Brotherhood of Zure

Brotherhood of Zure
The Brotherhood has existed for millenia but only now has it risen to prominence as a superpower in the wizarding world. It is a Theocratic Democracy, and while it gives the independent countries muggle leadership power to govern their own nations as they see fit, the muggle governments are largely defunct. The Brotherhood is considered a cult by most of the outside world, but in their eyes they are fighting a holy war by fighting the Protectorate and Death Eaters. Machene formed the Brotherhood of Zure from the survivors of Atlantis, a civilization that was rumored to not only be far in advance in technology to our own, but also a place where non magical and magical people and creatures lived in harmony until a civil war tore the empire apart in 10000 BCE. As the survivors migrated to the Greek shores, they were attacked by the Wizards that controlled the ancient Greek Wizarding community. They retreated to what was to become Israel but the advent of the Roman empire forced the brotherhood into hiding. It was then that Machene had a vision that one day there would be a great world war that would begin the revival of Atlantis.

Migration to the Americas and Japan
After the Collapse of the Roman Empire and the Black Plague, Machene sought refuge in the land of Britain. As Britain began its colonization, Machenes followers migrated to the Americas. They finally found a place where they could avoid persecution by the International Wizangamot. Machene saw that the two societies, muggle and wizard, were violent against each other. He further retreated to the Nevada desert and established the Roswell Temple. This would later become Zure's defacto base of operations for their organization. As the American Revolution was unfolding, Machene secretly aided the American Militia by using his seer visions to predict British troop movements. He, of course, stayed in the shadows and " copied" the British muggle militaries war plans and delivered them to George Washington himself. He later modified the memories of the American commanders to erase all trace of his help to them. Zure now had a safe haven from the International Wizangamot. As Japan was discovered, Machene had a vision of the countries technological advancements that were to occur later in history. He ordered some of his followers to establish a presence in Japan and there they found " warm and accepting arms" from the muggle Japanese Shoganate. This was kept a secret, but later Zure was forced to temporarily break ties with Japan during WWII.

WWI
Zure remained neutral, as did very many Wizard governments, to the exclusively muggle european conflict. But towards the end of the war, Machene had a vision of another global war that would bring muggle destructive capacity to a whole new level. " ''And I saw a bright light, brighter than a thousand suns, decimating a helpless city." ''

WWII
As the British empire fell and WWII was in full swing, Machene once again helped the Americans; by using his magical abilities and his presence in one of the Axis Powers, he provided American forces with intel about the Japanese and German militaries. He, again, later wiped the memories of the American Commmanders he had helped. As he was about to wipe General Pattons memory, the general asked "'' why wipe us? You have proven that your kind ( wizards ) are needed to maintain equalibrium in our world." Machene responded, "Alas, it is not time for us to reveal ourselves to the world, but I fear that this conflict will one day be overshadowed by a conflict that will decide the fate of humanity itself, not just wizards or muggles, but all of humanity, alas, it is time we said our goodbyes, Obliviate" ''

Cold War
As the muggle cold war started, Machene's propehcy of a day when wizards and muggles would have to cooperate in order to stave off disaster came to fruition. Both sides began consulting with their muggle counterparts. The American " Department of Magic" secretly formed its own military alliance against the Soviet Wizengamot. But here is where Zure started to grow into the power it is today. As it saw the threat of nuclear war as a threat to the magical world as well as the muggle world, Machene began using his powers to create followers in both the Soviet Union and the United States of America. He used this power to maintain equalibrium between the powers and dictate muggle history, though unknown to the magical community at large. He helped the USSR and USA to avoid nuclear war during the Cuban Missile Crisis and at other important junctures. But in order to realize his vision he needed one of the Superpowers to fall. Seeing the USA as the dominant power, he engineered the failed 1991 Soviet Coup and the subseqent collapse of the USSR. As Britain dealt with the Death Eaters and Voldemort, Machene ignored them; he later had a vision of a " Boy who used the most powerful magic of all to topple a tyrant" 

Second United Kingdom Magical Civil War
Machene and the Brotherhood remained largely neutral to the conflict between Voldemort's Death Eaters and the English Ministry of Magic. It is shown however that Machene had great contempt for the Death Eaters and Voldemort for being in his eyes " ''a gathering of heritics and wizard supremacists". '' He predicted that the fabled " Deathly Hallows" would be used to destroy Voldemort but that he would return by the same power that had destroyed Atlantis millenia earlier.

9/11 and Al Qaeda
The September 11 attacks were an event that although Machene forsaw and tried to avoid, in order to maintain a state where the USA had hegemony over the muggle global affairs, it nonetheless happened anyway. He personally used his powers to exact his revenge, He however realized that one day he would need the USA's muggle government to be under Zure's power so he waited until the countries economy to collapse to exact his revenge against Osama Bin Ladin and his terror network. The muggle story was that seal team 6 had killed Osama Bin Laden. The actuality is that Machene himself did so, though not out of want but need, The muggle global war on terror was something that he feared could interfere with his own plans. ''" I have come here to tell you that your vision of the future is wrong, I AM THE FUTURE, AVADA KEDAVRA!!!" ''

