Blue Suns
From FABT
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|---|---|
| Type: |
Private |
| Industry: |
Private military |
| Founder: | |
| Dates: | |
| Owner: |
Zaeed Massani (last) |
| Headquarters: | |
| Area served: |
Entirety of the Milky Way Galaxy |
| CEO: |
Zaeed Massani (last) |
| Key people: |
Solem Dal'serah |
| Services: |
Private security |
| Number of employees: |
15.7 million employees |
| Extranet site: |
bluesunsdefsol.gal |
- "Without the restrictions of a proper military, but with the skill."
- — Blue Suns advertisement.
The Blue Suns was a human-run multi-species private military corporation that specialized in precision security, brute force conventional warfare and ruthless efficiency. Founded on Zorya by former human military officers Vido Santiago and Zaeed Massani, the Blue Suns was formed in 2160 CE when Santiago and Massani, believing their careers in Earth-based militaries were now over, chose to take advantage of humanity's place in the new galactic community to form a new human PMC that would focus on precision security and conventional warfare, utilizing their knowledge of counter-insurgent and state-based warfare to form a PMC with a focus on both, intended to be hired out by governments to fight their wars. Zaeed led the men while Vido managed the company, and through their relationship the Blue Suns quickly built itself up to be a highly profitable, powerful PMC, even more so when Zaeed's suggestion to branch out and recruit turians in addition to humans was embraced by Vido. As the company expanded into the Terminus Systems, establishing its own chapter on Omega, it ran into heavy competition from the larger, older PMCs on the scene, including Eclipse: this didn't stunt the expansion of the Blue Suns though, and they only continued to grow larger and more wealthier as governments and corporations came to them for their precision and ruthless efficiency. The PMC reached a flashpoint in its expansion when much of the running leadership, including Vido, wished to further expand the Blue Suns by securing a cut of the slave trade, something Zaeed was vehemently against. This created a vice between Vido and Zaeed, which reached a breaking point when Vido made the decision to begin recruiting batarians without consulting Zaeed. Believing Zaeed to be a threat and wanting sole ownership of the Blue Suns, Vido betrayed Zaeed and paid off six of Zaeed's men to hold him down while Vido shot him in the head, leaving him for dead. While Zaeed would ultimately survive, Zaeed had lost faith in the Blue Suns and became a freelance bounty hunter, although he began planning for vengeance against Vido. Vido became the sole CEO of the Blue Suns, and his plan to expand into the slave trade and recruit batarians went ahead, forever changing the PMC and allowing it to grow even larger: by the time of 2180 CE, it was one of the largest operating PMCs in the Terminus Systems.
After replacing Zaeed with a batarian, Solem Dal'serah, as head of operations, Vido largely remained on Zorya, allowing Dal'serah to personally handle Blue Suns operations, an arrangement virtually identical to what he had with his former partner. Due to Vido's paranoia regarding Zaeed enacting vengeance against him for his betrayal, Vido's leadership behind the scenes only became meaner and more suspicious, although Vido was smart enough to give Dal'serah a greater hand in operations, improving Blue Suns' PR and allowing him to continue running the company as he saw fit. Despite this though, Vido's meaner and more predatory behavior made him untrustworthy, and his dabble into the slave trade turned the Blue Suns to engage in slave grabs and narcotics-smuggling: when Vido saw an opportunity to betray his clients for higher financial gain, he frequently leapt on such opportunities. Turian military doctrine heavily influenced the operability of the Blue Suns, with their mercenaries being highly disciplined and ruthlessly efficient. Blue Suns operators branded themselves with a tattoo of the company's logo, but during high-risk activities or undercover work, these operators would remove the tattoos with acid wash to prevent them being identified, and they would be reapplied after the job was done. In mid 2184 CE, the company ran into a signficant hurdle when Archangel arrived on Omega and began his war against the station's resident PMCs and gangs, with the Blue Suns chapter firmly in his sights: in the following months, he dealt momentous damage to the organization's interests on Omega, inflicting damage to their property, compromising their operations, and killing many of their men. Finally fed up with Archangel's actions and having survived an attempt on his life at his own home, Krefin Tarak, the captain of the Omega chapter, joined forces with the Eclipse and Blood Pack chapters on the station to corner and take him down. Despite this, the late intervention of the Normandy Squad resulted in further losses for the Blue Suns, the deaths of most of the chapter's commanders (including Tarak himself), and the Omega chapter being weakened which, coupled with the plague impacting its control over the Gozu district, left it vulnerable for when war against Aria broke out in late 2185 CE, and the Omega chapter was wiped out when Cerberus invaded. By this point, Vido wasn't even alive anymore, having been killed when Zaeed Massani teamed up with the Normandy Squad to liberate an Eldfell-Ashland refinery on Zorya from Blue Suns occupation, and when Vido tried to escape in a gunship, an orbital strike was called on him and both him and Dal'serah was killed, shaking up the Blue Suns leadership. A Blue Suns commander named Darner Vosque subsequently took over, stabilizing the organization and getting it back on its feet, allowing it to take advantage of Eclipse's destabilization and seizing many of its operations. When Zaeed returned just prior to the Reaper War in 2186 CE to take over, Vosque surprisingly stepped aside, allowing for a peaceful transition of power.
Later, Vosque planned to betray Zaeed, taking his chapter of the Blue Suns and joining with Aria T'Loak under the promise that Aria would help him kill Zaeed and let him resume control over the Blue Suns in exchange for him committing his forces to helping her retake Omega, a promise he'd then extend to Commander Shepard with the UGC. However, Aria instead reported his planned betrayal to Zaeed, knowing Zaeed's commitment to Shepard and that she needed Shepard's commitment to her cause more than Vosque. With help from the Normandy Squad, Zaeed and his loyalists under Jentha Renmark confronted Vosque and his separatists: in the ensuing gun battle, the civil war within the Blue Suns was crushed before it began, with Vosque and his separatists killed, solidifying Zaeed's grip on the company, which he then fully committed to the UGC and Aria's liberation army. Blue Suns forces, led personally by Zaeed (as Renmark had been killed when the Citadel fell), participated in the Battle of London, where the company lost thousands of troops. After the Reaper War, the Blue Suns was severely depleted galaxy-wide, but was in better shape than both the Eclipse and Blood Pack, and set to dominate both of them in the post-war PMC environment. Zaeed leapt on the opportunity to create an inter-operational triumvirate between his company and the two weakened ones, but with help from Miranda Lawson, he chose to merge them together in 2192 CE, dissolving the Blue Suns and the other two companies and reforming them as the Red Sky PMC.