Syndicate

The Syndicate is an interstellar criminal organization functioning largely in the Core but has some influence in the Reach as well. Dealing in everything from Stip manufacturing, arms dealing, smuggling, slave trading, assassination, espionage, and racketeering, the Syndicate is one of the most influential and expansive criminal groups in all of Aeos. They are lead by a board of Directors, each governing a portion of the Syndicate's power and commanding territorial leaders known as Chairmen, who command several individual cells ranging from teams of three to hundreds. While Alliance Security and the Bounty Acquisition League work to combat the Syndicate at every opportunity, the arrest or destruction of any single cell barely harms the massive organism that is the Syndicate.
== History ==
== Organization ==
The Syndicate is best defined as a business alliance between various criminal cells, each ultimately lead by Chairmen who answer to a board of Directors whose identities are concealed even from one another. The Chairmen are the active leaders among the Syndicate, organizing their cells and meeting with other Chairmen to ensure businesses do not clash and territorial disputes are resolved quickly and quietly. Under normal circumstances, most Syndicate cells barely interact with one another if at all. 
=== Rank Structure ===
*Board of Directors -
**Kerrik Xirn -
**Maxwell Galehart
**Vixa Nathorian
**Grigor Handral
**Cobalt-53
**Vargir the Vast
*Chairmen - 
**Qinu Shalin
**Q'rey Raxos
**Stella Kyldarin
**Barig Feltan
**Orsin Thrayn - Known as the "Gemini Prince" along with his twin brother, Chairman of the Vaethros system
**Orsal Thrayn - Known as the "Gemini Prince" along with his twin brother, Chairman of the Vaethros system
*Bosses -
*Underbosses -
*Cell Networks -
== Equipment and Resources ==
=== Funds ===
=== Military ===
The Syndicate has no true military force of its own, relying on the use of mercenary companies and assassin guilds to accomplish its goals. Traditionally, the Syndicate has made use of the Crimson Company, the Borgan Brotherhood, the Tretaki Vipers, and Blackwatch as security for their various operations.
=== Influence ===
"The Syndicate exists where the Alliance does, Elfling. For every beast under the Blazing Star, there is a colony of fleas after it's share of blood." -Yaron Nihlas to Arandar Sùrion
The Syndicate has influence in many systems within the Core, chiefly in ones where security against their efforts is more lax. Notably, the Syndicate's leadership tend to prefer to hide in plain sight within the Alliance itself, while the Underbosses and local Captains maintain their public operations on colony worlds and non-Alliance affiliated worlds within the Core, free from Alliance aid.
=== Technology ===
==== Ships ====
==== Weapons ====
==== Armor ====
==== Vehicles ====
== Philosophy, Methods, and Goals ==
== Strongholds ==
== Symbol ==
The Syndicate's symbol that has been in use over the centuries has been a pointed, black Trigram outlined in white. A black ring encircles it. In recent years, the symbol has been abandoned for secrecy purposes, with less focus on posturing from the Directors.
== Trivia ==