El-Aly Clan

## Description:

The El-Aly crime clan was founded in 2025 when a mass-immigration to Europe from the Middle East occurred shortly after The Fiscal Suicide of 2020. Several other large families moved to Europe as well, but El-Aly quickly rose to the top through a series of gangland wars in Berlin in the 2040's. El-Aly operates under a strict code of honor rooted in their Middle Eastern heritage, and is infamous for their brutality and willingness to kill opponents. El-Aly is a European competitor with The Bears and with the Crimson Crescent, and has ties to Al-Magdala in Egypt. El-Aly has no official corporate affiliations, and seems to harbor deep anti-corporate sentiments, particularly towards any corporation that has involved itself in Middle Eastern politics.

### Organization:

#### Headquarters: Berlin

El-Aly is, like many immigrating Middle Eastern clans, organized into a tribal unit. The eldest members hold the most influence, with age and experience determining one's rank and influence; blood-related members always hold seniority over non-blood members. The role of the clan leaders in El-Aly's criminal activities is mostly unknown, as some of the clan's older members have publicly refused to participate in the family's illegal activities; despite this, it is still estimated that a majority of the clan and its associates are involved in illicit activities of some kind.

El-Aly primarily recruits from the adolescents of the clan, raising children to become killers and criminals of various kinds. Despite the sheer size of the blood-relative clan, El-Aly does recruit outsiders, but these outsiders must be either German or Arabic. El-Aly may not officially recruit from outside sources often, but is always willing to make new associates and allies of all kinds; El-Aly recruits frequently, usually to bolster their ranks to combat encroaching opposition or to facilitate a move on another group's territory.

El-Aly is involved in many different fields of criminal activity, but focuses primarily on prostitution, extortion, racketeering, weapon smuggling, drug smuggling, and human trafficking. El-Aly is known to run most of Berlin's brothels, either directly or via the enforcement of extortion and protection rackets; El-Aly supplies many of Berlin's drugs and prostitutes, and is a very powerful influence within the Supercity's underbelly.

### Equipment:

El-Aly makes use of modern weaponry and equipment purchased either through smugglers in the Middle East, stolen from corporations, or homemade. The clan tends not to make use of hackers, exosuits, or other forms of body armor, and prefers simple melee weapons to more advanced or more expensive variants. Mostly common thugs, El-Aly's members are not the best trained assassins or professional killers, and are known to be sloppy; this being said, no El-Aly members have confessed or turned over fellow members.

El-Aly has civilian vehicles at its disposal, and makes frequent use of drugs and combat stimulants. Unlike many other criminal groups of K4, El-Aly detests the use of bionics, mostly for religious reasons, and abstains from implants of any kind; as such, it can be relatively easy to spot an El-Aly member in a crowd of chromed civilians.

El-Aly's tactics are mostly heavy-handed and brutal, preferring to blow up a car or shoot up a building than sneak in with a silenced weapon or kill from a distance. Their brutality is believed to have earned them their current high rank in Europe's criminal underworld, with only the Crimson Crescent and The Bears being unintimidated by the group's barbaric behavior.