Greens and the Board

    The Greens and the Board officially get along like a house on fire. Indeed, there are a lot of people running around screaming and valuable property is getting torched, but perhaps a better way of putting it would be "not officially at each other's throats". To the secretive Boardies, the Greens are powerful allies through which they can launder funds and provide resources, and to the Greens the Boardies are a valuable source of intelligence and technology that can, literally, be found nowhere else. This doesn't mean either side does anything so naive as trust the other, of course, despite their shared Nemo base deep in the Pacific.

Their first meetings were accidental — Hazel Green's paranoid surveillance of her jet-setting children led Green pointmen to discover curious Boardies. A bitter turf war followed as both sides attempted to discover just who was so interested in these people, until word got back to Hazel Green of just how bizarre these Boardies were. Eventually, via delicate negotiation, she offered a truce.

Initially horrified to discover her mind-control experiments, the Board refused all further contact...until, as often happens with Boardies, a new Director chose a less extreme stance. Seeing the value of friendly bids on their plans for Nemo, the Board re-opened negotiations with an intensely curious Hazel, herself eager to get ahold of the incalculably-valuable spying potential of Board speculation feeds. Cautiously, both parties accepted each other's offers...and the status quo followed, as both sides parroted reconciliation while quietly sharpening their knives.

For now, the Board prefer to foster the belief that they are merely another conspiracy in a world littered with cabals. The family just doesn't need to be burdened with little things like, say, the Funky Horror...let alone the true nature of the Board's mission. Hazel suspects they aren't telling all, of course, but then it would only be natural for a like-minded organisation to keep some secrets.