Re: [GZG] Interesting mercenary idea

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sn't the UN Technically already do this? After all, they get money from
member nations to fund the troops. Member nations provide troops for
peacekeeping duty and get funding for this. IF that's not mercenary by
proxy, I don't know what is.

Toss in some good old Quid Pro Quo corruption and I can see the
Secretary General and some Key countries sending "UN forces" to a
mission for a third party.

Apparently serving as UN peace keepers brings in significant hard
currency for the Fijian government, until the latest coup anyway.

In the GZG universe, where does the UN get it's funding from taxing the
powers like NAC and ESU or does it also run all the central commerce
like the world bank and take a cut out of that?

Even if you had a well funded UN where does it get it's people from?
They have to be hired in from one or more factions to operate the
facilities and crew the starships. Does this mean than a UN ship has a
multi racial crew a bit like Kirks enterprise?

I can imagine engineering posts where you get to look at those cool
engines and weapons would be highly sought after for the intellectual
property you would bring back to your nation after your UN service is
over.

For ground units it might just be easier for the UN to hire entire units
as a going concern. Perhaps larger government factions might volunteer
their units for UN missions that align with their own interests or even
act in anticipation of a retroactive UN approval.

Interesting discussion so far.