Usually these tasks put the player in difficult or unusual situations from which they have to extricate themselves. "Mercenary III" (also known as "Mercenary III: The Dion Crisis" or "Damocles II") is the third and final game in the series. It was released on the Atari ST and Amiga platforms in 1992. "Mercenary III" is set in the Gamma System again and is based on an improved version of the engine used by Damocles: this time the roads of the various cities are populated by vehicles such as taxis and buses; observation and attack spacecraft are present in the skies; and interaction (albeit to a limited degree) with other characters is possible. After Eris' President Margaret steps down, the player becomes involved in a political crisis on the planet Dion, pitting their wits against a power-hungry politician running for president. The goal of "Mercenary III" is to prevent this politician from being elected to office. Similarly to the earlier titles, there are several ways of achieving this, with both straightforward and oblique solutions. No mission disks were released for this concluding chapter of the "Mercenary" series. According to the poster that accompanied the game, the events of "Mercenary III" take place on 15 January 2101. The villain of this game is a character who appeared in "Mercenary": PC BIL, short for the Palyars Commander's Brother-In-Law. In April 1998, the Italian gaming website "Zzap!" (managed by the same editors and in the same style of the Italian edition of "Zzap!64") published a review of a nonexistent sequel as an April Fool's Day prank. The plot of this game, supposedly titled Mercenary IV: The Eleventh Planet, would have been about the invasion of the Gamma system by the inhabitants of a planet with an erratic orbit that entered the system once again. In reality, the plot was inspired by Zecharia Sitchin's book "The Twelfth Planet", while the images were doctored screenshots of a custom "Duke Nukem 3D" level and the unreleased PC version of "Damocles". During the 2000s, the three games were ported to PC. It was distributed with the agreement of the former Novagen team. The program, called MDDClone (Mercenary, Damocles, Dion crisis Clone) is freeware, includes all three games, selectable through a drop-down list. It features graphics and gameplay identical to that of the Atari ST versions of the games, with the additional option to fix some bugs that were originally present.