Ravagers

## Lore Overview

The **Ravagers** are a group of mercenaries operating within the Halfmoon region of Georgia. They were once a criminal gang under the Corsairs, until they staged a mutiny and went on their own path. Now, they are more or less a collection of different criminal organizations with varying standards. For most of its history, they had a negative reputation from most groups, leading to many criminal organizations allying with one another to challenge them.

## History

Before the formation of the Ravagers, the group was operation as one of the Corsairs various gangs. However, this changed when in 2105, they would stage a mutiny against them and form a splinter group which we now know as the Ravagers. After the group's formation, the Ravagers would travel to North America and settle in the southeastern states between the United States of America (USA) and the People's Republic of Tidewater (PRT).

Around this time, the Ravagers would begin making contracts with local towns against bandits and raiders, a problem which had spike since the aftermath of the Atlanta Crisis in the more wartorn areas of the continent. One of these towns was Telfair Woods, who had contracted them as mercenaries. However, relations between the townsfolk and the Ravagers would soon break down, with the Tidewater Brewers, another criminal organization, being contracted to keep tabs on them. This would result in an event known as the Telfair Woods Massacre, where a band of Ravagers would cull the town's inhabitants under the mistaken assumption they were sent to cull the population. As a result, a coalition of civilians, rival criminal organizations, and pro-PRT militia would join forces to remove them.

In early December of 2114, one of the Ravager's strongholds along the border between South Carolina and Georgia, known as Stronghold Whitlock, would be besieged by the coalition of various groups over a period of four months. Eventually, Whitlock would be overrun and the remaining defenders who were still alive executed. However, those who were able to survive, including a group who were sent on a recon mission in early April of 2115 under a certain Sergeant Boyd, would head further south into Georgia. This period would be known as the Exodus, where Boyd and his group would resort to banditry and extortion to make meets end in food and supplies. Many Ravagers would suffer from disease and injuries of varying severity, some even losing whole limbs. However, it was the leadership of Boyd that managed to keep the group pressing forward, and in early July, would reach the Halfmoon region and settle down.

Over a period of time, with conflicts between the authorities of the US and the PRT, and even within the Ravagers themselves, differing agendas within its members in the region, Boyd would desert the group once and for all, having lost faith in its recovery. Now branded a traitor, the Ravagers would resort back to being a council lead organization as it was prior, power being distributed between various leaders called Vanguards. Now, the group finds itself within Southside and other locations around the Halfmoon region, many disjointed.

## Relations

#### United States of America

The Ravagers are seen by law enforcement entities as a growing issue within Chatham County. As a result, police agencies such as the Chatham County Sheriff's Office are seen as problematic to their operations north of the border.

#### People's Republic of Tidewater

The PRT relationship with the Ravagers is one of uncertainty, as their official stance designates them as a criminal organization. However, the two groups have worked alongside each other on numerous occasions.

#### Reuben's Corsairs

Being a splinter group of the Corsairs, the group is strongly opposed to them and has been in various open conflicts with them on previous occasions. Hostilities between the two have died down before, however.

#### Tidewater Brewers

Despite previous hostilities in the past, especially from the siege of Stronghold Whitlock, the Ravagers maintain a passive relationship with the Tidewater Brewers. However, tensions between the two groups still remain high, wary of each other's next move.