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Often shortened to PacEn, this now defunct company was ostensibly a major air and sea freight carrier with some minor stakes in land-based shipping concerns in various countries. While it did do legitimate business, this was largely to keep itself solvent instead of generating profits. PacEn is considered to be a front corporation for elements of the Chinese Ministry of State Security, with many of its employees being assets or agents under the direct guidance of Beijing. 

PacEn allowed for the transfers of personnel, money, equipment and arms to various parties around the world, the recipients ranging from quasi-legal paramilitaries to outright terror groups, anyone China wanted to support but needed to do so covertly. While it has since become defunct, the vast majority of the people involved with its espionage activities are unknown, and it’s considered highly likely that the operation has merely broken apart into smaller units to make itself less vulnerable to intrusion.

Ximena Huang states that she began her career in the MSS as part of PacEn, working to smuggle weapons and advisors to Naxalite-Maoist groups in India as well as arranging the transportation of material to various groups throughout the Pacific hemisphere. She was also deployed to the former Soviet Union for a time, working with local forces to track down WMDs and ship them back to China before they could fall into the hands of enemy agents.
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[hider=The Company]
The Company, sometimes referred to as Sam Gor ("The third brother", a reference to the gang's founder) began life as an alliance between Triad organizations to corner the drug market in the Asia-Pacific region, only to be interrupted by the Heavenfall. The immense destruction only temporarily halted their activities, and like many criminal organizations the Company took advantage of new state of the world to increase its own power. Using its drug profits to arm and expand, the Company defeated or simply subsumed a number of smaller gangs throughout Asia and the Americas, expanding both its territory and its ventures. In addition to narcotics, it deals in human trafficking and weapons, as well as black market energy production and simple piracy on both air and sea. It has a notable naval presence and commonly preys on shipping, stealing anything valuable before taking the crew to be held for ransom.

Zuhal al-Saqqaf, the chemical engineer and former romantic partner of ximena Huang, is currently in the Company's custody and is being forced to produce fuel for them, most of which is used by the Company's vessels while the remainder is sold off. It's thought that she had been dealing with them before her flight from New China and was simply taken prisoner when they realized that she was no longer able to find safety in the PRC.
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