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* Perhaps this is just me trying to squeeze any last bit of juice out of a relatively average game, but the plot of ""[[Tom Clancy]]'s HAWX reads a LOT better as a {{spoiler|[[The Plan]] by whoever is running Las Trinidad, the game's Latin American Chavez/Castro substitutes that you really don't see too much of}}. The first time you see them, they throw a few dozen planes and landing craft at Rio (with or without potential partisans inside the city) in an attempt to decapitate the Brazilian leadership and gain dominance over Latin America. Naturally, you (a pilot for the local [[PMC]], Artemis, which has just signed a "lucrative" contract with the Brazilians) tear them to shreds, save the Brazilians, and earn tons of money for Artemis while LT has botched their first strike and now has to await a counterattacked coupled with American intervention against them. All well and good, right? But pay attention to the briefing for that mission: it says that {{spoiler|Las Trinidad's PMC (ie "Mercenary") units}} have been put on high alert, so chances are that the LT units you killed off at Rio and in the few other missions later were not {{spoiler|"home-grown" units dedicated to LT's agenda, but rather mercenaries with no permanent loyalties and who are thus disposable.}} So, after their defeat by Artemis at Rio forces LT on the defensive, what do they do? Simple: they {{spoiler|BRIBE Artemis- the force responsible for their defeat at Rio- with a BETTER CONTRACT then their Brazilian one, wagering (correctly) that the senior stockholders are all [[Corrupt Corporate Executives]] who will sell their country and their ex-allies up the river if paid enough and who are desperate due to profit downturns after the official American intervention. This maneuver violates the Reykjavik Accords that legalizes the PMCs in the first place. Keep this in mind.}} So, after increasingly tense situations with command, Artemis {{spoiler|does a [[Face Heel Turn]] and back-stabs the US and Brazil. Naturally, you being the patriotic, pro-American gamer that you are, desert and start kicking Artemis around.}} This naturally ticks Uncle Sam off (likely since {{spoiler|Artemis}} is probably American-based, is largely run and staffed by Americans, and is in violation of the Reykjavik accords), and thus they demand that {{spoiler|Artemis}} disarm. Apparently, because the Board of Directors are either Randian fanatics or [[Too Dumb to Live]], they decide to pull a coup that leads to {{spoiler|a mini-civil war breaking out across the US, leaving tens of thousands dead.}} Because of the chaos, the Reykjavik Accords get tossed out (thus outlawing PMCs again), and you get sent back to {{spoiler|save the day by blowing Artemis' CEO and his inner cadre to hell}}. So, where does the [[The Plan]] come in? Think about this: First, LT sends in an invasion of Rio spearheaded by {{spoiler|disposable mercs who have no allegiance to them and who- if shanghaied into national service- would probably be fighting AGAINST them}}. If they had won, it would have been a simple coup before a march to Brasilia to clean up any loyalist resistance before the US can react. But, since they lost {{spoiler|they have only lost a few hundred mercs with little loyalty- and perhaps some native LT sympathizers- while testing Artemis' capabilities}}. After this, they choose to {{spoiler|bribe Artemis, thus getting THAT firepower on their side while continuing to use mainly disposable mercs while forcing an international incident over the rights of PMCs.}} After the situation spirals out of hand and {{spoiler|Artemis attempts to launch a coup that fails but DEVASTATES important areas of the US}}, Las Trinidad has achieved a major victory: {{spoiler|they have managed to turn and destroy the mercenary company that stopped them from taking Brazil by forcing it to fight Brazil's chief ally- the US-, with a mini-civil war in the US that outclasses 9/11 diverting attention from Las Trinidad's war against Brazil, ALL WHILE LOOSING ONLY EXPENDABLE MERCENARIES (HELL, they probably only had to pay Artemis' up-front fee!) WHILE DAMAGING THE BRAZILIANS, REMOVING PMCs from the Table, ALL WHILE PRESERVING THEIR DEDICATED CADRES TO GO TO A "ROUND 2" against Brazil while the US is still distracted by Artemis!!!!!}} Either Clancy's writers are SMART or I should have their jobs.- Turtler

** Probably the latter, if the Let's Play of the game is to go by. If better writers ever reference this incident, it'll probably be true.