Douglas Pistoia has become a hero, a superstar, and a very profitable property for the corporation that has been granted rights in the African war theatre. You see war has become a profitable enterprise for certain corporations and all done under the auspices of the UN. States are no longer able to able to afford the cost of war or policing troubled areas, but are able to contribute to the UN's outsourcing of select combat troops in key areas for limited military intervention. Corporations engaged in the war effort have rights to the publicity of war through the reality show of war in real-time based on sophisticated cameras and communication devices mounted on the soldiers' helmet as a third eye, thus Cyclops. The corporation will protect their assets from troubling questions such as civilian casualties that they themselves have ordered terminated to maintain their operations secret when they wish it so. Other times we see their superstar in action in the field.
The use of technology, anticipating what will be warfare in the mid 21st century is one of the strengths of this series.
Posing the hard questions of what is warfare, police action and mercenary activities and the role of the media are the many mature contents that this series brings to the reader.