COSMOS (Spriggan)

Infobox comics organization
name=COSMOS


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caption= COSMOS Soldiers
publisher=flagicon|Japan Shogakukan
flagicon|Canada flagicon|United States VIZ Media (Defunct)
flagicon|France Glenat (Defunct)
flagicon|Germany Planet Manga
flagicon|Hong Kong Jade Dynasty
flagicon|Indonesia Elex Media
flagicon|Malaysia Komik Remaja (Defunct)
flagicon|Netherlands Big Balloon
flagicon|Singapore Chuang Yi (English)
flagicon|South Korea Junior Special Comics (Original), Daiwon C.I. & Gang Dok Mok? (Collector's Edition) flagicon|Spain Planeta DeAgostini flagicon|Taiwan Youth Comic Series
debut=Spriggan, Volume 3
creators=Hiroshi Takashige, Ryoji Minagawa
type=Military unit (In US Army)
Trident commando unit (In Trident Corporation)
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organisation=
organization=y
base=United States (Former)
Under legal cover and funding from Clover Heavy Industries, Campbell Company and Takasumi Zaibatsu in their branches worldwide (Current)
owners=Colonel Ralph Cooley (Deceased) Fatman (Resigned and Deceased, only in OVA)
employees=Bowman (Resigned, Deceased) Sho Kanaya Yu Ominae (Defected)
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cat=military organizations
sortkey=COSMOS (Spriggan)|nihongo|"COSMOS (Children of Soldier Machine Organic System)"|コスモス|Kosumosu or formally known as PROJECT COSMOS in the manga series Spriggan is a fictional military unit operating as a covert operations unit of the United States military. Appearances/references to COSMOS in the American translation Striker were edited out since the unit was an allusion to American participation in covert operations during the Cold War [Spriggan had a heavy anti-Western theme as the authors saw countries like the US, Russia and other first world countries as having hidden motives for conducting "legal" military operations in foreign soil. cite news | title=Spriggan Trivia| date=2006-05-15 | publisher=Anime News Network | url=http://www.animenewsnetwork.com/encyclopedia/manga.php?id=2425 ] .

History

Created as a secret black op unit operating under the cover of the United States military, most of its ranks are filled with child soldiers of various nationalities. Kidnapped by the US military with backing from Central Intelligence Agency agents, the children are subjected to high amounts of brainwashing conducted by research scientists so as not to regain any control over themselves. The unit was commanded by Colonel Ralph Cooley.

The unit had secretly conducted covert operations from around the world, performing secret missions without involving the US military. Nearing the end of the series, COSMOS was sponsored by the Trident Corporation from the Pentagon [Trident officers were last seen mounting commando operations against Yu, Jean, Iwao and Bo in Japan near the end of the series.] when most of the unit took a massive number of casualties from the Spriggans after launching a raid on their facility (a US Army base in Japan) in order to rescue Rie and Akiha, held captive in order to draw Yu out of hiding. [Colonel Cooley, even though commanded Sho to lead the raid, wanted to use it to draw Yu out of hiding and kill him for revenge after he was left to die by Yu Ominae after he regained self-consciousness.]

COSMOS soldiers, now under the sponsorship of the Trident Corporation, was granted exclusive access to their prototype assault rifles as the unit was used as the corporation's special forces unit, as well as being outfitted with the Armored Machine Suit, which was made possibly under mass production. Currently, Trident Corporation is trying to use Sho Kanaya as a guinea pig to lead all active COSMOS soldiers with telepathic thoughts, reducing the need to field out experienced officers to take command during any combat missions.

Training

COSMOS recruits, after being heavily brainwashed, are taken into secret training camps throughout the United States. From there, they are given special forces-level training such as commando skills, infiltration/exfiltration techniques, small arms handlings and martial arts.

Bowman, before heading to the Trident Corporation, was a Spriggan instructor who taught Yu knife fighting.

Commanding Officers

Former

* Colonel Ralph Cooley
* Fatman (From OVA)

Current

*Sho Kanaya, under the direction of Larry Markson

Notable Members

oldiers

* Yu Ominae : Number 43
* Sho Kanaya : Number 71

Notable Operations

Pre-Trident

Post-Trident

Equipment

In most of its missions, COSMOS soldiers are armed with Heckler and Koch MP5A5 and MP5SD6 submachine guns, Mossberg 500 "Cruiser" shotguns, Heckler & Koch PSG1 sniper rifles and Glock 17 pistols. Their standard equipment usually consist of olive green berets, M17A1 respirators and ALICE web gear.

After COSMOS was indoctrinated into Trident, they received mass-produced Armored Machine Suits and sport Trident symbols on their berets and BDU collars.

References

ee also

* Iwao Akatsuki
* Sho Kanaya
* Larry Markson
* Yu Ominae
* Trident Corporation