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The Torchwood Institute (usually referred to simply as Torchwood) is a secret organization founded by Queen Victoria to research and combat alien threats to the British Empire, and use their findings to restore the Empire's former glory. To those ends, it acquires and reverse engineers alien technology by any means deemed necessary. According to one of its base's directors, Yvonne Hartman, its nationalist attitude extends to refusing to use metric units. While described as "beyond the United Nations”, the Torchwood Institute is known to cooperate with UNIT (the Unified Intelligence Taskforce) to some extent. There appears at present to be some sort of rapport with the Prime Minister although historically this may not always have been the case. To those that have come in contact with Torchwood, they are primarily believed to be a Special Forces team. They appear to maintain this illusion by using false witnesses, or by sectioning any journalists who threaten to expose the truth, and via the use of memory altering drugs. Following a major incident involving the Institute, the stance of the organization becomes much less confrontational and more secretive. The United States branch of the Torchwood Institute has been in the past more aggressive in its efforts to reverse engineer and utilize alien technology. There are rumors of American Torchwood members working on side projects with ‘other’ advanced technology groups known as SG1 and Skynet, the extent of their involvement is as yet unclear. As for me, Jame H. I am into interesting topics such as the paranormal and just about anything relating to time and space. I am not really into weird stuff like the Yeti or Big Foot, but I wouldn't mind a good yarn about creatures from another planet much like our own. What are you into?