Origins/Major Influence: Alpha Complexities (Paranoia Mission)
Description: Imagine Alpha Complex. Then imagine Alpha Complex with its security clearances reversed, with ULTRAVIOLET food vat workers and INFRARED High Programmers.
This complex is probably the most "normal" of all the alternate Alpha Complexes, in that it is (eerily) similar to your own Alpha Complex. But it makes up for being crazily over-prepared. Being overly paranoid of the other Complexes, its modus operandi is to subvert a target complex from the inside, extending its metaphorical tentacles to control all aspects of that complex. Once this is done, then the tentacles will manipulate all factions of the Target Complex to attack each other simultaneously, leaving Target Complex weak to a military invasion designed to outright annihilate the complex from the face of the Earth (the spies leave the Target Complex safely before-hand). The only reason why Alpha Complexities would postpone a military invasion is if the complex in question has any useful military hardware that would assist in a invasion of a future Target Complex. The spies would then steal said hardware, send it over to Alpha Complexities, and then resume the military invasion.
A few High Programmers even doubt the existence of Alpha Complexities. Why would said Complex even seek to invade something they already own? Could they not manipulate the Target Complex to ally with Alpha Complexities, and slowly move onto a path of global domination? A common response is to argue that no matter how much control you have over a single Complex, said control can evaporate fairly rapidly and quickly, and that it would be far better to eliminate a potential rival before he turns against you.
Some Mystics rumormongers speculate that perhaps Alpha Complexities is not just paranoid, but that it was specifically designed to wipe out every complex on the face of the Earth, and that once this is done, it will then destroy itself. The reason why is left as an exercise for the reader.
The weakness of Alpha Complexities is its paranoia. If a few key members of the Alpha Complexities spy network are captured, then the Alpha Complexities' army will assume the worst and prematurely launch the military invasion before any more Alpha Complexities' spies can be unmasked. This inadvertently reveals the location of Alpha Complexities, allowing for a retaliatory strike.
Spy From Another Alpha Complex: The spy is a low-level flunky ordered to help other spies into a position where they can slowly control the Complex. At the same time, they are instructed to instigate further strife between the factions of Alpha Complex, to make it easier for Alpha Complexities to control all of them at once.