Maanschijn family

> "*With Jaci's we shall harvest.*"
> ― Motto of the Maanschijn family
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The **Maanschijn family** was an infamous organised crime family and bushranger gang from Brabantsia. They are widely remembered for their smuggling operations. The Maanschijn family was one of the biggest providers of perma-snow in sahul, which they covered behind the Maanschijn Coaching Company. These coaches travelled through the bush where they were, and still are, at a high risk of getting robbed by groups of bushrangers. The Maanschijn family knew this and so would hire their own thugs to both extort their costumers and protect their own coachman from other bushranger gangs.

## Ranks

**Chef:** The ruler of the Maanschijn family

**Onder Chef:** The second in command of the Maanschijn family and the head of the Regime Hoofden. They take over if the Chef is imprisoned or incapacitated and are usually next in line for the role of Chef.

**Raadslid:** The right-hand man and main adviser of the Chef. It is their job to advise and challenge any plan the chef might makes.

**Regime Hoofd:** The head of a district and its Soldaten.

**Soldaat:** An official member of the Maanschin family and the ones who are in charge of committing the crimes.

## History

The Maanschijn family traces its roots back to 1120, when Floris Maanschijn began raiding coaches in Brabantsia. Shortly afterwards he began to use his robbery funds to finance his own coaching company. During 1125 he began to organise the Maanschijn family into a more structured order. Ten years after their founding the Maanschijn family became the ruling criminal family of Brabantsia after they crushed the Ratjes family in the woodland massacre.

In 1145 Chef Floris made a deal with the druid Moh Büyücü to sell his Perma-snow on the black markets of Brabantsia, and the two grew rich beyond their dreams. Sadly later that year Floris died from an overdose of Perma-snow and turned into a ice statue. His son Maarten Maanschijn takes over as the new Chef and increasing the focus on the coaching business and its surrounding extortion racket until his sudden assassination in 1179 on the order of rival crime lord Alberto Wolfraven and the bribed Moh Büyücü. After the assassination Maarten's two sons, Freddie en Sjoerd would respond in kind by sending a soldaat disguised as a druid into Büyücü's grove to slit his throat and personally showering Alberto in arrows on the steps of a temple dedicated to the Maanschijn family's own patron goddess Jaci. Freddie would land the killing blow and was crowned the new Chef by the Regime Hoofden. Under Freddie's guidance the Maanschijns would cease most of their dealings with the druids and invest more into local businesses.

By the year of 1197 AD the Maanschijn family had almost completely gone legitimate, with only their coaching extortion racket remaining. After the current Chef, Freddie Maanschijn, announced that this business was to be ended many of the old family veterans got very angered at this youngster. But none were more angered than his older brother and Onder Chef. Sjoerd Maanschijn, who together with the disgruntled veterans hatched a plan to slay Freddie.

At the 34th of the Season of the Goat during a family meeting the traitors raised their maces and began to slaughter the loyalists. Sjoerd and Freddie came to blows, blade striking blade, steel biting on steel, truly the two brothers where evenly matched. For hours they fought as their allies fell around them, and eventually both brothers would let their guards down to attack, and slay each other simultaneously. They two brothers fell without leaving a clear heir which left the Maanschijn family in complete disaray, and the higher members of the family quickly sliced up the business, forming their own warring crime factions.