Editing SHADOW (section)

== Operations ==


SHADOW operates a fairly never-ending stream of criminal operations and terrorist attacks.  It actually fosters a large number of 'crazy' plans as well, that are meant to fail but can distract heroes and the government from more subtle schemes.  Shadow makes most of its fortune in entirely legitimate corporate ventures like weapons design and mercenary companies but it cannot buy instability.  It's agents are recruited from American Militias, Fundamentalist religious groups, racist organizations, its own mercenary front companies, prisons and existing terrorist groups.  For obvious reasons, many of these groups do not mix and operate in cell format but ultimately all roads lead back to Overshadow.


Amongst Super-Criminals, Shadow routinely arranges for their release and simultaneously offers their own operatives to help them carry out missions.  Doctor Sin's '''Fangs of the Dragon''' have actually merged with the Chinese branch of SHADOW to become the most powerful Anti-Communist/Criminal Enterprise in Asia.  The henchmen of the super villains are mostly told to obey without question and to keep their SHADOW affiliations a secret.  The chaos caused by super villains is enough to guarantee that SHADOW's aims are fulfilled.


SHADOW's front organizations and corporations are, of course, too numerous to list.