Organization
The Overlord of the organization is an alien named Sōsai (translates in English as "Leader", "Overlord", or "Governor", but used "Leader" in the ADV dub) X, who regenerated as Sosai Zeddo in Gatchaman F. He always has a human subordinate, designated as "Commander", who carries out his orders and is the only member who interacts with Sosai X directly. His first two were children he manipulated into his adult minions such as Berg Katse in the original series and Gel Sadora in Gatchaman II. In Gatchaman F, he chose to deal with an established human leader, Egobossler, in a much more tenuous relationship. Typically, all members are masked as part of their standard uniforms.
Below are the captains who typically wore individual costumes and are responsible overall for individual schemes that the leader prefers not to handle personally. The captains are supported by minions in cat-like costumes with sergeants whose costumes are yellow, who in turn to are served by troopers who wear green-colored uniforms.
In addition, they have special forces available, such as ninja units that are similarly themed bird-like units like the Science Ninja Team with roughly equivalent fighting skills. However, these teams are apparently inferior to their enemy counterpart, considering that Gatchaman faces such a unit at least once alone and still more than holds his own in battle. Typically the captains only last one episode, either being killed in the final battle or by the Leader for failure.
All personnel below Sōsai, including the highest subordinate to a lesser degree, are considered strictly expendable and controlled with ruthless discipline with failure being punished with death. As such, only the Leader typically has access to the war machines' escape vehicles.
It's been estimated the organization has about one million personnel around the world. Furthermore, the organization has apparently limitless resources to attempt dozens of schemes with massive war machines that are a match for any conventional force on Earth, although the Science Ninja Team is able to destroy or capture almost all of them. Furthermore, the organization eventually learned to develop more sophisticated plots in which conventional countermeasures by the enemy would often further the plans' objectives, although again the Science Ninja Team is able to thwart the vast majority of them.
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