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= Glendale Tool Company =
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The Glendale Tool Company is a small 501(c)3 educational non-profit corporation in Glendale, California.  Housed in an Cold War-era aerospace hangar, it provides several services to the community:
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* Research labs to engage the young and old in new forms of scientific thinking
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* Consulting for businesses and governments, finding new ways to solve old problems
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* Mentoring for future scientists
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The company of course is best known for its innovations in government and civic policy, coming up with (and helping fund) such ideas as:
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* New street lights and signals for better pedestrian safety
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* The Los Angeles Peseta, a proposed regional currency combining cryptocurrency with physical tokens.
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* Possibly the best safe, legal fireworks show in the city
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Founded by employees of the Montague Foundation, a think tank spinoff of the famous Montague Aviation empire, the Glendale Tool Company focuses on the immediate, practical issues facing the Greater Los Angeles area.
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= Traditions Mage Information =
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The above is all public information. This is not.
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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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= The Glendale Tool Company =


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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Welcome to Glendale: The Jewel City!


* 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?
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.
* Is the Ascension War over? Can the Etherites can still fight back?
* The Technocratic Union claimed victory. Did they win, or were they hurt just as badly as the Traditions?
* 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.
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.


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.
''Pictured: Downtown Glendale''
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= Membership =
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Chairman of the Board and principal funder: Harold Montague
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A sampling of members: [[Enyo|Miss Enyo Carver]], [[Magnum|Mr. Jason Magnum]], [[Haruka|Miss Haruka Watanabe]]
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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.


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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.
 
''Pictured: The Company Hangar in the 1940s''
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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"''
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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>
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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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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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