Midas' Crew (formerly known as The Agency) is one of the main villainous organizations in Fortnite: Battle Royale, that was first introduced in Chapter 2: Season 1, but has been around for much longer.
It is a huge international criminal group founded by Midas and divided into 3 divisions/factions which were long believed to be different organizations, until Chapter 5: Season 2.
They served as the main antagonists of the first half of Chapter 2, being the main antagonists of Chapter 2: Season 1, Chapter 2: Season 2 and Chapter 2: Season 3 and the the secondary antagonists of Chapter 2: Season 4. They also act as supporting protagonists of Chapter 5: Season 2.
Overview[]
Midas' Crew is an organization created before the start of Chapter 1 in an unknown reality. They act both as mercenaries who can be recruited for any type of mission by anyone, and as criminals acting for themselves, their goal being to conquer through intrigue and espionage. At the very beginning there were no divisions, however Midas later decided to found the first division of the organization, SHADOW. Later, at an unspecified time and before Chapter 2, Midas founded GHOST whose goal was linked to the destruction of The Storm and The Imagined Order. Agents who were not in either division were said to be neutral and employed their services as mercenaries. They were also free to do their own business. SHADOW Agents did the same, but were also focused on various criminal activities such as weapons selling, creation of enhanced soldiers, heists etc. GHOST for their part only offered their services as mercenaries and weren't involved in any other criminal activity.
GHOST and SHADOW eventually came into conflict, due to rivalry, and entered into a war called the Spy War. However, the two divisions eventually reconciled and worked together again.
Notable Sub-groups[]
- The First Shadows: This group is composed of SHADOW's original three operatives: The Burning Wolf, Chaos Agent and Sierra. They're also the most secret of Midas' Operatives and believed to be legends.
- A.L.T.E.R: This is the first group of SHADOW agents introduced in Fortnite. Made up of 9 main members: Riptide, Hazard, Scratch, Toxin, Chic, Vex, Terra's alter-ego, Outcast's alter-ego and Tek's alter-ego in addition of Fusion and the army of Sludges, they were sent on a mission to Apollo by Chaos Agent. However, they came into conflict with E.G.O which triggered the Spy War. They have the particularity of resembling the members of E.G.O.
- E.G.O: Also known as the [Redacted: D4] Team, this is the first group of GHOST agents introduced in Fortnite. Made up of 10 members: Turk, Journey, 8-Ball, Remedy, Cameo, Xev, Terra, Outcast, Tek and Rippley, they were sent on a mission to Apollo by the Imagined Order who commissioned the services of GHOST to map and study the Island. However, they came into conflict with A.L.T.E.R which triggered the Spy War. They have the particularity of resembling the members of A.L.T.E.R.
- The Agency's Top Ranks: From the time of Chapter 2: Season 2, when the organization was known as The Agency. This team of agent were The Agency's top eight agents: Midas, Brutus, Meowscles, TNTina, Skye, Gear Specialist Maya, Deadpool and Agent Peely. However, it should be noted that this ranking was not accurate due to the fact that some of the best Midas' operatives such as The First Shadows, Marigold and others weren't activated or were acting in the shadows, unofficially.
- Midas's team: This group is composed of Midas and his main partners: Brutus, Meowscles, Skye, TNTina, Jules and Marigold.
Timeline[]
After becoming a fallen king and crossing the different eras until arriving in the modern era of his world, Midas decided to found a criminal organization. Subsequently, he decided to found SHADOW, the first division of the organization. He observed for a long time three people The Burning Wolf, the indomitable mercenary believed to be a legend, Chaos Origins (currently known as Chaos Agent) the mad scientist seeking to dominate the world through his schemes and Sierra, a young woman seeking to avenge her family. At first, The Bruning Wolf sought to assassinate Midas and attacked his lair, before being surprised to not find him on his throne but instead a recruitment card signed by Midas's hand. For some unspecified reason, The Burning Wolf decided to follow Midas and became SHADOW's very first agent, known as Midas' First Enforcer. Later, as Chaos Origins sought world domination, he was stopped by none other than Midas, whom he attempted to fight before coming face to face with The Burning Wolf. Instead of eliminating him, Midas turned him into his ally, and recruited him as the second member of SHADOW. Chaos Origins was therefore nicknamed Midas' First Redeemed. Finally under completely unknown circumstances, Midas recruited Sierra, a fighter who seeks revenge for her deceased family. She was therefore nicknamed Midas' First Pardoned.
