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File:Tiger Cooperative-Logo.png Tiger Cooperative

Other Names: Tiger, Tiger Co-op, Church of the True Angels Related Pages: Changelings Related Lore: Changelings, Nova Sector, The Syndicate Languages: Sol CommonAnd when contact was established, the Admiral waved at the screen and said, "Mi parolas la lingvon de la Homines!" - I speak the language of Mankind. A simplified mix of Esperanto and Modern Latin, and the only recognized official language of the Sol Federation. This peculiar constructed language became popular during SolFed's earliest days, and was almost entirely overtaken by other popular tongues - it became widespread through heavy-handed political maneuvering with the help of corporate bureaucrats and other undesirables. Nowadays, it's a near-universal tongue and a must-know for any sentient being that plans to leap forward into space. Contributors: Template:Contributor/WatchesTheStars

Tiger Cooperative

The Tiger Cooperative is a shadowed and enigmatic syndicate operating at the intersection of biotechnology, religious fanaticism, and military conquest. Originally conceived as a loose collective of like-minded visionaries seeking biological perfection, it has since evolved into a vast corporate cult with decentralized yet ruthlessly efficient command structures. The Cooperative venerates Changelings- shape-shifting entities of myth and terror, as divine beings, viewing their genetic malleability and predatory cunning as the highest form of life.

Blending esoteric doctrine with cutting-edge biochemistry, the Tiger Cooperative engineers both living weapons and indoctrinated soldiers through a fusion of fervent worship and brutal science. Corporate directives are often handed down as religious edicts, and its "employees" are as much zealots as they are scientists, soldiers, and agents. Loyalty is absolute; defection or failure is met with swift and ritualistic retribution.

While their operations span clandestine biolabs, hidden strongholds, and front companies scattered across the sector, the Cooperative remains largely insular, maintaining strict barriers between their inner sanctums and the outside world. Their presence is typically heralded by outbreaks of bioengineered plagues, disappearances of research teams, or sudden cult uprisings - all signs that the Tiger's gaze has fallen upon a region.

The Tiger Cooperative is not merely a corporation: it is a crusade. A crusade to remake the universe in the image of their sacred patrons - a universe where flesh is mutable, faith is absolute, and survival belongs only to the most perfected.

Divisions

Like a living organism, the Church of the True Angels divides itself not merely by duty, but by sacred anatomy. To the uninitiated, its many arms seem disjointed, even contradictory; zealots beside chemists, mercenaries beside monks. But to the Choirbound, each Division is a sacred limb in a greater body of divine design.

From clandestine biotech foundries to blood-anointed strike cells, the Church’s operations are carved into four primary branches, each overseen by cloistered cadres and subjected to obsessive internal scrutiny. Their titles are sanitized in outward-facing documents (when such documents are ever recovered), but the faithful often refer to them with visceral reverence.

Each Division functions with relative autonomy, maintaining opaque connections with the others. It is said this separation is both a defensive measure, no one limb can betray the whole, and a metaphysical necessity, for the True Angels only whisper to those who suffer the right way.

Each functions as both a holy order and a logistical machine. They war. They preach. They breed monsters. And they do so under a single shared belief:

“The Angel needs many hands.”

Central Authority

"The Angel dreams, and the Dream is law. We are the nerves beneath the flesh."

-Inscription found within a locked reliquary chamber, exact source unknown.

The Central Authority is the heart that does not beat, a web of faceless overseers and cryptocratic theologians who maintain order, doctrine, and continuity within the Church of the True Angels. Unlike typical command structures, the Central Authority does not govern through presence or charisma. Instead, it manifests itself in edicts, encrypted communiques, and unmarked directives that arrive without ceremony and leave no trail.

Its members (known only by their call signs or ceremonial roles) are rarely seen, and even more rarely recognized. The faithful believe that some of them have never left the Church’s hallowed grounds, their flesh mummified by discipline and infused with whispers from the True Angels themselves. Others suspect they are not individuals at all, but an evolving intelligence shaped by communion, drug ritual, and organic computation.

The Authority's functions include:

• Doctrinal Curation: All theology, prophecy, and interpretation flows through them. They decide what is canon, what is heresy, and what is useful falsehood.

• Strategic Oversight: They determine long-term goals, choose which worlds are to be blessed (or devoured), and assign sacred missions to militant and scientific branches.

• Recruitment and Indoctrination Review: Converts, agents, and even high-ranking clerics are monitored and sometimes retroactively judged. Few are told if they’ve failed. Fewer survive the revelation.

• The Word of the Exarch: The Central Authority is the only division that claims direct access to the Exarch, the Church’s mysterious founder-prophet. Whether the Exarch is alive, transcendent, or even real remains a point of constant debate. Only the Authority knows, and they never answer questions.

The Central Authority’s presence is always implied but never declared. Reports from field agents often refer to them obliquely: “Instructions arrived, bearing no signature.” or “They knew where we would be before we did.” Their rare interventions often coincide with momentous changes in the Church’s direction or the sudden disappearances of entire cells.

Even within the Church, they are feared. Even among the faithful, their name is often whispered only once.

"We are not meant to speak of the dreamers. We are meant to obey them."

-Stained Choir Initiate, before self-silencing.

Prominent Figures and Installations

Distinguished Members of the Cooperative

Other Noteworthy Operatives

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Nova Sector Lore
	Common Species	Humans, Tiziran, Unathi, Moths, Ethereals, Azulae, Slime Hybrids, Teshari, Synthetic Humanoids (and assorted robots), Pod Persons, Hemophages, Xenomorphic Hybrid,
	Other Species	Genemodders (Felinids, Ice Walkers, Dwarf), Ashwalkers, Snailpersons, Ordoht (Formerly Skrell), Plasmamen, Flypeople, Vox (Primalis et al), Tajaran, Vulpkanin, Rouges (Abductorkin), Miscellaneous Species, Dullahans, Employee Golems, Changelings
	Nanotrasen	Nanotrasen, Central Command, Emergency Response Corps
	External Groups	The Syndicate (Gorlex, Tiger Cooperative, DS-2, Syndicate Manifestos), Interdyne Pharmaceutics, Cargo, The Spider Clan, Heliostatic Coalition, The Void Imperium
	Nova	The Nova Sector, IndecipheresLavaland, volcanic mining place., FreyjaIcebox and Snowglobe station frozen moon., BoletusSerenity Mushroomoon.
	Concepts	Bluespace, Plasma, Faster Than Light Travel, Resonance ("Souls"), Death
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