Fairchild Foundation

A charitable foundation with interests in sustainable energy, space exploration, and other high-tech endeavors, the Fairchild Foundation is a sponsor for a different kind of superhero.

Assets
The five founders endowed the Foundation with an initial grant of several tens of billions of dollars, representing the vast majority of their combined fortunes. The Foundation is funded by the income of this initial grant and the charitable contributions of people around the world. The average annual contribution from individual members is 100 dollars, Foundation benefactors come from many backgrounds and income levels.

Equipment
Foundation employees are provided with the equipment required to fulfill their job descriptions, typically top of the line (if otherwise unremarkable) material. The technology available at the Foundation's headquarters exceeds what is available by consumers and most governments and corporations by an order of magnitude or more.

Facilities
The Foundation maintains small offices in a number of cities worldwide and fabrication plants in five countries.

Headquarters
Fairchild Plaza is an ultramodern 25-story skyscraper in Boston's Back Bay neighborhood, with an additional 10 floors situated underground. The above ground levels are innocuous, housing typical office facilities including a call center. The Foundation newsletter, Fair Tidings, is written and printed at Fairchild Plaza.

Personnel
The Fairchild Foundation employs a host of scientists specializing in a multitude of disciplines, engineers, lawyers, philosophers, investigators and others. All told, there are approximately 1500 Foundation employees worldwide plus numerous financial contributors.

Agents

 * Argent: The gleaming silver robot known as Argent is a test platform for several Foundation technologies and controlled directly by the Five Founders acting in telepathic congress to direct it through faster-than-thought consensus.
 * Colonel Tolliver: Ostensibly an agent of the United States government (of any agency or department you might care to name), Tolliver collaborates with the Foundation. In exchange for his nearly peerless information gathering abilities and access to superhuman agents, the Foundation provides him with high technology artifacts.