Committee of 300

The Committee of 300 (300人委員会, 300-nin iinkai), also known as The Illuminati, The Olympians, Hidden Hand, and various other names, is a secret society with 300 members in it worldwide, which for over a century has plotted world domination, with the goal of a one-world government, also known as the Human Domestication Project or the New World Order, and is the central antagonist of the Science Adventure Series.

It is partly based on the real life conspiracy theory by John Coleman about a group called the Committee of 300, which he also calls The Olympians, as well as Hidden Hand, a term that acts as a key password in Robotics;Notes. It is also partly based on the real life conspiracy theory about The Illuminati and the New World Order.

According to John Coleman’s 1991 book Conspirators’ Hierarchy: The Story of the Committee of 300, available as a free PDF eBook on the CIA website as part of a collection of books found at Osama bin Laden’s hideout in Abbottabad, Pakistan, the committee seeks to cull the global human population into a smaller world united under one government.

This is also the Committee’s goal in Steins;Gate, in which they make use of the organization SERN to monopolize time travel, cull the worldwide population down to 1 billion people, and achieve complete domination by the year 2036, turning the world into what John Titor, a time traveler from the year 2036 who managed to escape back in time to try to change things, calls “a dystopia”.

The Committee has countless front organizations all over the world, and is said to secretly control the world from the shadows. Their power spreads not only to the politics of all major world powers, but also religion, the economy, science, and military and intelligence agencies, among other things.

The Committee in Steins;Gate
In Steins;Gate, the Committee of 300 acts as the master puppeteers behind SERN’s Z-Program, aspiring to obtain the power of time travel in order to create a dystopia, which they achieve in the Alpha Attractor Field.

The Future Gadget Lab learns of the Committee’s existence while hacking SERN’s servers. By undoing all the D-Mails to reach the Beta Attractor Field, Rintaro Okabe successfully manages to avoid a future ruled by the Committee’s dystopia.

Beyond Steins;Gate

 * Committee of 300 in ChäoS;HEAd
 * Committee of 300 in Robotics;Notes
 * Committee of 300 in ChäoS;Child
 * Committee of 300 in the Science Adventure Series (Complete page)

Known activity in Steins;Gate
This is an in-progress list of crimes and other activity committed or instigated by the Committee of 300 only for Steins;Gate. Feel free to correct errors and contribute. If adding a crime portrayed in the visual novels that was negated by the main route and therefore not canon to the overall storyline, please, include a note stating it as such.

1959 - 1975

 * (1959) SERN’s Proton Synchrotron is completed, their first particle accelerator and a predecessor to their Large Hadron Collider that it would later be incorporated into.
 * (1973/02/02) SERN’s Z-Program is drafted. Electromagnetic research (explored in ChäoS;HEAd and Robotics;Notes) is also already singled out as a primary field of research for the Committee of 300.
 * SERN’s Z-Program database is built using the special, hidden proprietary code of the IBN 5100, used to store data gathered from ECHELON.
 * Alpha Attractor Field
 * 0.337187% World Line Divergence
 * (1975) Kayano arrives on the top of the Radio Kaikan building in SERN’s time machine that looks like John Titor of the Beta Attractor Field’s 1967 Chevrolet Camaro to attack Suzuha Amane seconds after her own arrival. She throws Suzuha Amane off the roof.
 * 0.409431% World Line Divergence
 * (1975) Kayano arrives on the top of the Radio Kaikan building in SERN’s Chevrolet Camaro time machine to attack Suzuha Amane shortly after her own arrival.

1990s

 * Viktor Chondria University develops Visual Rebuilding technology, It is later also used in the Amadeus system by Alexis Leskinen in beta world lines and in the Time Leap Machine (made by Kurisu Makise in alpha world lines and the Steins Gate world line, and made by Hashida Itaru and Maho Hiyajo in beta world lines).
 * Alpha Attractor Field
 * Multiple World Line Divergences
 * (1996/12/22) Yugo Tennouji is sent as a Rounder to Akihabara.
 * (1997/8/20) Yugo Tennouji is active in Akihabara as a Rounder, codename: M2.

