City Of Heroes: This is the Malta (Villain Backgrounder)

Secrets within secrets. Black helicopters and balaclavas. Shadowy agencies with limitless slush funds, and black-hearted agents with licenses to kill. Hushed conversations on internet chat-rooms that mysteriously vanish. Men in black with blank identities, and deadly women with a dozen passports. A high-tech paramilitary force divided into clandestine cells and dispersed around the globe - this is the Malta Group.

Arctic_Sun brings to us the latest backgrounder. The subject of this backgrounder is the Malta Group, home of everyones favorite debuffer, the Malta Sapper. Who are they? Where did they come from? Why do they do what they do?

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