Editing ToG Necessary Evil - Oracle (section)

===Background===
Like many people, Anthony Fortune grew up wanting to make the world a better place. Unlike many people, Anthony possessed two gifts that would enable him to have a much bigger impact that most, an intellect some would describe as godlike and psychic abilities that enabled him to perceive beyond the here and now. Anthony was able to exploit both gifts to make himself even more potent, peering into potential futures to view scientific and technological advancements and then reverse engineering what he saw to create wonders in the present.

At first Anthony tried to work within the rules, using his talents and power to improve the world as both a philanthropic technology mogul and the superhero Oracle. But despite his best efforts he found such limitations obstructed his attempts to truly make the world a better place. He saw the terrible potential futures that lay ahead and decided that the only way he could steer humanity toward a brighter destiny was to just do whatever it took to achieve what was needed, no matter who or what stood in his way.

So, in popular parlance, he "broke bad" and founded FATE, The Federation for Advancing Technocratic Enlightenment. A clandestine organization of scientists, technologists and thinkers in every field, its purpose was to subvert and eventually overthrow all existing governments and other significant power structures to usher in a new age in which those qualified to make the big decisions due to their knowledge and intellect would shape society towards a better tomorrow.

Obviously his former colleagues in the hero community did not take Anthony's change in methodology well at all. For his part, Oracle had nothing but disdain for the superhero community, seeing them as fools who let their naive respect for laws and governments lead them into upholding a corrupt and self destructive status quo rather doing what it took to really save the world.

Unfortunately, it was this rift that caused the heroes he reached out to with the warning that the V'sori were up to no good to dismiss his words as part of some ploy to manipulate circumstances to FATE'S benefit. Not only that but they advised any governments he contacted with the same warning to view his claims with the same skepticism. That, coupled with his reputation as a traitor and supervillain, ensured any words he had to say about the V'sori fell on deaf ears.

So he took the only option he could. Told every member of FATE to leave major cities with whatever resources they could manage to take with them and go into hiding as best they can. He followed his own advice and took what technology he could with him, hiding what he couldn't readily carry in caches in remote locales before finding a safe place to sit things out.

In the aftermath of the V'sori victory, Oracle emerged to find that many of his caches had been destroyed by his anti-tampering protocols or appropriated by others. As for the members of FATE, many were dead, others pledged their loyalty to other groups and some even had the gall to turn quisling and cozy up to the invaders and their human pawns. All he had to fight the V'sori were his personal abilities and the devices he had on his person.

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