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[StompingOnTanks]

I'd say probably one of the pirate bands although I know nothing about them and I'm not exactly a canon expert either so don't take my word for it.

[Alaskan Nobody]

Kurita space has a very strong criminal element
Theodore Kurita managed to fight the clans so successfully largely because he had their direct support, in fact, his son's aid (the person closest to him!) was a representative from said criminal element. (and the individual to give the nickname "Toads" to the Elementals IRC)

I have heard that Liao space has something similar, but haven't heard anything about it.

[wanderer]

Organized crime is pretty much everywhere. If you're talking traditional Mafia-ness? Steiner. Organized crime (yakuza, Korean-style gangs as well) is endemic in Kuritan space and indeed, the House wouldn't function very well without it's eta.

[CyclonerM]

Yeah, organized crime may be pretty everywhere.
The best example i recall is the Yakuza in the DC, though the main character who is part of it is actually a "good" character and helps Hoiro Kurita.

[StompingOnTanks]

You'd be surprised who goes into crime sometimes.

Then again, most of the time you wouldn't be.

[Alaskan Nobody]

Marack Drock, on 01 March 2014 - 07:57 PM, said:

Victor Davion. Please say Victor. Because then its one more reason for me to hate his guts.

Actually most of the hate toward Vic was that he was - as some people put it - a WhiteKnight (IE someone who never did any bad or would believe that others were truly bad either)

....Which is not quite true - but the guy definitely was one of the "good" goodguys.
(even the Kuritas couldn't find anything to really complain about him)

[Pht]

Who's the BT mafia?

... uh...

the mafia: http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Mafia


Along the same lines, if you're interested in the secret socities (criminal and otherwise) of the BT lore: http://www.sarna.net...stellar_Players

and the next two books are full of that sort of source.

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I find it ironic that people pick on victor and call him a white knight when he substituted an imposter for someone's child as an attempt at manipulation on a literally interstellar scale: http://www.sarna.net...on_Doppelganger , http://www.sarna.net/wiki/Joshua_Marik ... with horribly far-reaching ill effects.

As far as the ubiquitous "I hate (victor, morgan kell, anyone who's not secretly an evil used diaper)" effect:

“Imaginary evil is romantic and varied; real evil is gloomy, monotonous, barren, boring. Imaginary good is boring; real good is always new, marvelous, intoxicating."

-Simone Weil

This says something quite unflattering about us, that we prefer moral evil... we are rather like cockroaches who hate the lights.

Edited by Pht, 02 March 2014 - 01:09 PM.

[StompingOnTanks]

Perhaps you could form your own vigilante mercenary unit? I'd join.

(I often play a vigilante style character in RPGs and the like. Sometimes old-fashioned justice is the best justice.)

[Domoneky]

If we make our own BT mafia then we must have 1930s Gangster uniforms. And Paint Job. I vote that All Atlases must have a Suit and Tie paint scheme and a Cigar where the mouth would be. Second?

[StompingOnTanks]

All AC/2s must be shaped like Thompson submachine guns.

[Domoneky]

All of Xyphr's Yes. (I never use my own Yes)

[Pht]

StompingOnTanks, on 02 March 2014 - 04:34 PM, said:

Perhaps you could form your own vigilante mercenary unit? I'd join.

(I often play a vigilante style character in RPGs and the like. Sometimes old-fashioned justice is the best justice.)

This would be fairly ironic because the in-lore "author" of the documents in that interstellar players book has a personal suspicion that people from the late 20th century have somehow time-travelled into his universe...

So, if you guys are the mafia, who's going to be the untouchables? ... and who's going to be ma barker?

[Cactus In The Rear]

Alas I could only be a part-time vigilante...