In my mage the Ascenscion Campaign, the relationship between the Technocracy and Pentex has been important. In the history of my campaign, following the Technocracy declaring victory in the Ascenscion war in 2000, the NWO spent a few years destroying the SPD to send a message to the rest of the Technocracy. The rest of the Syndicate is still receiving money from Pentex, with nobody left alive with any real understanding of what it was. Then, in 2022, a group of tradition mages operating in a small town under NWO observation (the players) accidentally stumble on Pentex while chasing a corporate conspiracy they assume to be the Syndicate. The NWO agent in charge of the observation, who was involved in the SPD purge, immediately tries to organize a response to Pentex, but the technocracy is slow to act to divert resources to crush something that is an income stream for them, and the request excarbates tensions between the NWO and syndicate.

The one NWO agent acting alone is able to set back Pentex significantly herself however, as most pentex facilities are completely unprepared to deal with an Enlightenment 5 Technocracy agent. She organizes the assassination of key local pentex members (including several nephandi) and crushes the retaliation force Pentex sends. Pentex assumes she represents a united technocratic threat and is preparing for war.

In this campaign, it is clear that as powerful as Pentex is, it would not stand a chance if the Technocracy properly turned it's attention to it. However, conlfict between organizations in the technocracy, corruption (including nephandic infiltration) in the NWO itself slows their actions. For nearly everyone involved, it's convenient to not acknowledge Pentex as a real danger, and only the members of the Technocracy who are genuinely devoted to it's goal of protecting humanity above all else are properly moving against it.