Federal Office of the Abnormal

The Federal Office of the Abnormal, better known simply as the FOA, is the oldest organization dedicated to the study and regulation of metahumans, dating back to late 19th Century America. It is by far the most powerful and influential of such organizations in the world, having a massive command on the global ichor supply, as well as having control over all American superhero teams. The FOA presents a gilded front to the world, appearing benevolent and altruistic, but hiding countless layers of secrets, conducting morally bankrupt experimentations and missions, and supplying the scum of the earth with ichor to further its own goals.

Foundation
The Federal Office of the Abnormal began in a small moonshine shack within the Appalachian Mountains of Georgia, in the year 1890.

Metahuman Affairs
The Metahuman Affairs Division is the largest office within the FOA, and a department level organization within the United States Government. The Metahuman Affairs Division is responsible for managing civilian metahumans, maintaining the Metahuman Registry Database. Additionally, the Division works closely with the American Superhero Society, organizing the operations of various superhero teams. Furthermore, they also coordinate with law enforcement, assisting them with all manner of metahuman related crimes.

Support
The Support Division is responsible for the "housekeeping" of the FOA, handling many of the tasks necessary to ensure the organization runs smoothly. Such functions of the Support Division include logistics, security, communications, and financial operations.

Office of Communications
The Office of Communications is responsible for ensuring a smooth flow of information throughout the FOA. They maintain the organization's numerous servers, maintain the various communication satellites the FOA possesses, and are responsible for keeping all communication channels secure.

Office of Security
The Office of Security coordinates the protection of various FOA properties and personnel. Their numbers include the security guards responsible for policing FOA sites, bodyguards for important staff members, as well as the various technicians who maintain the innumerable devices and technologies which protect FOA sites. The Office of Security coordinates heavily with Argus, and many Argus teams are kept on FOA sites, ready to defend against any metahuman attack or intrusion.

Office of Logistics
The Office of Logistics is charged with the distribution of nonmonetary resources throughout the FOA. Such resources include mundane office supplies, weapon shipments, and ichor. They are one of the most loathed branches within the FOA, as their peers usually blame them for resource shortages, and simultaneously fear annoying their personal, worrying that their supplies might get snubbed in response.

Office of Finance
The Office of Finance directs the flow of the FOA's funds, and maintains records of all the organization's monetary spending. Its executives wield considerable influence among other offices and branches of the organization, thanks to their control over funding, which they can control at a need. The Office of Finance works closely with most every other Office in the FOA.

Research and Design
The Research and Design Division is responsible for researching metahuman abilities and the properties of ichor, as well as developing gear and other general equipment and technologies for other divisions. The Division is composed of all manner of brilliant scientific minds, including biologists, chemists, programmers and engineers.

Weapons Development
The FOA's Weapons Development branch is responsible for all the innumerable technological weapons developed for the organization. Primarily, such technologies are designed for use against metahumans, and range from gas bombs, specialized bullets designed to penetrate inhumanly tough tissue, and massively potent shock batons. Weapons Development works closely alongside the Metahuman Analysis branch, as the information the latter provides is invaluable for their work.

Metahuman Analysis
Metahuman Analysis is a branch within the FOA that focuses on the study of metahumans and ichor. They are responsible for the creation of new ichor formulas, and performing research into the abilities of metahuman subjects. High clearance level activity within the branch involves all manner of horrific experiments on meta subjects within the FOA's more covert facilities. The research they perform is often used to assess the threat level of various metas, as well as provide the Weapons Development branch material to help facilitate their work.

Operations
The Operations Division is the branch of the FOA which conducts all manner of missions out in the field. Field agents often find themselves tasked with missions including infiltration, espionage, sabotage, and assassination. The Operations Division includes both human and metahuman agents, and operates around the world in places of interest to the FOA.

Argus
Argus is the military arm of the FOA, its operatives charged with a singular purpose: Containing and killing metahumans. Argus members are all elite soldiers, equipped with knowledge and equipment from the R&D Department to allow them to neutralize all manner of metahuman threats. Given the deadliness of some of the foes they face, Argus incorporates metahuman members more frequently than most other branches within the organization.

Intelligence Branch
The Intelligence Branch of the FOA focuses primarily on espionage and information gathering. Their operatives are planted all around the world, in news outlets, gangs, and foreign governments. They focus primarily on the identification and location of metahuman threats, but operatives within the branch are frequently employed to perform assassinations and blackmail in order to further the FOA's interests.

Clearance Levels
The FOA is privy to all manner if highly classified information best kept out of the eyes of the general public, and even many of their own personnel. For this region, the FOA assigns a Clearance Level to all its personnel, which designates what information, locations, and equipment they are allowed to have access to.

Level 0
Clearance Level 0 is assigned to civilians and anyone else who is not a member of the FOA. Such individuals have access to the most basic of all information, such as publicly available registries on various metahumans, access to public FOA facilities, and other information that is available to the wider populace.

Level 1
Clearance Level 1 is possessed by the lowliest of FOA personnel, such as janitors, receptionists, and other menial jobs which do not require said personnel to have access to any level of more important information. Level 1 Clearance does however grant access to areas within FOA facilities that are off limits to the public, but are not extremely secretive.

Level 2
Level 2 Clearance gives those who possess it access to a great deal of information not available to the general public, such as knowledge of the existence of various FOA bases and sanctioned superhero hideouts, more detailed databases on metahumans, though access to their actual locations are given out on a case by case basis, as needed. Typically, personnel in charge of managing superhero teams, engaging in standard field operations, and most FOA supported heroes are all possessed of this clearance level.

Level 3
At Clearance Level 3, FOA personnel begin gaining access to some of the more clandestine aspects of the organization. They gain access not only to all standard metahuman databases, but also on more classified files, including Termination Protocols. Level 3 Clearance also grants total access to all standard FOA facilities, as well as access to a number of highly classified ones. Furthermore, it allows those who possess it access to a number of experimental pieces of equipment and weaponry. All Argus personnel have at least Level 3 Clearance, as do many high ranking FOA staff and certain high ranking metahumans.

Level 4
FOA staff with Level 4 Clearance are privy to some of the darkest aspects of the organizations inner workings. They are given access to almost every facility, file, and piece of gear under FOA control. The only things they do not have access to must have been classified by the explicit order of the Directorate, and in that case, most with Clearance Level 4 have access to some of this information and resources, based on the necessities of their position. Only top ranking officials within the FOA have clearance this high.

Level 5
Clearance Level 5 grants total and unrestricted access to all FOA facilities, databases, and technology, and the authority to use it in any manner they see fit. Only the leaders of the organization, members of the Directorate, are gifted with this clearance level.