Prometheus is a non-partisan international aid organization dedicated to bringing medical assistance, food, and educational resources to the poor around the globe. Founded in the United States in the early 70s by Dr. John Powers, its credo is "to bring light to a beleaguered world."
Prometheus does most of its work in the poorer countries of the Third World and receives most of its funding from charitable efforts and corporate sponsors in Europe, Australia, and North America. Prometheus is absolutely undiscriminating in its humanitarian efforts, which it directs equally to pro-government and anti-government forces in every country suffering from terrorism, famine, or civil war. Thanks to the pioneering efforts of Dr. Powers (a noted expert on high-tech weaponry), it functions like a heavily-armed Red Cross, blasting anyone who attacks its food and medical convoys.