Before Chapter 2: Season 1[]
Midas' Crew has expanded, SHADOW now has many more members, while a new division was formed: GHOST with the aim of destroying The Storm of Reality Zero and confronting the Imagined Order.
Chapter 2: Season 1[]
After Athena Island from Reality Zero was transformed into the Apollo and Artemis twin Islands, the Imagined Order enlisted the services of GHOST as mercenaries to map Apollo. They were unaware of their connection to SHADOW, who they had already spotted as enemies. GHOST therefore sent what IO call the [Redacted: D4] Team, also known as E.G.O, to carry out the mission, while trying to gain power on the Island. However, SHADOW had acted on their own initiative under the orders of Chaos Agent and sent a team to the Island a little before GHOST, this team named A.L.T.E.R began clandestine operations on The Island as they are involved in the import and sale of weapons at Dirty Docks and also have links with the companies Slurp Co. and Kevolution Energy which are used for various scientific experiments by Chaos Agent like the transformation of human into slurp like creatures called Sludges in order to increase their military power. However, a conflict broke out between E.G.O and A.L.T.E.R concerning Rippley that A.L.T.E.R tried to capture for unknown reason which started the war between GHOST and SHADOW. Sometime later, 8-Ball confronted his alter-ego Scratch in a duel at Weeping Woods while being observed by Bushranger, a GHOST agent. Scratch lose the fight and Chaos Agent recovered him and started a new experiment at Steamy Stacks in order to make him more powerful, creating the first "Corrupted" warrior. Later, Midas decided to intervene and bring his entire crew to the Island. He chose Eye Island to build The Agency, the future headquarters of GHOST and prepared the construction of 3 other bases The Grotto, The Shark as well as The Rig in partnership with the fuel company Spille XX. He also planned to bring his already militarized personal Yacht as a fifth base. SHADOW agents also prepared several hidden Safehouses.
Chapter 2: Season 2[]
After a while the entire crew arrived, established headquarters and took control of the Island. Although at that time no one knew that GHOST and SHADOW were part of the same organization apart from the crew's agents. The war between the two factions forced the neutral agents to have to take sides, Brutus and TNTina joining SHADOW, with Meowscles betraying GHOST for SHADOW while Skye and Deadpool joined GHOST which transformed the bases owned by each of them into headquarters for each of the two factions. At some time, Chaos Agent ran a new experiment at Slurpy Swamp and created slurp soldiers far more evolved than the Sludges which became known as the Slurp Legends. Throughout the season under The Agency, Midas slowly worked on a Device alongside his daughter Jules to destroy The Storm. This Device was located in his room directly underneath the Agency and possibly right above the Zero Point. In his room, a journal containing a drawing of Oro's scepter was there as well as a symbol representing the Storm. A suit similar to that of Tempest's was also spotted in the room, it's purpose also being to defy the Storm, seemingly giving Midas either control over it, or immunity to its effects. Countdowns for the activation of his Device also appeared in the Agency and in his own room. When his device activated on June 15, 2020 during The Device event, his voice and several other Henchmen voices could have been heard. Midas successfully rose the Device up from his underground base. The Device's plan unfortunately failed, and the Storm attacked The Device in revenge and turned into a giant Wall of Water. While trying to repel the storm, the loop destabilized several times, causing Agent Jones, Janice, and the entire Imagined Order to panic. During the event, files concerning of Midas and two member of his crew: Jules and Lynx were spotted on Agent Jones' office, meaning that IO had been investigating him and his associates. After that SHADOW eventually defeated GHOST and took over remains of The Agency. However later, Midas hands control over the The Agency to Jules, who rebuilds it and to turn it into SHADOW's new HQ: The Authority.
Chapter 2: season 3[]
The giant Wall of Water created by The Storm finally collapsed, flooding the entire Island. Midas was attacked by a Loot Shark following this but he survived, and keep this incident in his mind... Brutus betrayed SHADOW to join GHOST while Meowscles left SHADOW and became a neutral agent again, living with his son at Catty Corner. GHOST continued to operate with Ocean at The Fortilla their new headquarter, and SHADOW continued with Jules at The Authority. The two factions were still in conflict, but much less so than back then. However, Midas decided to cease operations on the Island, causing both factions of his Crew to abandon their respective bases and leave, forced to find new lives for themselves as all agent were put offline for now.
