Power Gangsters

The **Power Gangsters** (also known as the **Richards Gang** in their earliest years) are a family criminal organization located in the streets of Detroit, Michigan and possess over a thousand of members scattered accross the state and locally attempts to force the most poor-stricken civilians in the cities and neighborhoods. The family is notoriously known for playing an enormous role in rising the crime rate in the state over the years, alongside The Donovans, The Wyld K1ngz, several groups from the Russian Mafia and Neo Yakuza, as well the 45th Avenue Street Gang: they were the main offenders for causing the Crime Gangs Generation.

## Known Members

### Family Members

* **Philip "Pokey/Pokey the Rich" Richards**: The current self-proclaimed leader of the gang.
* **James "Jamie" Richards**: Adopted brother of Philip and right-hand man, he is the one who makes the deal with other gangs and take the risk of making meetings with the other gangs' executive leaders, knowing he might get shot if things turned south.
* **Nathaniel "Nate" Richards**: Youngest family member and the cousin of Philip and James, younger adopted brother of Jiggs. Often follows James during deals with other gangs, in case things take a wrong turn. Although paired with Jerry, he doesn't like the latter's psychopatic homicidal tendencies.
* **Jiggs "Jiggie" Richards**: The brute of the gang, known for his monstrous physical strength and durability. Older than Philip, James and Nathaniel but not the smartest.
* **Jon "Papa" Richards**: The adoptive father of Philip, James, Jiggs and Nathaniel. Often nicknamed "Uncle Rich" or "Jon The Dickhead".
* **Aunt Ma Richards**: The adoptive mother of Philip, James, Jiggs and Nathaniel. Nicknamed "Sweet Ma" or "Tough Ma".
* *A few other family members*.

### Other Members

* **Oliver "Oil" Berry**: The mentally insane pyromaniac of the group, who is best to burn all evidences (be it objects, traces or bodies) but must hold refrain himself to burn everything and fighting back against the immense urge to burn everything at sight. Most members berates his obsession with fire, mostly Pokey and Jiggs. Although burning evidences is his true talent, his ultimate strength is when he is paired up with Firebass to create fire and explosions against police raids, with their favorite weapon being a bursting variation of the Molotov cocktail.
* **Emmanuel Escobar**: The alleged "son" of the infamous drug lord, Pablo Escobar. Emmanuel was a former members of The Barons, a powerful criminal gang with most members being the descendants or relatives of famous criminals. Emmanuel claimed he was the illegitimate son of the late drug lord and managed to join The Barons, though he was kicked out later for apparently lying about his origins. He then joined the Power Gangsters because he had no other places to go and sought refuge, in which Jon agreed but he has to work as the gang's "ranger" and watch for any upcoming rivalries or attacks from other gangs.
* **"Firebass"**: Her real name remains unknown, Firebass has an extended knowledge on creating self-made explosives and sometimes creating improvised long-ranged weapons such as firearms or machines capable of throwing objects at high velocity similar to mortars, catapults, trebuchets, mangonnels and ballistas. She is considered as the "thinkerer" of the organization because of the various inventions she made, including improvised armors, upgraded gadgets and enhanced vehicles.
* **Marin**: Nicknamed "Speedy", she is considered as the ranger of the gang with her role to scout out in the neighborhoods and spy on other gangs, even infiltrating some of them to acquire information. She is known to disguise a lot and can blend in a different organization without much difficulty.
* **Jerry Potter**: He is the organization's financial accountant with a background of fighting skills and always follows Jamie and Jiggs Richards during meetings with other gangs for either possible alliances and exchanging illegal narcotics or their self-made weaponry. Despite his stereotypical appearance of a "*typical white-collar caucasian male in his late 30's with a boring office job*" and his calm demeanour, Jerry is actually mentally deranged with an illness that never was diagnosticated (though Jamie believes Jerry is "totally a *psycho-sociopath*") in which he exhibits both traits of extreme sociopathy and disturbing psychopathy. On the surface, Jerry can be seen as a calm individual displaying various traits of a sociopathic-narcissistic behavior and his second personality being a psychopatic and lunatic person with extreme violent tendencies. According to Dok, the closest mental illness Jerry might suffer from is a variant of the antisocial personality disorder (otherwise known as "dissocial personality disorder") and Jerry exhibits signs of narcissistic personality disorder as well.
* *Several unnamed members*.

