The Beacon

Twenty miles south of the southernmost tip of Sri Lanka is an atoll, a tiny, single semi-circular island in international waters. What appear to be tribal huts on the beaches are actually well-build wooden guard buildings connected to an undersea base.
The Watchtower Group maintains this base in secret, monitoring shipping and communications throughout the Indian Ocean. The brainchild of the super-genius known as Third Eye, this secretive think tank mines the data it collects for profitable insights. An astonishing amount of the world’s shipping passes through these waters, and for a mind like Third Eye’s, it’s as good as insider trading. Watchtower is not above sending its soldiers on missions of sabotage or piracy to change those patterns if Third Eye believes the changes will be profitable.
The Beacon facility hosts approximately 100 elite minions of the Watchtower Group, split between mercenary soldiers, hackers, and technicians. Besides Third Eye, the brother-and-sister team of Thor and Vivian Jarlsson, known as Ursa Major and Ursa Minor, are the only superbeings regularly on base.
Watchtower is unusual in that while the group commits major crimes and causes human suffering, Third Eye has also reached out anonymously to superheroes when the patterns he sees indicates a truly horrific act of terrorism or other supervillainy. Warnings from Third Eye are always accurate and usually arrive days before the second-best analysts in the world are aware something might be going on.
THIRD EYE Third Eye was born Srini Obeysekere, the genius son of two college professors based in Mumbai. He graduated from Cambridge University at the age of 10 and made his first billion as an “advisor” for hedge fund managers before he was old enough to drive. Accumulating wealth has been his only goal and he has few scruples to limit his options for doing so. When his parents died in a plane crash while on an around-the-world trip, he adopted the blank white mask and gunmetal grey lab coat that has become his trademark. Creating the Beacon and Watchtower Group are the next steps in his global campaign to become the wealthiest man in the world.
URSA MAJOR AND URSA MINOR Norwegian twins, Thor and Vivian Jarlsson met Third Eye when he was still Srini Obeysekere, an 8-year-old genius studying economics and math at Cambridge. They befriended and protected him, and eventually let him in on the secret of their totemic powers. When Srini decided to go “Full Evil Genius” he called on them to continue protecting him—for a lot of money.
The two have identical powers and similar appearances. Each stands just under six feet tall and have average, if slightly hardy builds. They wear their shaggy black hair long and wear black bodysuits under thick, black greatcoats no matter the temperature. Though not evil by nature, their loyalty to Third Eye is such that there is nothing they wouldn’t do for him.