The Curse
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The Curse
A massive mercenary empire, formed shortly after the UTC came into being. Founded by some very wealthy-- and very greedy-- businessmen. The Curse is big, very big, made up of millions of desperate humans from the OutWorld and even some strange alien races, all come to earn a small living among the Curse.
Curse fighters are useless; poorly trained and equipped; and dirt cheap. Mostly, the Curse is dishonorable, selling their mercs to everyone from the UTC, Skrith, the Resistance forces, and even the Hand. The warring faction generally only hire out the Curse for diversionary reasons, and do not use them for fighting important battles.
Essentially the Curse is a huge mercenary empire, inhabiting the OutWorld and hiring themselves out to anyone and everyone..
The Curse is also a huge factor in the Archon universe; an massive mercenary empire, who hire themselves out to anyone, be it Human or Skrith. They are in it for nothing more than wealth.
Curse fighters are terrible and desperate, barely trained, and used in ways more like Krao than any other warrior.
Tactics and Equipment:
Armor for them... is poor.
The Curse are completely expendable, and are trained only slightly (if at all).
They are initially outfitted with old or cheap weapons like the B1 Possum. If they lose that, they could very well be on their own; trying to get their hands on anything, or just going AWOL.
Useless hordes of desperate humans and sometimes Outworld aliens.
Skrith and Terrans hire them out, for "diversionary" purposes.
No one uses Curse for proper missions where damage needs to be done; used only to bolster ranks for head-on attacks... or decoys.
They'll run away during fights, shoot each other, get drunk, etc.
They may or may not be used as Cryon and Skrith experiments.
