The Hellfire Club BBS was run by Sebastian Shaw (Michael Paul Meredith) and CO-SYSOPed by his friend and business parter Captain Picard (Richard Dale Ruffner) originally on Trek BBS and then later on WWIV BBS in the Saint Louis Missouri 314 area code. The Hellfire Club was based on Marvel Comic's "The Hellfire Club" in the X-Men Comics and Sebastian Shaw was the leader at the time.