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The Glendale Tool Company is a small 501(c)3 educational non-profit corporation in Glendale, California.  Shrouded by trees, and established in a Cold War-era aerospace hangar, it is known for such things as tutoring youth in math and science, as well as producing amazing fireworks shows.
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= Traditions Mage Information =
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Montague Labs is a global-scale hub of the Sons of Ether and employees of that Foundation created the Glendale Tool Company in 2010.  Founded as a front for the Phantom Current — a local organization of Etherites and Virtual Adepts/Mercurial Elites — the purpose of the Company was to help local Etherites put the pieces back together after a decade of the consequences of Avatar Storm left many of them alone, confused, and with their works destroyed.
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A local group (cabal) of Sons of Ether mages created the company to give themselves a space to work free of the culture of the greater Montague Labs.  The Foundation is great, mind you, and operates with the forms of the finest traditions of the Sons of Ether, but Avatar Storm was a unique crisis and brought questions that needed answers.
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* Avatar Storm was devastating to the Etherites, especially those doing work with Etheric and Mimetic Dimensions.  The Ethernauts, a huge faction of the Sons of Ether in the aerospace-heavy San Fernando Valley, were hit hard. How do the Etherites save the lost and then rebuild after?
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* The Technocratic Union claimed victory. Did they win, or were they hurt just as badly as the Traditions?
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* What is the Union doing now, and are the Traditions in danger?
* What is going on at New Horizon?  Is it good for Los Angeles?  Is it a threat?
* Same questions regarding the Sphinx


Once the Company (chantry) was founded though, the scope of the group grew beyond the Sons of Ether.  Any ally of the cause, who was comfortable enough with Etheric paradigms and views, was welcome to join and to help.
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Virtual Adepts have joined.  House Verditius and Xaos Hermetics have joined.  Alexandrian Society members, Joybringers or Klubwerkers, the Shi Ren and the Li Hai, Ghost Wheelers and Spirit Smiths, Lhaksmists, and more have been known to be around.  The Company truly is a pillar of the post-Storm Traditions community in Los Angeles.
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= The Glendale Tool Company =


= Membership =
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Welcome to Glendale: The Jewel City!


Chairman Emeritus principal funder: Harold Montague
Officially, the Glendale Tool Company is a small 501(c)3 educational non-profit corporation in Glendale, California.  Shrouded by trees, and established in a Cold War-era aerospace hangar, the company used to be known for such things as tutoring youth in math and science, and as producing amazing fireworks shows.


President, Chairman, and Founder: [[Nash|Dr. Nash Smith]]
Previously to being the home of the GTC, the building was the home of Montague Helicopters before that company's demise by buyout in the 1980s.  Its history in the Montague family goes back to Harold Montague's earliest days as aerospace magnate in the Verdugos.


Chief Executive Officer: [[Wolfe|Dr. Frank Wolfe]]
''Pictured: Downtown Glendale''
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= Departments =
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The Company is a free-form center of Fortean research, there is little in the form of high-level organization within the Company. Individual members and fellows take on their own tasks as they see fit.  However collaboration on a few high-level departments is ongoing:
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== Media ==
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Unofficially, the Glendale Tool Company is a co-operative chantry of Traditions Mages. One of the leading such organizations in Los Angeles County, it is known as the Chantry of Glendale. It is the center of power for Adepts/Elites and Etherites in the city, though the history of GTC shows that it has been home to many other Traditions who shared the same goals or a world view compatible to a world of Scientific Wonder.


[[Wolfe|Bad Wolf Media]] and [[Ro-brat Industries]] are two companies founded by members, which engage in popular and social media. They seek to fight the Ascension War culturally by shaping minds and moving the Overton Window of the consensus.
The company is collectively run according to a [[Glendale Tool Company/Charter|charter]] granted the group by a Council-led arbitration after the death of founder Nash Smith, and the disappearance into space of patron Harold Montague.


== Digital Web ==
''Pictured: The Company Hangar in the 1940s''
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Digital Web research at the GTC is active, centering on the building and use of the [[Phantom Tollbooth]] center in the building.
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The company's members have distinguished themselves in fighting for the Traditions, for peace, and for free science.


