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Valiant Security Group

Type	Private
Industry	Private security services contractor
Predecessor	Vilko Air Service
Founded	2008 (2008)
Founders	William Birxen
Headquarters	Vali, Rohini
Area served	Eurth
Key people	William Birxen (CEO)
Products	Law enforcement training, logistics, close quarter training, and security services
Services	Security management, full-service risk management consulting
Revenue	Φ500 million
Owner	Valis Investment Group
Number of employees	1,500 (2011) 1,256 (2010)
Parent	Fortress Investment Group

Valiant Security Group is a private military company headquartered in Vali, Rohini. The company has interests in private security services, risk consulting, and competitive intelligence. It specialises in logistics, security services, close quarter training, and law enforcement training. Its contractors have taken part in various conflict on Eurth, including operations in Afropa and Bainbridge Islands.

History

Founder William Birxen in 2016.

The company was previously known as the Vilko Air Service, formed in 2005. It was founded by William "Bill" Birxen (born 9 October 1963 as Vilko Birxen), a former officer of the Rohinese air force. He founded the company with a mission to provide intra-theatre airlift support for special operations forces to commando bases in eastern Europa.

Birxen flew a version of the CASA 212, selected for its versatile performance and modified to operate from short and unimproved runway surfaces. The aircraft has a crew of two, but can be flown by one pilot. It's certified to land on dirt and grass strips, and is equipped with a suite of advanced communications, weather radar, and navigation gear. Vilko SG provided airlift support and flew aerial resupply missions in support of various commando units. Birxen is known to have had a close relationship with the government of Rohini.

The company was reformed in 2008 as the Valiant Security Group. Its role was expanded to include military-related services such as training, recruiting, research and development, technology, logistics, and security. This was done to take advantage of the instability during the Great Europan Collapse. Provided airlift support and flew aerial resupply missions to commando bases in the KBI theatre.

Structure

Since 2008, Valiant is owned by the Valis Investment Group. In early 2010, Valiant had 1,256 employees. This quickly grew to 1,500 by December 2011. The organisation is registered in Rohini, with offices in Volta, Saint Francoisbourg, and Llalta. The company headquarters are located in the Black Iron Building in Vali, Rohini. The company slogan is a well-known, memorable quote by Birxen: “Fish cannot carry guns.”

Valiant receives large sums to take considerable risk in the theatre of war. Since its acquisition by private investors, the actual company structure became multilayered and very complex. Its been accused of working with shell companies and proxy agents.

Operations

Valiant CASA 212 dropping supplies over Afropa.

The work of Valiant is international. Its client base is said to include primarily very wealthy individuals, oligarchs, and international corporations. According to the press release, Valiant provides a “wide range of services, including: airlift, security, logistics, and transportation services, as well as humanitarian support.”

From 2012 to 2015, Valiant SG helped with early insurgency and counterinsurgency operations and foreign civic action programs by deploying personnel and equipment. It also trained foreign air forces in special air warfare tactics and techniques. Birxen believes Valiant should be used for peacekeeping missions in areas like Afropa, where armed interventions can move the needle to establish a lasting peace.

The role of the PMCs has changed over time, evolving beyond the traditional view of "defence". It has come to include corporate security, infrastructure management, and "creative solutions" such as information warfare, corporate espionage, and political warfare.

Good

• Assist in humanitarian operations, including rushing aid and supplies to Afropa.
• In many ways it's their non-governmental, ambiguous status dat makes Valiant so useful. They are largely free from the politicking that limits the action of mandated armies. Being able to work outside the establishment make them a useful tool. $securitySpecialistName says that “Valiant offers an efficient business model that should be expanded rather than curtailed. I view the industry from an academic perspective. There were 15,000 AN troops in Zekistan. They were waiting for the diplomatic clearance. MEanwhile, private firms such as Valiant were holding the AN mission together in the field. The company had eight subcontractors supervising 500 Zekistani providing logistics. For me, as an academic, that was a huge eye-opener.”
• Providing maritime security, including defending merchants ships from piracy. Valiant has been hired to help handle problems of piracy near Bainbridge Islands. It also purchased a 60-metre (200 ft) merchant vessel which is refitted for anti-piracy training and disaster response. Valiant says that the ship has “state-of-the-art navigation systems, full GMDSS communications, dedicated command and control bays, a helicopter deck, hospital, and multiple support vessel capabilities.”
  • In the Meteorolas and the Azure Sea, where piracy is thought o be costing the global economy in the region o f$6bn a year, armed PMC's have had a 100 per cent success rate. “Statistics show that no vessel with an armed team on board has yet been hijacked by pirates,” says $personName, assistant director at $SiriusInsuranceSomething.
  • Maritime defence is a growth area in the freelance security industry., fuelled by an epidemic rise in piracy. Seamarshals works from its floating Red Sea base, servicing international routes from Djibouti to Durban and Mombasa to Mauritius. Its staff is made up predominantly of ex-Orinese servicemen and naval officers hired to protect their client's cargo or crew from danger, theft and extortion. Started in 2021 and run from an operations centre in $cityName , the company offers a gamut of services from personal protection to superyacht security.
• Provide close quarter and law enforcement training. Valiant designed a “kill house” with a multi-target training system. Kill houses can simulate residential, commercial and industrial spaces. They are used for teaching how to get into structures and defeat an opponent as quickly and efficiently as possible.
• Security consulting. It played the red team while training with Orinese security forces in preparation for the 2018 UENA World Cup. Leadership uses red teaming techniques to find flaws in their plans, predict their enemies moves, and improve their strategies. In the private sector, red teaming can be used to change your odds as you strive for success in the unforgiving competitive world.
• Counter-Drone training. Valiant and its partners train defence personnel and technologists to develop new technologies to stop unmanned aerial vehicle.
• Personal security.
  • See Blackwater (company)#2003–2006: First contracts.
  • It provides armed security to the $demonym embassy in $capitalCity and protection for all $country personnel in $country. “Our mission is to maintain peace. But make no mistake we'll face the beast.”
  • Their highly skilled experts provide indispnsible close protection in mordern conflicts.

