Created by: Garry Stahl 
Author's Note:  I have noticed that this is one of the most called on pages at my site.  I am curious as to why so many people are searching for extinctionists.  If you are willing to tell me send mail to Brockovert
Number of Members: Limited, no more than 100 active members with a sympathy base of 100 to 1000 times that.
Nature of Members: Grim moralizers and fatalists.
Organization: Cell structure common to terrorist groups.
Game Role: To give the PCs a difficult to find and harder to root out opponent that might have some politically powerful allies, in secret.
World Role: To convince the general population by means of coercion if necessary that high tech living and space travel are futile and worthless.
Relative Influence: Large for their size. Everyone is aware of them police organization seek them, political entities have to take their existence into account.
Public or Secret?: Secret membership. Knowledge that you are a member of the Extinctionists would land you in jail.
       Public actions. In order to push their viewpoint Extinctionists sabotage power plants, food and water supply structures and defiantly any attempt to contact other worlds and other civilizations.
Publicly Stated Goal: Struggle is useless, we are all going to die, we might as well get it over with without damaging the environment any more.
Real Goal (if different): Some really underhanded politicians are using them as a stalking horse to gain power. The hard core Extinctionists are not aware of this.
Relative Wealth: Poor, with limited access to resources. One or two relatively wealthy contributors, as well as a dependence on theft keep them going.
Group advantages: Secrecy. No one knows who they are. Outside of actual terrorist operations the Extinctionists can move freely to gather intelligence and plan operations.
Special Abilities: Knowledge of explosives and public psychology is common among members.
Group disadvantages: Lack of wealth. Members must scrounge to gather resources by means legal or otherwise. Due to their convictions (why plan for the future, invest etc.) legal means are limited and extra legal means are risky. Each extra legal activity to gain wealth increases the chance they will be busted.
Special Disadvantages: Hunted by every law enforcement organization on the planet.
Who belongs: Followers of an obscure (and dead) philosopher of doom.
Who doesn't belong: Anyone sane.
Those who favor them: Persons that fear contact with the "outside" and see the Extinctionists as part of the means of shutting down the "Star Drive" programs that frighten them. This limited public support is not in agreement with their entire philosophy.
Those opposed to them: Anyone sane. Expansionists and optimists.
Area of Operation: World of McGuffin
Headquarters Location: None, due to the cell organization
Public Face: Shadowy, violent, crazy people.
Notable Members: Hiram Brockovert Last era philosopher that started the extinction movement.
       Charvee Maston (secret) The charismatic, manipulative, and slightly mad "head" of the Brockovert Extinction movement. Maston is unknown to the public and likes it that way. He himself has never committed any crime. Charvee is a anarchist and xenophobe at heart.
       Cellica Randolpherst Rich heiress that was kidnapped and converted to the movement. Current location unknown.
       Upright Goodman (secret) Politician with a bankroll and an agenda. Goodman is in favor of a more authoritarian regime, with him at the head of course. He secretly funds the Extinctionists to raise public panic to the point that his "reforms" sound good. Thus far he has had some success. Public knowledge that he is funding them would ruin him.
History of the Organization: In the last era of McGuffin during the rise of McGuffin's industrial era Hiram Brockovert suffered a vision that said the struggle was doomed. The more the people tried to better their condition. the worse the impact on the world, and the sooner the end would come. It was better to live an abject life of hand to mouth poverty and slow the pace of extinction.
       He attracted a certain number of followers, mostly among those whose trades were being replaced by machines. Together they fought vainly against the evils of rising consumerism and industrialization. In addition to his anti-technology stance he adopted a strict moral code of non-marriage and communal living. This was opposed to the current moral code of the day. Brockovets as they were called were condemned as wrong-headed and immoral. Contemporaries saw him as a nut, and the tide of history buried him and his followers.
       Toward the end Brockovert faltered and wrote a thesis rejecting his non-violent methods (that plainly did not work) and allowed that when the moral cause is righteous enough, violent means are permitted. Brockovert himself never practiced any violence, nor did his direct followers. Their quaint iron age village became an obscure tourist attraction until it was torn down to make way for a nutritional fabrication plant two centuries later.
       Throughout the next four centuries this philosophy reared its ugly head any time a major change in technology threatened the lifestyle of anyone dependent on the old technology. "Brockovets" would rise and oppose the change, some in the manner he first proposed, some violently as he allowed later in life. None followed the entire regime his philosophy demanded. All of them died out to the inevitable changes.
       The latest incarnation of the Brockovets are firm adherents to the later thesis, in a fundamentalist sort of way. They do not allow for violence, but embrace it as the only way their movement can succeed. Few if any of Charvee Maston's converts have even read Brockovert. They certainly have not followed his first advice of abandoning all technology. They have concentrated, due to the influence of Maston, on the extinction aspect of the writings. They believe the sooner the better and the world can return to it's pristine state.
       Should they get their hands on bio-weapons of any sort McGuffin would be in a bad way. As it stands they have small bombs, little support in public opinion, and the weight of most of the government against them. If it was not for the subversion of Upright Goodman the movement would likely have been tracked down and eliminated by this point.