Dominique
Oct 21st, '05, 09:39 AM
Here's one more of my little creations. Ever wonder where your favorite villain hires his gun toting thugs? The answer is MERC. It's a company that recruits, trains, equips, and supplies mercenaries to anyone. As with the last two entries, it was designed for M&M, but can be used with any Superhero RPG.
Military Enterprises & Research Corporation
M.E.R.C.
MERC is an offshore holding company for several international private security firms and military contractors providing specialized security services to international corporations, governments, and VIPs, or at least that's what they advertise. In reality they provide, highly trained, heavily armed muscle to anyone who's will to pay their price. (It's where many of the world's criminal organization recruit their armies of henchmen from.) Persons, or organizations, wishing to make use of their services can be sure they will pay a hefty fee. Once their identity has been confirmed, through a long vetting process, a contract for services is negotiated and recruitment for their client begins.
MERC primarily recruits personnel with prior military, or paramilitary experience. Over the last few year, many of their recruits have come from eastern Europe, or from the former Soviet Union. INTERPOL believes many of these recruits to be former elite troops such Soviet VDV paratroopers, or Spetsnaz special operations soldiers drawn in by the promise of high pay and the chance to put the skills they have learned to use.
In addition to providing routine foot soldiers, MERC also maintains a small cadre of power armored troopers. These troops are specially selected and trained in the use of their “Enforcer” power armor, and are trained to work in teams of five. Their current commander is the German mercenary, Warhead, who laid out the design specs for the suits. Both he and Ram Rod conceived the Enforcer troopers training program, and continue to refine it as they receive after action reports from the field.
In addition to their Enforcer power armor, MERC troops are equipped with some of the latest in hi-tech weaponry (purchased from the Foundry). MERC’s troops receive some of the finest training money can by, with several former special forces members, and the super villain Ramrod, acting as their instructors.
To ensure that captured troops can't or won't revel any information about their employers, a telepathic block and several hypnotic suggestions are placed within their minds. If captured and forced to talk, the block will stop all but the most powerful mind probes, and the suggestions will force them to forget everything since their employment.
At various times throughout its history MERC's Special Operations Division has made use of super powered operatives including the villainsSalvo, Deadeye, and Hammer, when they have deemed necessary. Although it’s also rumored that the cyborg assassin, Steel Wolf (A former operative of the KGB's Al'fa special operations unit, who now sells his services for profit.) was also once in their employ.
MERC's R&D division has been the target of several infiltration attempts by Prometheus. They're extremely interested in a number of power armor and weapon designs recently fielded by the group. As a result, MERC's Board of Directors is seriously considering a series of surgical strikes at Prometheus' ruling Council, mostly targeted assassinations. The overall operation has a working codename of, Operation Stranglehold. How it will work out has yet to be seen, but law enforcement officials can be assured it will be bloody.
Another recent thorn in their side, has been the formation of the Orion Security Services, a private firm providing a specialist metahuman services, for a fee. Many of its employees are prior members of various government metahuman programs, and unlike MERC, they will only accept contracts for work they feel is on the up and up.
Known MERC subsidiaries include:
Strategic Security Services, International (S3I) - A Canadian based "security" company, with offices in the US, the UK, and a private “firearms” training facility, called Battle Site, in Idaho.
Battle Site (“Providing quality training for the prepared citizen.”) masquerades as a civilian and private security training facility. Operated by S3I, it's operation provides MERC with a cover story when conducting paramilitary or weapons training. Its also managed to turn a nice little profit, since 9/11, by actually providing firearms training to unsuspecting civilian customers.
Command & Control (C2) - A South African consulting firm that provides "trainers" and "advisors" to foreign militaries. The company currently operates out of a small office building in Johannesburg, with a satellite office in Pretoria.
Military Enterprises & Research Corporation
M.E.R.C.
MERC is an offshore holding company for several international private security firms and military contractors providing specialized security services to international corporations, governments, and VIPs, or at least that's what they advertise. In reality they provide, highly trained, heavily armed muscle to anyone who's will to pay their price. (It's where many of the world's criminal organization recruit their armies of henchmen from.) Persons, or organizations, wishing to make use of their services can be sure they will pay a hefty fee. Once their identity has been confirmed, through a long vetting process, a contract for services is negotiated and recruitment for their client begins.
MERC primarily recruits personnel with prior military, or paramilitary experience. Over the last few year, many of their recruits have come from eastern Europe, or from the former Soviet Union. INTERPOL believes many of these recruits to be former elite troops such Soviet VDV paratroopers, or Spetsnaz special operations soldiers drawn in by the promise of high pay and the chance to put the skills they have learned to use.
In addition to providing routine foot soldiers, MERC also maintains a small cadre of power armored troopers. These troops are specially selected and trained in the use of their “Enforcer” power armor, and are trained to work in teams of five. Their current commander is the German mercenary, Warhead, who laid out the design specs for the suits. Both he and Ram Rod conceived the Enforcer troopers training program, and continue to refine it as they receive after action reports from the field.
In addition to their Enforcer power armor, MERC troops are equipped with some of the latest in hi-tech weaponry (purchased from the Foundry). MERC’s troops receive some of the finest training money can by, with several former special forces members, and the super villain Ramrod, acting as their instructors.
To ensure that captured troops can't or won't revel any information about their employers, a telepathic block and several hypnotic suggestions are placed within their minds. If captured and forced to talk, the block will stop all but the most powerful mind probes, and the suggestions will force them to forget everything since their employment.
At various times throughout its history MERC's Special Operations Division has made use of super powered operatives including the villainsSalvo, Deadeye, and Hammer, when they have deemed necessary. Although it’s also rumored that the cyborg assassin, Steel Wolf (A former operative of the KGB's Al'fa special operations unit, who now sells his services for profit.) was also once in their employ.
MERC's R&D division has been the target of several infiltration attempts by Prometheus. They're extremely interested in a number of power armor and weapon designs recently fielded by the group. As a result, MERC's Board of Directors is seriously considering a series of surgical strikes at Prometheus' ruling Council, mostly targeted assassinations. The overall operation has a working codename of, Operation Stranglehold. How it will work out has yet to be seen, but law enforcement officials can be assured it will be bloody.
Another recent thorn in their side, has been the formation of the Orion Security Services, a private firm providing a specialist metahuman services, for a fee. Many of its employees are prior members of various government metahuman programs, and unlike MERC, they will only accept contracts for work they feel is on the up and up.
Known MERC subsidiaries include:
Strategic Security Services, International (S3I) - A Canadian based "security" company, with offices in the US, the UK, and a private “firearms” training facility, called Battle Site, in Idaho.
Battle Site (“Providing quality training for the prepared citizen.”) masquerades as a civilian and private security training facility. Operated by S3I, it's operation provides MERC with a cover story when conducting paramilitary or weapons training. Its also managed to turn a nice little profit, since 9/11, by actually providing firearms training to unsuspecting civilian customers.
Command & Control (C2) - A South African consulting firm that provides "trainers" and "advisors" to foreign militaries. The company currently operates out of a small office building in Johannesburg, with a satellite office in Pretoria.