Axe Gang Bandits

Originally a small, obscure group in China at the time of the Great Hibernation, the Axe Gang Bandits suddenly grew in size and power after taking advantage of the chaos of the Che Wedding Massacre and absorbing the entire of the Che warband, becoming a faction in their own right powerful enough to challenge the rest of the Survivalist's Coalition.
The first members of the Axe Gang were simply an axe-wielding, mafia-style organization originating from the area around Shanghai, consisting of individuals such as Hou Zhicheng, Ren Xieren and Kao Tenzin, identifiable by the symbol of a pair of cross axes tattooed somewhere on the body. At some point during the Human-Vannai War, the gang encountered and took in a survivor of the destroyed Chinese branch of the Green Initiative, a young girl named Shi-er. Initially thought of as nothing more than a rather psychopathic child, Shi-er's ability to perform Personality Rehabilitation on cyberbrains saw her be moved to a more prominent position within the Axe Gang, where she was used to create the Revenants. The Revenants, only answering to Shi-er with unquestioning loyalty, eventually became too large and powerful a group for the then Axe Gang leadership to control, and Shi-er was able to assume uncontested control over the Axe Gang with the fearsome Revenant Han Nu serving as the public leader of the group.
Once Shi-er took over, the Axe Gang transformed from a minor countryside nuisance into a band of sinister, sadistic marauders, causing major problems for the Survivalists Coalition and the NLA. At the height of their power, the gang controlled the entirety of Yunnan and Xizang, were estimated to account for ten million people and were beginning to take ground from the NLA in Guangxi as well. Those who joined the Axe Gang were brainwashed into becoming violent psychopaths through drugs, hypnosis and torture, while anyone with a cyberbrain unfortunate enough to be captured alive, such as Akari Tachibana, underwent Personality Rehabilitation at the hands of Shi-er to become Revenants. 
Despite their many crimes, the Bandits remained cooperative with ACC throughout most of the China War. ACC never condemned the Bandits actions and very rarely took action to curb their massacres. It was later revealed that Shi-er herself wished to rejoin the coalition, offering to halt the creation of Revenants and withhold the information pertaining to their origins from the public, to cease attacks on the NLA, and allow to supply convoys to pass through their territory, all in exchange for the death of An Guo, leader of the Iron Army. The Pilots considered her offer while finally taking action to slow the Bandit's rampant expansion by destroying key manufacturing facilities under their control. Irate at the Pilot's attempt to cripple her faction, Shi-er released a recording of the meeting to the public, which soon reached the Iron Army. Well aware of the Pilot's history of constantly betraying everyone in China throughout the war, An Guo determined the ACC to be a danger of the Iron Army and forced the coalition out of Asia.
After ACC's departure from the region, the remaining factions took a much firmer and proactive stance towards the bandits. Combined with pressure from the NLA, the Huang faction, the Lotus of Rebellion and the personal efforts of Pilot Zau Yi, the fragility of the gang beyond the Revenants became evident. Shi-er completely abandoned the gang at large and traveled north to search out the dormant Gigafort Long Shadow, allowing the group to collapse and cease to be the destabilizing element in China it once was.
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