Entry: 2009505
Subject: Body Count Incorporated
Status: Fanon
Capsule:"This corp is a family. You cannot break us." - SeleeneSometimes you just need someone dead. Sometimes you need many people dead. Body Count Incorporated is a mercenary company that started its life as nothing more than a small band of hitmen... well, hit women. The group first formed as a team of women who worked as small time hitmen, headed by Seleene.
It didn't take long for the small group to take on others who were willing to use violence to get money, but at the same time they branched out into more legal operations, like acting as hired guards and bounty hunting. Over the last twenty years the group slowly switched to mercenary and commando type work.
They've come a long way since their founding, grown to a combat strength of some ten thousand personnel. While that seems like a lot, compared to the other three corporations in the Mercenary Coalition, theirs is by far the smallest. However, they are the most specialized and combat effective group on the ground. They are an elite force with the highest entrance standards of any of the corporations in the mercenary coalition and their own unique traditions that set them apart. They are also the least standardized in equipment and doctrine.
The Battle Angels - Body Count's Officer CorpsWhile Body Count Incorporated dropped a requirement that all its members be female, it has stubbornly insisted that its officer corps remain an exclusively female affair. This stems from a second tradition in the corporation, the officers and medics are one and the same and act as parents, mothers, and guardians for their men.
Philosophically this stems from the idea that it forces the officers to take the best care of their men possible, to be cautious in combat and conservative with their lives. If an officer screws up and incurs significant casualties in their command it is their responsibility to keep them alive until they can be evacuated. As all this requires that all officers also be trained medics or doctors it also means that the officers tend to be much better educated than many others with similar positions in FRICK or Seraphim. After all if they screw up they either die with their men or clean up the bloody mess.
Ironically they tend to be very inventive thinkers, and are heavily relied upon by the other Mercenary Coalition officer corps to act as operational planners and coordinators. This has led to an expansion of the Officer Corps where often times a Battle Angel advisor is sent along to assist other corporation's operations. Often times officer corps of larger joint commands specifically request a Battle Angel to act as their chief of staff or strategic officer.
PersonnelThe requirements for joining Body Count Incorporated remain quite high, and the troops are much more disciplined than in most other mercenary companies. Discipline is also heavily peer enforced so that those that get out of line are often punished more by their comrades then by their officers. As a result, more stereotypical mercenary alien species such as rodians and gran are a rarity in the corporation, the focus on discipline has attracted former military personnel from across the galaxy as well as people from more discipline and martial cultures such as the Mando'a and Echani.
Pay is quite good for an organized mercenary army in that the vast majority of the pay for the completion of a contract goes to its participants, not the organization as a whole, and the division of pay between the officers and the men is much more progressive than in most other mercenary organizations. This means that there is also intense internal competition to participate in the contracts. These pressures have also helped to insure that the organization's size remains small, so that all its members can reliably obtain a contract.
EquipmentMost of the equipment used by veteran members of Body Count Inc is purchased by the men themselves. However, new recruits are given their own armor and weapons to use as a signing bonus and as reward for passing the training and entrance exams. Additionally ammo is often provided by Seraphim Technologies Incorporated, and specialized equipment and weaponry is issued as required.
Ships and armor equipment may be issued as needed, but more often or not is the property of another member of the corporation who has been assigned to the operation. As a result the ships used by Body Count Inc tend to be highly variable lot from a wide variety of manufacturers
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