Bad

• Valiant provides security services on a contract basis, most notably clandestine governments agencies. In the past decades, the company has been known to have been hired by the OSIS, ARSI, DDS, and NSIO. The company has provided operatives to a number of intelligence agencies and governments. To maintain its cover, the company operates from maintains several discreet safehouses throughout the wurld. A bar called "The Red Iguana" in Mauridiviah is believed to be one of those.
• Securing and supporting authoritarian regimes. The CEO of Valiant says they've worked with many kinds of governments all over the world, but he himself declined to name any. They're very good at supporting strong men who are also complete bastards. For example, they supported General Maximilian Oken in Libertad, the dictator who started the war with $country. They also support the dictatorship in $country, where the people are being oppressed. Valiant says they've got lots of other secret clients too, but they won't tell you who they are. The presence of PMC's in the world' conflicts is one of the most controversial issues in defence. Many military strategists have demed them an ungovernable chaos factor.
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Psy-Group
  • The company conducted online perception management, social media influencing/manipulation campaigns, opposition research, honey traps, and clandestine on-the-ground activities for clients.
• Valiant has been hired to find operatives who have gone missing. It is believed that Valiant is currently employing an operative who calls himself "The Dreamer". This is the name of a man, who is known to have gone missing. The Dreamer is believed to have worked for the company for a few years, and disappeared shortly after leaking information to a journalist.

Ugly

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_Group#History
• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_Group#Operations
• https://unherd.com/thepost/former-russian-mercenary-the-truth-about-the-wagner-group/
• Destabilise and take over Rohini.
• Supplying KBI pirates with weapons. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Erik_Prince#Project_Opus
• The company has been linked to the deaths of civilians. Valiant's most recent assignment ended in the destruction of a small village in the heart of Afropa. Most of its residents were women, children, and old people.
• The destruction of property was also linked to the company. An explosion in Zekistan caused extensive damage to a residential building, but no one was killed. The incident remains under investigation.
• Valiant is believed to be involved in the drug trade.

Controversies

Private secruty firms like Valiant are playing an important part in conflicts around the world. Some say they're a useful force for good. Others say they're an ungovernable hindrance undermining the good work of government troops. PMC's nurture a quasi-military culture, somewhere between peacekeeprs and profiteers. They are outsourced purveyors of force. Valiant's tactics have caused a number of international controversies. A number of its methods have also come under scrutiny.

Corruption

• Because PMCs are exempt from most anti-corruption laws, the practice is in a legal grey area, and regulation of the industry is limited.
• The Assembled Nations is in the process of addressing the issue of PMCs' legal status.
• Accountant RITZ knows many secrets. Trying to get caught. Fugitive. Employer wants to eliminate him as well. Warner Habitami escaped in 2019.
• Involved in an assassination. https://jackryan.fandom.com/wiki/Jeremy_Bright
  • Habitami revealed VSG had smuggled weapons over international borders, illegally trained local militia, forcibly removed natives from their land, and more. Rikari said he would not be surprised if it were true, since OSIS had an open dossier on the company. Habitami agreed to illegally freeze VSG's accounts if Rikari could give him all the information OSIS had on himself.
  • Habitami later travelled to VSG headquarters with Rikari. During the meeting, Birxen first threatened to sue the British Government for the illegal freezing of VSG's accounts. Rikari said it was fine if he did and asked Habitami how long it would take to sort out in court. Habitami guessed it would probably take two or more years. Rikari then mocked Birxen for what would be his inability to pay his employees due to their accounts being frozen while the issue was in court.

Arms trafficking

• In 2017, the Orinese government investigated whether Valiant employees smuggled weapons into Bainbridge Islands. No charges were filed.

