The Philosophers (Game Of Shadows)

The Philosophers are a group of rich elite men and women, who secretly control America and the global market. They were founded shortly before the first world war were they financed both sides in the war, and became the richest men and women in the world at that time. They later began to control the most powerful families in the world, making themselves the most powerful people in the whole world.

They are however met with a dangerous threat under the name of John Guerra, or CyberPhantom who founds a militant group called Verum Et Justitia. Their goal is to overthrow the richest families so they can install a better cleaner, and less corrupt system. But when the Rockschild family is being killed off, they notice, that there must be a higher force.

At the end of the first part of the story, they suffer a huge blow, when John manipulates the FBI, CIA and the Mi6 into killing off several owners of companies who supported them. But this isn't the only thing. After that, John triggers a riot after his alias CyberPhantom is shot in front of the whole world watching. Making CyberPhantom a martyr, a large riot consisting of supporters storm the Sachsbild meeting and kill off everyone there.

This limited their power extremely as they lost control over most of the countries, and now only have control in USA anymore.