AMCS Lore

==Lore==
In the early era of the VRAXIS wars AEGIS expeditions were doomed to failure not by the virtue of combat effectiveness, but due to the inhospitable of the wasteland. Disease ran rampant, and it seemed only those who had adapted to the environment would make effective soldiers as any number of AEGIS would eventually wither down to zero due to attrition and disease. The final factor into the formation of a wasteland staffed armed forces was the MDF coup, which, although quickly dispatched, had created an environment of distrust towards MDF. This distrust is what birthed STHD and what MDF still suffers from to some degree today, however, a more obscure side effect was the creation of the AMCS. The corporation legitimately trusted mercenaries from the wasteland more than they did their own soldiers, even offering to arm the mercenaries.
AMCS was the first time wastelanders were recruited to work for AEGIS, with all it’s manpower formerly coming from Last City residents or from more… unethical means. Using wastelanders for AEGIS causes was unheard of until AMCS was founded and although many were hesitant, it was still seen as a better option compared to the disgraced MDF. The first generation of mercenaries were paid via contracts as opposed to conscription (which is what we see with AEGIS today). The contracting system allowed Mercenaries to carry out duties for the corporation in exchange for a promise of later goods and services, such as admittance into the last city and a substantial amount of credits. Those who failed to complete their contracts were hunted down and killed, those who died became another statistic, but those who lived, they lifted themselves up from the hell that was the wasteland and embraced civilization in the form of the Last City. Needless to say, mercenaries operated as a loyal and effective manpower pool.
The fine print of every contract read “The Mercenary who has signed this contract has consented to and encouraged all AEGIS experimental body modification on said Mercenary, any resistance to the body modification program will result in termination of the asset.” Due to the often unofficial way contracts were handled or due to the fact that the wastelanders did not share a written language, they were completely oblivious to what they had considered themselves into. The body modification experiments were highly experimental during the early days of AMCS and many mercenaries' lives were lost due the experiments. Eventually a serum known as AEA-182 was found to be an effective compound used to sustain the human body without food, water, or even rest. AEA-182 is a precursor to the widely used ADA-511 pill, a pill that independently rests parts of the brain in order to prevent the need for sleep; the main use of the pill however is to avoid trauma many relive when sleeping. AEA-182 was a huge success except for one minor side effect, due to AEA-182 environment adaption genome (taken from the creature known as [REDACTED]) mixing with the DNA of the asset own DNA, they slowly experienced a shift towards a reddish skin pigment, the larger the dose someone took, the redder their skin would become. The reddening of the skin is not reversible, and due to the serum's temporary nature, many veteran mercenaries today are visibly red-skinned.
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