Chapter 2: Season 4[]
The Authority and The Fortilla became completely abandoned, at an unpescified period, Chaos Agent ran an experiment at Steamy Stacks to create new corrupted soldiers just like Scratch. They became known as the Corrupted Legends. However Midas seeking revenge decided to perform a ritual at The Authority, now known as The Ruins to empower himself with the power of shadows. He reanimated the GHOST Henchmen who died during The Spy War and hacked the reboot system of The Loop to transform anyone who died into Shadows who would join his undead army that he unleashed over the Island. However Midas' plan failed, his ritual was stopped, causing him to lose his powers and he went into hiding.
Chapter 2: Season 5[]
After the war between both factions, detective Sleuth decided to hunt all the SHADOW and GHOST agents down but it was without a success. Marigold arrived on the Island. Just like Midas, she is cursed with the Golden Touch. In Marigold's Quests, she says someone was spending Midas' gold and enlisted the services of The Looper for revenge.
Chapter 2: Season 6[]
Marigold, with several GHOST and SHADOW enforcers under her orders came to collect something unspecified.
Chapter 2: Season 7[]
Marigold, Midas and Jules started working together on a plan. Later during Cosmic Summer, Midas left on a mission with Jules, Brutus, Ruby and Crystal for an undercover mission on the beach. However after this mission, Midas handed over his crew to Brutus who then took command and disappeared. From that moment on, Marigold began to search desperately for him, just like Jules, TNTina, Meowscles, Skye who each went their separate ways and Brutus, who continued to lead the organization. In the same time, SHADOW infiltrated the Imagined Order and began sabotaging The Bridge. Doctor Slone suspects that the saboteurs (whose identities she did not know) were also the ones who helped Jones during his betrayal. Marigold, working at the time for The Imagined Order as a double agent on behalf of Midas, took an interest in The Looper and decided to make them her gataway driver, in case she needed them to later.
Chapter 2: Season 8[]
The First Shadows, The Burning Wolf, Chaos Agent and Sierra resurfaced, however it is not explained why, although it is likely that they were also searching for Midas or sent on a mission by Brutus.
Chapter 3: Season 2[]
Among the troops of The Imagined Order, many SHADOW agents could be found, however it is highly likely that they were among the traitors who helped The Resistance.
Chapter 4: Season 1[]
Both SHADOW and GHOST members joined several organizations: mainly the Most Wanted and Cold Blooded, the former guarding vaults everywhere on the island and the latter wishing to rob them. The Double Agents (Wildcard, Hush and Chaos Agent) joined Cold Blooded while Zadie, Renegade Shadow, Metal Mouth, Stingray, Abstrakt and SHADOW Enforcers joined Most Wanted. The Double Agents acted double agents for the Most Wanted, as they have been replaced after the vaults they guarded were robbed. Jules decided to join The Oathbound Empire to learn about their technology, but she also helped Evie of The Peace Syndicate to sabotage The Rift Gate.
Chapter 4: Season 3[]
Because of their loss of income, Turk and Riptide teamed up with each other to capture the Coral Buddies and sell them to a wealthy collector. This caused them to come in conflict with people of Atlantis. Shortly after they both fail, Stingray, under the orders of Chaos Agent contacts Meowscles to tell him they have a work to do for Midas' Crew. He later relocates to Lonely Labyrinth where he keeps his treasure there as well as Stellan's Refined Kinetic Ore schematic, which later The Looper stolen it.
Chapter 4: Season 4[]
Kado Thorne found Midas and confronted him before killing him and cutting off his hand in order to display it in his collection. This caused Midas to be sent to The Underworld and imprisoned by Hades in Tartarus. Lonely Labyrinth dissapeared because of Kado Thorne and has been replaced by Sanguine Suites, forcing Stingray to find a new base. Renegade Shadow, who has become an expert as a heist crew leader, is looking for a new crew to rob the Eclipse Hotel known as Sanguine Suites. Other Crew agents are also involved in the heists including Meowscles, Abstrakt, SHADOW Enforcers and Stingray.
