Factions

# **Player Factions**

**Factions**

are organized groups active in the regions of post Defcon. The most active forces in the varying regions are five private military companies, hired by the sides of the initial conflict.

# **ASOF**

**Academy Security Operations Forces**

Academy and its predecessors provide contract security services to the United States federal government. Since 2003, it has provided services to the Central Intelligence Agency. In 2013, its subsidiary, International Development Solutions, received an approximately $192 million contract for U.S. State Department security guards.

In 2007, Acamdemy received widespread notoriety alongside other PMC's like Blackwater for the Nisour Square massacre in Baghdad, when a group of its employees killed 57 Iraqi civilians and injured 120. Nine employees were convicted in the United States and later pardoned on December 22, 2020.

# **AEGIS**

**AEGIS**

AEGIS traces its origins from two companies formed in 1948: AEGIS Air Systems (AAS), an air freight business, and Airsafe Inc., an aircraft maintenance company. AAS was founded by a small group of returning World War II pilots who wanted to break into the air cargo business. They were one of the first firms to ship cargo by air, and within a year, the firm was serving both coasts. AAS diversified into multiple government aviation and managerial jobs, airlifted supplies for the Korean War, and was responsible for the transport of supplies to rear lines of US combat zones.

# **Belt and Road Security Corps**

**BRSC**

BRSC originates from the Peoples Republic of China

# **WPMC**

**Wagner**

The group emerged during the Donbas War in Ukraine, where it helped pro-Russian forces from 2014 to 2015. Wagner played a significant role in the subsequent full-scale Russian invasion of Ukraine, for which it recruited Russian prison inmates for frontline combat. By the end of 2022, its strength in Ukraine had grown from 1,000 to between 20,000 and 50,000. It was reportedly Russia's main assault force in the Battle of Bakhmut. Wagner has also supported regimes friendly with Putin's Russia, including in the civil wars in Syria, Libya, the Central African Republic, and Mali.

# **UN**

**United Nations**

The **United Nations** (**UN**) is an intergovernmental organization whose stated purposes are to maintain international peace and security, develop friendly relations among nations, achieve international cooperation, and serve as a centre for harmonizing the actions of nations. It is the world's largest international organization. The UN is headquartered in New York City (in the United States, but with certain extraterritorial privileges), and the organization has other offices in Geneva, Nairobi, Vienna, and The Hague, where the International Court of Justice is headquartered.

# **Active Duty**

**Active Duty**

Soldiers of Standing Armies and Active PMC Units. They actively engage other factions unless they are allies prior.

Armed with a wide assortment of high grade weaponry, Active Duty Personnel possess great combat skill and heavy weapons.

# **Scavengers**

**Scavengers**

Civilians, gang members, and other miscreants who have taken up arms to carve out a niche for themselves in the war-torn world. Untrained, poorly equipped, they are nonetheless numerous and a significant threat to anyone who stands in their way.

Armed with a wide assortment of primarily cheap weaponry, Scavengers focus on their overwhelming numbers to take out opponents.

# **Raiders**

**Raiders**

Shady group of armed people, according to rumors, consisting of former PMC operators, local residents and others with obvious combat and tactical training.

Armed with a smaller variety of modified weapons, Raiders focus on tactically overwhelming the player.

# **Cultists**

**Cultists**

A cult of mysterious people who keep to tall grass and dark shadows, they try to sneak up behind the enemy and attack them with a poisoned sacrificial knife. Their motives are still unknown, but they believe in an upcoming cataclysm. They have several ritual spots across Eastern Europe and North America. They offer Weapons in sacrifice.