Eternal Empress
- Intent: To expand Ingrid’s, the House L’lerim and the HPI Consortium’s lore and background. To describe the organization where Ingrid received military / agent training.
- Image Credit: Shadow Company logo, Soldiers; Headers:
Kainan Wolfe
; - Canon: N/A
- Permissions: N/A
- Links: House L’lerim, HPI Consortium
- Organization Name: Shadow Company
- Classification: Elite Military Organization / Security Organization
- Affiliation: House L’lerim | HPI Consortium
- Organization Symbol: Symbol.
- Description: A team of elite soldiers with unknown identities, they are exactly two hundred, their equipment is black clothing similar to commandos, their weapons are apparently outdated. Nevertheless, they have very advanced technology (Eternal Empire level). Their main profile is camouflage, infiltration, espionage, assassination, bodyguard duties in extreme cases. They are able to make themselves visually invisible with technology, their shading technique makes them neutral for almost all sensors, they often take on a shape that fits the environment with holographic projectors. But not only their camouflage but also their sensors are very advanced, so they know about the enemy long before it can reach them. They use special weapons, which also serve as camouflage, and their goals include the development of weapons that do not produce any light or sound effects, i.e. they would create weapons that work on a magnetic basis.
- Headquarters: Tygeria
- Domain: Shadow Company maintains a base in the hidden part of Tygeria, whose supplies and needs are met by HPI Consortium. The organization does not keep in touch with the local population, they do not even mix with them. When they are not on a mission, they do not leave their own base either. The Shadow Company may also appear on HPI Consortium’s buildings on other planets, but they work for no one but HPI and House L’lerim, their loyalty is only in their direction.
- Notable Assets:
- Shadow Base: The base, or rather an office because it is a piece of tower building, is located in Vengard, in the heart of the city ruled by House L’lerim, close to the main building of the HPI Consortium. Typically, only logistic persons work here, who pass on the orders of the HPI Consortium or House L’lerim to the HQ or the prison.
- Shadow Cemetery: Their base is located on Tygeria, in a vast wreckage cemetery, or rather below it, the Shadow Cemetery, where the corpses of various machines are scattered. Below this is a complete base and associated service units for the army.
- Black rock prison: It is a single huge prison complex that will probably be used by the Eternal Empire as well. It is built on an asteroid and equipped with camouflage equipment, so it is very difficult to find. Hundreds, but probably thousands, of prisoners can fit in this place. The whole place is full of scanning sensors, just like that, so every movement of the prisoners are monitored. Compared to prison, the conditions are very good, normal. Yet those here mostly suffer, a magnetic vibration permeates the station, causing insomnia or turning every dream into a terrible nightmare, with several people having tried to commit suicide because of it, without success. The security system is advanced, almost all areas can be locked separately with energy walls and gates. The asteroid is also surrounded by a force field that retracts ships departing from the inside, and there is no vehicle suitable for space travel in the docks. The asteroid itself is camouflaged and its exact position is unknown, somewhere between Kalidan and Tygeria. No one had ever escaped the Black Rock, but several had been released from here by order of the dictatorship.
- Logistics centre: The centre is located near Shadow Cemetery, where support and logistics personnel are responsible and work for the entire logistics and supply of the Shadow Company.
- Shadow Hand: Although the Shadow Company mainly involves ground units that need to travel on something, the Shadow Hand serves just that purpose. This is the only spaceship that is their own property. It was acquired through House L’lerim.
- Hierarchy: Fortunately, the hierarchy is not very complicated. The Shadow Company itself has a traditional military structure with its own Commander-in-Chief, General Staff and officers. They, too, use the military ranks used in the Eternal Empire, which corresponds to the Army, because they, too, typically qualify as a ground team, not an air force. However, the rank of officer is given only to persons who have entered the active staff, the reservists cannot be officers.
- Membership: This is a bit more complicated. The logistics part is really hiring any knowledgeable person, be it HR work, engineering, or plain logistics. The military is harder. The Shadow Company itself has only 200 active military personnel at a time, but they are also constantly training rookie soldiers. The application is customary for the military, although many times they select the most talented individuals. In addition to basic military training, members receive special, very elite and difficult training, who will be placed in reserve after completing this. If someone drops out of the active staff of 200, the best-performing reserve will be put into active service based on recent exams and tests. But for a large sum, they also undertake mere training for outsiders, although they do not receive as detailed and in-depth training as those who sign up as reservists, although there are some special exceptions. In any case, anyone who becomes a reserve will have to give up their previous identity and get a new one, essentially dead for the outside world from now on.
