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The CICADA is an original character from my current story project - the time-consuming IN LAK'ECH Mythos, still in initial stages of development.
As you can tell by his armor's design, it's inspired by a Cicada and some science fiction and tokusatsu influences. It's also partially derived from another design, that of the original " MI" armor, one of the 27+ armors from the Alpha-Omega series that I've designed last year in collaboration with . Each of them has an unique power and also play a major role in the IN LAK'ECH Mythos. The Cicada's customized MI armor allows him the ability to manipulate weather, and also to generate storms and electric beams.

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THE INSECT SYNDICATE BEGINS
In the IN LAK'ECH Mythos, the CICADA is a member of the Insect Syndicate, a semi-official enforcement/security group headquertered in Chinchaysuyu (equivalent to the northern Peruvian Coast), a State/district of Tahuantinsuyu (named after the original Inca Empire, in the IN LAK'ECH Mythos a larger modern State which spans from Colombia in the North to the northern regions of Chile and Argentina in the South, encompassing areas from Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. It's divided into four "suyus" or regions, and the capital, Moche, is located in Chinchaysuyu). The Syndicate's leader and founding member, the ICHNEUMON, is himself the major military authority of the Chinchaysuyu region, and an official " MALLKI" Cyborg General (named after the Inca royal mummies, the Mallki are the highest military authorities of Tahuantinsuyu, each one is assigned to a suyu) from Tahuantinsuyu.
The Insect Syndicate was officially founded in September 2009, when riots had just resumed in the metropolitan area of Chinchaysuyu after Tupaq Amaru III, a popular, yet controversial figure who was a guerrilla leader, revolutionary indigenous socialist captain during the era of the Peruvian Empire (that was replaced by the Socialist Republic of Tahuantinsuyu in 1969, following the victory of Tupaq's fellows and the capture & execution of the Peruvian emperor, Urcon Verbo, a dictator who was more like a CIA puppet) and the eventual President of Tahuantinsuyu from 1979 to 2000, when he went missing (and reports of his supposed death began to rise). He returned on March 2009, and on April 1st was appointed by Tahuantinsuyu's current president, Herrera Humala (from the traditional Communist Party of Tahuantinsuyu, Humala took the position in 2006, shortly after Julio Huanca, the current president since 2005's elections, from the left, social-democratic opposition party PSP has resigned), as Prime Minister. This move was poorly received by several sectors of the international community as a threat to democracy, but the Tahuantinsuyuan government, like all others, really didn't let its own population take charge of any effective measure over the decisions that concerned their own living (can democracy even exist, if in the end most of the people that compose a mass society are rather obliged to live in these conditions than they do it willingly?), and through its security forces often committed human rights violations, supported by its own corrupt law system and perpetrated by it's police (it's what police does, afterall).

