Gulag Gang/History

OverviewMembers**History**Trivia and GalleryStreams***THE ORIGINS OF GULAG GANG***

## **History**

### **The Era of Jean Paul's Hegemony / The GG's County Hegemony**

The era of prisoners sent to a familiar place where there only are only a handful of recognizable friends from long ago and a swarm of unknown people ready to disrupt or help these unfortunate prisoners. In the chaotic mess, only one group in the early days in the new place had mostly conquered the criminal underworld and established themselves as the only dominant power. In this era of the sole Hegemonic power, GG reigns supreme over the new county.

June 2021 - September 2021

During one of his heists, Jean Paul found himself up north looking for a hostage and ended up creating a massive blockade which ended with him needed to go to grandma's for medical help. During this trip, Vinny Pistone showed him a crafting bench he discovered. The bench had access to lockpicks, guns, and thermite. He gave Marty the reign on the lockpick market which made him almost $1 million in 2 days. Marty showed his talents as a manager and salesperson and eventually became the #2 in Burger Shot while never officially becoming the CEO.
Across the multiple PD wipes and heists Burger Shot's fridge and storage became the primary place to store any police loot which gave it the name "Burger Shot Armory" since it always had PD AR's, ammo, spike kits stocked up. While Burger Shot, at the time, was the only business within purple county the majority of the employees were working for Jean Paul for illegal operations: it consisted of a meth team who were give access to a private meth lab owned by Jean Paul and a weed team who were provided a warehouse for drying weed.

Ming found himself with a lot of dirty case due to Jean Paul's obsession with robbing banks and his skills as a driver ensuring they almost always got away; wanting to sell his dirty money for some cash he came across Marty in Burger Shot who gave him attitude (Marty not knowing Ming assumed he was one of the many "Leprechauns" following Jean Paul into the purple county). Ming even saved Marty from being abandoned in a Vault robbery as Jean Paul had intended to leave another criminal behind who wasn't available at the time of the robbery; Marty filled in the spot and Jean Paul asked Ming if he was down with it, Ming replied "if it was anyone else I would but he's like a little brother to me".
Marty was invited to jobs where there was positions available in the crew, he had an interest in becoming a hacker but had no easy way to practice without having the access to dongle or banks being available as Jean Paul was in the city. Once he gained access to practice laptops he spent hours learning the banks' security system and started attempting hacks. Initially, he failed as he was new to the hacks and got the name "Laptop Busta" (a play on Jean Paul's title in the gated city "Bank Busta"). Once he got enough experience, he tried and one-shotted a Paleto hack together with Jean Paul. This marked the time where he slowly started taking the position as the hacker of the crew and came on jobs more frequently.
Ming introduced Turk to Jean Paul as he had a green dongle he wanted to do, Jean Paul assumed Turk was like the hundreds before him and wanted a job at Burger Shot and didn't think much of him but when Turk refused a position and displayed his eccentric personality, he became a memorable criminal and eventually became part of GG.

While attempting to breach the lower vault, Ming had the idea of using grapple hooks to avoid the security system which turned out to be the solution for the lower vault, Jean Paul managed to hack the system becoming the first crew to figure out and breach the Lower Vault. They discovered a briefcase that contained the Casino blueprints so they searched around the city for any clues for this next heist; after talking to spending $500k each for Kraken submarines to talk to whales and biking to the top of Mt. Chilliad to talk to birds Jean Paul and Ming discovered the next heist to be the Yacht.
The main crew for the yacht included: Jean Paul, Ming Jingtai, Marty Shanks, and Julian Santorno (close associate of Ming across the years); other members also came onto the yacht as it required 4 people to insert the Pixel Pad into the yacht's computer system (a change made after multiple attempts were affected due to Leprechaun presence). Due to that presence they had failed multiple times so their first look at the laptop hack was when Marty opened the laptop not knowing it required a hack, he showed his talent as a hacker and almost completed the entire hack. Jean Paul trusted Marty and told him not to give up which led them to be the first crew to unlock the Yacht doors to find the first half of the casino codes.
Feeling that he had done all the things he came to the "gulag", Jean Paul left for the gated city to re-join his friends, Marty who had already been living there connected with Jean Paul while Turk was granted a ticket to enter the city. However, Ming was denied a ticket and is still waiting for an opportunity to appeal again while Julian stayed with him due to having a hard time in waking up to the gated city.

### ****Ming Jingtai's** Rule over GG'**

*\*To Be Written*

October 2021 - July 2022

### **The O'Connors' Rule over GG'**

*\*To Be Written*

July 2022 - August 2022

August 2022 - October 2022