Team Galactic

Team Galactic, also known as the Galaxy Gang, are an antagonist group in SUMOverse. They started off as a research organization that aimed to better humanity called the Galactic Corporation, but when Akagi Saitou's parents passed away and he took over as the CEO, he began to use the Galactic Corp's research findings for criminal activity and, ultimately, to further his own personal goal of creating a world without spirit.

Basic Information
In its games of origin, Pokémon Diamond, Pearl, and Platinum, Team Galactic was the villainous team to be taken down by the player. Naturally, when the SUMOverse storyline began to take shape, they would end up reprising their role. However, things started to become more complex when the cast of Neon Genesis Evangelion was introduced for a sort of Black 2 and White 2-esque sequel to DPPt. Shinji Ikari's storyline was based partially on an in-character playthrough of Platinum by Neg, but with Akagi vanished into the Torn World, some changes to the cast needed to be made. Gendo Ikari, who is one of the driving forces behind the Human Instrumentality Project in his series of origin, replaced Akagi as Galactic's commander for Shinji's storyline.

Team Galactic further diverged from canon when Yui Ikari's role in the story began to develop. In her original canon, she was the daughter of a prominent member of the shady SEELE organization. The way things had developed in SUMOverse, this would have translated to her being the daughter of a Team Galactic member. However, Yui is never shown to be a purely antagonistic character in her canon, in the way that the original Team Galactic was painted as a purely malicious organization. This led to the idea of Galactic originally being a benevolent organization before the damaged Akagi took over and directed its activities towards the creation of a new world. Further, because it had already been long established that the Ikaris originally lived in Hoenn, the idea of Galactic having different branches worldwide was introduced.

Ultimately, the departure from the canon Team Galactic was for the purposes of better suiting the morally gray Evangelion cast.

Galactic Corporation
once upon a time team galactic actually wanted to learn more about pokemon and help people, they were actually really big and had a bunch of branches in different regions, nanakamado was even involved with them at some point, etc etc, then akagi's parents died and keel was like "hey." also yui vanishes while galactic was still the galactic corp

Team Galactic
people that believed in akagi's goal sided with him and those that didn't split away, siding with nanakamado. pokemon platinum happens. hikari trauma.jpg

Neo Team Galactic
then when akagi vanished into the distortion world forever gendo was like >:^). shinji trauma.jpg