Butch: You know, when I was a kid, I always thought I'd grow up to be a hero. - Sundance Kid: Well, it's too late now.
- Butch Cassidy and The Sundance Kid
The team is sanctioned by the UN/NATO and work from a base in New York. They are universally acknowledged as the saviours of humanity. Members come and go over time but the core of the team and it's original ideals, hope, justice and freedom remain.
The teams base and infrastructure is funded by the UN (as one of their primary anti-terrorist forces)