Ohgod Scouts

So, uh. There was what I offered at face value, the whole talent scouting and then what actually happened.
They still did the actual Talent Scouting but other factors soon become more important to them.

The whole underplot was based on the coup of the Bolshevik revolution to a degree. During the start of the game the leader of the League, is the leader of the former revolution. He won by a super bloody, killing every royal. Or so he thought. Basically Anastasia mythos. The Leader contracts outsiders, non-natives of the region, who would know nothing about him, to research and find him his Gymleaders. Except one. One who he is reasonably sure is a bastard heir to the throne. One that if it came to light he could use as a pawn to further his own goals.

Two royals survived, the twin prince and princess. They were there during the coup and know what happened. They live their lives hiding, going from one loyal supporter to another avoiding detection and execution. Eventually using their ties and what influence they could to form their own Team. Who is antagonistic against the League for obvious reasons.

The Prince wanted to as best they could govern the nation, by showing that the leader of the new League is unfit to govern and show just how ruthless and terrible a man he is. He would want to either intergrate into the League, as it's ruling body or return to a limited monarchy. But, there was a division in the Royal team as well, unbeknownst to the Prince. The Princess wanted to return to the old ways. She was to be Queen and dissenters were to be dealt with. All of her directions were to process and eliminate all of those who stood in her way, or to manipulate them into doing her will. Albeit incredibly discreetly. She herself had managed to become the receptionist of the League Leader. But her machinations went even so far as seeding a turncoat PC into the party.

Coupled with the Team/League Dynamic there is the fact the regions legionaries are starting run rampant and wild. They have no 'ruler' to enforce their peace/cooperation. This feat usually being done by a royal heir. In the 20 years after the coup the legionaries begin to awaken and cause disasters.

The Rasputin-like figure (going back to the Anastasia mythos for a moment) is a member of the Royal Team. He wishes for a strong region, but cannot abide the rule of the current Leader, and has great misgivings about the twins. He was originally a messiah of Mew and brother to the original King, who first forged the pacts with the wild legionaries. (The first King being a messiah of Arceus. The entire royal family has either ties to legendary pokemon or to specific species. At the time using the Genetic class.)

So from the top you have the head of the League; former leader of the revolution now leader of the nation, who now thinks that it's stable enough to actually form a real 'League' and join the big boys in the world. You have the Royal Twins, each with their similar but ultimately different objectives. You have the Rasputin-like, with his own agenda working with the Twins.

At every turn the Scouts would find the Royal Team there to try and either discredit their efforts or physically oppose them. Either as actual Team members or just members of the community. Much of it was just forcing the Scouts into compromising positions or media manipulation to spin them in a bad light.

As Talent Scoots progressed the PC's found more and more about all sides of the conflict. Learning that their employer was not in fact who they thought. But from their experience the Royal Team wasn't so much better an alternative. Slowly the information trickled down that there was in fact a division in the group and so on.