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| - Humanis is one of the most powerful policlubs in Seattle. It grew from an alliance of racist and hate groups aimed at “protecting humans against the rising threat of mutation”—mutation being Humanis-speak for metahumanity. The group maintains that humans are genetically and culturally superior to metahumans, and want metahumanity treated as a disease rather than a natural state of being. Publicly, the Humanis Policlub works against metahuman-rights legislation and lobbies for laws that favor humans over metahumans. Behind the scenes, the policlub is responsible for a great deal more. Humanis operates as a front organization for anti- Awakened terrorist groups like Alamos 20,000, Human Nation, the Hand of Five and others. These guys are the hard-core racists, people who will kill or maim fo
- The Humanis Policlub is a human supremacist organization, dedicated to limiting or removing rights from non-human metahumans. They also have a limited anti-Awakened and anti-Amerind message, which usually gets drowned out in their anti-metahuman rhetoric. They are well known for wearing white robes with pointed hoods, similar to the garb of the Ku Klux Klan, sporting the Humanis logo: a round human ear (metahuman ears are more or less pointy). Their international headquarters is in Philadelphia.
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| - Humanis is one of the most powerful policlubs in Seattle. It grew from an alliance of racist and hate groups aimed at “protecting humans against the rising threat of mutation”—mutation being Humanis-speak for metahumanity. The group maintains that humans are genetically and culturally superior to metahumans, and want metahumanity treated as a disease rather than a natural state of being. Publicly, the Humanis Policlub works against metahuman-rights legislation and lobbies for laws that favor humans over metahumans. Behind the scenes, the policlub is responsible for a great deal more. Humanis operates as a front organization for anti- Awakened terrorist groups like Alamos 20,000, Human Nation, the Hand of Five and others. These guys are the hard-core racists, people who will kill or maim for their cause, or people who think bashing in a few metahuman skulls is a good way to spend a Saturday night. The public arm of Humanis denies any involvement with terrorist activities, of course. Local chairman Karl Brackhaven, the group’s regular spokesman to the news media, keeps saying so (and we all believe him, don’t we?). The Humanis Policlub is best described as a political/fraternal organization. Much like the “secret societies” of past decades (the Masons, Knights of Columbus and so on), Humanis offers many different levels of involvement. Some members use Humanis as a comfortable kind of club where they can go to escape their spouse and jaw in a relatively harmless way about the metahuman that lives down the street and the things he does that they don’t like. Others achieve the highest ranks of the organization, where they wield significant influence over public and corporate policy through their position on boards of directors or contributions to political campaigns. While Humanis does affect the lives of everyday people in a really major way, they really aren’t responsible for beatings and firebombings. Now, Humanis does have some goals that can only succeed by more direct action. In order to keep their hands clean, they quietly fund such associations as Alamos 20,000, the Hand of Five and other terrorist groups. Obviously, an organization like the Humanis Policlub can only be hurt by having such brutalities as the bombing of the Sears Tower and hundreds of daily, isolated incidents of violence pinned to their coattails. While such activities certainly serve their agenda on one level, they destroy their credibility on another. So Humanis draws in members and quietly diverts the most violent and virulent to Alamos 20K and their ilk. A neat progression that no one can prove and no one can stop. A third type of group does exist, but in such a shadowy and unsubstantiated way that they are generally dismissed as rumors and stories made up to frighten naughty children. The most commonly mentioned example of this type of group is the Human Nation—a sort of social Darwinist organization comprised of wealthy men and women who believe that excessive nuyen and the attendant power give them the right to play with other people’s (read: metahumans’) lives. These people view metahumanity as an impurity in the genetic code of the human race and proceed under the assumption that there must be a way to rid the world of their presence. They fund experimentation on metahumans, using them as lab rats for their attempts to wipe out the magical races and as test subjects for all sorts of ugly, cruel projects that should have died with Mengele. The truly horrifying aspect of these rich bastards is that they spend an equal amount of cred on charitable organizations that actually serve humankind in a positive- agenda kind of way. Sick, sick, sick.
- The Humanis Policlub is a human supremacist organization, dedicated to limiting or removing rights from non-human metahumans. They also have a limited anti-Awakened and anti-Amerind message, which usually gets drowned out in their anti-metahuman rhetoric. They are well known for wearing white robes with pointed hoods, similar to the garb of the Ku Klux Klan, sporting the Humanis logo: a round human ear (metahuman ears are more or less pointy). Their international headquarters is in Philadelphia. The Humanis Policlub was formed in 2023 as a fledgling loosely-allied organization of anti-metahuman, anti-Amerind human supremacists, during the same year that the US Supreme Court granted equal rights to all metahuman races. By 2046, when the policlub idea spread across North America, it had a major following as one of the strongest and most well-organized anti-metahuman policlubs in existence. In 2057, the Humanis Policlub heavily backed the campaign of Kenneth Brackhaven (the nephew of Karl Brackhaven, the leader of the Seattle Humanis chapter) under the Archconservative party for UCAS president. During the Year of the Comet and the wave of SURGE, the Humanis Policlub tapped into conservative fundamentalist Christian organizations by creating the Cult of the Seventh Seal, based around the SURGE expression of Jeremiah Adams and the apocalyptic vision of Revelations. There have been numerous allegations that the Humanis Policlub is in fact a public arm of terrorist groups such as Alamos 20,000 (probably true) and Human Nation (probably false). In response, the Humanis Policlub has "softened" its image as a pro-human group rather than a rabidly anti-metahuman hate group. It extends its major influence through politics and lobbying, although it still makes headlines when engaging in anti-metahuman violence. Often, Humanis makes appeals to "traditional conservative family values" and "pro-human legislation" and denounce metahumans as "mutations" or "sub-species". While there are other splinter policlubs with similar messages such as the Unity Coalition, the Humanis Policlub remains the loudest and strongest of them all, with chapterhouses all over the UCAS and CAS.
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