33rd Strategic Battle Group
| 33rd Strategic Battle Group "Black 33" SBG-33 BlackOps "Supernatural Warfare & Esoteric Research" Group 33 "Anomaly Prevention & Containment" 33rd Rapid Emergency Response Group "AnHaz–SpecClean" | |
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| Active | Since early 1958 |
| Country | People's Republic of Zhouran |
| Allegiance | Zhouranese People & Nation, the deities of the Spiritual Mandate pantheon |
| Branch | Zhouranese People's Army, Ministry of National Security, Supreme Investigative Directorate |
| Type | Strategic battle group consisting of 4 combat assault groups, 3 combat aviation groups, 1 combat naval group, and 2 "special research groups" |
| Role | Supernatural warfare Esoteric research Combating and containing individuals, entities, locations, objects, and phenomena that violate natural law |
| Size | Classified, consists of personnel from the Zhouranese People's Army, Ministry of National Security, and the Supreme Investigative Directorate |
| Headquarters | Classified, simply referred to as Dreamland and Slaughterhouse |
| Nickname(s) | Black 33 One-Eyed Wolves of the 33rd |
| Patron | Kekang Keshen (Warrior God and Immortal Guardian of Peace in the Spiritual Mandate pantheon) |
| Motto(s) | Not one step back for we are the last line of defense and we will burn our own soldiers to defend the last line! (Putonghua: 没有退一步，因为我们是最后一道防线，我们将燃烧自己的士兵来捍卫最后一道线！; Pinyin: Méiyǒu tuì yībù, yīnwèi wǒmen shì zuìhòu yīdào fángxiàn, wǒmen jiāng ránshāo zìjǐ dí shìbīng lái hànwèi zuìhòu yīdào xiàn!) |
| March | Ode to the Defenders of the Motherland (since somewhere around late 1969) |
| Mascot(s) | A one-eyed Zhouranese Great Battle Wolf named Death (since somewhere around early 1967) |
| Commanders | |
| Group Commander | Senior Marshal [REDACTED], callsign Overlord (ZPA Ground Force) |
| 2 × Deputy Group Commanders | Chief Marshal [REDACTED], callsign Predator (ZPA Ground Force) Field Marshal [REDACTED], callsign Butcher (ZPA Ground Force) |
| Head Liaison from the Zhouranese People's Army | Senior General [REDACTED], callsign Chaos (ZPA Ground Force) |
| Head Liaison from the Ministry of National Security | Mr [REDACTED], callsign Black Sparrow |
| Head Liaison from the Supreme Investigative Directorate | Mrs [REDACTED], callsign Maneater |
33rd Strategic Battle Group "Black 33" (Putonghua: 第33战略战斗组 "黑色33"; Pinyin: Dì 33 Zhànlüè Zhàndòu Zǔ "Hēisè 33"), also going by different alternative names such as SBG-33 Black-Operations "Supernatural Warfare & Esoteric Research" (Putonghua: 战略战斗组33 黑色操作 "超自然战争与神秘研究"; Pinyin: Zhànlüè Zhàndòu Zǔ 33 Hēisè Cāozuò "Chāozìrán Zhànzhēng Yǔ Shénmì Yánjiū"), Group 33 "Anomaly Prevention & Containment" (Putonghua: 组33 "异常预防与遏制"; Pinyin: Zǔ 33 "Yìcháng Yùfáng Yǔ Èzhì"), and 33rd Rapid Emergency Response Group "Anomalous Hazard, Special Cleanup" (Putonghua: 第33快速应急反应组 "异常危害，特殊清理"; Pinyin: Dì 33 Kuàisù Yìngjí Fǎnyìng Zǔ "Yìcháng Wéihài, Tèshū Qīnglǐ"), is a highly-classified elite covert group in the People's Republic of Zhouran, established in early 1958 under the direct orders of the State Presidium and the People's Defense Council following the renouncement of Dark Ascension due to its infiltration by the political-superhardline. Answerable only to both the President of the State Presidium and the Chairman of the People's Defense Council, and tasked with safeguarding and preserving the safety & existence of the Zhouranese People & Nation from paranormal supernatural threats, collecting and studying anomalous beings & artifacts for military-oriented esoteric research & development, combating and containing individuals/entities/locations/objects/phenomena that violate natural law across the nation and the entire world, defending humanity's perceptions of reality and normalcy by concealing the existence of anomalies from the public, and preserving Zhouran's political stability by protecting the political-moderate and political-hardline from the political-superhardline, the 33rd Strategic Battle Group consists of numerous personnel from the Zhouranese People's Army, Ministry of National Security and Supreme Investigative Directorate that are handpicked by the People's Defense Council based on a highly-strict rigorous set of criteria. Conducting clandestine black-operations for the preservation of the existence & safety of Zhouran, the 33rd Strategic Battle Group has garrisons and research facilities across the nation from Mainland Zhouran to Overseas Zhouran, with research facilities being shared together with the Scientific Military Research Bureau for esoteric research & development and the weaponization of paranormal anomalies for supernatural warfare. The 33rd Strategic Battle Group also monitors any key military and civilian figures that have close ties to political-superhardline groups to ensure the safety of the political-moderate and political-hardline from radical occultist elements of violent superhardline extremism.
