Glendale Tool Company

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Glendale Tool Company

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:

• Research labs to engage the young and old in new forms of scientific thinking
• Consulting for businesses and governments, finding new ways to solve old problems
• Mentoring for future scientists

The company of course is best known for its innovations in government and civic policy, coming up with (and helping fund) such ideas as:

• New street lights and signals for better pedestrian safety
• The Los Angeles Peseta, a proposed regional currency combining cryptocurrency with physical tokens.
• Possibly the best safe, legal fireworks show in the city

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.

Traditions Mage Information

The above is all public information. This is not.

The Montague Foundation is a global-scale hub of the Sons of Ether and employees of that Foundation created the Glendale Tool Company in 2010. 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.

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 Foundation. 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.

• 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?
• 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?

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.

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-Avatar Storm Traditions community in Los Angeles.

Membership

President and co-founder: Dr. Nash Smith

Chairman of the Board and principal funder: Harold Montague

A sampling of members: Miss Enyo Carver, Mr. Jason Magnum, Miss Haruka Watanabe