The Syndicate

**The Syndicate** is a criminal organization who act as the antagionsts in *Engines of Lara's Point*.

## History

### Early Days

The Syndicate was formed on the 22nd of August 1920 by Bruce Brown and Zena Kent. Bruce would invite some of his friends, those being Grace Webber & Lara-Jean Griffin & Zena would invite Richard Bailey.

During the gang's early days, they would only rob banks and other smaller operations. Like in July of 1924, as the gang were fleeing a bank robbery Lara-Jean would be killed in the insuing conflict.

In revenge, Zena would start to plan a smuggling operation around the Ministry of Defence, which its base was centered over on the north side of the North Midland Railway.

Everything went smoothly but their plans were foiled by Richard Bailey, who defected and betrayed the group. He told Officer Newton about their operations, in which it caused Zena & Bruce to be arrested and sent to prison for 25 years.

Grace wasn't arrested and pleaded innocent and claimed that they had been manipulated into doing the operation.

Throughout most of their jail time, Zena & Bruce was planning a escape plan and a revenge plan for Richard. In 1942, a guard by the name of Brendan Pearce freed Zena & Bruce and evenutally joined them, and assumed the occupation of Richard Bailey's assistant to get intel.

Around 1944, Brendan invited his girlfriend, Amelia Stone to the group to which she was accepted gracefully.

### Extraction

Around the later years of 1950s, the group started to plan their revenge on the Bailey Family which they named "Extraction". On July 22 1965, Zena would map out her plan with firstly kidnapping Richard at an engine workshop then tieing him up & leaving him stranded in a warehouse near Barrow.

The next step was to reclaim her property, so she sent Scarlett to collect Eliza and it succeded with Kent offically acquiring Eliza in her possession again.

Unaware to the gang, Scarlett defected from the gang and trailed to the North Midland Railway, which resulted in Scarlett warning Shawn & Cora about Zena and her plans, but it went awry as the three were abducted by Zena. All 3 were locked up in a sector of the warehouse.

On July 30 1965, Extraction went in motion as Lara's Point station and the refinery were blown up, courtesy of Brendan & Grace. Many civilians perished in the explosion, alongside Jade.

Hayley Blair, Valerie, Stephanie Carter & Katrina Blair would head to the warehouse to confront Zena about her plan; this resulted in Stephanie being abducted by Grace; leaving her fate unknown.

In the crossfire, Bruce would die by getting killed by the Blair witches while Amelia was killed by Zena, while trying to escape the warehouse. Richard would be shot by Bruce after being ordered by Bruce and eventually succumbed to his wounds. Shawn & Cora are freed while Zena escaped with Brendan & Grace & seizing Eliza for Zena's own benefit. After the battle, Scarlett fleed, leaving her status unknown.

While investigating an old abandoned siding, Lieutentant Newton was ambushed by The Syndicate. Grace would confront Newton about her father as she learned that she is her uncle, Newton scolded Webber for killing Lauren & Lila, Grace just laughed and ordered Brendan to kill Newton, ending his life.

## Members

Zena Kent  (leader/former second-in-command) Grace Webber  (co-leader/former third-in-command) Brendan Pearce  (operative) Bruce Brown † (founder/leader)Amelia Stone  (former field operative) Richard Bailey †  (former field agent) Scarlett.jpgScarlett (former spy)Lara-Jean Griffin.jpegLara-Jean Griffin †  (field agent)
## Murders committed

* Captain Bailey- (Shot by Zena Kent)
* Teresa Knight - (Shot, dragged & thrown over the cliff side by Zena Kent)
* Edward White - (Smothered with pillow by Zena Kent)
* Sophie White - (Heart crushed by Zena Kent)
* 10 Ministry of Defence Officers - (Killed by Bruce Brown)
* Robert Grey/Workshop Manager - (Shot by Brendan Pearce)
* 40 Unnamed Passengers - (Planned by Zena Kent, Executed by Brendan Pearce & Grace Webber)
* James Sinclair - (Shot in the head by Brendan Pearce)
* Jade's Crew - (Crushed under ruble, then incinerated in the refinery fire by Grace Webber)
* Jade - (Crushed under ruble then burned alive in refinery fire by Grace Webber)
* Amelia Stone - (Neck snapped by Zena Kent)
* Richard Bailey - (Non-lethally shot in the stomach by Brendan Pearce then lethally shot in the stomach & bled out by Bruce Brown)
* Officer Newton - (Shot in the back by Brendan Pearce)