The human condition can be seen as suffering. People of wealth can close their eyes to the misery, but that only leaves them unaware, not immune. So many things humanity had done that were unkind. Yet certain groups wanted to keep their hands clean. There are two ways to do that. Option one: Redefine what it means to have clean hands. If the blood that drips from them, comes from creatures worthy of extermination, would the hands not be clean? Option two: Get someone else to get their hands dirty. By my orders the blood was spilled, but since someone down the chain could have disobeyed, it is their fault that blood is on anyone's hands.
The third option to simply not spill blood might have been raised, but for a greater good that idea was silenced. The Foundation wanted to act with clean hands. They made the lie of the Insurgency in 1924. When the world split into axis and allies they send forth the Insurgency as its arm for the Axis. Germany and Japan were masters in redefining clean hands.
And so in the fires of genocide and war without restrain the Insurgency learned to get their hands dirty.
In this war, the Insurgency stopped caring whether its hands were bloody. The voices of the Foundations were far away, when civilians were experimented on. The voices preaching honor deafened by the gasps of broken bodies on islands in the pacific. War on the ground is not fought between nations. It is fought by the people you have set with at dinner, monsters you captured and strange objects that might kill better than artillery. If it needs 10000 human sacrifices to function, so be it. The Insurgency became what it was only meant to represent to the outside world, independent.
In 1948 the Insurgency finally broke its chains and was ready to continue a war they had not left behind. The Insurgency gave way to the Chaos Insurgency. Without the Foundation or large nations backing them anymore at first their impact was minimal, but in the fragile piece following the defeat of the Axis they were always a danger. Open combat, ambushes and public executions, the Chaos Insurgency was still fighting the war that should have been over. Than came 1950 and a lot of things stopped being certain. Some experts within the Foundation thought that the Chaos Insurgency had become wise overnight, had lied down their weapons of war and had taken up the rules of the cold war. But how would a large mass of independent cells do that? The Foundation experts found out in 1953. The Insurgency had won. The world had died in anomaly fueled nuclear fire in 1950. Something had saved the world and that something had created a new Chaos Insurgency. Only after humanity was saved from the work of hands not caring for blood on them, did the Chaos Insurgency start to hide the lessons it had learned. Hidden as they were, their power dwindled. They became little more than mercenaries with anomalous weapons and combatants.
The Foundation had learned a different lesson from the second world war, a doctrine they deployed to great effect in the following cold war. The Foundation learned to keep their hands clean and to lie when they were not. They did not build a new Insurgency, instead they just blamed everything on the Chaos Insurgency when ever an experiment costed life's, when they wished to inflict cruelty or overstepped the other bounds of morality. The Foundation was never wrong, they were sabotaged. They were never evil, someone else had done it, claiming to be of the Foundation. The Foundation was never incompetent, the other side was just that good.
Than something changed again. Haos they called him. He rebranded the Insurgency from immoral monsters to something agreeable. Few people when asked would chose to be lied to. Only the Foundation knew that knowledge of what was out there could destroy humanity. There was no advantage in acknowledging the popular opinion, so they kept the truth to themself and lied as they had done successfully for years. Haos meanwhile claimed that ignorance as bliss was what people of wealth would do, until they were blindsided by reality.
Haos was troublesome to the Foundation. The straw-man enemy they had build was returning to prominence and Haos was at fault. He was a masterwork of propaganda. Apparently every cell had a Haos and no matter how many dead bodies that were once known as Haos piled up, the figure did not die. It was like the person Haos was a costume that once filled by a person would puppet them. The Foundation eventually classified Haos as a memetic anomaly. A mind parasite that turned their host into a presentable version of an insurgent. Than the Foundation realized what was amiss. An army of persons infected with Haos could be a formidable Chaos Insurgency indeed, but where were the armies of the brainwashed?
The Foundation found their answer while cracking a medium sized independent cell of the Chaos Insurgency. The cell was ruled by a council of Haoses. The Chaos Insurgency's figure head had taken power from the original leaders by force and than went about uprooting the general structure of the Insurgency. In that cell the Foundation took down, there were no longer mercenaries unable to let go of a lost war, no longer researchers that sought knowledge for knowledge sake, no longer criminals just out for money. The cells personnel was fully emerged in its own righteousness. They believed to the last man to be in the right, to fight a war against humanities jailers, to direct humanities future. That cell was not the only one rebelling against the old ways of the Chaos Insurgency, but the old ways would not go quietly.
