Freelancer

From FABT

freelancer is a type of mercenary who does not work for or is affiliated with any established mercenary organization, working alone or operating on a temporary contract. While freelancers can be hired by other mercenary organizations to aid them, they do not owe any loyalty to that group nor do they become a member of that group, even temporarily. Freelancers do not even need to be permanent, full-time mercenaries, taking on contracts temporarily before returning to a normal life upon its completion. Freelancing was extremely prevalent in the Terminus Systems, many seeing it as an easy way to make credits without having to join any particular PMC. Downsides of freelancing however involve freelancers having to pay for their own equipment, armor and weapons, and if they are injured, they must pay for their own medical treatment: freelancers are also often hired by PMCs as cannon fodder or to conduct work their men either can't do or they don't want them to, as was the case with the Kima Alliance's mass hiring of freelancers during the Kima Siege in August 2185 CE.

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