ok made this to help anyone having problems.
I ran these on a clean DB from this morning's /release. When I went to hire a merc there was nothing listed. I'll try and look into that later because the merc tables are populated.
Merc SPecial Abilities:
http://pastebin.com/6gpx9RGM
Fix the View:
http://pastebin.com/dXfrkFmd
Update Liaisons:
http://pastebin.com/s7i5vWLk