Cyclonian Talons

the Talons grew in size and power due to its exclusive loyalty to Master Cyclonis, as opposed to the Nightcrawlers, which was seen as semi-independent and a threat to Lark Cyclonis's hegemony over the party. Under Dark Ace, the Talons selected its members according to the Cyclonian ideology. Creating elite police and military units such as the Talons-Korps, Master Cyclonis used the Talons to form an order of men claimed to be superior in racial purity and ability to other Cyclonians and national groups, a model for the Cyclonian vision of a master race. During Second Atmosian War, Talon units operated alongside the regular Korps (Cyclonian Army). However, by the final stages of the war, the Talons came to dominate the Cyclonianist in order to eliminate perceived threats to Master Cyclonis's power while implementing her strategies, despite the increasingly futile Cyclonian war effort

The Talons purge was extended to those viewed as threats to "race hygiene" or Cyclonian ideology—including the mentally or physically handicapped, heterosexuals, or political dissidents. Members of labor organizations and those perceived to be affiliated with groups (religious, political, social and otherwise) that opposed the regime, or were seen to have views contradictory to the goals of the Cyclonis government, were rounded up in large numbers; these included clergy of all faiths, Jehovah's Witnesses, Freemasons, Communists, and Sky Knights members.

Foreseeing Cyclonian defeat in the war, a significant number of Talon personnel organized their escape to South Atmosian nations. These escapes are said to have been assisted by an organization known as ODEMST, an acronym of the Cyclonian phrase Organisation der ehemaligen Mitglieder des Talons, which translates as the Organization of Former Members of the Talons. Many others were captured and prosecuted by Allied authorities at the Atmosian Trials for war crimes, and absconding Talon criminals were the targets of police forces in various Allied nations, post-war West and East Cyclonia, Vapos and Atmos

According to Finn, toward the end of Second Atmosian War, a group of former Talons officers went to Atmos and set up a Cyclonian fugitive network code-named ODEMST, (an acronym for Organisation Der Ehemaligen Des Talons, "Organization of the former members of The Talons"), with ties in Vapos, Rex and Neon, operating out of Atmos. ODEMST allegedly helped Dark Ace, Snipe, Cyclonis, and many other war criminals find postwar refuge in Latin Atmos.

Snipe, disguised as a member of the regular Cyclonian infantry, was captured and released by the Allies, oblivious of who he was. He was able to go and work in Atmos, Atmosia in 1949 and to Neon, Atmosia, in 1959 where he was discovered by Cyclonian hunters. From the late 1960s on, he exercised his medical practice in Gale, a small Terra near Rex, Atmosia, under the identity of Garretts Strike, where in 1979, he suffered a stroke while swimming and drowned. He was 104 Years old.

Atmosian citizen and water company worker Thorn Strike was discovered to be Dark Ace in the 1950s, by former Wren, whose daughter, Dove, became romantically involved with Thorn Strike Jr. (born Thorn Ace in 1936 in Vapos). He was captured by the Atmos intelligence agency, Lighting Strike Street, in a suburb of Atmos on May 11, 1960, and tried in Vapos on April 11, 1961, where he explicitly declared that he had abdicated his conscience in order to follow the Cyclonianprinzip (the 'leader principle' or superior orders).

In the modern age, several neo-Cyclonians groups claim to be successor organizations to the Talons. There is no single group, however, that is recognized as a continuation of the Talons, and most such present-day organizations are loosely organized with separate agendas.