Hybrid Nation

Hybrid Nation is a technology corporation headed by Elona Muskonskaya. At one point it was the largest corporation in the technology industry, and notably used espionage to obtain Defender technology for its Y5 Series.

Theft of Defender technology
Sometime before 2019, Elona Muskonskaya invested a lot of effort into industrial espionage to steal the secrets of the classified Defender projects. Through the use of bribery, espionage, eavesdropping, and theft, all the parts, photos, and blueprints of the Defenders were illegally acquired by Hybrid Nation and reverse engineered. Hybrid Nation is known to have used Scavengers to collect the most important parts.

Y5 Series
"'Everyone needs a Defender!'" "- Elona Muskonskaya before announcing the Y5 Series" Hybrid Nation used the stolen Defender technology to build their own tanks, the Y5 Series. The Y5 Series notably used the Defenders' electric turbine engine coupled with a small nuclear reactor of Hybrid Nation's own design, which required an original Defender project engineer to create as none of Hybrid Nation's own engineers had the knowledge to do so. They were marketed towards customers wishing for a tank with good mobility, something the Defenders lacked.

In 2019, Elona Muskonskaya personally supervised the final testing of the Y5 tanks in the large bunker under the Hybrid Nation Headquarters. Not too long after, she announced the Y5 Series to the world in celebration of the 5th anniversary of the Global Tank Competition.

Investigation
The announcement of the Y5 Series led to the Russian, American, and British governments to investigate Hybrid Nation for industrial espionage. However, Hybrid Nation had covered its track well and the investigation turned up nothing.