209 Ambrosia Cartel: Part 16 (1/2)
At least, six commanders were in the cafetaria that was located far away from the command center. Those six were Patrick, Clara, Lynn, Shaddam, Aveline, and Aline. Those six were meeting with their guest, Herring. They hadn't told Herring about the unfortunate circumstances that his bodyguards had.
However, Herring went to the HSDC main base with a purpose. He wasn't the kind of person that would come into the heart of hornets' nest without some purposes. He was there to tell the HSDC about the United States CIA SAD's next move. Their focus was on latin America and that focus coincidentally had the same focus as HSDC next move.
HSDC would expand to Latin America as their next move and it would start at Panama. The natives of the forest would be converted to be the members of HSDC. Not that they didn't have the technology to do it since every single person would at least able to read and write once they were recruited by the HSDC mysterious kidnapping device.
”Herring, do you want to try it?” Aline asked as she waved the black device in her hand.
”No thanks, I still want to work with CIA.” Herring sipped on his black coffee.
Yes, anyone that had been attached with that mysterious device at least once would succumb to HSDC with great royalty. It would also enchance their brain so they could function as a soldier. It didn't matter whether the person that HSDC recruited was color blind, illiterate, deaf, etc. That mysterious device would cure it all. However, the cost was their freedom. They wouldn't be able to leave HSDC forever since their brain had been brainwashed.
Herring would not escape that thing-a-magic device. If it was attached to him, he would be teleported back to the main base as one of the HSDC personnel. He would succumb to everything that the commanders told him to do. It would be a great nightmare for CIA since their SAD leader went to the HSDC.
”Ok, let's just get down to business. How much space are there in Panama?” Patrick asked.
”A lot. Around a hundred square kilometers. It's all for HSDC,” Herring said.
”A hundred?” Lynn spurted out her drink.
”Our base might be bigger, but that's a lot of land,” Patrick said.
”Yeah, I have to agree with that.” Shaddam sipped on his coffee.
”Aline, how many personnel do we have?” Patrick asked.
”Six millions and still counting,” Aline said.
”Holy, no wonder Nathan expands every platform like once a week. I feel this command platform is getting bigger and bigger,” Patrick said.
As far as Nathan knew, their profit was around twenty million USD every single day. It was no wonder if the platform expansion was very rapid. The availability of combat personnel was also as big as it could get. They had around 600,000 active combat personnel as of now. They were paid cheaply by those who needs it. However, their services were top tiers and some countries prefer HSDC from other PMCs.
It was good for business, but it also sparked some rivalry to the other PMCs like Academi or Aegis. When both of them had the skills, HSDC had the advantage in technology. They would send an F-22 if a combat personnel requested it. It just how resourceful they were. Had they had a ship, they would be very big as a navy.
HSDC had grabbed some of the lands that used to be a base for the allies in the middle east. Some of them used to be American, British, and French base. They were turned into a base for HSDC. The main hub for HSDC itself was in Libya. Yes, that conflict zone was owned by HSDC now. There were no Libya anymore, it's only a name. The official name for Libya among HSDC was region L.
HSDC literally built infrastructure and buildings inside of Libya. However, it also cost them quite a lot of human resources. However, Operation Expando was a success and it was very profitable for the HSDC. Basically, it was a month full of violation of Geneva Convention and Human Right Abuse.
It was for the sake of HSDC growth in the middle east. People were kidnapped and turned into a soldier under a night by the HSDC. It was a program where HSDC triggered a chain reaction of kidnapping in Libya. For example, HSDC kidnapped and converted a person. That said person would bring two more people and the circle continued. As a result, a lot of personnel inside of region L was usually wore veil or any hair concealment. All commanders respected it, it was not a huge deal since most of them replaced it with balaclava for special operation.
Before they knew it, Libya had already under full HSDC control. HSDC literally owned that zone and restricted all actions from the EU in Libya. EU didn't mind too much about it since HSDC actually brought prosperity to that warzone. It was all thanks to the brainwashing that the special tool gave to all kidnapped personnel.
”Hmm. To be honest, US also withdrew from Libya thanks to you guys stunts,” Herring said.
”C'mon. We cut a few deal with the US. It's not reasonless. They still have access to the oil fields. However, everyone is working there. So there's no more war.” Lynn sipped on her coffee.
”As expected. Great job.”