Officially, the 33rd Strategic Battle Group does not exist – it is a covert clandestine group that is given free reign when it comes to supernatural warfare and esoteric research. The group has access to ZPA's vast stockpiles of highly-sophisticated arsenal and military technologies, in addition to highly-refined information control technologies from the Ministry of National Security, vital to preserving the ignorance of the mass public in Zhouran and across the world. Each member of the organization is over-zealously and fanatically single-mindedly dedicated to its goal and fully believes that it justifies the means, no matter how distasteful and unethical they are. As such, personnel will execute anyone without hesitation, use highly-destructive firepower against even a single anomalous threat, and brutally torture and interrogate anyone that might knowledge regarding an anomaly or the political-superhardline using violent, unethical and immoral methods that violate every known international laws & conventions and are beyond inhumane. Some members have even been noted as possessing cruel and sadistic zeal for the fulfillment of their objectives. This approach earns them the ire of the rest of the ZPA, MNS and SID, who usually consider the 33rd Strategic Battle Group to be a "necessary evil to the Motherland". The group also performs other inhumane crimes against humanity such as kidnapping prisoners-of-war and foreign civilians for use as test subjects in their extremely-unethical esoteric experiments, and downright disregarding any human lives during operations.
The existence of anomalies is withheld from the public as to prevent mass panic and to allow Zhouranese civilization to function normally. When an anomaly is detected, personnel are deployed either to collect and transport the anomaly to any of their research facilities, to contain it at its location of discovery if transport is not possible, or to outright eliminate it if it is uncontrollable and poses a massive existential threat and catastrophic risk to the safety and existence of the Zhouranese People & Nation. Once anomalies are contained or eliminated, they are closely studied for esoteric research & development. Test subjects are used to interact with dangerous anomalies due to the danger posed by those anomalies and the expendability of test subjects. The 33rd Strategic Battle Group maintains numerous documentation for all of the anomalies it encounters, which includes various reports and files. These documents describe the anomalies and include instructions for either how to interact with the anomaly safely or how to efficiently eliminate an anomaly.
History
The Kangyulic Zhouranese world has always had a strong tradition of magic, shamanism, sorcery, mysticism, , and anomalous phenomena for several millennia long thanks to the ingrained influences of the Spiritual Mandate (indigenous religion of the Kangyuli people created somewhere in 3,270 BCE) and the religion's mythos & cosmology. WIP
ORBAT
ZPA Ground Force
- Combat Assault Group Thunder Wolf 4-9 - Approximately 30,000 troops, storm-grenadier unit
- Combat Assault Group Fox Hunter 9-3 - Approximately 30,000 troops, armored-storm unit
ZPA Air Force
- Combat Aviation Group Green Serpent 1-4 - Approximately 2,100 troops, helicopter unit
- Combat Aviation Group Hungry Bear 2-9 - Approximately 2,100 troops, helicopter unit
- Combat Naval Group Vigorous Shark 6-3 - Varies by size per rotation
Joint Military Services
- Combat Assault Group Headhunter 3-5 - Unknown, special forces units from the ZPA Ground Force, ZPA Air Force & ZPA Navy
- Combat Assault Group Sea Tiger 7-1 - Approximately 30,000 troops, maritime-dragoon units from both ZPA Ground Force & ZPA Navy
- Combat Aviation Group Eagle Eater 9-4 - Approximately 2,100 troops, aviation-fighter-dragoon units from both ZPA Air Force & ZPA Navy
Ministry of National Security & Supreme Investigative Directorate
- Special Research Group Nightmare 6-6 - Unknown, supernatural intelligence and paranormal reconnaissance speciality from the Ministry of National Security
- Special Research Group Enlightened 9-9 - Unknown, esoteric research & investigation speciality from the Supreme Investigative Directorate