Once upon a time,
the US Government formed a top-secret military agency called The
Initiative. The Initiative was not your average secret agency. It's
goals didn't involve terrorism or enemy governments. It was created
with one far-fetched purpose in mind- to seek out the supernatural
and harness its power for military application.
During normal
reconnaissance, The Initiative came across another group, a far
older group whose interests also lay in the supernatural. The
Watchers, as they were called, studied the otherworldly not in
pursuit of conquest and glory, but for protecting humanity from the
evils of the world.
Though the
Watcher's Council and Initiative rarely saw eye to eye, they
decided that a limited partnership of their two agencies could be
mutually beneficial. Together, they formed several teams which
were stationed at mystical hot spots around the world.
After a catastrophic accident, The Initiative was disbanded. All
knowledge of it was filed away by the government, its agents in
the field, abandoned. Many of these agents left for greener
pastures but some stayed on and aided The Council.
Shortly after
the collapse of the Initiative, The Watchers were all but
destroyed by a bomb attack on their London headquarters. They
struggled to rebuild, but instead of leaving the teams to fend for
themselves, they counted on them more than ever to collect intel
and train new members.
The sleepy,
coastal, college town of Heaven's Gate, California, is the home of
one of these teams. While quiet on the surface "Hell's Gate" sits
squarely in the middle of a trans-dimensional convergence, a place
where the barriers between this world and other realms are at
their thinnest. Portals from other dimensions open and close
depositing demonic artifacts and allowing hostile entities to pass
through. The team, with the help of an ancient, mysterious
artifact, investigates the source of this phenomenon and battle
the demons that it attracts.