### Past Members

* **Boris**: A former member in the Russian Mafia, he deserted the Richards after they wanted him dead over a dispute about narcotics and money. Firebass and Jerry were extremely adamant on the belief Boris was a Russian spy sent to sabotage the Power Gangsters' plans and tactics, though Jiggs doesn't buy the idea and thinks Boris was just "some lost Russian asshole".
* **K. J.**: A close friend of James, K. J. decided to leave on good terms and pursue his life on his own way. He was known for his burglary skills and was nicknamed "The Artful Robber".
* **Marlin O.**: Marlin left the gang after she learned of their nefarious plans for members they didn't like and ran away as far as she could but knew she didn't know where to go and lacked the funds to get a new house. She still believes the gang members are after her and ended up being paranoiac as a result of intense stress and anxiety in her life, even though the gang didn't had the thought of organizing a massive hunt to find her.
* **"Manny"**: Manny was a member who had violent psychotic tendencies varying from time to time, which caused serious troubles for the gang's business. Despite this, Manny was mostly useful for causing collateral damages to neighborhood residents' belongings or to attack the properties of rival gangs. He was kicked out of the gang after Philip and Nathaniel decided he was far too erratic and hard to control. Manny was later found seemingly dead near the Detroit River, having possibly overdosed from various illegal substances.
* **Vül-Khan**:
* *Several former members*.

### Deceased Members

* **"Pokey" Richards**: Philip's uncle and mentor figure. His real name is unknown, as he was orphaned at a young age and never remembered his real name but his friends started to call him "Pokey" because of his skills in playing games of poker. He was the driving force for Philip to pursue the crime business in the family. Philip honored Pokey by using his name.
* **Nathan**: Coincidentally, there was a member whose name was similar to Nathaniel and they used him as a distraction when the gang was in deep waters against the Detroit Police Department in the summer of 2002. Nathan served as a living trap decoy so the police enforcers were targeting him rather than the real Nathaniel and his allies, which resulted into screwing his own act before getting shot to death, all according to the family's plan. Nathan's corpse was delivered at the morgue but a certain scientist passed by and took his corpse to perform some experimentations and fortunately gave Nathan a second life: this time as a mutant creature.
* **"Oley"**: Oley is specialized in burglary and an expert in pickpocketing, mostly stealing credit cards from citizens of higher social classes. His nicknames were *Swift Hands* and *God of Pickpocketing*. He passed away after being shot in an alley, two years after he joined the gang. The entire gang mourned his death but Jiggie was the only one to not mourn him as he never liked Oley's guts.
* *Most of the several unnamed members were also killed*.

## Relationships

### Close Allies

* **The Dok**: A scientist from Poland who exiled himself after being involved with a series of illegal experimentations. After the gang saved the life of Dok, the "mad scientist" believed he owe them and decided to work for the Richards whenever their members are injured and need medical presence. Dok also worked on some operations for enhancing some of the gang members their bodies and minds, technically becoming "Enhanced Humans". He also created various drugs for the Power Gangsters, either using the drugs or selling them for profits.
* **Yakuza**
	+ **Neo-Yakuza**:
* **Da Raskalz**:

### Allies

* **Crips Gangs**:
	+ **Rollin' 90s Neighborhood Crips**:
	+ **Rollin' 60s Neighborhood Crips**:
* **Bloods Gangs**:
	+ **Crenshaw Mafia Gang Bloods**:
	+ **United Blood Nation**:

### Neutrals

* **Tongan Crip Gang**:
* **Rollin' 40s Neighborhood Crips**:
* **Almighty Latin King and Queen Nation**:

### Rivals

* **Mexican Mafia**:
	+ **Avenidas** **Gangs**:
		- **Toonerville Rifa 13**:
		- **Norteños**:
		- **Sureños**:
		- **Nuestra Familia**:
		- **18th Street gang**:

### Enemies

* **The Donovans**:
* **The Wyld K1ngz**:
* **Russian Mafia**:
* **45th Avenue Street Gang**:
* **Eight Tray Gangster Crips**:
* **The D-Techtive**:
* **The Southern Folks**:
* **California's Greatest Saviors**:
	+ **Epsilon**:
	+ **Àbsolūm**: