NextWorld

NextWorld is a projection firm with a reputation as a private security firm to the respectible world, and a dark and ruthless reputation in the underworld. Unlike their two main competitors, the Orpheus Group and Terrel and Squib, NextWorld will take almost any job, no matter how illegal or dangerous.
Official jobs offered include bodyguard work, private surveillance, and security consultations; unofficial ones include assassinations, industrial espionage, and blackmail. All agents of NextWorld have backgrounds in military, law enforcement, or intelligence. NextWorld prefers them because most of these people have developed an insensitivity to violence, something that it considers imperative in its line of work.
Although the initial projectors were skimmers, many more of NextWorld’s mercenaries ended up as sleepers. There are also a few ghosts and hues employed as well. However, as NextWorld is not a research facility, its projection technology is becoming hopelessly outdated, limited to what it had to begin with. Combined with the dangerous nature of their work, NextWorld has an extremely high agent loss rate.
==History==
The firm was started as a by-product of Soviet Union experiments on sensitives and psychics called Project Zmei. The government rounded up dozens of people, many against their will, and attempted to make them into a sort of superagent for the GRU (Soviet Military Intelligence.) It failed miserably, but General Alexis Derko] took copies of the Project Zmei research with him anyway when he fled the country shortly thereafter.
He was later approached by Sir Alfred Williams, a former troubleshooter for DeBeers Diamonds and Sydney Riley, an American businessman, who had formed a company of professional mercenaries. Hoping for Derkov’s military connections, he gave them something better, the information on Project Zmei. Through extensive experimentation (and stealing research notes from the Orpheus Group), the three created a number of projectors. NextWorld was formally created and announced shortly thereafter.