Early 2000s

 * (2001) SERN’s Large Hadron Collider is complete, and human time-traveling experiments are conducted as part of their Z-Program Stage 4, documented in Jellyman’s Report.
 * (2005) SERN’s fourth Z-Program experiment concludes. However, human experimentation is continued, at least in the Alpha Attractor Field World Line Divergence 0.334581% The Distant Valhalla.
 * (2009) SERN’s Large Hadron Collider is announced to the world. Its capability to create mini-black holes is denied.
 * Alpha Attractor Field
 * Multiple World Line Divergences
 * (2006) Yugo Tennouji is working for the Rounders, codename: FB, manipulating and recruiting social outcasts in Akihabara for odd jobs and crimes conducted for SERN and most likely the Committee of 300 itself.
 * (2006/06/21) Moeka Kiryu joins the Rounders and receives the codename M4.
 * 0.409431% World Line Divergence (0.409031% in anime)
 * (2000) A “French businessman” most likely related to SERN and the Rounders buys the IBN 5100 from Yukitaka Akiha


 * Beta Attractor Field
 * Multiple World Line Divergences
 * Alexis Leskinen and colleagues at Viktor Chondria University do early development of the Amadeus system, whose purpose is to gain Kurisu Makise’s knowledge of time travel by creating an AI with copies of all her memories and consciousness.

