Editing Setting:The Post-Apocalyptic Roadmap/CGUS

Before the nuclear exchange, the Project: Pegasus Oversight Committee consisted of:
-A former Vice President with close affiliation to several Fortune 500 companies
-Attorney General John Aberdine
-The Director of the FBI
-The Secretary of Defense
-The Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff
-The Secretary of the Treasury
-The Secretary of Homeland Security
-The Secretary of State
-The Chairman of the Federal Reserve

Being Cabinet level officials, most of these individuals died in the exchange before they could get to the secret facility at Mount Pony, Virginia. If more of them had survived perhaps the military would be at the beck and call of the Pegasus government right now. However the one-time VP and Attorney General Aberdine survived and began selecting replacements for those that were unaccounted for.

The Committee controls the FBI, Homeland Security (and thus both Immigration agencies and FEMA, who have another facility in Virginia, Mount Weather), and with Aberdine have reconstituted the civilian executive government and began reorganizing National Guard units he called upon with his executive privilege into a new military chain of command and forming new units with recruits (some volunteered, some drafted). Most of all, the Committee controls the National Program Office.

Under the command of General Betram Wayne (ret., three star), the NPO was created in the 80's to be a shadow government for the United States in case of nuclear war. Their entire existence have been top-secret and after the end of Reagan's presidency not even the President at any given time knew about them, only the Pegasus Committee. Their Mount Pony site is the backup for the Treasury and the Federal Reserve, holding billions in material wealth and the electronic funds and backup data to restart the US economy East of the Mississippi. The NPO had pull with the National Security Council through retired Marine Lt. Colonel Martin Cafferty, but he is unaccounted for. However his protegee and the NPO's action officer, Marine Lt. Colonel Terrence Main, is present and effectively acting as the troubleshooter and hatchetman for the Committee, outside of the new CGUS military structure supervised by Wayne and the Committee.

Instead Main is involved with the many private NPO facilities spread throughout the nation that have been hosting disaster relief, reconstruction, and paramilitary services manned by privately contracted former military personnel and civilian specialists. These "Sector Bases" were formed with help from the Trustees, a group of captains of industry, who helped set up the dummy corporations to set up these facilities. Trustees are most likely to be found sitting on stockpiles, protected by Sector Base paramilitaries or Private Military Contractors, the still operating companies of which are invariably working for Colonel Main, the Trustees, or the CGUSA (Civilian Government headed by President Aberdine) directly.

Besides losing Cabinet level Department of Defense officials in the destruction of D.C. and other attacks, the Pegasus Committee's biggest surprise has been the survival of the known and targeted NORAD and alternate Pentagon facilities at Cheyenne Mountain and Raven Rock respectively. However the very inflated budgets the Pegasus black-book project had been skimming off of had been continuing to maintain and upgrade these hardened bunkers even after the end of the Cold War. This is how an unexpected complication kept the military chain of command and kept it out of the control of Pegasus' civilian government, forcing it to organize its own new military, which delayed their plans considerably and gave the military time to get it's surviving ducks in order.
 
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