Academy of Occult Pharmaceuticals
Overview: The Academy of Occult Pharmaceuticals is an organization that focuses on alternative medical practices using paranormal organisms and abilities to cure both paranormal and known ailments. Established in the 60s, they have multiple locations across the globe, primarily in Europe and North America. They are known to break the Veil if deemed necessary to save the lives of humans and the paranormal.
Black Star INC.
Overview: Black Star Incorporated was founded in the mid-70s during the arcade and video game boom. They were a mystery entity behind many video game-related conspiracies and urban legends. Using paranormal forces to exploit and keep customers addicted to their anomalous product. Ultimately, the company crashed in the late 80s or early 90s. Attempts to come back have been made but haven't been as fruitful as their genesis.
Charitable Organization by the Mystics
Overview: An interfaith humanitarian relief agency, the Charitable Organization by the Mystics uses magic, paranormal technology, and entities to help those in need, primarily those affected by war, famine, natural disasters, disease, and poverty-stricken regions. Although their intentions are noble, their methods often lead to inconvenient or disastrous consequences due to the group's general ignorance about magic and the paranormal.
Chimera Farms
Overview: This food production company has been shut down multiple times, but it always seems to return with a new name, a new owner, and in a new location. Some of the names include Monster Meats, Cryptid Feast, Extraterrestrial Delights, and Mystery Cuisine. This company illegally sells alien and cryptid meat to the general public. Both are considered protected species by Project Paradoxa and Wilderness Solutions for Mysterious Animals and thus illegal to sell and consume.
Hephaestus Industries
Overview: Founded in 1889, Hephaestus Industries reverse-engineers extraterrestrial and paranormal technology to both research and sell to an undisclosed list of individuals, companies, and governments within the Veil. Their first and only public appearance was between 1896 and 1897 when a wave of strange airships was sighted across the US. Hephaestus Industries has been relatively compliant with Project Paradoxa’s objective of normalcy and often supplies technology to aid in their research of the paranormal.
Readman's Technical Media Productions
Overview: A 15-year-old Viktor Readman founded a group of supernatural broadcast intruders in 1971. Throughout the 70s into the 90s and partly in the early 2000s, this ragtag group would use their supernatural abilities to intrude upon television broadcasts and feed glimpses of the anomalous world to the general public. In the 2000s, the group shifted its focus to creating and distributing anomalous entertainment for Veil communities. Whilst the group still occasionally performs anomalous signal intrusions, this practice has become rare in the company.
The Midas Touch Initiative
Overview: A goods and services broker and auction house for ultra-wealthy and elites in the paranormal community. Primarily based in New York City, Shanghai, and Mumbai, the Midas Touch Initiative auctions off extraterrestrial and paranormal technology, artifacts, and entities. This group is known for collecting rare and obscure items, along with providing its clients the most exclusive, expensive, and rare experiences available, often coming into conflict with Project Paradoxa due to the illegal nature of their products.
Wilderness Solutions for Mysterious Animals
Overview: Established in 1976 as an animal conservation, rehabilitation, and refuge center for invasive, out-of-place, escaped from zoos, and released exotic and non-exotic pets and animals. At least that's the objective of the company in the public eye. Outside of it, they help conserve mysterious animals and cryptids. Often working in collaboration with Project Paradoxa to keep cryptids hidden and protected.