2010
1= 2= 3= 4= 5= 6= 7=
 * Alpha Attractor Field
 * Multiple World Line Divergences
 * (2010/06) Moeka Kiryu begins searching for the IBN 5100 in Akihabara.
 * (2010/07/21) The first D-Mail is caught in SERN’s database via ECHELON.
 * (2010/07/31) SERN is already aware of Kurisu Makise’s time travel thesis. Moeka Kiryu steals it after Kurisu Makise leaves it in the Radio Kaikan building.
 * (2010/08/08) FB sends the first anonymous threatening email to Rintaro Okabe.
 * (2010/08/08) Kayano arrives in Akihabara from the year 2036 with the mission to kill Suzuha Amane.
 * (2010/08/10) Kayano contacts FB a.k.a. Yugo Tennouji.
 * (2010/08/10) SERN presumably allows Itaru Hashida to discover the direct fiber optic cables leading to the Large Hadron Collider in France.
 * (2010/08/11) Kayano meets FB and gets him to hand his authority over to her.
 * (2010/08/varying dates) The Rounders kill Mayuri Shiina and kidnap Kurisu Makise, Rintaro Okabe, and Itaru Hashida as well as steal the PhoneWave.
 * 0.523299% World Line Divergence
 * (2010/07/31) Moeka Kiryu steals the IBN 5100 from the Yanabayashi Shrine after receiving a D-Mail from herself.
 * 0.337187...% World Line Divergence
 * ​(2010/08/03) Moeka Kiryu sneaks into the Yanabayashi Shrine grounds under the cover of darkness to search for the IBN 5100, but retreats after encountering Suzuha Amane
 * (2010/08/11) Moeka Kiryu hears about the Time Leap Machine, the hacking of SERN, and estimated completion of the Time Leap Machine within a week from Rintaro Okabe and Mayuri Shiina. She presumably reports this to FB. FB sends a second anonymous threatening email to Rintaro Okabe.
 * (2010/08/13)
 * 12:00-12:30 Yugo Tennouji sees Rintaro Okabe discover that the 42 inch CRT in his shop works as a lifter and hears him talk about it.
 * 16:30 Rounders spread throughout Akihabara.
 * 16:30-16:56 Yugo Tennouji sees Mayuri Shiina stop by Braun Tube shop to invite Suzuha Amane to celebrate the completion of the Time Leap Machine.
 * 19:30 Rounders shut down the train lines leading to Akihabara with a terrorist bomb threat.
 * 19:45-19:56 Rounders raid the Future Gadget Lab. Moeka Kiryu kills Mayuri Shiina by gunshot. Rintaro Okabe, Kurisu Makise, and Itaru Hashida are kidnapped and the Time Leap Machine is taken.
 * (2010/08/11) Moeka Kiryu hears about the Time Leap Machine, the hacking of SERN, and estimated completion of the Time Leap Machine within a week from Rintaro Okabe and Mayuri Shiina. She presumably reports this to FB. FB sends a second anonymous threatening email to Rintaro Okabe.
 * (2010/08/13)
 * 12:00-12:30 Yugo Tennouji sees Rintaro Okabe discover that the 42 inch CRT in his shop works as a lifter and hears him talk about it.
 * 16:30-16:56 Yugo Tennouji sees Mayuri Shiina stop by Braun Tube shop to invite Suzuha Amane to celebrate the completion of the Time Leap Machine.
 *  18:33 Yugo Tennouji sees Rintaro Okabe outside of Braun Tube shop and sees him run away with Mayuri Shiina.
 * 19:30 Rounders shut down the train lines leading to Akihabara with a terrorist bomb threat.
 *  19:45-20:17 Moeka Kiryu runs over Rintaro Okabe and Mayuri Shiina resulting in Mayuri Shiina’s death. She fails to secure Rintaro Okabe.
 * (2010/08/11) Moeka Kiryu hears about the Time Leap Machine, the hacking of SERN, and estimated completion of the Time Leap Machine within a week from Rintaro Okabe and Mayuri Shiina. She presumably reports this to FB. FB sends a second anonymous threatening email to Rintaro Okabe.
 * (2010/08/13)
 * 12:00-12:30 Yugo Tennouji sees Rintaro Okabe discover that the 42 inch CRT in his shop works as a lifter and hears him talk about it.
 * 16:30 Rounders spread throughout Akihabara.
 * 19:30 Rounders shut down the train lines leading to Akihabara with a terrorist bomb threat.
 *  19:30-19:53 Rounders kidnap Mayuri Shiina and take her to France for human experimentation.
 *  19:53 Moeka Kiryu sends an email to Rintaro Okabe containing a Jellyman’s Report of Mayuri Shiina.
 * (2010/08/11) Moeka Kiryu hears about the Time Leap Machine, the hacking of SERN, and estimated completion of the Time Leap Machine within a week from Rintaro Okabe and Mayuri Shiina. She presumably reports this to FB. FB sends a second anonymous threatening email to Rintaro Okabe.
 * (2010/08/13)
 * 12:00-12:30 Yugo Tennouji sees Rintaro Okabe discover that the 42 inch CRT in his shop works as a lifter and hears him talk about it.
 * 16:30 Rounders spread throughout Akihabara.
 *  ≈18:45 The Committee of 300 blocks road traffic leading away from Akihabara under the pretense of a large traffic inspection. A Rounder stabs Mayuri Shiina and fails to secure Rintaro Okabe in a taxi.
 * (2010/08/11) Moeka Kiryu hears about the Time Leap Machine, the hacking of SERN, and estimated completion of the Time Leap Machine within a week from Rintaro Okabe and Mayuri Shiina. She presumably reports this to FB. FB sends a second anonymous threatening email to Rintaro Okabe.
 * (2010/08/13)
 * 12:00-12:30 Yugo Tennouji sees Rintaro Okabe discover that the 42 inch CRT in his shop works as a lifter and hears him talk about it.
 * 16:30 Rounders spread throughout Akihabara.
 * 19:30 Rounders shut down the train lines leading to Akihabara with a terrorist bomb threat.
 *  ≈20:45-21:32 Rounders set off a bomb in JR Akihabara station. Men in police officer uniforms arrive in Yodobashi Camera to “assist in evacuating” the area. Those who do not comply are shot without warning. Mayuri Shiina is killed by gunshot. It is unclear if the men in uniform were actually Rounders, or police who were bought over or brainwashed.
 * (2010/08/11) Moeka Kiryu hears about the Time Leap Machine, the hacking of SERN, and estimated completion of the Time Leap Machine within a week from Rintaro Okabe and Mayuri Shiina. She presumably reports this to FB. FB sends a second anonymous threatening email to Rintaro Okabe.
 * (2010/08/13)
 * 12:00-12:30 Yugo Tennouji sees Rintaro Okabe discover that the 42 inch CRT in his shop works as a lifter and hears him talk about it.
 *  ≈14:32 Moeka Kiryu receives an email from Rintaro Okabe telling her to meet him at the top of the Radio Kaikan Building.
 *  ≈17:30 Moeka Kiryu goes to the Radio Kaikan Building along with another Rounder. She tells Rintaro Okabe about the Rounders. Her partner, who had been hiding, knocks Rintaro Okabe out. They bring him tied up in a van to an alleyway across the street from the Future Gadget Lab.
 *  19:40-19:56 A Rounder accidentally allows Rintaro Okabe to escape the vehicle into the Future Gadget Lab, where Moeka Kiryu and other Rounders are raiding. Mayuri Shiina is shot by a Rounder.
 * (2010/08/11) Moeka Kiryu hears about the Time Leap Machine, the hacking of SERN, and estimated completion of the Time Leap Machine within a week from Rintaro Okabe and Mayuri Shiina. She presumably reports this to FB. No anonymous threatening email is sent to Rintaro Okabe.
 * (2010/08/12) Suzuha Amane is attacked by Rounders and meets and fights off Kayano.
 * (2010/08/13)
 *  Before 16:26 Kayano kidnaps Nae Tennouji in order to lure out Suzuha Amane.
 *  Shortly after 18:00 Yugo Tennouji brings Suzu Hashida’s failure letter to Rintaro Okabe and sees Rintaro Okabe, Mayuri Shiina, Kurisu Makise, and Itaru Hashida in the Future Gadget Lab.


