- "Gentlemen, Eidolon is another word for ghost. Or spectre."
- ― M.
Eidolon is a fictional stay-behind network created by the partially-dismantled criminal organisation, SPECTRE. Eidolon operated as a decentralised array of four-person cells; secretly embedded in global intelligence agencies such as the CIA, MI5, and the MIT. It appeared in the Dynamite Entertainment's second James Bond comic arc, Eidolon, which ran between June 22 and December 28, 2016.
Background[]
After the dismantlement of the criminal organisation, SPECTRE, a decentralised stay-behind network code-named "Eidolon" (a term from ancient Greek literature denoting a spectre or phantom) continued to secretly function under the noses of the world's intelligence agencies. Eidolon was comprised of numerous four-person cells embedded inside influential organisations such as the CIA, MI5, and the Milli İstihbarat Teşkilatı. Money was secretly distributed via shell companies using variations of the word "Eidolon" and was utilized in the rebuilding of SPECTRE's infrastructure; notably stockpiling weapons and ammunition.
In the mid-2010s, following a series of financial slip-ups by Eidolon, an MI6 accountant named Cadence Birdwhistle happened across suspicious money transfers using Milli İstihbarat Teşkilatı resources. After several failed attempts on her life, Birdwhistle's intelligence resulted in MI6 operative James Bond successfully raiding the organisation's UK stockpile at Box Tunnel. Their presence unveiled, Eidolon retaliated during a meeting between the Intelligence Services Commissioner and the Head of MI6; during which all but one of SPECTRE's UK cell were killed. Its final member committed suicide after an aborted thermobaric weapon attack on Westminster and, subsequently, the SIS Building. The ultimate fate of the Eidolon network is unknown.
Confirmed members[]
- United Kingdom cell:
- Sir Stephen Mackmain - Chief of MI5. Deceased.
- Beckett Hawkwood - An MI5 special security asset. Deceased.
- Gareth Cullen - A senior MI5 field officer. Incarcerated.
- Unidentified - Bodyguard to Stephen Mackmain. Deceased.
- United States cell:
- Unidentified - An unnamed Caucasian male CIA operative. Deceased.
- Unidentified - An unnamed African-American male CIA operative. Deceased.
- Turkish cell:
- Unidentified - An unnamed MIT operative. Deceased.
- Unidentified - An unnamed MIT operative. Deceased.
- Unidentified - An unnamed MIT operative. Deceased.
- Unidentified - An unnamed MIT operative. Deceased.
- Unidentified cells:
- Unidentified - An unnamed accountant working for Eidolon. Deceased.