OOC:Council 13

Council 13

Abbreviation	C13
Founder	Andrew Wolf Yuri Volginenko
Headquarters	Kesslerstaadt
Membership	13
Leader	Amihan Russel (de facto)

Council 13 (C13) is a secret, mysterious and extremely powerful international organisation led by billionaire businessman and financier Amihan Russel. Composed of a group of thirteen powerful business, political, military and religious figures, it seeks to realise Russel's vision of a unified, global police state with the capacity to totally repress human nature, which it views as inherently evil and necessarily constrained in order to achieve world peace.

History

Foundation

In October 1957, during the height of the EDC-Theedishland war, the conflict nearly escalated to nuclear proportions before international pressure and mutual concessions by the governments involved returned the situation to the status quo. This brush with catastrophe spurred the establishment of the International Security and Arbitration Council (ISAAC) designed to prevent such escalations in the future. However, the establishment of ISAC was deemed insufficient by some to guarantee enduring global peace.

In October 1962 a Eulabian billionaire Andrew Wolf met with Colonel Yuri Volginenko of Krasnomirsk's intelligence services to discuss this problem. Although neither possessed direct political authority, both shared a mutual disdain for their respective governments' approaches to international policy. In parallel, Lucius Morgenstern, a high-ranking official from Theedishland, harboured concerns about his country’s militant national policies post-Great War. Together, these three influential figures resolved to establish a secret organisation dedicated to maintaining global peace at any cost.

This alliance led to the formation of Council 13 (C13), a secretive consortium that aimed to use unconventional methods to steer humanity away from the brink of nuclear war. Under General Volginenko’s leadership, who had ascended the ranks within Krasnomirsk’s intelligence community, the group saw the inclusion of several KGB officers and CPSU officials. Wolf recruited several influential business magnates from the Eulabian Union, while Morgenstern brought in politically connected individuals from Theedishland.

Initially, C13 aimed to influence global events through peaceful means. However, as their efforts faced greater resistance, the organisation's tactics grew increasingly ruthless, including coercion, bribery, and assassination. To fund these operations, C13 members increasingly engaged in international crime, rationalising these actions as necessary sacrifices for the greater good of humanity. Objections from the founding members about these aggressive tactics were swiftly quashed under the pretext of maintaining global peace.

Russel's rise to power

Starting in the 1980s, a new member of the council; a billionaire named Amihan Russel, began to become influential. The original purpose of C13 was exacerbated by the escalating tensions between the WSO and anti-communist countries, causing the founding members to lose clout. A victim of ethnic cleansing when he was a child, Russel believed that all humans were inherently evil and that a global police state with the ability to repress human nature was the only way to achieve world peace. When Wolf protested this, Russel had him killed with the help of his mentor, Lucius Morgenstern. Russel took complete control of C13 now that there was nobody to oppose his vision, transitioning away from its original goal of preventing nuclear war and towards becoming the largest criminal organisation in the world.

Growing resistance

After the near-universal collapse of communism after the Red Monsoon, the threat of worldwide nuclear anniliation had all but disappeared. Nevertheless, over the following decades, C13 under Russel evolved and expanded its global operations, successfully implanting its agents in governments all over the world and supporting many non-state actors to fulfill its ambitions. Through this, it manufactured crises and false-flag operations, further increasing its influence and power in global affairs. Its power was boosted by accelerating globalisation and the information revolution. Preceded by the appointment of Maki Kojiro as Prime Minister of Nifon in 1990, it would not be until the dawn of the new millennium that Russel would find growing resistance to his ambitions. Along with Nifon, a number of countries in the 2010s elected virulently nationalist, anti-communist and anti-globalist governments. At the same time, the powerful Redshield Foundation had a competing vision for global domination.

Members

No.	Image	Information		Description
C-1		Name	Amihan Russel	Russel is the enigmatic head of Russel Financial and leader of Council 13.
		Birthplace	Unknown
		Member since	1980
C-2		Name	Gregore Kovacs
		Birthplace	Gadyaria
		Member since
C-3		Name	Lucius Morgenstern	Russel's mentor, co-founder of C13
		Birthplace	Theedishland
		Member since	1962
C-4		Name	Ignjat Bogdanovij	Boss in the Stojamian bratva
		Birthplace	Stojam
		Member since	1980s
C-5		Name	Su Zhongyi	Head of Fenghuang Pharmaceuticals
		Birthplace	Wenchuan
		Member since	2001
C-6		Name	Illse Beyen	Former President of the Eulabian Executive Council
		Birthplace	Eulabia
		Member since	1999
C-7		Name	TBD
		Birthplace
		Member since
C-8		Name	Charbel Al Ashqar	Businessman and secret financial backer of As'Saiqa
		Birthplace	Haramun
		Member since	1983
C-9		Name	TBD
		Birthplace
		Member since
C-10		Name	TBD
		Birthplace
		Member since
C-11		Name	Jaiden Moritzstein	Founder and owner of Moritzstein Dynamics.
		Birthplace	Eulabia
		Member since	2021
C-12		Name	Walter Siemens	Head of Siemens Self-Defense Forces
		Birthplace
		Member since
C-13		Name	Duke Alexander Kruger	Current CEO of Peacemaker International Groups, largest security GLCs in Aeyariss Empire
		Birthplace	Aeyariss
		Member since	2008

Former members

• C-1 Yuri Volginenko (1962–1980), military officer and co-founder of Council 13, (incapacitated by nerve agent on the orders of Russel, later died)
• C-2 Andrew Wolf (1962–1982), billionaire and co-founder of Council 13, (killed on the orders of Russel)
• C-5 Li Jianto Wenchuan (1962–2001), general and head of the Bureau of People's Security of WSR
• C-6 Michael Freeman (1962–1999)
• C-7 21st Jonchen Llama (1962–?)
• C-8 Ibrahim ibn Mahmoud al Rashid (1962–1983) Prince of Rashidi Arabia (Killed on the orders of Russel)
• C-9 Chandradev Upadhya (1962–?), leader of the International Shiva Consciousness Foundation, (shot-dead by Steven Nordholt on the orders of Russel)
• C-9 Carlos Guitierrez (1962–?) Leader of a massive cartel
• C-12 Jair Moran (1962–1987), President of Carloso (assassinated on the orders of Russel, blamed on Bourgougian forces)
• C-13 Alexander Heinzal (1962–2008), former acting Chancellor of the Realm, (executed after failed coup in 2008 Aeyariss).