 * 0.409431% World Line Divergence (0.409031% in anime)
 * (2010/08/11) Moeka Kiryu hears about the Time Leap Machine, the hacking of SERN, and estimated completion of the Time Leap Machine within a week from Rintaro Okabe and Mayuri Shiina. She presumably reports this to FB.
 * (2010/08/14)
 * By 19:45 Rounders have covered Akihabara.
 * Between 19:45-19:57 Moeka Kiryu and Rounders raid the Future Gadget Lab. Mayuri Shiina is killed by random gunfire.
 * 0.523307% World Line Divergence
 * (2010/08/15) Rounders take the IBN 5100 to France.
 * (2010/08/15) Yugo Tennouji kills Moeka Kiryu and then commits suicide. (Note: This is in the Steins;Gate anime. In the Steins;Gate visual novel, he only kills himself.)
 * (2010/08/15) Nae Tennouji, driven insane by the suicide of her father, time-leaps repeatedly from 2025 as a Rounder back into her child-body of 2010 and kills Moeka Kiryu. She slashes Rintaro Okabe and warns him that she has killed him in 2025. (Note: This is in the Steins;Gate visual novel, left out of the Steins;Gate anime.)
 * 0.571046% World Line Divergence
 * (Before 2010/08/15) Yugo Tennouji has ordered Moeka Kiryu to stop searching for the IBN 5100.
 * (2010/08/17) A Rounder tries to run Rintaro Okabe over and hits Mayuri Shiina with the car instead.


 * Gamma Attractor Field
 * World Line Divergence 2.615074%
 * Rintaro Okabe is active as a Rounder, codename: M3. He and Moeka Kiryu kill agents from Europol who had been investigating them.


 * Worldline Divergence 1.048596% (a.k.a. the Steins Gate)
 * World War III and SERN's future dystopia have both been averted on this worldline.
 * As is demonstrated by the rest of the Science Adventure Series, the Committee of 300 is still apt to carry out various other schemes in an attempt to take control of the World on this Worldline.

2011

 * Alpha Attractor Field
 * 0.334581% World Line Divergence
 * Akiko Hiiragi pretends to be Neidhardt Takumi Nishijou in order to gain information from Itaru Hashida and Rintaro Okabe. SERN discovers the existence of Rintaro Okabe’s Reading Steiner and that according to Suzuha Amane, they will succeed in building a time machine in the future.
 * SERN continues with human experimentation, and forces Kurisu Makise to watch.
 * (2011/12/21) Akiko Hiiragi and several Rounders experiment to prove world line convergence by shooting Rintaro Okabe repeatedly at close range only to fail to kill him.
 * (2011/12/29) Rintaro Okabe and Itaru Hashida are kept under Rounder observation after being freed and sent back to Japan in order to avoid disturbing the world line convergence

2025

 * Alpha Attractor Field
 * Multiple World Line Divergences
 * Rintaro Okabe is killed by Rounders.
 * 0.523307% World Line Divergence
 * Nae Tennouji, driven insane by the suicide of her father, has become a commanding officer in the Rounders. She tortures Rintaro Okabe to death and then time-leaps to 2010 in order to kill Moeka Kiryu.


 * Beta Attractor Field
 * Multiple World Line Divergences
 * Rintaro Okabe dies protecting Mayuri Shiina from a mugger in the war-ravaged future.
 * 1.097302% and 1.055821% World Line Divergences
 * Rintaro Okabe is kidnapped by Stratfor. His mind is completely erased in attempts by Stratfor to gain any information about Valkyrie.


