After some initial confusion following the Tarot Crisis, NFWS soon returned to functioning as usual.

Due to the public concensus for disbanding factions, NFWS was no longer officially a ‘faction’. However, since the headquarters itself was largely unscathed in the Crisis, and the most advanced Juicetronic technologies had always been hosted there, former NFWS members soon returned to their previous offices.

Despite concerns that this would lead to further former-factions reforming or rebranding, it appears that the importance of the NFWS – and the work of those within it – was deemed so great that this fudge was deemed acceptable. It is not yet known whether internal restructuring has been sufficient to overcome many of the institute’s prior shortcomings, though there have been rumours off staff appraisals and competence checks being introduced. If these are to be believed, they are likely to prove unpopular.

The government has made no further demands for its disbanding, only stressing on the importance of sharing intelligence and following laws and regulations. Rosaline Hearse attended the meeting and brought back The Regulations on Ethical Scientific Experimentations. She pinned it to the notice board in the hall, where you can find it even today, next to the Optional Courses Signup Sheet and beneath the Lost Slime Please Return to Owner poster…

- from Dream Divided: Factions, Schisms, Wars, a public lecture series by Professor Bismuth Silver