Rated general for lack of adult content
second of two rough drafts for mercenary outfits that Silicon City villains can hire.
Rat Pack and the Silicon City universe are (C) Psion 2010-2012

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Rat Pack
By Psion
All Rights Reserved

DSA Threat Report: Rat Pack
This file is intended for dissemination to DSA operatives and members of allied agencies clearance Indigo and the equivalent or higher.

Background: Finding himself in need of an army to support his extremist agenda, the right-winged supervillain known as the Crimson Patriot founded a group he lovingly christened his “Swamp Rats.” According to inside sources, Patriot came upon the idea for an all-rodent militia after observing the effectiveness of rodent guerrillas in Central Asia. Gathering up a cadre of promising recruits taken from the poor and disenfranchised of the American Dixieland, he took his eager students under his arm and taught them everything experience taught him. How to engage foes from concealment, how to construct explosives, and how to whittle away at the “liberal parasite,” however the one thing he didn’t teach them was how to carry on after his demise.
After Crimson Patriot’s defeat and apparent death during the DSA raid of his Floridian compound, his army found themselves leaderless and unemployed. Some attempted to carry on his legacy and were eventually foiled, the rest wandered aimlessly until a new leader emerged with a plan to take the fledgling guerrilla army in a completely different direction.
“Colonel” Stanley Smith was the only member of Patriot’s inner circle that had thus far avoided attracting the attention of the authorities. He was also the only high-level member that wasn’t motivated by a misplaced sense of patriotism. Enchanted by the implied promises of power and wealth his mentor’s army suggested, the impoverished Smith joined hoping to improve his fortunes.
After the Swamp Rats disbanded, Stan decided to find a market for his skills and managed to talk his way into working with a private military company. The PMC would eventually be shut down for illegal hiring practices but not before Stanley acquired an apparent taste for the mercenary lifestyle. Calling up as many of his old Swamp Rat buddies as he knew, the mouse entrepreneur quickly incorporated the “Rat Pack.”
Maintaining the same fiery zeal they possessed as the Swamp Rats, Colonel Smith’s Rat Pack opened for business to any legal corporation or aspiring warlord with money to burn. Unfortunately species stereotypes means they tend to get less respect then perhaps they should. Despite subpar equipment and a lack of professional polish, they are proven jungle warfare specialists and dedicated soldiers that rarely retreat or surrender.

Areas of Operation: The Rat Pack has seen deployments to the rainforests of South America and the jungles of Africa and Southeast Asia. Contracts have included everything from protecting illegal logging operations to crushing resistance groups. If it involves suitcases full of money and asking as few questions as possible then the Rat Pack has done it.
Location of company headquarters is unknown but suspected to be somewhere in the American southeast. The swamps of Mississippi and Alabama are considered likely candidates, providing ease of concealment as well as plenty of ideal terrain to train new recruits.

Unit Composition: Large infantry platoon numbering around sixty mercenaries. Membership is made up entirely of mice, rats, and related rodents. Consists of co-ed male-female combat units.

Specialties: Jungle Warfare, Search and Retrieval, Demolitions, Hit and Run attacks.

Weapons and Equipment: Generally poor, the company is largely limited to purchasing last-generation military hardware off the black market. While serviceable against baseline foes, most of their weapons are incapable of hurting a bulletproof metabeing. For those kinds of targets the Rat Pack maintains a small collection of second-hand unconventional firearms bought through underworld contacts. Unfortunately, these supervillain gimmick weapons are just as unpredictable in their hands as they were for their original owners.