The Silicon Council

The Silicon Council is a small Consilium which serves the area known as Silicon Valley. It is dominated by the Free Council and the Silver Ladder in roughly equal measure, and tensions are rising among the American Mysterium and Guardians of the Veil that for the past decade it has resisted their members either joining or infiltrating with vigour.

History
Formed from the ashes of the Consilium of Heart's Delight and the Consilium of Saint Clare in 1992, the Silicon Council had as first priority to recover from serious damage done by a civil war against werewolves sparked by a careless Thyrsus of the Adamantine Arrow.

Much of the expertise, archives, tass stores, infrastructure and educational apparatus of both prior Consilia had been destroyed, a fact that encouraged the Council's self-proclaimed Hierarch Elect, Galt, to seize control and orchestrate the reconstruction as he wished it.

His right-hand man in this was one of the few remaining Guardians, a mage known as Deep Net, who dedicated a significant proportion of his time to identifying potential challengers to the office of Hierarch Elect by deductive reasoning and sabotaging their campaigns before they could get off the ground. In this he was substantially aided by a visiting English mage known by the Shadow Name Sator.

Deep Net would die during Sator's next prolonged visit, an apparent suicide after the dot com bubble burst. The Hierarch Elect gave instruction at the time that no investigation into his death would be permitted.

Galt, a Free Councillor of determined mettle, forged an alliance with the Ladder by recreating the Council's economy into a trade in useful information, and the Freaks within the Council are now used to this exchange. Information and the intelligence that derives it are, after all, the most valuable commodities in Silicon Valley.

It is believed that the Silicon Council is where the seeds of the Cloud Infinite were planted, though the degree to which it has taken root in home soil is much disputed.