Wayfarers Guild

The Wayfarers' Guild is a semi-mythical collective of human and abhuman star pilots thought to operate in--and in spite of--the Final Accord of Humanity. Initially founded from lower-class scrappers, pirates, and salvagers, the Guild's early history was defined by picking through the garbage components of Black Ships and assembling a slapdash fleet of pathfinding vessels. (This process took some decades thanks to the Black Ships' careful destruction of classified tech.)
When the last junker ships were complete, the Guild suffered an internal coup by its pirate elements, and the fleet disappeared through a deep space RAMP trajectory thought suicidal.
== Theft of the black drive ==
The narrative of a junked, limping pirate fleet, however, is one fabricated by the Accord's propaganda machine. In reality, the Guild may be described as explorers; having rescued a functioning warp drive from the wreckage of the Black Ship Aspirant, they now chart the stars unfettered by the RAMP network's restrictive point-to-point structure.
The Accord has a vested state interest in finding and eliminating the Wayfarers before the stolen warp technology can become widespread. Unsuppressed, it could deprecate the RAMP network, and ultimately the sector infrastructure itself--the means by which the Gold Council maintains iron-fisted rule.
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