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 * the [[Department of Departments]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids (short story)|The Crew of the Copper-Colored Cupids]]'')
 * the [[Department of Taxes]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Green Gorillas (short story)|The Green Gorillas]]'')
+* the [[Department of Postal Services]]. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Society of the Rhyming Dove (short story)|The Society of the Rhyming Dove]]'')
 There used to be a [[Department of Conspiracy Theories]] ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Case Against Conspiracy (short story)|The Case Against Conspiracy]]'') and a [[Department of Forestry]], ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Winter Quests (novel)|The Winter Quests]]'') both of which were disbanded. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Case Against Conspiracy (short story)|The Case Against Conspiracy]]'', ''[[The Winter Quests (novel)|The Winter Quests]]'')
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 === 1980s ===
-In 1984, there existed an elite taskforce of Cupids, the [[Scarlet Wings]], including [[Arganthone-056]]. They were sent to the Euclidean Plane to raid the [[Geometron Pentagon]]'s Library. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'')
+By 1984, there existed an elite taskforce of Cupids, the [[Scarlet Wings]], including [[Arganthone-056]]. They were sent to the Euclidean Plane to raid the [[Geometron Pentagon]]'s Library. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Time of the Toymaker (novel)|The Time of the Toymaker]]'') In 1986, it was still considered “newly-established”, suggesting the 1984 events had been among their first missions. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Society of the Rhyming Dove (short story)|The Society of the Rhyming Dove]]'')
 In December 1986, a group of Green Gorillas took control of the town supermarket of [[Vanityville]], emptying it of all [[Christmas]] paraphernalia and instead forcing the shopping customers to buy their green-gorilla merchandise, at gunpoint. They encountered a group of [[Clockwork Cherub]]s of the Crew, led by Commander [[Amadeo-378]], by coincidence. Noting the affected humans' unhappiness, the Cupids decided the Gang's aims seemed oppose to their own and decided to defeat them, kicking off the [[Skirmish at the Vanityville Supermarket]]. The Cupids were victorious, although the Gang's scientists subsequently learned how to reverse Cupid [[Love Potion|romanticisation]]. Thereafter, the Cupids went on to oppose the Gorillas on many occasions, “from the depths of the [[Amazonian jungle]] to the very [[North Pole]]”. Meanwhile, Amadeo-378 was commended for his effective leadership, and was awarded membership of the [[Order of Aphrodite]].
-[[File:Colonel-028 recalls Mark IVs.png|thumb|left|[[Colonel-028]] remembering the Mark IVs of the 1980s. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Scaled-Up Soldier (comic story)|Scaled-Up Soldier]]'')]]In addition to marking their first meeting with the Gorillas, this event was notable as the Crew's first formal use of physical force other than Cupid Arrows against their opponents. As the Cupids learned about the idea, there was a brief fighting craze in the Homeworld, with Cupids getting into fights with other Cupids with whom they had mild disagreements. However, this quickly passed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Green Gorillas (short story)|The Green Gorillas]]'') In “the 1980s”, the Crew made some attempts at romanticising dinosaurs. The [[Mark IV]]s were designed with this in mind, and inline with the new acknowledgement of violent strategies: in contrast to most marks of Clockwork Cherubs, they were house-sized colossi, armed for war. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Scaled-Up Soldier (comic story)|Scaled-Up Soldier]]'')
+[[File:Colonel-028 recalls Mark IVs.png|thumb|left|[[Colonel-028]] remembering the Mark IVs of the 1980s. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Scaled-Up Soldier (comic story)|Scaled-Up Soldier]]'')]]In addition to marking their first meeting with the Gorillas, this event was notable as the Crew's first formal use of physical force other than Cupid Arrows against their opponents. As the Cupids learned about the idea, there was a brief fighting craze in the Homeworld, with Cupids getting into fights with other Cupids with whom they had mild disagreements. However, this quickly passed. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Green Gorillas (short story)|The Green Gorillas]]'') In “the 1980s”, the Crew made some attempts at romanticising dinosaurs. The [[Mark IV]]s seemed to have been designed with this in mind, in line with the new acknowledgement of violent strategies: in contrast to most marks of Clockwork Cherubs, they were house-sized colossi, armed for war. ([[COMIC]]: ''[[Scaled-Up Soldier (comic story)|Scaled-Up Soldier]]'')
+Shortly after their first encounters with the Gang of the Green Gorilla, the Crew received letters from the [[Society of the Rhyming Dove]], another [[Strangely-Colored Secret Society]] who wished to make contact with all the Societies it could. Fearing a trap from the Gorillas or some other ill-intentioned group, the Crew sent the Scarlet Wings to meet the mystery-writers, but the Rhyming Doves turned out to indeed be friendly. An alliance between the two groups was established. ([[PROSE]]: ''[[The Society of the Rhyming Dove (short story)|The Society of the Rhyming Dove]]'')
 === 1990s ===