 * Alpha Attractor Field
 * Multiple World Line Divergences
 * (2033) Itaru Hashida is killed by Rounders.
 * (2034) Valkyrie’s assassination attempt on Kurisu Makise, a.k.a. “Operation Gjallarhorn”, fails. The Committee of 300 kills a large number of the Valkyrie resistance. Three weeks later Kurisu Makise’s “accidental” death is announced.
 * (2034) SERN succeeds in developing a fully working time machine.
 * (2034-36) The Committee of 300 succeeds in taking over the world, turning it into a dystopia. Personality remodeling and brainwashing become regular occurrences.
 * (By 2036) A method of brainwashing involving the implantation of a chip in the under-eyelid has been developed. It is unclear if this method was developed by N.O.Z.O.M.I. or another group.
 * 0.000000% World Line Divergence
 * Kayano joins the Rounders and undergoes human experimentation in order to fortify her body.
 * Beta Attractor Field
 * Multiple World Line Divergences
 * Alexis Leskinen brainwashes Kagari Shiina, turning her into his puppet, and arranges for her to accompany Suzuha Amane when Suzuha goes back in time in 2036, so that Kagari can assist Leskinen in the past.
 * Gamma Attractor Field
 * World Line Divergence 2.615074%
 * (By 2036) Rintaro Okabe has joined the leading ranks of the Illuminati of the Committee of 300. He rules as a dictator under the name Hououin Kyouma.
 * (By 2036) Rintaro Okabe has joined the leading ranks of the Illuminati of the Committee of 300. He rules as a dictator under the name Hououin Kyouma.

2036

 * Alpha Attractor Field
 * 0.000000% World Line Divergence
 * SERN researchers develop a theory on the means to transfer information to oneself across world lines similar to Rintaro Okabe’s “Reading Steiner”.
 * (2036/09/27) The Committee of 300, using SERN’s time machine to travel back in time, practically annihilates the Valkyrie resistance group during their assassination attempt upon the Rounder commander Libron. Kayano kills Kiyotaka.
 * (2036/09/10) Kayano kills Yuki Amane.
 * (2036/09/10) Rounders attack the Valkyrie remnant during “Operation Brynhildr”. Kayano attacks Suzuha Amane, injures Rei Mikoshiba and Shinjirou Katsuragi, and damages the FG204.
 * (2036/10/11) Kayano and Rounders attack and completely wipe out remaining members of the Valkyrie resistance group. Kayano uses SERN’s time machine to pursue Suzuha Amane to 2010.


 * Beta Attractor Field
 * 1.097302% and 1.055821% World Line Divergences
 * Rintaro Okabe’s mind is restored using his 2011 memories.
 * Rintaro Okabe does almost 3000 time-leaps to return back to 2011.


 * Multiple World Line Divergences
 * Suzuha Amane and Kagari Shiina travel to 1975, then to 1998 and then to 2010 in order to complete their mission to achieve the Steins Gate world line. Unfortunately, Kagari attacks Suzuha and runs away in 1998 due to Alexis Leskinen’s brainwashing.

The Committee and its known accomplices in Steins;Gate
It is not always clear whether certain groups and characters are true members of the Committee of 300, are simply hired help, or are coerced or otherwise forced to do the Committee’s bidding. Therefore, this is a list of any and all characters that have ever had a helping hand in the evil deeds of the Committee regardless of the character’s own circumstances. See the image map for further elucidation as to the relationships between the groups.

Groups

 * SERN (Steins;Gate)
 * Rounders (Steins;Gate)
 * ECHELON system (Steins;Gate) (In reality believed to be operated by Five Eyes, though the term remains unmentioned in Steins;Gate material.)
 * Viktor Chondria University (Steins;Gate 0, also hinted at in earlier games)

Individuals

 * Akiko Hiiragi - α 0.334581%- (Steins;Gate)
 * Yugo Tennouji - Rounder codename: M2 & later FB - α, some of β, some of δ & γ 2.615074% - (Steins;Gate)
 * Moeka Kiryu - Rounder codename: M4 - α, some of β, some of δ & γ 2.615074% - (Steins;Gate)
 * Kurisu Makise - α - (Steins;Gate)
 * Libron - α - (Steins;Gate)
 * Kayano - α - (Steins;Gate)
 * Nae Tennouji - α 0.523307% and 0.000000%- (Steins;Gate)
 * Rintaro Okabe - Rounder codename: M3 & later Dictator of Japan Hououin Kyouma- γ 2.615074%- (Steins;Gate)

Trivia

 * The Committee of 300 and its “One World Government” are often referenced in the vocal songs of the Science Adventure Series. Some examples include:
 * ChäoS;HEAd’s “Find the Blue”: I fall into the New World
 * Robotics;Notes’s Clad in Steel Armor, High Priest of The 300: the title of the song is a reference to the Committee of 300, and it is full of other references to it in the lyrics
 * Steins;Gate 0’s “Fatima”: There is no God. Wonderful New World
 * Robotics;Notes DaSH’s “Avant Story”: I am to the New World Order
 * The excellent Science Adventure Series fan translation group Committee of Zero has the website address sonome.dareno.me, the Romaji spelling of “Whose eyes are those eyes?”, and its name is a reference to both the Committee of 300 and Steins;Gate 0.

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