Executive Solutions

**Executive Solutions** is a private military contractor based in the Union of Greater Paradise, specializing in direct action and unorthodox warfare. The company has participated in a number of conflicts primarily focusing on the western hemisphere, ranging from security and counterinsurgency operations in Valdivia to providing security services in Axia and counterterrorism advisory to government organizations in Paradise. While the company has humble beginnings, it has grown to the scale of operating its own facilities at home and abroad and owning its own vehicles for transportation and combat purposes.

The company has been allowed to flourish under soft government regulations in Paradise, and it is believed by many that this favor has been returned directly through the company's support of counterterrorism and anti-dissident operations in the country. Executive Solutions has worked with the Central Security Bureau on internal security related tasks, including its secretive Detachment K division. Its work with the CSB primarily involves covert actions where a uniformed CSB presence is avoided. It has also conducted counterpiracy operations in the Azulic ocean and provided advisory to police forces within Paradise.

In recent years, the company has started to diversify its services beyond security and has made several investments within the Themian nations that it has operated in.

## History

The company was allegedly founded on June 8th, 599, by former Central Security Bureau field agent Royce Mallory. Mallory was frustrated with the labyrinthine internal politics within the CSB and believed it stood in the way of competent agents moving forward within the organization. While operating in the field, Mallory also spotted potential in the market for a new private company - the CSB itself, in fact, had begun outsourcing some work such as training lower level security forces in specialized tactics and weapons. While on vacation in Valdivia, Mallory had witnessed the decaying state of the local government and found that many of the biggest players in the country only relied on private security to stay safe.

These reasons would motivate Mallory to depart the CSB despite being considered a promising prospect for higher positions in the future. Following his departure from the CSB, Mallory would choose to go into business with personal friend Augusto Cuellar, one of the oligarchs of the post-EFSR Paradise who would bring to the table connections in both the business world and the underground drug industry. Cuellar played an instrumental role in getting the organization off the ground, supplying the building used as the first office as well as recruiting many of the initial members.

The original group was far from entirely professional, being made up from a collection of EFSR veterans, convicted criminals, and a smaller handful of displaced members of the EFSR intelligentsia. Just as their makeup was non professional in many ways, so would their conduct be, and the organization picked up a reputation as a rough around the edges wild card from their first few operations within Paradise.

Professionals or not, they were still attractive to some of the unstable nations within Themia - and especially to private parties within these countries, who were quick to hire the company to gain more peace of mind than they would have with local security. Their first major operation outside of Paradise came in 601 when they received a contract with Valdivian state oil company PETROVAL to provide security. During this deployment, the company gained much credit for not only driving off insurgents from the oil fields, but following these insurgents back to their own territory through careful intelligence work and dealing them blows directly through actions such as sabotage and targeted killing.

The company expanded its numbers as contracts in Themia allowed it to bring in more funding, and began to upgrade its tactics. In 606, the company invested into using helicopters in combat and expanded its offerings to include these air assault operations. Rather than focus on military professionals exclusively, the company would expand through recruiting civilians from the streets of Paradisian cities such as Westland and Twin Meadows. The worst districts of these cities often produced tough individuals with the instincts to survive combat, and the company maintained ties with the Paradisian crime families that further helped find fitting candidates. These candidates would then receive intensive training, which in the end, gave Executive Solutions many ambitious soldiers looking to pay their dues through combat to receive the means for a better life.

Heading towards the turn of the decade, the organization began to refine its structure to operate more efficiently, resulting in the creation of a number of new sub-commands under the leadership of top performers. This shifting of the structure would see a larger focus in small team operations and special forces activity.

### Capolesia

The Union of Greater Paradise and Capolesia maintain cordial relations due to geographical position and ideological leanings. The official Paradisian government stance supports the Capolesian government in its efforts against the Teufelsinsel Insurgency.

While state sanctioned forces from Paradise have not involved themselves in this crisis, video surfaced in early 611 showing personnel from Executive Solutions arriving via air in Kamluk and preparing combat equipment including helicopters and rocket artillery. In the following days, images of soldiers in unmarked camouflage uniforms - believed to be members of Executive Solutions - would circulate.

## Organization

The company is based in Chandler, Paradise. The move to Chandler was completed in 605 following the scope of the company outgrowing the previous headquarters building which had been located in Twin Meadows. In Chandler, the company operates a large complex which serves both administrative and training purposes and the organization also has both an office and a terminal at Chandler Municipal Airport.

The internal leadership of the company is said to be in the hands of Royce Mallory and multiple other high ranking contractors who have become partial owners in the company due to their service. Original funder Augusto Cuellar is alleged to still have significant ties with the company, which has proven to be a profitable investment since its inception.

The company has put increasing efforts into maintaining its own logistics, including transportation. It maintains a collection of vehicles that includes infantry fighting vehicles, helicopters, logistical trucks, and transportation aircraft.