Warband

A warband is a loose affiliation of grounders and spacers bound together by the common causes of survival and mutual defense in the wake of the Solar War during the Twilight Era. They were the strongest and most organized sociopolitical entities influencing every aspect of life past the Main Belt. To the common person struggling to survive, they offered protection, employment, vital scarce resources, and a purpose. 
Thousands of warbands cropped up during the Solar War between SY 132 - 136 as the war rips apart the decades long stable trade-loops of Sol System, the smallest of them being only several persons and the largest operating with hundreds of spacers in unison. Many warbands were formed by former officers of the Protectorate; others coalesced around already-influential business persons and political and religious figures. 
In SY 136 with the launch of the Progress Fleet, the Rim tore itself apart in a mad scramble for the remaining resources. By the end of the Solar War in SY 138, there were 10-20 large war bands that had drawn a general peace and as such formed a de facto loosely connected but factionalized ruling entity. Warbands remained influential in the Rim and Main Belt until SY 862, the founding of the Second Dominion and the end of the Twilight Era. 
== List of Notable Warbands and Warlords ==
* Sons of Andromeda
* Soldiers of Charon
* Children of Chthonia
* Various splinters formed by veterans of the Army of Eastern Kamijing
*Ryder's Outlaws
*Deathwalkers
*Hardliners
*Ptolemy Serapion
*Musen de Lagge
Category:Twilight Era
Category:Factions