Editing Delta Green (section)

==The Setting==
Essentially, the modern world, but where Cthulhu definitely dreams (as opposed to ours where it's only a distinct possibility).  Add into that a boatload of secret cults, secret societies, secret governmental agencies, eldritch abominations, a lot of insanity, and you're almost there.

Oh yeah, notice how we didn't say anything about aliens?  Yeah, so those "aliens" Majestic-12 are working with, they're just fungoid constructs by one of the many eldritch abominations floating around who are doing nasty things to humans for their own purposes.

If you're [[Game Master|Handling]] a Delta Green game, there are three main eras they can be set in:

===The Classic Era (1928-1969)===
This is the era where Delta Green is an official organization within the U.S. government, founded after information about the Innsmouth raid makes its way to the Department of Naval Intelligence. Featuring the ONI P4 division going in a Deep One killing-spree world tour, DG fighting against Karotechia in World War 2 and Delta Green fighting in Vietnam, slowly losing it's prestige until it's disbanded after the failed Operation OBSIDIAN. Sadly not too many scenarios are set in this era (perhaps due to the overlap with Call of Cthulhu.) 

The Fall of DELTA GREEN is set in this era, although it's focused on Delta Green operations in Vietnam and Indochina in the 60s.

===The Cowboy Era (1970-2001)===
After the disastrous OBSIDIAN raid, the powers that be disbanded Delta Green. From 1970 to 1994, the organization worked as a "good ol' boys" model, with old agents occasionally getting together to deal with issues. In 1994, former agent Lt. Gen. Reginald Fairfield was assassinated by MJ-12 NRO Delta operatives, which provided the influence to Professor Joseph Camp (Agent ALPHONSE) to create the cell structure that existed from 1994 to 2002. 

This is known as the "Cowboy Era" because it basically consists of old Delta Green veterans and new recruits fighting the Mythos without any sort of official sanction.

The original 1996 sourcebook is set in this era.

===The New Era (2001-present)===
After the September 11 attacks on New York City, the U.S. intelligence community began a major reorganization which saw MJ-12 (which had been struggling to contact the Greys for some time) disgraced and eventually taken over in a coup by Delta Green (detailed in the novel ''Through a Glass, Darkly''), the US government then unified the remnants of MJ-12 and the Cowboy Delta Green into a new, "official" and authorized operation that uses the war on terror as a cover to act against the mythos. However, some old-school agents refused to "come in from the cold" and formed their own faction, so both Program (official) and Group "Outlaws" (unofficial) games are possible in this era.

The setting of the 2016 standalone RPG.