THE SAQRARUNA
Between 2009 and 2011, the ICHNEUMON and the FIREFLY were the only two members of the Insect Syndicate, however their main sponsor, SPECTRO, the head of the secret intergalactic    Saqraruna Organization (that operates in Tahuantinsuyu for centuries), already had interest in capturing, customizing other super-powered Alpha-Omega armors and recruiting genetically fit users to don these armors and operate within the Insect Syndicate, thus expanding it into an internattionally operating, semi-official/secret military & intel agency. Until May 2010, most of these were owned by the AXIS Institute, a private military academy (or rather bounty hunter academy), sponsored by the armors' so-called developers, the american military technology corporation ABEL Inc. and the Teutonic (German) Ulhaden Corporation. Because of inner disputes and the threat of exposing its darkest secrets, including it's role on international slave labor, the breeding of non-human hybrids and their release on "fringe areas" across the world for the political agenda of their own sponsors (basically, neo-liberalism, enhancement of dependence between "third world communities" and centralized corporations), the AXIS was closed and the ownership of each armor divided between different figures, some more and some less related to the aforementioned military companies. Before SPECTRO's minions could start the harvest, however, some armors (Psi, Iota, Epsilon, Alpha) have been previously located and stolen by traditional enemies of AXIS, like the inhuman lizard-man Cuetzpalin Paynal, and ultimately fell to the hands of independent, paramilitary anarchists across the globe, leading to the creation of an informal network of armed affinity groups. Other armors (Ni, Mi, Sigma, Pi) were held tighter by far-right nationalists.
The members of the Insect Syndicate operate accordingly to the orders given by their leader ICHNEUMON, who in turn operates accordingly to "the interests of the State of Tahuantinsuyu" as the MALLKI Cyborg General of the province of Chinchaysuyu. These interests are dictated by Tahuantinsuyu's Council for Advanced Scientific, Technological, Industrial and Energy Development, a not so public organ from the State which most recent public relations manager as of 2009 is a cyborg ("post-human") named Choque Illa. From behind, the council is merely a mask for the Saqraruna Organization, which leader, SPECTRO (reputedly, a "Yakuruna" alien. But in truth, a centuries-old Artificial Intelligence), has been a long-time ally of Tupaq Amaru III (even before he was called as such or had a human face. Tupaq the Tahuantinsuyuan leader is actually a vessel for an ancient Elemental God of Darkness). But that's a story for another day.
  Like with the MALLKI Cyborgs, the identities behind each Insect Syndicate member (if they have one) are hidden even among their own. Most of them live in Chinchaysuyu as citizens, but while activated for a mission, they dress up and only refer to each other with their respective "Insect identities". The public also have absolutely no contact to the IS missions or goals, all they've got to know is that they're some kind of Tahuantinsuyuan secret agent. Despite that, each member have a very different background, several of them aren't even of Tahuantinsuyuan nationality, and have been recruited under equally different circumstances (all, however, have been meticulously chosen and approached, and surpassed life-threatening tests).
  The true loyalty of the Insect Syndicate is to SPECTRO, someone they don't even know (save perhaps for Ichneumon, and after some time, the Firefly, the SCORPION and the HORNET). Like all, they also aren't used to the fact that their very armors haven't actually been developed by ABEL Inc or Ulhaden Corporation, instead they were given to personnel of these enterprises by a secret supplier named Archimedes (from a secret organization, the Novus Civilizatio), and both ABEL and Ulhaden were merely tasked to modify them and adapt them to human usage (the armors' raw material secretly comes from biomechanical aliens, the Dzolob and Aluxob, from the planet of Sothis, colonized by Archimedes and his sponsors). Of course they turned the armors' customization into their latest products, promising generations of super soldiers for the West (as long as the human subjects survived the usage of such armors. In several cases, they resulted in side effects, and that's why the AXIS Institute employed so many scientists and spent so many resources on investigating the armors, rather than just handing it to any physically apt agent), what inadvertently subverted the armors' original goal (at least according to the cryptic Archimedes) - these armors are symbiotes that interact with their users, and were "meant to bound to the most genetically apt human vessels". They have a major role to play in the ongoing process of Human Automation, and Archimedes has an untold connection to the Saqraruna.

MI
The armor which was modified into CICADA's since his recruitment in April 2014 is the original MI armor, catalogued by the Ulhaden Corporation since 1991, supposedly developed in Ulhaden's facility at North Rhine-Westphalia, Teutonia (Germany), at the time part of the "Teutonic Knight Project". The 12th armor of the series and the second owned by Ulhaden Corporation, it was originally trusted to agent Eric Erland, but after an accident that happened in 1995, it was passed to another agent, Johan Sonck, a member from a wealthy family from the Baltic region that descends from nobles of ancient Frisia (nowadays Netherlands). He pursued a military career, and both his expensive lifestyle and imperial inspirations brought him into the enterprise, at the time owned by CEO Jorgen Zimmermann. Jorgen has been historically supported by Wagner K, a right-wing bounty hunter from Brazil who acquired major positions in the CIA-backed Military Dictatorship that ran the Brazilian government after a coup in 1964. This shadowy military leader, however, has managed to sever his ties to what became an internationally criticized regime, and still could make it into UN's defense committee. Alongside the american ABEL Inc (which owned other super-powered Alpha Omega armors), the Ulhaden faced successive diplomatic failures that damaged it's reputation to the CIA and international security forces, including the traditional INTERPOL, and those would only be healed by a corrupt agreement between both corporations, that would become the sponsors of a Gallia-headquartered, international, private military academy - the AXIS Institute, the next legal owner of most of the super-powered Alpha-Omega armors. Like with ABEL, the Ulhaden corporation was a facade to the secret origin of the armors and even then suffered the deaths of several agents in the late 20th century, including Johan Sonck (did he really die, or he just disappeared into the Absolute Darkness?) during the failed Operation: RED ISLAND, which ended with the destruction of Bermeja, an island at the Atlantic region of Mexico - the same event where Tupaq was trapped into the Absolute Darkness by some of his brothers and rivals, the Elemental Gods. This operation happened months after MILLENNIUM. A great intel was lost as well, and traditional corporations like the Catholic Church and private military forces under public facades, headed by UN's current secretary of security, Wagner K, were instrumental to forge AXIS and its own role in the international politics, while ABEL and Ulhaden should keep working on more armors and more tests. The secret breeding and enslavement of "demonoids" (non-human hybrids which AXIS claimed to be natural or supernatural, intelligent threats to humanity) within AXIS' grounds would keep its own atmosphere less suspicious to its inner staff.