Contemporary Era ( 2011- 2020)
Machene now saw that in order to make his sceme a reality he needed to bring back some of the technology that was lost to history in the atlantean war millenia earlier. He used his vast power and influence on the US muggle corporate infrastructure and government to merge several technology and computer firms such as Genentech and Microsoft into a single entity known as Magitech Corporation. Magitech was seemingly owned by a billionare names Norman Offdenson, in truth Norman was a muggle and Zure. He began work on new technology that would make the US a technological superpower once again. Now Machene had the power to influence muggle politics on a mulitcontinental scale. He avoided outsourcing jobs to other countries and instead built them in the US and other countries such as Canada, Mexico and Brazil as well as various South American Countries, he also used this as an opportunity to gain power in the magical world as well. As the magcal and Muggle economies mixed he used his wealth from Magitech to buy elections and place Zure sympathizers in the magical offices in most latin american countries. Zure was quickly becoming a superpower on both fronts. As this was happening the brutal war that had come to a close in England in 1998 made the wizarding world itself want to form its own coalition against " Magical Terrorism". The Wizarding Protectorate formed from the Auror offices of the countries of the Former Soviet Union and most of Europe but the USA Department of Magic, while sympathetic to the Protectorate Cause, refused to ratify the treaty. In part it was because of Zure's Influence. In 2015 Magitech invented a form of implantable AI chips that became popular amongst Wizards and Witches as well as Muggles. The biotech division of Magitech had invented the technology that made the Cybermagus possible. But the Cybermaguses were faced with a great deal of prejudice from the Wizarding world. Machene saw this as an opportuity to expand the Brotherhood into the power needed to challenge the International Wizengamot directly. He became a popular figure and formed the Church of Zure that spread with lightning speed accross the Cybermagus population as well as various disinfranchised sentient magical creatures who were treated as equals by the Brotherhood.

Beginning of the second Atlantean War ( 2020-?)
The Wizarding Protectorate, as well as a new Death Eater faction formed from the ashes of the first who had fled England for countries such as Australia and China as well as South Africa, began to grow to power. Although it is unclear what provoked the war, it is known that Machene himself had decided to declare war on both other factions. He sent 4 of his best soldiers ( including Allison Jentzsch and Ralph Trogen ) to Los Alamos to capture a Muggle ICBM and used the stolen tactical nuke he had to destroy the protectorate Headquarters in Reykjavik. He later used his connections to the US intelligence services to gain a near omniprescent view of magical society as well as using various space based weapons for his cause.



Tactics
The Brotherhood employs a terror tactics, such as suicide bombings, as well as shock and awe. Zure comprises mostly disinfranchised masses of Cybermaguses as well as other sentient magical creatures. Zure will fight for Machene but Machene has made it clear that they should be willing to " die for the cause". Indeed even those amongst the Brotherhoods ranks who deny Machene's Divinity are willing to die for Zure. The Brotherhood has a great deal of diversity amongst the creatures and Wizards that make up its ranks and as such it is highly adaptable in combat. Even Muggles have equal stautus among the Brotherhoods forces though most are at the rank of " Brother". The ranks of Zure are as follows ( Brother ,Acolyte, Confessor , Priest , Bishop , and Martyr ) Martyrs are given the highest rank for " giving their lives for the cause" even Machene who is considered to be the defacto leader of Zure believes that they are above even him. One can only become a Martyr by sacrificing their very lives for the Way of Zure. The Brotherhood uses muggle weapons like rifles and rpgs for their centaur legions as well as giving wands to their elves and goblins. They have proven that they are willing to use muggle weapons of mass destruction ,such as nuclear weapons and Space based weapons, as well as magic. They use Cronoportal Technology which is implanted into cybermaguses to secretly move their troops and forces. Zure also uses Robotics and Drones as well as exoskeletons such as the tripedal " Avatar" mech and the gargantuan " Kraken" submarines. Zure has the best navy of all three factions. Zure also has an AI known as BSC ( Battle Strategy Computer) a sentient quantum computer that is capable of monitoring all Zure military activity and advising soldiers in battle. Zure mostly has a hive mind approach to warfare and the BSC makes it possible. By using the AI chips in their minds as a link to BSC, Cybermaguses on Zure's side are capable of communicating just by thinking. This provides Zure with a secure way to transmit and recieve data. Muggles and any other creature with an AI chip are capable of interfacing with the BSC and with each other. Zure also has shapeshifting androids called "Infiltrators ". Zure is willing to experiment with the undead as well as evidenced by their experimentations on Inferi and eventual use of the " Reborn " Indeed Zure's cybernetic and robotics program is second to none in the Atlantean Wars World.

Ideology
Zure believes that the Statute of Secrecy is a " sin against their muggle brethren" As such it has used its massive intelligence services to reveal the Wizarding world to the muggles via mass communication and the internet. This puts them at odds with the Protectorate, which is sworn to uphold that. Also they seem to employ an Equalist and Unitoligist, philosopy as well as Transhumanist values. This further puts them at odds with the Death Eaters and with Voldemort who has called the Brotherhood " a collection of blood traitors and abominations"  The Brotherhood is willing to use any means neccessary to destroy their opponents. Most of their ideology stems from the teachings of their leader, Machene. In many ways Zure is a religion, a multinational corporation, unconventional superpower, and technology cult while also being none of the four. Indeed technology plays an important role in Zure's belief system. Zure is mostly a mixing pot of disinfranchised magical beings and muggles as well as Cybermaguses.