- Climate: The organization is due to its work, given that soldiers are not specifically safe in the workplace atmosphere. They can die at any time as they are given the most dangerous tasks. However, they get the best out of training, almost everyone’s training is personalized to improve their own strengths and eliminate weaknesses. Their main profile is camouflage, infiltration, espionage, assassination, in extreme cases bodyguard duties, which is why they always work in the most dangerous place. One thing they really hate, and that is none other than the Frost Company, the two organizations would be able to exterminate each other at any time, despite the firm command that they could not touch each other.
- Reputation: One thing is for sure about the Shadow Company, the outside world doesn’t know much about how they work because it’s a very secretive organization. So much to know about them, where they show up, there are only bodies left, which is why no one wants them to show up anywhere, because if that happens, no one will stay alive there.
- Curios: There’s nothing special, but most of their members wear Shadow Company tattoos on themselves. Their military attire is the same, and their weapons, despite their modernity, look quite archaic. During deployments, they always wear equipment similar to a black commando uniform.
- Rules: They follow their own military rules, which is not really much different from the usual traditional and average military rules. Perhaps one of the most important rules is that they have to give up their past lives when they join and they can’t come back to it later. Or one more, if they see anyone from the Frost Company, they have to kill it.
- Goals: Their primary role is to serve the House L’lerim and the HPI Consortium. Their goals include being able to design and develop the best possible security technology equipment and technologies, not only for themselves but also for HPI Consortium. Competing with the Frost Company, they are also at war with each other in a climate of ongoing war over developments. They are also responsible for the safety of HPI Consortium and House L’lerim, the personal protection of the management and family members if required. Of course, their goal is to be better than Frost Company in everything and be able to keep the Shadow Company alive on an ongoing basis.
Names always consist of two letters followed by numbers. These letters and numbers are encrypted, coded data that refer to a person’s rank, organization, and position. This is necessary because their old identity disappeared when they became reservists.
Active members:
- NN220 (Alain Price): Commander-in-Chief and Military Commander of the Shadow Company.
- KM198 (Joe Dawson, aka Uncle Joe): Deputy Commander-in-Chief, he is very close to
Ingrid L'lerim
, who looks at the man as a kind of uncle. He supervised the woman's training. - SC103: He was Ingrid’s actual training officer, who dealt most with the then-young teenage girl. The woman owes essentially everything to the man from what she knows.
Unknown.
Externally trained :
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Ingrid L'lerim
: She is one of the exceptions, as the woman received full training and achieved results on exams that would actually classify her as an active member of the organization at any time out of line, if she decided to give up her life and actually join the organization.
It was so long ago that when and how the organization was based was obscured. What is certain is that you have to look all this in line for why they are hostile to the Frost Company. The two organizations were in the service of two hostile tribes, and this contrast persisted for many hundreds of years, raising a contrast between the two Organizations that will never pass.
They must have joined the Clans soon after their own clan was destroyed. They became a kind of mercenary army, later joined by engineers and researchers responsible for developing equipment. And that’s why they joined HPI Consortium after a while when the company started applying them continuously. It was all still on Nelvaan. Later, when the Three Clans also strengthened, they began working for the later House L’lerim, who were able to contain the bloody battles with the Frost Company.
Over the centuries, they have developed a very effective military training, thus training their own people. In fact, it is a fairly complex and even lasting training where they train their own people not only as elite soldiers but also as assassins and agents. How to kill with any object, to kill in any situation, how to be life threatening. Last but not least, they are also prepared for social, community “fights,” as an agent, a spy, must thrive in every field.
How to be unnoticed when you need it, or just be conspicuous when it’s important. Training may seem fairly simple and easy, but it is also very difficult and cruel. A lot of people die in training or are kicked out in the meantime for their incompetence. The development of armour, weapons and technology is the responsibility of their logistics department and their research centre, and they also work closely with Rocksolid Arms in terms of manufacturing and construction.
They also maintain constant relationships with the other subsidiaries of the HPI Consortium, as they are the ones most responsible for the security of companies and buildings. It is possible that the construction and deployment of these security systems is done by the logistics department, but still the soldiers are in control, because they are the ones who understand this better. In very many cases, reservists are sent on this task and they are also the ones to protect these areas.
As far as bodyguard or agency work is concerned, anything that requires a combat situation is sent there by active staff members to do the job, not the reservists. But tasks far from the front line can also be performed by reservists, so they stay in practice all the time. The division of labour has also developed over the years.
When the Eternal Empire was established, they did not give up their independence and remained in the service of the Three Clans and the HPI Consortium, respectively. Later, when the entire Empire left Nelvaan, they also stayed with them. Since no one risked being on a planet with the Frost Company, they got a base for themselves on the Tygeria. Since then, their headquarters have been located here and they also manage the operation of the organization from here.
In recent years, since the move, more and more of their work has been due to the fact that the HPI Consortium is constantly expanding. They are formally a subsidiary of HPI, but are only required to comply with orders from HPI Consortium’s board of directors or members of House L’lerim, and everyone else must apply to HPI Consortium if they want their services.
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