"McKINLEY"
The MI armor was passed to an AXIS agent, Oscar Estevez, in 2000, who died seven years ago, in another unfortunate accident. The case was classified, most members of AXIS' student and agent corpus would never know of the event - just one among many others involving other "missing" students. The next official user of the MI armor wouldn't be decided in the usual way within AXIS - a series of physical, psychological and knowledge tests - but through the indication of Wagner K, UN's security committee chief, of someone outside the AXIS agent community: an american named Nicholas McKinley, whom Wagner had rescued from a semi-official UN mission on Australia, and who later was converted into a cyborg after Wagner led a battery of tests on him. His lackluster, gullible and sometimes phony personality and his cluelessness about AXIS' discipline made it a hard time for him to endure, and eventually he was acting more as part of an independent death squad, the MOLOCHIAN squad (actually controlled by Wagner K as a support to his own UN troops), or of UN troops, than AXIS itself. He was involved with AXIS' Mission SCYLLA, which targeted a Triton who came to be known as a major perpetrator of chaos, social disorder and property damage in a large area spanning from Europe to Oceania. They failed to capture the individual, who was also associated with McKinley's downfall to begin with. Later, he was part of Mission: SCIROCCO, that happened in 2010 and marked AXIS' irreversible downfall - and McKinley's own entrapment on a quicksand. On its' outcome, the Ulhaden Corporation failed to cope with international demands, and representing both ABEL Inc and the CIA, former agent NI, Lana Bridges (the adoptive daughter of ABEL's CEO, Joseph Bridges), has arranged with an international court special rights transferring the ownership and usage of some Alpha-Omega armors to trusted ex-AXIS agents. It would possibly include McKinley, if he hadn't been practically fused with the armor - he was rescued once again, and found to be alive, suffered yet more modifications in order to keep in feet, pretty much as a lap-dog of the UN, NATO and sometimes the INTERPOL.
  He would be involved in a series of international counter-revolutionary death squads, nationalist militias hilariously backed by foreigner military equipment enterprises (like some neonazist freaks in Minoica/Greece called "Golden Dawn"), and get his ass kicked by people like the Triton again and again. Wagner K kept him away from what could end up like a direct servitude to the US military - the boy's childish, hollywoodian dream - instead, he was a bounty hunter like Wagner in his youth. But the head of the MOLOCHIAN international death squad (that despite the name has several of its cyborg members participating directly in the elites of official police forces across the globe, such as in Pakistan, Brazil and Japan) wouldn't keep his "lapdog" forever, as he, too, would accumulate more failures than he could afford, and stain his reputation for some time, being retired from his position and forcibly getting back to Brazil. After some time, McKinley could finally serve the United States of America's corrupt military - just when a civil war broke in Tahuantinsuyu, a large and powerful South American Republic which harbor some nostalgia from its "Socialist" past, not to mention its own blatantly hypocritical "pan-indigenous" and "pan-latin-america" propaganda - in June/July 2013. On the occasion, McKinley would meet Lana Bridges once again, and also other members of a special, "super-powered squad", including the current user of the ALPHA armor, agent Bradley Kyle, and the bloodthirsty "Agent Saurus" (a.k.a "ATLACATL", named after an El Salvadoran national hero or death squad), a former FBI agent William Ford Jr who volunteered to become a Cuetzpalin (from the nahuatl "lizard", the name of a species of lizardfolks) after one of them has been captured by ABEL Inc's personnel on the Amazonian jungle, and the means by which a human could transform into a Cuetzpalin discovered by the Pentagon (a symbiosis between a human and a Cuetzpalin's organ known as Tonalcoatl). This buffonic team of mercenaries received authorization to engage in battle against Tupaq Amaru III, the Tahuantinsuyuan leader, and also his supporters. They just didn't see the coming of more forces allied to Tahuantinsuyu, the Insect Syndicate.

