Hazardous.Environment.Containment.Unit

The Hazardous Environment Combat Unit, a.k.a. HECU, is a group of special operatives of all backgrounds deployed in Malton as a rapid-response support force for any suburb under attack and ensuring a human stronghold. Originally much of the recruitment quota was narrowed down to only combat veterans. However, the HECU Central Command viewed the apocalyptic situation in Malton as an "exceptional training environment" for potential recruits and have decided that the members of command on site will take the role of searching and indoctrinating a plethora of new members of a wide variety of backgrounds.

The core values of the HECU is Honor, Efficiency, Courage, and Unity.


The HECU named themselves after the fictional military group in the popular video game "Half-Life". The HECU in Half-Lifeis a military organization formed to deal with "unconventional enemies" that normal military and law enforcement units cannot effectively engage. The HECU is looking for new recruits, preferably with military or science backgrounds, or civilians who have adequate weapons training and bodybuilding skills.
The Hazardous Environment Combat Unit has a rich and rather unsung history of engaging unconventional warfare on unconventional targets. Although the HECU's first engagement was highly successful at first, it took heavy casualties due to the nightmare of excessive bureaucatic involvement and the incompetent leadership by the "High Brass." Many field officers had filed disband reports for both the Unit and its battalion level officers. The Government, not wanting to take any more chances with another risky blind "reconnaissance-in-force" had the Unit disbanded and its members reassigned after the last weary survivors of the Black Mesa Incident were medevaced back to headquarters base in Santiago. [[1]] For more details about the Incident.