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 begun.

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.

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Hostile Intent is a powerful, well organized, and extremely successful villain group operating predominately in North America, Western Europe, and Japan. However, they have recently begun to expand their area of operations. These operations, were mainly designed to “test the waters”, and have taken place in South America ( Brazil, Chile, and Argentina), South East Asia ( Singapore and Malaysia), and most recently, South Africa.

Officials at the US Department of Justice’s Bureau of Special Investigations (BSI) consider Hostile Intent. to be one of the major metahuman threats facing American law enforcement today. Despite their best efforts, federal law enforcement agencies have repeatedly been unsuccessful in their attempts to disrupt the group’s operations. Other North American and international agencies, such as the RCMP and INTERPOL, have also grown increasingly frustrated in their inability to bring the group to justice.

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