CICADA
Tupaq Amaru III has the consciousness and experience of a billions of years old entity, he could never be defeated by some marines, and even though he was trapped into the body of a 53 years old necromancer, he still had some of his allies make a new armor for him, which he used to kill Bradley Kyle and frustrate much of this "super-powerful squad" after a direct confrontation with their target. Tupaq was in American territory searching for the Philosopher's Stone, which the secret Palarokhian Society of magic praticers based in Belarus used to own since they took it from the anarchist, undead Schwarze Ritter "Black Knights" in October 2011, before some influential people that betrayed Tupaq have let it slip into the hands of the Pentagon. In April 2014, when Tupaq invaded the Pentagon, McKinley was leading "the mission of his life", but he didn't check his six, and Pachakuti, Mallki (cyborg general) of Antisuyu, a region of the Socialist Republic of Tahuantinsuyu, put an end to his life. Tupaq and his agents got away with what they wanted, and Nick's body disappeared, although some sore losers would later make a memorial for him, Bradley and other soldiers. What matters, though, is... what happened to Nick's corpse? You see, for some reason the Saqraruna couldn't separate it from the armor, so they thought they could just use him as a zombie for their increasing Insect Syndicate international enforcement squad. The Cicada, anyway, isn't the first or even the second zombie in the team. Good riddance.

MORE INSECT SYNDICATE MEMBERS:

ICHNEUMON | FIREFLY | FIREFLY (2) | SCORPION | MOTH | MANTIS |
SPIDER | HORNET | LOCUST | BEETLE | WASP |

Description
The CICADA is an original character from my current story project - the time-consuming IN LAK'ECH Mythos, still in initial stages of development.
As you can tell by his armor's design, it's inspired by a Cicada and some science fiction and tokusatsu influences. It's also partially derived from another design, that of the original " MI" armor, one of the 27+ armors from the Alpha-Omega series that I've designed last year in collaboration with . Each of them has an unique power and also play a major role in the IN LAK'ECH Mythos. The Cicada's customized MI armor allows him the ability to manipulate weather, and also to generate storms and electric beams.

LIKED IT? Then FOLLOW ME and support my work throughout the social networks!
Behance | tumblr | instagram | facebook

THE INSECT SYNDICATE BEGINS
In the IN LAK'ECH Mythos, the CICADA is a member of the Insect Syndicate, a semi-official enforcement/security group headquertered in Chinchaysuyu (equivalent to the northern Peruvian Coast), a State/district of Tahuantinsuyu (named after the original Inca Empire, in the IN LAK'ECH Mythos a larger modern State which spans from Colombia in the North to the northern regions of Chile and Argentina in the South, encompassing areas from Ecuador, Peru and Bolivia. It's divided into four "suyus" or regions, and the capital, Moche, is located in Chinchaysuyu). The Syndicate's leader and founding member, the ICHNEUMON, is himself the major military authority of the Chinchaysuyu region, and an official " MALLKI" Cyborg General (named after the Inca royal mummies, the Mallki are the highest military authorities of Tahuantinsuyu, each one is assigned to a suyu) from Tahuantinsuyu.
The Insect Syndicate was officially founded in September 2009, when riots had just resumed in the metropolitan area of Chinchaysuyu after Tupaq Amaru III, a popular, yet controversial figure who was a guerrilla leader, revolutionary indigenous socialist captain during the era of the Peruvian Empire (that was replaced by the Socialist Republic of Tahuantinsuyu in 1969, following the victory of Tupaq's fellows and the capture & execution of the Peruvian emperor, Urcon Verbo, a dictator who was more like a CIA puppet) and the eventual President of Tahuantinsuyu from 1979 to 2000, when he went missing (and reports of his supposed death began to rise). He returned on March 2009, and on April 1st was appointed by Tahuantinsuyu's current president, Herrera Humala (from the traditional Communist Party of Tahuantinsuyu, Humala took the position in 2006, shortly after Julio Huanca, the current president since 2005's elections, from the left, social-democratic opposition party PSP has resigned), as Prime Minister. This move was poorly received by several sectors of the international community as a threat to democracy, but the Tahuantinsuyuan government, like all others, really didn't let its own population take charge of any effective measure over the decisions that concerned their own living (can democracy even exist, if in the end most of the people that compose a mass society are rather obliged to live in these conditions than they do it willingly?), and through its security forces often committed human rights violations, supported by its own corrupt law system and perpetrated by it's police (it's what police does, afterall).

