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==19th Special Operations Brigade, "The Hellhounds"==
While some corporations survived by economic maneuvering, skillful information manipulation or cornering a niche technology, predominantly North American military industrial giant Armacor Holdings maintained its position through sheer weaponized force. In addition to its well known technological innovation in the fields of aeronautics and ground warfare, Armacor took steps early in its existence to incorporate and equip as many private military contractors as possible. In a process that began with a number of small acquisitions and culminated with the privatization of the American military, Armacor swiftly became a global power with few peers in terms of simple physical might.

Armacor's business could be roughly divided into the categories of arms production and security contracting. Only direct competitors in its weight class, like Illium, intact governments with serious military buildup, like China, or pernicious corps that played on the edge of their perceived league like Daibosatsu cold afford to run their own internal security forces (often bearing a closer resemblance to conventional armies) if only because Armacor had bought up all the available talent. As a result, Armacor not only controlled one of the world's largest and best equipped armed forces, but also the security forces of a number of other, smaller corps operating in dangerous areas. Consequently the influence they exerted globally was really only rivaled by Illium and the burgeoning Ustate Alliance.

Within the many subdivisions of Armacor's defense units, one brigade in the second army, forth division, appears on no official records. This is the fabled 19th Special Operations Brigade, known as the Hellhounds. While the second army was ostensibly Armacor's section for security for hire, the Hellhounds answered directly to corporate headquarters. Comprised of the most skilled, loyal and unquestioning soldiers at the corporation's disposal, they received the best equipment, and were tasked with the most sensitive, critical missions. They operated at every level from cell based false flag operations to full scale invasion of resistant territories. If Armacor needed a group or area subjugated, destabilized or made to disappear without implicating itself, the Hellhounds were the group that got the job.