Open Intellect Pacifist Network
The pacifist resistance that sheds its name and becomes a militant organization declaring war on the Syndicate.
Story so far
The Open Intellect Pacifist Network spent the crawl working against the Syndicate from the margins, and by the end of Faction Wars it has stopped pretending to be pacifist. Porthus appears on a Breaking News broadcast - filmed earlier and timed for release at this exact moment by Rosetta - to announce the formation of a new militant group that will move against all Syndicate governmental properties and systems across the known universe. The demand, stripped of diplomacy, is stop the crawl or else, with the end of the current crawl as the deadline.
York's status entry names the successor organization outright: he is now a captain in the newly coined resistance organization, the Open Intellect Action Network. Its assets are already in place - the secretly armed Homecoming Queen, working enhancement zone weapons and suits, Cronus-class Power Armor, breaching suits, and a returning cadre of crawler veterans led by Colonel Boomer. Boomer's phase two order closes the book: it is time to bring the war out of the dungeon.
Role
The resistance movement that turns militant and opens a shooting war against the Syndicate across the galaxy.
Relationships
Earlier in this series
Also appears in books you've already read — spoiler-safe to their endings:
Sources — 11 recorded facts, by chapter
- The moderate Residual faction that moved heaven and earth to hand one crawler a self-destruct button — and then told him not to use it too quickly.
- Small, focused organization founded by Doctor Hu whose purpose is to end the crawl altogether.
- Anti-Crawl organization Carl suspects may know what is hidden inside the containment menus.
- One of the many competing parties Carl counts as tangled in the residual crisis.
- A clandestine network whose embedded bureaucrat hides Volteeg's former-crawler status and keeps him out of the Bone Clan.
- Sponsored Theia to save Carl, accidentally locking the Blood Sultanate out of its favorite escape temple.
- Anti-dungeon organization whose agent secretly sponsors the goddess Theia.
- AI faction whose agent Rectrix drives the goddess Theia, putting Carl on that church's friend list.
- Porthus's clandestine anti-dungeon organization whose great plan Rosetta secretly financed from inside Faction Wars.
- The nonviolent anti-crawl movement that formally abandons pacifism and reconstitutes itself as a militant army.
- The pacifist resistance that sheds its name and becomes a militant organization declaring war on the Syndicate.