Strategic Focus

Strategic Focus, shortened to Stratfo (Stratfor in the anime), is an antagonistic group present in Steins;Gate 0 that takes up a role analogous to that of SERN in the original story. A private intelligence agency, nicknamed the "Shadow CIA" by conspiracy theorists, is it well-renowned among them for its crucial and under-documented role in recent world politics, most notably in the Gulf and Iraq wars.

Stratfo's very existence is unknown to the player throughout most of the story; however, depending on the route taken by the player in the visual novel, they are eventually revealed to either be after Kagari Shiina, as she is a potential receptor of or has already acquired a copy of Makise Kurisu's memories - or after patients of "New Encephalitis" which is actually widespread Reading Steiner. Both operations are shown to be led by Dr. Alexis Leskinen, and both aim to reconstruct a working time travel theory and sell it to governments around the whole world, which eventually results in the Third World War.

The possess a secret base in the basement of Tokyo Denki University.

Trivia
Much like SERN is an orthographical modification of the real-world CERN, Strategic Focus is the in-game equivalent of real-life Strategic Forecasting; hence the short name "Stratfo". In Japanese, the latter is pronounced "Suturatofou".

Known Members

 * Alexis Leskinen
 * Kagari Shiina (unofficially)