Name of Group: The Atlantic-Pacific Independent Research Corporation for (APIRCA)
Type: Corporation slash small-nation union
Assets: The APIRCA controls several small island nations through economic and political power, owns several islands of its own, and operates out of these island groups, as well as the most prominent feature of the APIRCA, a navy, of both trade, military, and research focuses.
Personnel: On islands: Nearly 4 million total. In the navy, of sorts: Close to 750,000 total.
History: With APIRCA being founded around 2017 for the United States, France, and various other UN nations to conduct unconventional, and possibly illegal experiments and research, it was a secretive organization. The APIRCA was that of a highly-funded group to try and make up new technologies so that losses could be minimalized in wars and conflicts, as well as for scare tactics and the like. When the war broke out, however, the APIRCA was, more or less, given independence, despite all nations involved keeping the involvement into APIRCA a strict need-to-know basis, due to the nature of experiments and research, and became more independent than anything. APIRCA branched out in the following years after it received more freedom, and now buys raw materials from places such as Africa, the Middle East, South America, and other places, refines them into refined goods (hehe) during the trip, and sells the finished products at wherever they needed to be sold, by way of cargo ships 'trading' with the more advanced 'refinery ships' of APIRCA. In the group, people go on a basis of "RCA points" which are used as a currency of sorts.
During the years of 2025, APIRCA began looking into weapons technologies and antimatter, and began developing their own. While all of this is expensive, there would always be some kind of buyer, from a rich drug mob, to a nation's leader. They developed 'sets,' usually a body armor and an accompanying weapons system or special tech, usually not too difficult to design, but worked well enough to put it above everyone else's. Once 2035 came around, the APIRCA began collecting as much data that could be found on public and private servers connected to the internet, in many cases breaking through firewalls to obtain such information, though stronger firewalls were left alone. Quantum physics and mechanics, theories and designs, antimatter research and darkmatter discoveries, they wanted as much as they could get their hands on, and still pay a good bit of money for credible research.
Between the years of 2020 and 2030, the APIRCA also began a burst of activity. Through the finding of a very large oil pocket below the Atlantic, near Antarctica, they began construction of several ocean platforms that served as ocean research stations, munitions depots, oil refineries and oil storage, and factories. Ocean cables were laid down between many of these places, along stable sections of ocean-floor, to provide near-instant communication, as well as energy transfer from the 2 ocean platforms that generate energy through solar power, which are much bigger than all of the ocean platforms, and have a constant guard of at least 2 APIRCA-designed frigates, or more/better.
Generally, guards/soldiers of the APIRCA, both of the private military of the organization, and of the PMC [Private Military Contractors] section of the APIRCA, wear body armor and use a multi-purpose service rifle, as shown below.
On land, these soldiers are less common, more as a commando/elite soldier, with general soldiers being replaced with basic military equipment, body armor, weapons, etc., with a 'TactCom' helmet, as shown below.
As of the present, the APIRCA specializes and sells:
Transportation, safe & speedy
Private Military
Cheap, mass-produced [though efficient] weapons, tools, or equipment
More expensive, special quality weapons, tools, or equipment, including advanced body armor
Small amounts of heavier weapons, such as missiles, RPGs, APCs, tanks, and occasionally even a heavy artillery piece.
Through a great deal of trouble, expense, and negotiation can one buy radioactive material, though it is, again, in small amounts, or buy future amounts of it.
Ocean-area construction, such as drilling platforms, boats, coastal construction, etc., as long as they are paid and provided with some amount of material to get started.
THE APIRCA:
Where you go when you need something done, from transportation to a port constructed, from hiring a mercenary to getting your own private army.
