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| - NextWorld is a projection firm with a reputation as a private security firm to the respectible world, and a dark and ruthless reputation in the underworld. Unlike their two main competitors, the Orpheus Group and Terrel and Squib, NextWorld will take almost any job, no matter how illegal or dangerous. Official jobs offered include bodyguard work, private surveillance, and security consultations; unofficial ones include assassinations, industrial espionage, and blackmail. All agents of NextWorld have backgrounds in military, law enforcement, or intelligence. NextWorld prefers them because most of these people have developed an insensitivity to violence, something that it considers imperative in its line of work. Although the initial projectors were skimmers, many more of NextWorld’s mercenaries ended up as sleepers. There are also a few ghosts and hues employed as well. However, as NextWorld is not a research facility, its projection technology is becoming hopelessly outdated, limited to what it had to begin with. Combined with the dangerous nature of their work, NextWorld has an extremely high agent loss rate.
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