History:

Brooklyn Chase has been a duly authorized agent of the national security intelligence agency for the past 10 years. She is a 12 year veteran of covert affairs, having joined the CIA right out of college. She acclimated to the world of covert affairs rather effortlessly, and as the years passed she earned promotions through the ranks at a remarkably accelerated rate.

When Army Intelligence and Joint Operations announced their participation in a multi agency operation helmed by the CIA to develop what they were billing as “the next generation counter-intelligence asset”, Brooklyn Chase was intrigued. So intrigued that she volunteered for the selection process and to her surprise, she made it through selection, though with some effort.

She was told that she would be joining an elite tactical unit whose ultimate aim was to humiliate and terrorize the enemy, to weaken his resolve and make him psychologically incapable to continue to fight. They were calling it “The Hard Target” program because it was expected to be just that. “All your missions will see you going into the heart of enemy territory, facing in combat the best militia assembled,” they told her, “you hard targets will enable our main assault teams to do their job."

In other words, they were supposed to be bullet deflectors and decoys for the world’s best marksmen and assassins while the infantry marched up the main road and took the hill. Hard Target special agents weren’t intended to engage the enemy in combat directly but they were trained for combat situations to occur. For this reason carrying firearms was an optional part of the uniform, one a surprising number of them chose to do without. They were however issued uniforms, and agent service numbers, which they were allowed to choose.

That is really how it all began, with the Hard Target program. Many reporters have inquired about the uniforms the agents wear, which the public think are costumes. The uniforms are meant to be provocative. They are designed to taunt the enemy by being anything but inconspicuous.