Eventually the old greed and caution won out, for having even one Idealist in their cell could ruin the business of bloody anomalous warfare. The Chaos Insurgency itself shelved their sharpest sword, fell back into being guns for hire, doctors without license or criminals without morals. Haos and Haos cells became few, for what use is a weapon that turns against its user? The Foundation breathed a sigh of relief as it became once again the lesser of two evils. The GOC and its destructive course or the Foundation and its protecting course. They no longer needed to hold down the exploring and conquering course of Haos Chaos Insurgency. At first the decision to let go of idealism seemed to pay off. In the world of proxy-wars, secrets and distrust the pockets of the Chaos Insurgency swelled. The Foundation had its hidden hands in that, for filling pockets was easier than fighting ideas.
The Chaos Insurgency's hands were once more bloody, but now with seemingly no higher calling. Wealth extracted of blood and paranoia, silence and screams sold to the highest bidder. The Chaos Insurgency became one of many terrors in the night. For in the shadows they moved like so many others and from the shadows they grew. By the time the Foundation recognized their mistake, even they could not face them directly anymore. To many were their agents, to tight its security and so the Chaos Insurgency won the cold war in secret, but victory again would not be without its price.
With the end of the cold war, the hiding holes of the Chaos Insurgency closed. There allies no longer needed them and when those allies became conscious of the blood on the hands of all involved, bloody fingers pointed at the ones also soaked, but while everyone else could claim a higher good the Chaos Insurgency could not. Forsaken by all but the most vile remnants of the cold war the Insurgency once again crumbled. Leaders took their treasures, mundane and anomalous alike and left. What remained was relegated to places outside of the law of the Foundation, places where the Foundation did not see fit to enforce normality. In these war zones the Chaos Insurgency was again little more than supplements for other troops. Again little more than a footnote in mission briefings of Foundation Field agents. The last straw came when the largest cell of the Chaos Insurgency in America and Europe tried to get friendly with the Foundation again.
In the fires of "Quality Control" this last bastion of the Insurgency was made to have clean hands. Base 0 burned. But washing hands so soaked in blood revealed something to the Chaos Insurgency. In trying to clean themself, they had lost their hands. Under all the violence and greed they found nothing. Under evil they wished to shed they found a hollow inside. Many a combatants were arrested by the Foundation, many anomalies the Chaos Insurgency executed or destroyed in accordance with Foundation stipulations. Most field agents and support staff just left, some even with their minds intact. In 2014 the Chaos Insurgency ended itself in an attempt to become closer to an organization that created the Insurgency in 1924.
The files on the Chaos Insurgency were closed. Its last free remnants scattered to the wind. As far as the Foundation was concerned, the Chaos Insurgency had only dead cells left, abandoned facilities, shell companies that would collapse soon and storage caches left to rot. The ideals of Haos lay hollowed out and ruined. Only very few eyes were left on abandoned Insurgency facilities. Some stragglers or artifacts were picked up here and there. The largest danger from the Insurgency was all the landmines of anomalous activities and contingencies that would not trigger for some time. The Chaos Insurgency even stopped being used in falsified Foundation reports. The Foundation was ready to finally sweep their mistake under the rug for good.
Than came 2016 and suddenly the Insurgency resurrected from ash. Once again the details get hazy, just like they did in 1950. The Chaos Insurgency after 2016 did not seem to be the descendants of a certain micro cell that wished to resurrect the old Chaos Insurgency. It seemed more as if the Chaos Insurgency of 2014 had returned, but not as desperate to become clean as before. Than the Foundation noted activity from Chaos Insurgency staff that was confirmed dead or imprisoned. The Chaos Insurgency was no longer an organization dealing with the anomalous. It was an anomaly that needed to be contained. A cover-story about an "Engineer" was produced to explain the inhumanity of the Insurgency and the Foundation started to rewrite history. When thinking of the idea of the Engineer they loosely based him on Haos, but left out all his redeeming qualities, his ideals and the piles of dead bodies that had carried the name.
While the Foundation was hunting a ghost of its own creation, the Chaos Insurgency began to once again get its hands dirty and make a change to the human condition. For the truth is scary, not acknowledging it makes it worse. The truth of the Chaos Insurgency today is that no human knows what the Chaos Insurgency has become and how it got to be how it now is. By now neither the Foundation or the Chaos Insurgency know. The Chaos Insurgency is just about to remember that it can seek the answers if they just acknowledge their own situation, but then, why bother asking why something works, if it just works, logic be damned? So the Chaos Insurgency fights, fearing its own secrets, but eventually someone will look. Someone will always be the first to look. For the Chaos Insurgency does not ignore the moving shadows at the edge of the known. How long will they cling to the luxury of ignorance?
