal government.  Disturbingly, none of Shinzui’s Garou have contact with the local sept.  This situation, with “rogue” Garou, has the sept understandably concerned, to say the least.  According to in-house rumor, there is some talk that Mr. Lederer is pursuing a joint effort with a company called DNA to work on a biogenic project recently handed down from the Board.