THE SAQRARUNA
Between 2009 and 2011, the ICHNEUMON and the FIREFLY were the only two members of the Insect Syndicate, however their main sponsor, SPECTRO, the head of the secret intergalactic    Saqraruna Organization (that operates in Tahuantinsuyu for centuries), already had interest in capturing, customizing other super-powered Alpha-Omega armors and recruiting genetically fit users to don these armors and operate within the Insect Syndicate, thus expanding it into an internattionally operating, semi-official/secret military & intel agency. Until May 2010, most of these were owned by the AXIS Institute, a private military academy (or rather bounty hunter academy), sponsored by the armors' so-called developers, the american military technology corporation ABEL Inc. and the Teutonic (German) Ulhaden Corporation. Because of inner disputes and the threat of exposing its darkest secrets, including it's role on international slave labor, the breeding of non-human hybrids and their release on "fringe areas" across the world for the political agenda of their own sponsors (basically, neo-liberalism, enhancement of dependence between "third world communities" and centralized corporations), the AXIS was closed and the ownership of each armor divided between different figures, some more and some less related to the aforementioned military companies. Before SPECTRO's minions could start the harvest, however, some armors (Psi, Iota, Epsilon, Alpha) have been previously located and stolen by traditional enemies of AXIS, like the inhuman lizard-man Cuetzpalin Paynal, and ultimately fell to the hands of independent, paramilitary anarchists across the globe, leading to the creation of an informal network of armed affinity groups. Other armors (Ni, Mi, Sigma, Pi) were held tighter by far-right nationalists.
The members of the Insect Syndicate operate accordingly to the orders given by their leader ICHNEUMON, who in turn operates accordingly to "the interests of the State of Tahuantinsuyu" as the MALLKI Cyborg General of the province of Chinchaysuyu. These interests are dictated by Tahuantinsuyu's Council for Advanced Scientific, Technological, Industrial and Energy Development, a not so public organ from the State which most recent public relations manager as of 2009 is a cyborg ("post-human") named Choque Illa. From behind, the council is merely a mask for the Saqraruna Organization, which leader, SPECTRO (reputedly, a "Yakuruna" alien. But in truth, a centuries-old Artificial Intelligence), has been a long-time ally of Tupaq Amaru III (even before he was called as such or had a human face. Tupaq the Tahuantinsuyuan leader is actually a vessel for an ancient Elemental God of Darkness). But that's a story for another day.
  Like with the MALLKI Cyborgs, the identities behind each Insect Syndicate member (if they have one) are hidden even among their own. Most of them live in Chinchaysuyu as citizens, but while activated for a mission, they dress up and only refer to each other with their respective "Insect identities". The public also have absolutely no contact to the IS missions or goals, all they've got to know is that they're some kind of Tahuantinsuyuan secret agent. Despite that, each member have a very different background, several of them aren't even of Tahuantinsuyuan nationality, and have been recruited under equally different circumstances (all, however, have been meticulously chosen and approached, and surpassed life-threatening tests).
  The true loyalty of the Insect Syndicate is to SPECTRO, someone they don't even know (save perhaps for Ichneumon, and after some time, the Firefly, the SCORPION and the HORNET). Like all, they also aren't used to the fact that their very armors haven't actually been developed by ABEL Inc or Ulhaden Corporation, instead they were given to personnel of these enterprises by a secret supplier named Archimedes (from a secret organization, the Novus Civilizatio), and both ABEL and Ulhaden were merely tasked to modify them and adapt them to human usage (the armors' raw material secretly comes from biomechanical aliens, the Dzolob and Aluxob, from the planet of Sothis, colonized by Archimedes and his sponsors). Of course they turned the armors' customization into their latest products, promising generations of super soldiers for the West (as long as the human subjects survived the usage of such armors. In several cases, they resulted in side effects, and that's why the AXIS Institute employed so many scientists and spent so many resources on investigating the armors, rather than just handing it to any physically apt agent), what inadvertently subverted the armors' original goal (at least according to the cryptic Archimedes) - these armors are symbiotes that interact with their users, and were "meant to bound to the most genetically apt human vessels". They have a major role to play in the ongoing process of Human Automation, and Archimedes has an untold connection to the Saqraruna.

