LORE

The year is 2167. The military industrial complex has become the core foundation of the global economy. Cryptocurrencies and blockchains have replaced all fiat currency and securitized investing. Private military corporations now have a greater presence on the battlefield than conventional state armies. Soldiers of fortune fight amongst themselves on behalf of any and every interest group with cash to pay, perpetuating proxy wars around the globe and pushing stock market indexes perpetually upwards. First, second and third world society now revolves entirely around fueling the war machine, either by producing recruits or pushing the arms race ever forward. At the top of this quagmire, "Jack" CARRION sits upon a gilded throne of shallow graves and forgotten faces.First activated in 2132, CARRION was an android manufactured by Ambidex Technologies as part of a weapons development project dubbed "HADES." The object the HADES was to produce functionally immortal super soldiers now known as SKULLs. CARRION himself would end up being the project's first successful prototype. Whilst the experiment would be considered a fantastic success from a scientific standpoint, CARRION would be deemed an expendable test subject and subsequent liability to Ambidex Technologies. Seeking his freedom from corporate subjugation, CARRION promptly went rogue and began a campaign to oppose Ambidex, eventually assuming total control of the company through a meticulously executed plot of corporate sabotage and insider trading with the aid of his fellow SKULL prototypes.Now the majority shareholder of Ambidex Technologies, CARRION and his allies went on to restructure the company into a private mercenary contractor under the name DEADMEN'S SECURITY SOLUTIONS. Though relatively small in standing force, the colloquial DEADMEN quickly proliferated and gained infamy around the globe as an elite unit of functionally immortal mercenaries, their services becoming highly sought after by oligarchs and powerbrokers around the globe. CARRION himself would not see significant combat as he would be quickly given the position of chief executive officer at the company.Today, CARRION and the DEADMEN are seen as necessary evils. Though hated and feared on the international stage, they are seen as both too dangerous and too useful to be eliminated or confronted outright. This has allowed them to act with impunity and amass great riches from their exploitation of the global war economy.DEADMEN'S SECURITY SOLUTIONS has since been taken private, and CARRION spends his time running the company from the comfort of his luxury stealth submarine, lurking in the solitude of the deep ocean.