Last Defense Worldwide

Last Defense Worldwide or LDW was a mercenary company in hire of the UEG. It gathered power thanks to its hard hitting and brute methods of warfare and became known as an effective if blunt tool to use in military matters. Their strength was in their large focus on armor, something that other PMC companies had little strength in. The company was dissolved after the Pierre-Vanderfield Trials, where their largest competitor, Blacklist Private Military Contractors, had the company dismantled after a long series of court trials.

Early History
Last Defense Worldwide was founded in 2213 in Los Angeles, United States, by brothers and former soldiers Henry and Michael Vanderfield. The brothers pooled their savings, along with the savings of many of their former military friends and bought a fleet of tanks after registering the name Last Defense Worldwide. Their vehicles came in use during several rebellions across the UEG, where the UEG didn't wish to risk their men but needed a strong response to the uprisings.

The company came under fire when years later, they massacred twenty people during a demonstration in Moscow in the Red Square Massacre, after soldiers under hire of LDW panicked when they were faced with a huge crowd of angry anti-UEG protesters and fired into the crowd. The company managed to eek by without being disbanded, but due to several other smaller yet similar incidents, their reputation was forever ruined.

After they fought Blacklist for a series of high level, well paying contracts and won, they earned the hatred of Blacklist president, Pierre Boucher. This proved fatal to the company, because after a large amount of political maneuvering, Blacklist managed to accuse LDW of aiding rebel groups in South America and Africa in order to create more business. The resulting Pierre-Vanderfield Trials were largely a sham, but LDW was dismantled all the same and its leader imprisoned.