LUCIFER

"Malum ut serviant in lucem"

- The motto of LUCIFER, meaning, 'Evil that Serves the Light' Lucifer (Legion of Unorthodox and Centered Intelligence for Eternal Restoration) are a large and widespread organisation dedicated to hunting ANGELs and any benefactors that they may have. They are lead by Lucius Cipher, and are not allowed to conduct big operations, or 'Skyfalls' without his direct order, but are allowed to act independently with almost everything else, namely, interrogation, and smaller sized operations and investigations. They operate a ranking system based under the amount of confirmed ANGEL kills, and also the confirmed amount of kills of any faction that the ANGELs co-operate with. It is based largely in and around Atlas and Vale, as ANGELs are most often seen in those areas, but still have operators based in the other areas, albeit more thinly spread out.

History
"We were all ANGELs once, but now we have fallen from the grasp of our brothers."

- Lucius Cipher 30 years ago, there were a series of major shifts in the Atlesian criminal underworld, resulting in a power struggle and many violent gang wars. Terrorism, fear, and random attacks became everyday occurences. Hundreds of people died, criminals and innocent civillians alike.

The police and military tried to curb the invasion, but with limited success. They were slowly forced back, and it seemed anarchy was inevitable. Until a surprising turn of events, when The Prophecy Syndicate, led by it's young leader Claudius Austen and Narreau Technologies, one of the Atlesian military's leading branches' CEO Ginger Narreau made a pact to bring order to the city once again. Lucius Cipher himself, was a commanding officer in that operation, under the jurisdiction of the Prophecy Syndicate.

Together, they managed a series of campaigns, subduing most minor gangs and destroying the ones too powerful to submit. Afterwards, when the chaos was over, Austen declared himself Lord of all the conquered gangs, intending to seize power for himself. But Narreau had anticipated this, and convinced him to sign a new contract, which would allow him power, but limit the threat posed by the gangs under his control. This was known as the Austen-Narreau Contract. It was upon this time, that LUCIFER was born.

After seeing what the ANGELs were doing, Lucius found himself disagreeing with their motives, and eventually went AWOL from the Prophecy Syndicate along with multiple other commanders and operators, all of whom shared the same opinion. With them, he created an Underworld of criminal activity, hidden from all but the most prying eyes, under the guise of a minor, criminal organisation, which, in reality, was an enormous underworld of money laundering, human trafficking, slavery, and murder. They used these tools to develop a considerably large fortune.

It was upon then that Lucius showed his true plan, renaming his previously unnamed organisation to something under the name of 'LUCIFER', dedicated to hunting, destroying, and killing ANGELs and their benefactors. This was also around the time that they started to look for potential allies and operators, still mostly, if not completely anonymous. After making multiple alliances, they finally started to turn their eyes upon the ANGELs and Narreau Technologies, both of which they are currently in an underground war with.

Activities
LUCIFER is a large criminal organisation made up of numerous, dangerous agents and mercenaries as well as alliances with other groups. They have no problem with harming innocents, but for the most part, avoid it as it attracts unnecessary attention to their group. They conduct multiple operations against ANGELs, mostly gaining intelligence, and occasionally disrupting supplies to steal. LUCIFER works on a massive system of sleeper agents, people and killers who are waiting to be activated, in order to hunt or kill anything when activated. When not fighting, these people often have a normal life to live.

The people that aren't sleeper agents of LUCIFER work in typical illegal jobs, and generally work full-time in trying to disrupt the actions of their counterparts. Their organisation thrives on the hundreds of smaller gangs that work under them, and compile their large wealth.

Equipment
Each high-ranking LUCIFER agent is permitted their own set of weapons and armour