Shade

"There's a reason why insurgents are scared of the dark."

- Nick Tragan, Commander of the Shade Unit Task Force: SPARTAN is an elite multination counterterrorist unit specializing in all forms of counter-terror war. They are better known as Shade. The unit is headquartered in Dallas, Texas.

Operational History
The Shade were established sometime in the wake of the major Three Sister Cities Attack where the sister cities of Taipei, Taiwan, Houston, USA and Riga, Latvia were simultaneously attacked and hostage held. Due to miscommunications on all three cities, police and special forces were unable to coordinate raids quickly. Of the three hostage situations, all in skyscrapers, only the Taipei incident turned out to be a successfully avoided terror incident. The perpetrators for all three incidents are still at large and investigated.

Task Force: SPARTAN was formed by three individuals in response with the goal of having an efficient force ready for the unexpected type of warfare that is being introduced.

Operations
Shade is called to perform some of the most dangerous and high-risk counter-terror operations. It doesn't respond to isolated incidents that are of small degree. It is the uncanny ability to always plan out every possible contingency and execute it with sheer effectiveness is what makes the unit so feared.