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Run a Mer­ce­nary com­pa­ny

Different beginnings

ex mil­i­tary ex corp ex gov who is oust­ed/­failed coup bo­zo who in­her­its lots of mon­ey biz man with in­vestors crim/­gang lead­er pi­rate (has own ship­s)

give var­i­ous ben­e­fits con­tact­s, as­set­s, rep­u­ta­tion

Personnel

loy­al­ty pay­ment to wid­ows, re­tire­men­t, gold­en para­chutes skil­l, train­ing,schools in­di­vid­u­al track­ing for spe­cial­ist­s,n­co’s and off sev­er­al types of squads each with gener­ic type of

peo­ple i.e.

squad lt sqaud hv grunt hv grunt grunt sup­port weap grunt hv grunt sergeant corp med­i­cal comm sup­port weapon then you as­sign weapon pack­ages to squads you can make own pack­ages or buy pre made ones bonus­es for keep­ing squad­s, units co­he­sive types grunts, hvy weapon dudes,s­niper­s,­mo­bile,as­sault en­g, medic­s, comm spec, re­con, com­man­do,de­mo ex­pert con­struc­t, clerk­s, driver­s, pi­lot­s, car­go­han­dler var­i­ous techs

have tem­p, place­men­t, and head­hunter orgs

various home bases

tax­es,laws,safe­ty,re­sources

clients are governments, cities, corps,wealthy

dudes,other Co’s longterm and short­term con­tract­s, pi­lotsS­FRL

operate mostly from data console that has all apps

ac­count­ing con­tract writ­er unit mngt, as­set mngt email, video mail, com­m, or­der­ing sup­plies re­search con­trol bat­tle­field

have in­ven­to­ry, bal­ance sheet,as­set­s,­cost­s,rev­enue, main­te­nance costs al­low ex­tend­ed war­ranties and up­grade life in­sur­ance, cloning look up eq, his­tor­i­cal, busi­ness, gov per­son­nel da­ta con­tract ne­go­ti­a­tions with clients and per­son­nel buy lease ren­t, sel­l­/buy used, sal­vage sub­con­trac­t, part­ner or­ga­nize unit for­ma­tions and equip­ment probs with maint di­verse eq at­tempts to union­ize your em­ploy­ees com­pet­i­tive bids with oth­er Co’s hu­man or com­put­er get junk adds, on­line cat­a­logs, or­der­ing trade news hire con­sul­tants, trans­port agen­cies buy in­fo hire spies

Equip­ment guns per­son­al eq med­i­cal,CBR,ar­mor, sup­port weapon­s, MG,RPG, ar­til APC tanks stor­age,­hous­ing, hos­pi­tal, com­m, com­mand, main­t, bld­ings air­craft com­m, jam­ming, sur­vey, stealth

Play­ers cre­ation 0 means no points may be spent on that

-Ex marine/army —Neg 0 —L­dr 2 —Log —GT 1 —ST 0 —GS 1 —SS 0 Pts low Mil mid Biz nil Trans nil Cash min Spe­cial

has XO has core squad

-Ex Navy —Neg 0 —L­dr 2 —Log —GT 0 —ST 1 —GS 0 —SS 1 Pts mid Mil mid Biz nil Trans low Cash mid Spe­cial

has XO

-Busi­ness man —Neg 3 —L­dr 2 —Log 2 —GT 0 —ST 0 —GS 0 —SS 0 Pts low Mil nil Biz high Trans nil Cash mu­cho Spe­cial

-Free Trad­er —Neg 1 —L­dr —Log —GT —ST —GS 0 —SS 0 Pts lots Mil nil Biz nil Trans low Cash low Spe­cial

has ship can buy many with points

STAT­S/RAT­INGS -Biz cred­it / re­spect on wall street -Mil rat­ing how bad ass you are how of­ten you meet con­tracts -Trans­po how of­ten you meet your de­liv­er­ies/have in­sur­ance

start at ?? un­til 10 trans­pos then get D +1 lev­el for full in­sur­ance 1 pt per trans­po -10 for late/­fail with in­sur­ance -100 for fail­ure with­out in­sur­ance +1 lev­el 10 100 1000 10000 100000 1000000

D, C, B, A, AA, AAA

SKILLS -Ne­go­ti­a­tion -Lead­er­ship -L­o­gis­tics -Ground Tac­tics -S­pace Tac­tics -Ground Strat -S­pace Strat

Sin­gler play­er ver­sion in the mil­lion points of light uni­verse

  • all on one plan­et/sys­tem

  • like xcom

  • mostl ur­ban/in­­dowr wo long range hi-tech weap/eq not an is­­sue

  • non-leathal weapons

  • “crowd con­trol” a mis­­­sion

govenor wants ri­ot for ex­cuse to crack down us­es play­ers mercs as scape goat not al­lowed to dis­perse crowd goal is play­ers to fil gov­’s plot gov agents throw at­tack with weapons spy bot scans around crowd zooms in on face re­veals who threw what