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Difficulty: Hard Supervisors: Depends Rank: Not defined Duties: Answer the distress call and help the marines Guides: This one Unlock Requirements: Not available. Detailed Description: Not defined |__________| |
This is USS Sulaco, calling anyone... Mayday, Mayday...We are under attack... They are everywhere, we are losing our crew fast! Mayday...Please help...This is USS Sulaco...
USS Sulaco? Come in, USS Sulaco! Can you hear me? Come in, USS Sulaco! ... hang in there, Sulaco! Help is on the way!
The frontiers of space can be a dangerous place: pirates, raiders and rebels frequently attack colonies and lone ships wandering in space. The military sometimes can't reach those places (or sometimes, those people want to be VERY far away from the military), for solving those problems, many mercenary groups have formed to defend those people... or at least fight for the ones that need a gun for hire.
Those groups come in various shapes and forms.
When the marines get outgunned by the aliens, the comander can send a distress call to anybody nearby on the communications console in the bridge. Then, the RNG will decide if someone will respond the call: The call can be recieved by a nearby merc ship, the call can be ignored or the rescue ship can get infected by the aliens.
If a ship decides to help the marines, ghosts (observing players) can make part of this response group. Keep in mind that not always the mercs are here to help, since the admins can set up objectives to the mercs that contradict the marine's mission and just plain ignore them.
Mercenary groups
| Job | Role |
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 Freelancer mercenaries |
Various small bands of guns-for-hire roam around the space. These are usually small groups which work in small time jobs such as protecting ships, patrolling for pirates or defending indepedent colonies. They come armed with the standart military equipment. |
 Weyland-Yutani PMCs |
The biggest the it's sector, the Weyland-Yutani military consultants is a subsidiary the bigger corporation. They were originally a indepedent PMC on Earth, which was bought by WY and started to provide security to the outer rims of space, which was a growing sector at the time. Now, the PMC provides services of all kinds to governments and companies, they also provide security to Weyland-Yutani facilities, space stations and colonies. |
 The Iron Bears |
The Iron bears is one the most feared merc units. Formed by ex-members of the soviet spec-ops group orbita desantnika shturmovaya gruppa, specialized in orbital airbone assault, they are known the be extremly ruthless and aggresive, having been accused kidnappings, assassinations ,mass murders and making part of false flag operations. There's a joke that the only problem with sending the Bears to educate a town is that afterward, there's no more town. |
 Dutch's dozen |
Halling from the jungle planet of Watchman, the Dutch's dozen are a small, yet powerful group of mercenaries specialized in jungle warfare. It's members are trained to fight and depend of less technology as possible, learning special survival techniques and guerilla warfare. They use the outdated MAR-40, however, they are extremly well trained on it, better than any marine with a M41A.
It's a common rumour that the members of this unit fought and killed a mysterious invisible creature not before having part of it's squad destroyed. |
 Pizza delivery |
To boldly deliver pizza where no deliveryman has gone before. |