Tommygunners

The **Tommygunners** are a faction in New Orleans in 2287.

Fallout: New Orleans factions

## Background

The faction has roots linked to the active New Orleans italian-american crime family, the Neri Capelli. With the criminal organization's influence, power and wealth throughout the city, key members, associates and their families were chosen for the Vault-Tec program to inhabit Vault 70, next to Jackson Square at the French Quarter.

About three decades later, the vault dwellers emerged aiming to rebuild the city of New Orleans and began rebuilding the French Quarter as a central settlement. Soon, the Neri Capelli had asserted their power and influence throughout the newly built French Quarter again as a shadow organization. Their activities began expanding to the outer regions of the French Quarter, and divided manpower into raiding squads that would harass emerging tribes and nearby settlements by threatening and stealing its inhabitants.

These raiding parties led them to the discovery of 21st Century Gunworks, located in Gretna, a pre-War energy weapons factory that was overtaken and shut down by the U.S Military prior to the Great War. Inside, crates of energy weapons and unused weaponry was found, and eventually large batches of Laser RCWs were found, leading the faction to the use of their signature weapon.

### Banishment

As their influence and power grew under the sheets of the French Quarter, so did the military and political power of the French Aristocracy by uniting their political groups a military personnel. Soon, one's operation began impending the other's, and The French Aristocraty saw no option other than run the Tommygunners out of the French Quarter by prosecuting them criminally and harrassing them politically and militarily.

Three former Tommygunners were key to the French Aristocracy's success in expelling the faction: Dave Iannucci, Lucas Madioli and Anthony Mineo, who were a Capo and his associates that gave information on essential Tommygunners' locations, operations and sensible information. The faction signed an aggreement that they had one year to fully relocate to another uninhabited location or would face martial law.

The signed agreement also included that they were not allowed to enter the French Quarter or any other French Aristocracy territory for ten years, with the exception of defecting Tommygunners who registered as citizens of the French Quarter. The Tommygunners then rebuilt the old italian-american cultural center and relocated to the buildings and preserved houses nearby, and nicknamed their new settlement as Little Palermo.

### Rebuilding

With their operations inside the affluent French Quarter done for, and their power concentrated on the heads of their criminal operation, the Tommygunners saw no other option that to become a political force as well. Their raiding parties became larger and more violent, and their new strategy for the following year would to raid and seize. They would raid any village, town or settlement they could find and absorb their inhabitants into Little Palermo, give them a job, roof and teach them their cultural values and expand their territory as they did.

For the years that followed, the Tommygunners would become a political and military force in New Orleans, with their main objective to conquer the French Aristocracy politically or economically. All of their main operations, including mercenary work, would become morally legitimate and even treaties with the Aristocracy would be signed to allow for both factions to operate on one another's territory and abide to each other's law.

## Organizaton

Although the Tommygunners are considered a morally legitimate organization and their political powers rely on such, their organization is still strongly based on those of pre-War mafia hierarchy, only now having new ranks in order to organize its size. The Boss is at the top of said hierarchy, having a direct couselor and all-around informant called Consigliere. Under the Boss there is a number Underbosses, each with an Under-Counselor to assist them as a consigliere would a Boss. Under the Underbosses and Under-Consiglieres are the Caporegimes or simply Capos, military chiefs, territorial or political leaders with a large number of Soldiers under their command. The Associates are at the very bottom of this hierarchy, they are oftenly connected to a Soldier or a group of Soldiers, and are oftenly new or young members that have just joined the organization.

It is accepted that any Tommygunner is directly under any rank above them, although directly-commanding members have a higher power over their subordinates than any other. The only exception to this rule is for The Boss, who is supreme to any member despite their direct commanders.