== War ==
They even saved R.E.S. Future, the last great Ethership built in Los Angeles, in the very same hangar.


The GTC is also a crack commando unit operating in the Los Angeles underground, ready to fight the Ascension War by any means necessary.
''Pictured: The Council Expeditionary Ship "Glendale", formerly Royal Ethernautical Ship "Future"''
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== Space ==
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Going forward, the company must balance its peaceful and scientific missions, with the defense of the members' way of life.  It will not be painless or costless.
''Pictured: Montague 500 Helicopter with Montague-Weber NOTAR, "Steele Wing One"''
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==Standing Committee on Membership==
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        <div>[[File:Wolfe-portrait.jpg|100px|center]]<br>Chair: [[Wolfe|Frank Wolfe]]</div>
        <div>[[File:millicent-portrait.jpg|100px|center]]<br>[[Millicent|Millicent Kane]]</div>
        <div>[[File:Jaz034.jpg|100px|center]]<br>[[Jasmine|Jasmine Taylor]]</div>
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==Standing Committee on Security and Company Defense==
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        <div>[[File:Malcolm profile.jpg|100px|center]]<br>Chair: [[Malcolm|Malcolm Belmont]]</div>
        <div>[[File:Gtc-scientist.jpg|100px|center]]<br>Vacant</div>
        <div>[[File:Gtc-scientist.jpg|100px|center]]<br>Vacant</div>
        <div>[[File:Gtc-scientist.jpg|100px|center]]<br>Vacant<</div>
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==Support staff==
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        <div>[[File:GTC-Khanyisile-Portrait.jpg|100px|center]]<br>Maintenance Engineering:<br>Khanyisile Vanande</div>
        <div>[[File:GTC-Sol-Portrait.jpg|100px|center]]<br>Legal Counsel:<br>Sol Gordon</div>
        <div>[[File:GTC-Grace-Portrait.jpg|100px|center]]<br>Receptionist:<br>Grace Dobrzynski</div>
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[[Category: Chantries]]
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Latest revision as of 00:36, 29 March 2024


The Glendale Tool Company

Welcome to Glendale: The Jewel City!

Officially, the Glendale Tool Company is a small 501(c)3 educational non-profit corporation in Glendale, California. Shrouded by trees, and established in a Cold War-era aerospace hangar, the company used to be known for such things as tutoring youth in math and science, and as producing amazing fireworks shows.

Previously to being the home of the GTC, the building was the home of Montague Helicopters before that company's demise by buyout in the 1980s. Its history in the Montague family goes back to Harold Montague's earliest days as aerospace magnate in the Verdugos.

Pictured: Downtown Glendale

Unofficially, the Glendale Tool Company is a co-operative chantry of Traditions Mages. One of the leading such organizations in Los Angeles County, it is known as the Chantry of Glendale. It is the center of power for Adepts/Elites and Etherites in the city, though the history of GTC shows that it has been home to many other Traditions who shared the same goals or a world view compatible to a world of Scientific Wonder.

The company is collectively run according to a charter granted the group by a Council-led arbitration after the death of founder Nash Smith, and the disappearance into space of patron Harold Montague.

Pictured: The Company Hangar in the 1940s

The company's members have distinguished themselves in fighting for the Traditions, for peace, and for free science.

They even saved R.E.S. Future, the last great Ethership built in Los Angeles, in the very same hangar.

Pictured: The Council Expeditionary Ship "Glendale", formerly Royal Ethernautical Ship "Future"

Going forward, the company must balance its peaceful and scientific missions, with the defense of the members' way of life. It will not be painless or costless.

Pictured: Montague 500 Helicopter with Montague-Weber NOTAR, "Steele Wing One"

Standing Committee on Membership

Standing Committee on Security and Company Defense


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Support staff


Maintenance Engineering:
Khanyisile Vanande

Legal Counsel:
Sol Gordon

Receptionist:
Grace Dobrzynski
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