MI
The armor which was modified into CICADA's since his recruitment in April 2014 is the original MI armor, catalogued by the Ulhaden Corporation since 1991, supposedly developed in Ulhaden's facility at North Rhine-Westphalia, Teutonia (Germany), at the time part of the "Teutonic Knight Project". The 12th armor of the series and the second owned by Ulhaden Corporation, it was originally trusted to agent Eric Erland, but after an accident that happened in 1995, it was passed to another agent, Johan Sonck, a member from a wealthy family from the Baltic region that descends from nobles of ancient Frisia (nowadays Netherlands). He pursued a military career, and both his expensive lifestyle and imperial inspirations brought him into the enterprise, at the time owned by CEO Jorgen Zimmermann. Jorgen has been historically supported by Wagner K, a right-wing bounty hunter from Brazil who acquired major positions in the CIA-backed Military Dictatorship that ran the Brazilian government after a coup in 1964. This shadowy military leader, however, has managed to sever his ties to what became an internationally criticized regime, and still could make it into UN's defense committee. Alongside the american ABEL Inc (which owned other super-powered Alpha Omega armors), the Ulhaden faced successive diplomatic failures that damaged it's reputation to the CIA and international security forces, including the traditional INTERPOL, and those would only be healed by a corrupt agreement between both corporations, that would become the sponsors of a Gallia-headquartered, international, private military academy - the AXIS Institute, the next legal owner of most of the super-powered Alpha-Omega armors. Like with ABEL, the Ulhaden corporation was a facade to the secret origin of the armors and even then suffered the deaths of several agents in the late 20th century, including Johan Sonck (did he really die, or he just disappeared into the Absolute Darkness?) during the failed Operation: RED ISLAND, which ended with the destruction of Bermeja, an island at the Atlantic region of Mexico - the same event where Tupaq was trapped into the Absolute Darkness by some of his brothers and rivals, the Elemental Gods. This operation happened months after MILLENNIUM. A great intel was lost as well, and traditional corporations like the Catholic Church and private military forces under public facades, headed by UN's current secretary of security, Wagner K, were instrumental to forge AXIS and its own role in the international politics, while ABEL and Ulhaden should keep working on more armors and more tests. The secret breeding and enslavement of "demonoids" (non-human hybrids which AXIS claimed to be natural or supernatural, intelligent threats to humanity) within AXIS' grounds would keep its own atmosphere less suspicious to its inner staff.

