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Blackwatch
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- "When we hunt, we kill!
No one is safe!
Nothing is sacred!
We are Blackwatch!
We are the last line of defense!
We will burn our own to hold the red line; it is the last line to ever hold!" - ―The Blackwatch creed.[src]
Blackwatch Special Forces, officially designated under 1st Biological Warfare Command is the black ops military force, responsible for the containment of biohazard/viral outbreaks. They were previously deployed at Hope, Idaho to contain the viral outbreak caused by the Redlight virus, and later to New York City in order to combat the Blacklight virus.
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Overview
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Officially, Blackwatch does not exist - it is a black operations unit that is given free reign when it comes to containing viral outbreaks. The organization has access to vast stockpiles of military arsenal and experimental technologies, in addition to controlling the most refined information control technologies, vital to preserving the ignorance of the American public. However, following the initial Manhattan outbreak, they became publicly known, though the extent of their atrocities remains a well kept secret.
Added by TagazielFurthermore, they have full authority over American military forces and local police when it comes to biological warfare - they can request any information and any amount of military forces to serve under their command, as exemplified by their use of Marines on Manhattan Island.
Each member of the organization is single mindedly dedicated to its goal and fully believes that it justifies the means, no matter how distasteful they are. As such, Blackwatch soldiers will execute infected humans without hesitation, use area of effect weapons in urban areas and deploy heavy armor and gunships in crowded areas just to destroy a single Runner.
They will also not hesitate to firebomb city blocks just to suppress the infection, regardless of other military and civilian presence. Some members have even been noted as possessing a cruel and sadistic glee while doing so. This approach earns them the ire of any jointly deployed military forces, who usually consider them gung-ho, bloodthirsty psychopaths, and Nazis.[1]
In the year following the initial outbreak in Manhattan and during the second outbreak, Blackwatch has descended into even further amoral actions and methods, performing such atrocities as kidnapping innocent civilians for Gentek's experiments. Many of which consist of simply locking them in rooms with particularly vicious forms of Infected and watching the carnage.
The Blackboxes Heller found throughout New York Zero included recordings of even further unethical activities, including a Blackwatch soldier shooting an autistic boy simply because he wouldn't speak when asked to in order to prove he wasn't infected. Another recorded Blackwatch soldier shooting a woman immediately after warning her he was authorized to use lethal force if she didn't step back, while yet another recorded an officer threatening to discharge a Blackwatch trooper for saving a woman from being raped. A recording of Colonel Rooks had him explicitly stating that it wasn't their responsibility to police the refugees even when they started killing each other. There was also a recording of an officer berating a subordinate for shooting an entire family, not on moral or ethical grounds, but because he was wasting ammo by doing so.
OriginEdit
Added by TagazielBlackwatch was established on June 9, 1962 by DARPA and the Department of the Army, with its base of operations at Ft. Detrick, Maryland.[2] The official designation was 1st Biohazard Threat Unit.[3] Its original mandate was the research and development of Biological Weaponry for use against foreign powers. In pursuit of that mandate, Blackwatch created the Redlight virus and used it in the Carnival I, Carnival II projects. However, following the Hope, Idaho fiasco and Operation Altruistic, lasting from July 5, 1969 to July 7, 1969, its mission was changed to its current one: detection, concealment and prevention of outbreaks of unknown viruses, both modified and natural, on American soil. The actual viral research and development of biological weapons was outsourced to Gentek when Raymond McMullen established the company in 1979. Gentek researchers later went on to create a new and more devestating virus in Project Blacklight.
RanksEdit
All Blackwatch soldiers are hand-picked from various special forces of the United States Military.
Blackwatch soldiersEdit
- Main article: Blackwatch soldier
The elite troppers who are considered as the rank-and-file members of Blackwatch. They are equipped with black battle uniforms, tactical vests and combat webbing, night vision goggles and gas-masks coupled with helmets and weapons depending on their specialty - anything ranging from the versatile M4 carbine to the devastating Javelin missile launcher.
Blackwatch officersEdit
- Main article: Blackwatch officer
Easily recognizable by their white battle uniforms and tri-lens goggles, officers usually lead other squads into battle or control military bases.
Blackwatch super soldiersEdit
- Main article: Super Soldier
Super Soldiers are Blackwatch operatives who have been exposed to the virus in a controlled way, causing them to gain tremendous strength, structure and stature. They are capable of fighting Hunters and even a Prototype in close combat, as well as clinging to walls and jumping incredibly high. Their only form of equipment is standard webbing and a infection detection device that allows them to see anyone infected with the Blacklight virus, like other Hunters, to pick out Alex from crowds and see through disguises.
EquipmentEdit
The arsenal of Blackwatch is largely composed of the same weapons used by the Marines: M4 carbines, M249 light machine guns, M32 Multiple Grenade Launchers, FGM-148 Javelin anti-tank missiles. Their vehicle pool includes M1 Abrams tanks, M2 Bradley IFVs, AH-64 Apache gunships, UH-60 Blackhawks, all in black and bearing their insignia.
They also have some other, more exotic equipment at their disposal, such as UAVs, Viral Detectors, aswell as Thermobaric tanks and gunships.
Notable charactersEdit
- Lieutenant General Peter Randall
- Colonel Douglas Rooks
- Captain Robert Cross
- Lieutenant Clint Riley
DeploymentsEdit
Hope, IdahoEdit
- Main article: Hope, Idaho
Blackwatch were originally a regular military garrison based in Fort Detrick, Maryland; they were the ones called in to contain the outbreak of Redlight in Hope. During the military suppression of the Redlight virus, the virus nearly advanced beyond the point "of no return". However Blackwatch shelled the town, and regained control. After Hope had been sterilized, Blackwatch was formed to suppress future outbreaks of biological weapons, both man-made and natural. General Randall was put in charge of the unit after his actions in Hope lead to the successful elimination of the virus threat located there.
New YorkEdit
- Main article: New York City
When Alex Mercer broke the vial that contain the Blacklight, the Blackwatch were brought to contain and stop the virus. Unlucky for them, Greene escaped and started to spread her virus.
NotesEdit
- The name of the organization is probably based on the fact that the group was formed to contain the Redlight virus, although it could also be a reference to a famous Scottish regiment of the same name as well. It could also be a reference to Blackwater, a private military organization whose methods and morals have been under considerable scrutiny due to achieving its goals through means of similar questionable morality.
- Considering their late Commanding Officer, Peter Randall, was a Lieutenant General, their name (1st Biological Warfare Command) and given their huge presence on Manhattan (it is revealed in Prototype 2 by Father Luis Guerra that there were at least ten thousand Blackwatch soldiers deployed in all of New York Zero), it seems the 1st Biological Warfare Command is a Corps sized unit.
- It would appear after the events of Prototype 1, Blackwatch is now publicly known, as its logo and troops could be seen everywhere in the Yellow Zone. As well as some graffiti with Blackwatch's logo with a No sign over it.
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