Aurinko Crime Family

—Buddy Aurinko[src]

Generally, "*an* **Aurinko crime family**" is a formula Buddy Aurinko uses to form a criminal team, one rooted in interpersonal bonds, wit, and empathy as much as individual skills. Specifically, this page is about the team formed in Juno Steel and the Soul of the People (Part 2), the crew of the Carte Blanche.

## Members

### Buddy Aurinko

Captain, accomplished thief. Pre-existing relationships with Vespa, Jet, and Juno.

### Vespa

Skilled in field medicine and assassinations, accomplished thief. Pre-existing relationships with Buddy and Jet.

### Jet Sikuliaq

Legendary thief. Pre-existing relationships with Buddy, Vespa, and Juno; and a big fan of Rita's.

### Peter Ransom

Accomplished thief. Pre-existing relationship with Juno, whom he put as a reference on his application.

### Juno Steel

Former detective (HCPD, Private Eye). Pre-existing relationships with Buddy, Jet, Rita, and Peter.

### Rita

Extremely talented hacker. Pre-existing relationship with Juno, and a big fan of Jet's.

### The Ruby Seven

More than just the galaxy's finest getaway car, it may also be a Class-X Radical with still unknown capabilities.

## History

The Aurinko Crime Family is formed aboard the Carte Blanche shortly after Juno and Rita have left Mars together with Jet, Buddy, Vespa and Ransom.

They spend one year on their heist for the Curemother Prime, travelling across the known galaxy to collect the four items they need in order to get to the Prime. Buddy, the head of the family has them hold family meetings frequently. Their family is based at loyalty, which Buddy describes as the "key difference between a collection of criminals and an effective crime family", but also "a terribly [in]precise word". While the strong and loyal relationships are important, self-care, especially in dangerous situations is seen as important too, as Buddy explains on the night after their first successful job. The Crime Family becomes a place of self-reflections and healing for Juno as he engages and grows closer with the five other members.

On their way they are frequently chased by Dark Matters Agents, crash land on a beach planet and eventually reach their destination and obtain the Curemother Prime. During this time the bonds between the members grow closer: Rita and Jet develop a genuine friendship, Juno and Peter mend their difficult relationship, Rita reaches out to Peter, despite of him staying distant to the rest of the group, Buddy Mentors Juno and even Vespa and Juno grow to respect each other. Buddy and Vespa also have a lot of stuff to work through but decide to get engaged and eventually married.

The family is split apart all the sudden by the arrival of Dark Matters and Director W. Peter disappears without letting the others know that he left or where he went. Meanwhile Juno and the others initially manage to outsmart Director W, but eventually get captured by Dark Matters with Juno being the only one to get away with the Ruby Seven, planning to get help and free his family.

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## Trivia

* The Aurinko Crime Family spend their time off wachting streams together like the *Bad Cop Series*.
* The Aurinkos have another car aside from the Ruby Seven.