| rdfs:comment | - Wintermute Industries is a mainland multinational corporation founded immediately after the last world war by a group of intelligence officers who believed they could act as agents to prevent future conflicts by surgically targeting aggressors before they again threatened global security. The view attracted many former military personnel, resulting in Wintermute having one of the best staffs of any post-war PMC, and as a result the company profited enormously. Unlike some similar corporations, Wintermute does not function as a nation-state, nor does it keep a large standing army. Instead, its agents are dispersed throughout society, rarely in groups larger than 50. These groups then wait for orders from the Wintermute Board, a shadowy group very few people have actually seen face to face.
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| abstract | - Wintermute Industries is a mainland multinational corporation founded immediately after the last world war by a group of intelligence officers who believed they could act as agents to prevent future conflicts by surgically targeting aggressors before they again threatened global security. The view attracted many former military personnel, resulting in Wintermute having one of the best staffs of any post-war PMC, and as a result the company profited enormously. Unlike some similar corporations, Wintermute does not function as a nation-state, nor does it keep a large standing army. Instead, its agents are dispersed throughout society, rarely in groups larger than 50. These groups then wait for orders from the Wintermute Board, a shadowy group very few people have actually seen face to face. Because of this fragmentation, it is very hard to ascertain who exactly Wintermute employees are - they may live for years in cover before exposing themselves to destroy a strategically significant target, and separating deep-cover agents from civilians is near-impossible.
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