In the mission Setup: Escort ULP, a group of Cliffford Mercenaries is dispatched to hijack a Chernobog missile truck guarded by some IAA agents for the protagonist to use in their mission to protect Agent ULP while he's attempting to escape from Avon and Cliffford. The protagonist has to rely on thermal vision in order to see them. Ultimately, they fail and the protagonist escapes.Ĭliffford Mercenaries next appear in the mission Setup: Rescue Agent 14 where their heavy juggernaut units lead an attack on the Pacific Allied Shipyard armed with sophisticated cloaking devices that render them nearly invisible to the naked eye. The mercenaries make their first appearance toward the end of the mission where Avon and Cliffford dispatch them to kill the protagonist. Their rise to power is made possible because Avon Hertz successfully manipulates Lester Crest and the GTA Online Protagonist into uploading Cliffford to the Ramius' mainframe, creating a path for Cliffford to hijack everything without resistance. Clifford Mercenaries are speculated to be cyborg clones 'created' during the mission The Bogdan Problem by the Cliffford supercomputer after it successfully takes control of all systems aboard the Ramius ( Bogdan's submarine), the International Affairs Agency, a nuclear missile base inside Mount Chiliad, and the entire San Andreas defense network.
