Lads

Contract laborers pressed into service for Ratcliffe’s covert operations, these workers execute brutal manual tasks with mechanical obedience. Their presence lingers at the edges of violence—charged with concealing evidence, moving alien remains, or forcing excavation under duress. They speak rarely and perform without question, their silence masking either fear or complicity. As tools of silence rather than strategy, they embody the lowest tier of Ratcliffe’s command structure: expendable laborers whose utility ends when their silence might be compromised.