Board Thread:Off Topic/@comment-24993958-20160626203649/@comment-26397825-20160712030250

Only Atlas has a standing military though. The other Kingdoms just have standard police forces.

Also, places like Junior and his club exist, which has henchmen for hire.

And thirdly, there's always going to be people who graduated Signal-level school but failed Initiation or didn't gain entry to a Beacon-level school which may not be satisfied with simply settling for a job as a soldier or police officer. Or there'll be people like Ray's character, who dropped out at some point.

And in the wild lands outside the Kingdoms, mercenaries would be less likely to come under scrutiny by any sort of law enforcement from the Kingdoms.