"McKINLEY"
The MI armor was passed to an AXIS agent, Oscar Estevez, in 2000, who died seven years ago, in another unfortunate accident. The case was classified, most members of AXIS' student and agent corpus would never know of the event - just one among many others involving other "missing" students. The next official user of the MI armor wouldn't be decided in the usual way within AXIS - a series of physical, psychological and knowledge tests - but through the indication of Wagner K, UN's security committee chief, of someone outside the AXIS agent community: an american named Nicholas McKinley, whom Wagner had rescued from a semi-official UN mission on Australia, and who later was converted into a cyborg after Wagner led a battery of tests on him. His lackluster, gullible and sometimes phony personality and his cluelessness about AXIS' discipline made it a hard time for him to endure, and eventually he was acting more as part of an independent death squad, the MOLOCHIAN squad (actually controlled by Wagner K as a support to his own UN troops), or of UN troops, than AXIS itself. He was involved with AXIS' Mission SCYLLA, which targeted a Triton who came to be known as a major perpetrator of chaos, social disorder and property damage in a large area spanning from Europe to Oceania. They failed to capture the individual, who was also associated with McKinley's downfall to begin with. Later, he was part of Mission: SCIROCCO, that happened in 2010 and marked AXIS' irreversible downfall - and McKinley's own entrapment on a quicksand. On its' outcome, the Ulhaden Corporation failed to cope with international demands, and representing both ABEL Inc and the CIA, former agent NI, Lana Bridges (the adoptive daughter of ABEL's CEO, Joseph Bridges), has arranged with an international court special rights transferring the ownership and usage of some Alpha-Omega armors to trusted ex-AXIS agents. It would possibly include McKinley, if he hadn't been practically fused with the armor - he was rescued once again, and found to be alive, suffered yet more modifications in order to keep in feet, pretty much as a lap-dog of the UN, NATO and sometimes the INTERPOL.
  He would be involved in a series of international counter-revolutionary death squads, nationalist militias hilariously backed by foreigner military equipment enterprises (like some neonazist freaks in Minoica/Greece called "Golden Dawn"), and get his ass kicked by people like the Triton again and again. Wagner K kept him away from what could end up like a direct servitude to the US military - the boy's childish, hollywoodian dream - instead, he was a bounty hunter like Wagner in his youth. But the head of the MOLOCHIAN international death squad (that despite the name has several of its cyborg members participating directly in the elites of official police forces across the globe, such as in Pakistan, Brazil and Japan) wouldn't keep his "lapdog" forever, as he, too, would accumulate more failures than he could afford, and stain his reputation for some time, being retired from his position and forcibly getting back to Brazil. After some time, McKinley could finally serve the United States of America's corrupt military - just when a civil war broke in Tahuantinsuyu, a large and powerful South American Republic which harbor some nostalgia from its "Socialist" past, not to mention its own blatantly hypocritical "pan-indigenous" and "pan-latin-america" propaganda - in June/July 2013. On the occasion, McKinley would meet Lana Bridges once again, and also other members of a special, "super-powered squad", including the current user of the ALPHA armor, agent Bradley Kyle, and the bloodthirsty "Agent Saurus" (a.k.a "ATLACATL", named after an El Salvadoran national hero or death squad), a former FBI agent William Ford Jr who volunteered to become a Cuetzpalin (from the nahuatl "lizard", the name of a species of lizardfolks) after one of them has been captured by ABEL Inc's personnel on the Amazonian jungle, and the means by which a human could transform into a Cuetzpalin discovered by the Pentagon (a symbiosis between a human and a Cuetzpalin's organ known as Tonalcoatl). This buffonic team of mercenaries received authorization to engage in battle against Tupaq Amaru III, the Tahuantinsuyuan leader, and also his supporters. They just didn't see the coming of more forces allied to Tahuantinsuyu, the Insect Syndicate.

CICADA
Tupaq Amaru III has the consciousness and experience of a billions of years old entity, he could never be defeated by some marines, and even though he was trapped into the body of a 53 years old necromancer, he still had some of his allies make a new armor for him, which he used to kill Bradley Kyle and frustrate much of this "super-powerful squad" after a direct confrontation with their target. Tupaq was in American territory searching for the Philosopher's Stone, which the secret Palarokhian Society of magic praticers based in Belarus used to own since they took it from the anarchist, undead Schwarze Ritter "Black Knights" in October 2011, before some influential people that betrayed Tupaq have let it slip into the hands of the Pentagon. In April 2014, when Tupaq invaded the Pentagon, McKinley was leading "the mission of his life", but he didn't check his six, and Pachakuti, Mallki (cyborg general) of Antisuyu, a region of the Socialist Republic of Tahuantinsuyu, put an end to his life. Tupaq and his agents got away with what they wanted, and Nick's body disappeared, although some sore losers would later make a memorial for him, Bradley and other soldiers. What matters, though, is... what happened to Nick's corpse? You see, for some reason the Saqraruna couldn't separate it from the armor, so they thought they could just use him as a zombie for their increasing Insect Syndicate international enforcement squad. The Cicada, anyway, isn't the first or even the second zombie in the team. Good riddance.

MORE INSECT SYNDICATE MEMBERS:

ICHNEUMON | FIREFLY | FIREFLY (2) | SCORPION | MOTH | MANTIS |
SPIDER | HORNET | LOCUST | BEETLE | WASP |