Art theft and smuggling

As a PMC, with its network of highly trained operatives and access to state-of-the-art technology, Valiant is well-equipped to engage in art theft and smuggling. With their expertise in covert operations and ability to navigate complex international networks, they have been accused of infiltrating museums and private collections to steal valuable art pieces. Once the art is in their possession, Valiant can use their sophisticated transportation and logistics capabilities to smuggle the stolen pieces across borders, evading detection by customs and law enforcement. They can also utilize their connections with international criminal organizations to help facilitate the sale of the stolen art on the black market.

In 2007, during the conflict in Zekistan, a team infiltrated the National Museum in Manzarabad, using their advanced training and state-of-the-art equipment to bypass the museum's security systems. Using their expertise in covert operations and transportation logistics, the thieves managed to smuggle the stolen artworks out of the museum and across the border into Kotowari, where they met with a contact from an international criminal organization. The art was sold on the black market for a staggering sum, netting the private military company a significant profit from their illegal activity.

However, the heist didn't go unnoticed, and the team faces the risk of being exposed and facing legal consequences for their actions. Despite this, the success of the operation showcases the private military company's capabilities in art theft and smuggling, and solidifies their reputation as a highly skilled and dangerous force.

Human rights

• How does this PMC deal with human rights? Cf. Wagner in Mali.
  • “A new era of decolonisation is dawning.”
  • Russia’s Wagner Group purports to be a “private security organisation” – what might be otherwise called mercenaries. Plenty of groups like this exist around the world, but with an emphasis on private. The Wagner Group has many ties to Russian military intelligence. They tend to pop up in places where Russian interests are best served by individuals with some degree of plausible deniability of having links to Russian national leadership. We’ve seen them most notably in Ukraine’s Donbas region, Syria and Libya, but they’ve been active everywhere from Venezuela to the Central African Republic to Mozambique. The Wagner Group affords Vladimir Putin the flexibility to pursue Russian interests without attracting too much pushback, both from the international community and from within the Russian state. As a result, Russia’s been able to play in a wide range of theatres far from the immediate realm of Russia’s borders.

Espionage

• Opposition by Mercy International. Possible assassination or eavesdropping on Adam Brand.
  • In April 2016, two of the company employees were arrested in Orioni. They were suspected of spying, phishing, and cyberharassing the director of Mercy International, Adam Brand, and people close to him. Both men were convicted. After sentencing, the company reached an understanding with the Orinese authorities and the two employees were released and returned to Rohini after a few months. At the time of the arrest, Valiant denied any wrongdoing, saying that they were working under contract from the highest political powers in O'polis and that “all of Valiant’s employees follow local law to the letter, and the allegations against them are unfounded and untrue.”

Death of journalists

• Espionage against that journalist in Rohini.
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Cube
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_Group#Deaths_of_journalists

Political influencing

• Memiri re-lection in Rohini in 2015.
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Cube#Viktor_Orban's_re-election_(2018-)
• Support KBI pirates
  • https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_Group#Burkina_Faso
• PMC's are a reality of modern warfare in dire need of standardisation and accountability. Until this happens the stigma will continue to haunt the industry.

Sanctions

• https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wagner_Group#Sanctions
  • Birxen was sanctioned by Orioni in October 2017 for his involvement in the KBI conflict, and by the EOS in December 2918 for Valiant activities in Afropa.

Outline

• Analogues:
  • Compare with RL Black Cube or Wagner Group.
  • Metal Gear Solid
    • Private military company. https://metalgear.fandom.com/wiki/Private_military_company
    • 1972-75: Militaires Sans Frontières (MSF). https://metalgear.fandom.com/wiki/Militaires_Sans_Frontières
    • 1984: Mosquito Stinger Force (MSF). https://metalgear.fandom.com/wiki/Mosquito_Stinger_Force
    • 1984--1995: Diamond Dogs. https://metalgear.fandom.com/wiki/Diamond_Dogs
• Use the narration from these videos as further context:
  • Putin’s Private Army | Peter Zeihan on Wagner Group (1 April 2022)
    • video got deleted, here is a clone: Personal Army Of Putin's & Putin's Wagner Group - Peter Zeihan Russia Ukraine War Update (2 April 2022)
    • And a second variant: Putin’s Secret Private Army: The Wagner Group (29 March 2022)
• Images:
  • First logo: sideways cube [^v]. https://iiwiki.us/wiki/File:Valis_Security_Group_logo.png
  • Thunder mark. https://iiwiki.us/wiki/File:Thunder_mark_(1).svg
  • Alternative logo. https://iiwiki.us/wiki/File:McAfee_2020_logo_(a).png
• Secret black site / prison
  • Black Iron Prison is a secret underground prison in Rohini run by Valiant. The facility was constructed in the deepest mine shaft of the country. The prison is so far underground that it is considered to be in international territory. This allows Valiant to exercise certain jurisdictional freedoms. The temperatures in the facility can exceed 98.89 °C (210 °F) when it is not artificially cooled to 20 °C (68 °F).