Chapter 5: Season 2[]
Because of several clue leading Marigold to think that Midas was in The Underworld thanks to the help of Ruby, she called the old members who all went their own way after Midas' disappearance: Brutus, Skye, Meowscles, TNTina, and his daughter Jules back together. She later sends The Looper whom she found after this long period of time and recruited them as a mercenary to investigate Midas's cell, only to find that he already managed to escape. Indeed, a guard unshacked Midas' right hand, unsealing his right hand's Golden Touch, allowing him to transform the second Chain of Hades into Gold, unsealing his second hand and allowing him to kill the guard and break down the armored door of his cell with his bare hands. Midas, now with a new Mythological Aesthetic, has suspicions that Brutus, Midas' Crew current leader has betrayed him, so he sends the Looper to confirm Brutus' loyalty. The Looper finds that Brutus has remained loyal, and so he rejoins the other Agents and hands control of the crew back to Midas. Marigold later asked has asked Jules to study the Chains of Hades with The Looper to help Midas to seal his Golden Touch. They discovers a mysterious "Essence" in The Underworld, and uses it to start work on new "Gauntlets" which allow Midas to seal and unseal his Golden Touch at will. With the crew back together, Midas sets his sights on escaping the Island with The Marigold Yacht, wary of Hades' wrath. Midas' goal is a fruitful voyage on his yacht to expand his empire somewhere else outside of the Island for his high ambitions. His Top Agents and The Looper create distractions around the Island that allow his escape mission to succeed, so Midas hides away from Hades on Spawn Island, while Brutus can prepare The Marigold to pick everybody up to their new destination. However a part of SHADOW remained on the Island, with SHADOW still offering work for mercenaries.
Gallery[]
Headquarters and Bases[]
Trivia[]
- Their main themes are "Spies!", "Subterfuge" and "The First Shadows" (Unreleased).
- It should be noted that although this is a criminal group, most members have moral principles and are not evil even though they are not necessarily good either.
- Several agents have a special relationship with Midas, even though he is their boss.
- Jules is Midas's daughter, although their relationship is complicated, the two sincerely love each other as father and daughter respectively.
- Marigold is Midas's current lover.
- Brutus and Meowscles are Midas's friends.
- Skye and TNTina also seems to be close to him although their exact relationship is unknown.
- The Burning Wolf, Chaos Agent (formerly known as Chaos Origins) and Sierra were Midas's enemies, the first two tried to kill him before joining him.
- During a very long time GHOST and SHADOW were believed to be two different organizations by players due to a lack of clarity of the storyline.
- Characters outside the organization such as the Imagined Order also seemed unaware of this as they recruited GHOST agents while identifying SHADOW agents as enemies.
- It's possible that the war between GHOST and SHADOW, having led to a civil war on the entire Island, was planned by Midas and Chaos Agent without the knowledge of the other agents to serve as a diversion in order for Midas to build The Device unbeknownst to the Imagined Order.
- This war had a serious impact on the organization with a loss of trust between members.
- Despite everything, they ended up forgiving each other and reconciling three chapters later, during Chapter 5: Season 2.
- This war had a serious impact on the organization with a loss of trust between members.
- Each member of The First Shadows share something in common with Midas.
- The Burning Wolf was part of an unknown ancient kingdom, as a knight. Just like Midas was the king of the ancient kingdom of Phrygia.
- Chaos Agent is a mastermind with great scientific knowledge, just like Midas.
- Sierra seeks revenge, just like Midas.
- E.G.O and A.L.T.E.R were mistakenly believed to be the actual names of GHOST and SHADOW.
- They are in fact only the names of teams, those sent by the two factions during Chapter 2: Season 1.
- When the names GHOST and SHADOW were first revealed, players thought they were just the names of E.G.O and A.L.T.E.R's respective intelligence services.
- The members of E.G.O and A.L.T.E.R have the unique characteristic of being very similar without being the same persons, and were called alter-egos of each others.
- The alter-egos are as follows: Turk and Riptide, Jouney and Hazard, Remedy and Toxin, 8-Ball and Scratch, Cameo and Chic, Rippley and Sludge, Xev and Vex, Outcast and her unnamed alter-ego, Terra and her unnamed alter-ego, Tek and his unnamed alter-ego.
- Among the alter-egos, Xev and Vex due to their status as cosmic entities are able to fuse into one being: Fusion.
- Fusion has never been seen or mentioned once, along with Xev and Vex he is the only operative whose only known information comes from his in-game Outfit and information about the Zero Point. Therefore why does he possess a smaller Zero Point and the real extent of his powers are unknown.
External Links[]
- Midas' crew on the Fortnite Wiki
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