From “Gunjack”

Dang, you guys, that's a lot of material. Our stuff is a bit more
general; lain and I will figure out dates and times, but I want to
get the basics out here first. Rather than doing this as a timeline,
I thought I'd just put out the major points of the season plans we
have now.

Season 1 - Most of the first season is setup for the various plot
arcs. Hunter recruits the squad, and they begin their service under
the banner of the Illuminati. Anton Sevarius works to create a method
to heal Thailog's ruined body and begins bringing Hyena (and possibly
the rest of the ultrapack) under his thrall. Clarice Killian is
introduced, though not her connection to the Director. Logan Greyson
(Garlon) begins his meteoric rise within the Illuminati, and quickly
comes into conflict with the Director and the Squad. He'll be one of
our primary villians throughout the series. Demona appears to wreak
havoc in Paris, and her attack introduces the Gorgons and sheds some
light on the history of the first war of the Fey. The season ends
with the squad neck-deep in a civil war in Guatemala, which ends with
the Dragon being cocooned in molten iron, and Fang deserting the
team.

Quite a lot of time is devoted to the inner workings of the
Illuminati and its various factions and agencies; the Society is
central to the entire series, and we'll be including a LOT of detail
that will set the stage for later events. Also, we're getting quite a
bit of use out of what remains of the Unseelie court; Garlon and his
allies will be some of the central villians in the series. We're also
focusing on character development: fang and Yama's friendship,
Matrix's growing personality, that sort of thing.

Season 2 - Season 2 mostly revolves around Clarice, Killian, and
Grayson. It starts with the Squad recruiting the Halfling Zed to
replace Fang. Clarice begins stepping up her misguided efforts to hit
the Illuminati where it hurts the most, and we formally introduce her
allies (the Mercs, till we find a better name). Killian is busy
coping with aggresive power grabs by Grayson and Simons, while at the
same time trying to keep his daughter from getting them both killed.
Sevarius: this might be a good time for him to leave Nightstone
Unlimited to persue his own interests. If so, he takes hyena (and
maybe the rest of the Ultrapack) along. We explore some of Fang's
background while he wanders on his own, and then he returns to the
Squad near the end of the season. Also near the end of the season, a
maturing Matrix begins manifesting signs of personality shift, and
begins mimicing Hunter in both demeanor and physical shape. The
season ends with Clarice manipulated into attacking the Renegades;
the attack is a disaster, and she ends up on the run. The Director,
on the other hand, finds himself the Renegades' new leader after his
rivals fail to survive Clarice's attack. We might also take the time
to introduce Cowboy (Who we ALSO need a better name), the head of the
Mercs, as well as Jonathan Mars and Grayson's "Opposing Force"".
This season primarily focuses on the Renegades themselves, and on the
inner workings of their particular faction. Up till this point, it
was just the Director and Falstaff; this is our chance to flesh
things out somewhat.

Season 3 - This is the China Season, and the point where things start
to go downhill. The squad spends most of their time in the People's
Republic, tracking down an alliance between Dracula and a clan of
Chinese Vampires and playing cat and mouse with the Mercs and Cowboy.
Toward the end of the season, Mars' OpFor (Under the direction of
Garlon) should probably start making trouble for the squad and the
Renegades. If the Ultrapack followed Sevarius, they'll leave him at
this point (Hyena will stay), and begin mixing things up on their
own. LATE in this season, Sevarius digs up the mummified corpse of
the Dragon, and begins his final experiments. And finally, in the
last few eps of the season, the squad leads a raid against Cowboy
that ends with Matrix going berserk and devouring the Technophile
before disappearing.

Seasons 4&5 - This is where the Fit hits the Shan. Using his OpFor,
Garlon begins a series of skirmishes with the Seelie and hostile
Illuminates. The Matrix/Cowboy entity resurfaces in the Hotel Cabal
and begins infecting the Illuminati Archives; the Squad is pressed
into service as negotiators/guides in a disaterous attack of the
facility by a team of Sword agents (this is one of the RARE times
they actually appear in the series), which ends with a massive body
count and the Hybrid entity's escape. The Hybrid contacts Coyote 5.0,
offering assistance in achieving true sentience.

Sevarius' final expiriment continues; he stabilizes and re-animates
the Dragon's mummified corpse, and begins unlocking the secrets of
Fey biology and magic. As the experiment continues, his often tenuous
sanity takes a series decline. By this point, Hyena's mind and body
have been altered and warped almost beyond recognition. She tries to
escape, but is recaptured and twisted far, far beyond the breaking
point.
Oberon learns of Sevarius' experiments, and this abomination combined
with Greyson's attacks against his children leads him into an
offensive against the Illuminati. The rest of the plot is a rapidly
devolving conflict between The Society, Oberon's Children, and the
Hybrid, With the Director and his Squaddies caught in the middle.

Clarice and what's left of the Mercs find themselves fighting for the
Hybrid. We haven't quite figured out how yet, but they end up on the
losing team, and the Hybrid is defeated and captured (possibly
setting the stage for the Master Matrix?). Clarice is executed by her
own father. This act precipitates his own fall.

Near the end, the Squad hunts down Sevarius' location, and stages a
raid on his lab in hopes of ending the war. What they find is a
nightmare: a hive of hybrid monstrosities, presided over by a madman
that is no longer human. Sevarius has altered himself with magic, and
grafted himself into the Dragon's body. In the battle that ensues,
Sevarius tears a hole in the fabric of reality itself, and simply
LEAVES. Hyena is little more than an incubator for Sevarius' last
creation, a human daughter. She gives the child to Hunter for
safekeeping in a moment of lucidity, and is destroyed in the collapse
of the lab.

As the crisis reaches its peak, Hunter begins looking for a way out
for her and her men. The Renegades disintigrate as the Society itself
is thrown into total disarray. When the director offers her a chance
at freedom, she takes it.

The war goes badly for Killian, and his life-long pragmatism is
finally his own undoing. After losing all that he has, and after
learning the true magnitude of the conspiracy that has used up his
entire life, he rejects the society, erases his records, and
is "retired" by Hunter.

The End.

...So that's the basic plot we've hammered out. We're also working a
BUNCH on a rundown of how the Illuminati actually works, so maybe we
can discuss that later