Background Lore

"Unlearned civilians and boot licking metropolice would tell you that the Hazardous Environment Combat Unit is a "relic of the old world" serving as a front-line heavy assault division for the Lambda Resistance. Unlearned civilians and boot licking metropolice smell just like feces when burnt H.E.C.U.'s initial contact with alien lifeforms from the Xen border-world almost served as its destruction, but would later become it's salvation. As society crumbled and the skies opened up during the aftermath of the Resonance Cascade, it was the first hand experience at ground zero that gave H.E.C.U. its chance at survival. In the closing moments of the Seven Hour War, NATO officials enacted the latchkey contingency, entrusting six agencies across the globe with humanity's survival. H.E.C.U. was at the last moment selected for this program, given their miraculous survival of their initial contact with humanity's new enemy. After years of Combine reign, H.E.C.U. resurfaced as conflict sparked."

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