Editing New World Order

One of the five remaining Conventions of the Technocratic Union in [[Mage: The Ascension]], the '''New World Order''' wears a lot of hats. They're the youngest of the modern Conventions, dating back to only the tail-end of the Victorian Era, and specialize in "soft" sciences like psychology, anthropology, and sociology. They're also the social policy makers, determining the direction in which the Conventions should push civilization. Finally, they run surveillance and coverups, ensuring that Reality Deviants don't manage to infiltrate the Consensus through mass media, academia, or government. Like I said, a lot of hats.

The new world order isn't as united as they'd like others to believe either as their obsession with maintaining the "status quo" has led to them getting confused on what it even is leading to a [[Administratum| decision that has crippled them]] the extermination of all historical records related to their prior incarnations. Hence while other conventions can look to the past for guidance on how to fight their enemies and plan the course of mankinds technological future the NWO is there to keep the masses away from [[heresy| superstitious misinformation]] as even the [[SCP_Foundation| slightest hint of reality deviance is purged via mindwipes.]] This authoritarian streak combined with their revisionism has led to the loss of [[fail|two conventions to the mages]] and the self imposed exile of the lightkeepers to join [[Hunter:_The_Vigil| independent hunters]] or groups sympathetic with the old order of reason such as the templars. [[derp| Since they deleted the existence of their past hunting down the mage traitors or convincing deserters to rejoin has become much more difficult.]]

Definitely one of the more divisive Conventions, in and out of universe. On the one hand, they run all the Union's spooky, privacy-invading surveillance ops, have a literal Room 101 to "recondition" captured enemies, and are currently experimenting with putting brainwashed Traditionalist brains inside of killbots. On the flipside, they were actually the chief advocates of dropping the Pogrom, are implied to have actually been behind-the-scenes benefactors of some positive social movements (the Civil Rights Movement wasn't their invention, but they were happy to help it along), work to establish world peace, and are often shown to be the reason that their frenemies in [[The Syndicate]] haven't gone full "Most Dangerous Game" plutocratic overlords. 

So really, like any organization of their size, it's a mixed bag less intentional evil more [[lawful_stupid|harming others & themselves through incompetence]].

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