The H.A.R.D. Corps is an organization operated by the Omen Enterprises cartel, an international partnership of companies that has banded together with the aim of opposing Toyo Harada and the Harbinger Foundation. Short for Harbinger Active Resistance Division, the H.A.R.D. Corps branch of Omen employs enhanced operatives and maintains installations worldwide in its struggle to keep the Harbinger Foundation in check.
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The field operatives of HARD Corps have come to be members of the Corps through very special circumstances. Most have come from a background that has included training in combat and/or police or military duty, or similar experience. Furthermore, HARD Corps surgeons save each agent from a coma using advanced implants. When given the choice between serving as a HARD Corps operative to pay for the surgery and implants or having the procedure reversed, most candidates opt to become part of the Corps.
The neural implants used to revive the recipients from comas also function as deadly weapons. They enable the user to mimic Harbinger powers, one at a time, through signals broadcast from a base station. To develop these artificial Harbinger powers, the Corps scans the genetic matrix of natural Harbingers, whose powers become part of the Harbinger Powers Database equipment. Therefore, the powers that HARD Corps field agents can access grow as the Corps is able to examine actual Harbingers, but some of the basic powers in common use include invulnerability, shield, flight, and strength.
To insure that field agents – known as “psi–borgs” – do not go rogue or fall into enemy hands, each is also implanted with a cerebral failsafe, euphemistically known as a “brain–pop”, which will be activated automatically, causing brain functions to cease. Control liaisons can also engage the brain–pop manually.
Fighter pilots who came to HARD Corps through unknown circumstances form the original group of HARD Corps field operatives. Omen Enterprises acquired additional agents with its extensive resources, which constantly monitor medical facilities worldwide for likely candidates.
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- Perp
- Wipeout
- Grasshopper
- Ironhead
- Football
- Brainsmash
- Satin Doll
- Payback
- Disco
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