Sunset Sanctuary

Type: Non-Profit Research Collective
Headquarters: Outskirts of Los Angeles, CA (hillside complex with access to coastal routes)
Scale: Small-to-Mid Corporate (250–400 members, with affiliated networks)
Legality: Mixed – public front is legitimate nonprofit, but internal projects verge into gray and black operations

Corporate Overview

The Sunset Sanctuary markets itself as a holistic retreat and trauma recovery center. Its official mission is the "restoration of balance between humanity and the living world," with programs for trauma victims, climate refugees, and veterans. However, behind the glossy marketing, the Sanctuary is tied into eco-activist networks and biotech experiments that push the boundaries of legal science.

The Sanctuary provides cover for Project Bloom, a research initiative exploring "cognitive realignment" through neural and environmental exposure therapy. These therapies are marketed as cutting-edge but are secretly tied to metahuman experimentation and bioadaptive flora being developed in partnership with sympathetic scientists and rogue biotechs.

Facilities

• The Glass Atrium: Central reception and public therapy halls; open and serene, where visitors believe they are entering a peaceful healing center.

• Garden Wings: Patient housing and meditation gardens, with concealed labs underneath.

• Subterranean Bloom Labs: Restricted-access biotech labs where neural interface research, plant-hybrid growth, and psychological conditioning trials occur.

• Eco-Dome Terrariums: Large domes of bioengineered plant life used as both therapy environments and testbeds for adaptive flora.

• Security Network: Outsourced private contractors for “safety of patients,” but in reality a paramilitary-trained security force with corporate-grade gear.

Public Relations

The Sanctuary has cultivated strong ties to Los Angeles wellness culture. Local celebrities and influencers promote its “healing retreats.” Its rhetoric emphasizes:

• “Cognitive Realignment” – vague enough to sound innovative, covering neural conditioning.

• “Neural Renewal” – a buzzword for experimental therapies.

• “Human-Earth Symbiosis” – branding that aligns with eco-activist and climate messaging.

PR maintains Sunset Sanctuary’s image as a place of peace and environmental stewardship, even as whispers circulate about “guests” never leaving.

Resources & Capabilities (Hero System 5e Stats)

Corporate Power Level: Equivalent to a Medium Corporation per Hero 5e rules.

• Wealth: 20 (significant assets from donors, hidden biotech funding, and sympathetic VCs).

• Facilities: 15 (state-of-the-art labs, domes, underground complexes).

• Security: 12 (professional-grade mercenaries, nonlethal crowd control tech, hidden lethal reserves).

• Influence: 10 (connections with green lobbyists, health/wellness PR, and activist groups).

• Espionage/Research: 15 (cutting-edge biotech, fringe neuroscience, AI-enhanced therapy systems).

Leadership

• Dr. Nadya Ilven Vorenkova (Age 42, Director) – Public face of the Sanctuary. Calm, clinical, and reassuring, she positions herself as a pioneer in trauma recovery. In truth, she drives the hidden agenda of using “therapeutic environments” as test chambers for experimental bioadaptive flora and cognitive reprogramming.

• Marcus Eddings (Operations Head) – Handles the “gray” logistics, including security contracting and acquisition of biotech material. Keeps Nadya’s hands clean.

• The Gardener’s Circle (Board of Advisors) – A shadowy council of benefactors who use the Sanctuary to push eco-activist agendas and metahuman experimentation.