Hammer Security Response (a.k.a. God’s Hammer)
Sect · Mage
“God told me to kill you” is one of the oldest excuses a mass-murderer uses. God’s Hammer proudly furnishes that excuse. Ostensibly a maximum security force, HSR is an Apocalyptic Christian mercenary firm that employs over 20,000 men and women, nearly all of them combat veterans from various wars. Are they all Nephandi? Of course not. In fact, they believe just the opposite; to them, the Second Coming is in progress and they’ll provide backup for Jesus Christ’s return. Why Almighty God would need backup is anyone’s guess, but that’s their line and they swallow it whole.
Despite their avowed Christianity, the true masters of the Hammer are essentially Antichrists. Belief, though, promotes powerful illusions, especially when it’s backed up with money, guns, and the ability to use both whenever you want. Founded in the late 1980s by Col. Erik Rose Hammer (a Nephandus who Fell during the Vietnam War), God’s Hammer gets deployed to trouble spots all over the world… especially places where Muslims, Jews, Buddhists, and other infidels get restless.
Hammer provides a special thorn in the sides of Templar Knights, who all too often find themselves fighting alongside so-called fellow Christians, who actually serve the enemy. Some folks speculate that Hammer Security began among the Templars; Col. Rose is reputed to have been a Templar himself, and he might still call upon his old comrades for backup. As far as the Templar leadership’s concerned, Hammer operatives are among the worst of the worst in Satan’s army. The fact that God’s Hammer employs the Knights’ own devotion against them has surely got to hurt…
Although very few Hammer operatives have paranormal talents, they’ve got the best firepower money can buy, plus enough political clout and religious zeal to commit mass murder and get away with it. In third-world countries and urban disaster zones, the Hammer dregvati execute Nephandic plans while supposedly doing the Lord’s work. And so, for many mages and their allies, the Hammer is the last thing they feel.
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