SISTERS

## SUMMARY

The term "seductive" would best describe the Sisters, especially as their promises lull their unwitting marks into whatever position the syndicate desires. Holding control of the LCD's brothels and designer drug scene, the Sisters are the pleasure queens of Alta Turre, ruling with an iron fist.

## HISTORY

After the capture of the LCD in 2054, the women of the allied gangs gravitated towards one another. As factions began to split, they saw the writing on the wall and used a blend of charm, blackmail, and subterfuge to secure their own territory. The first business venture of the Sisters was the opening of several brothels across the LCD. Women with nowhere else to go would feel safest turning to the syndicate that was mostly female, landing themselves within the Sisters' employ. Men, too, were not immune to the draw of the syndicate, believing that taking a job at an establishment run by the Sisters would entail a life of pleasure. They wouldn't catch on until far too late that what they had signed up for was closer to slavery than it was employment.

Soon after the Sisters established their share of the LCD's commercial space, they focused on creating a working truce with the Posthumans. This rival syndicate had laid claim to the genetic remap centers present within the LCD, and the Sisters understood that their prices and frequency of repeat customers could skyrocket if they could offer services with workers who were both beautiful beyond natural comprehension, and immune to nearly all sexually transmitted diseases.

Their negotiations were halted early, as tensions with the Enforcers began to run high. Along their shared border, the two syndicates were frequently at odds, constantly disputing the exact location of that border. After repeated impromptu skirmishes resulted in large amounts of collateral damage, a peace was brokered with help from the Bankers. The newly forged agreement dictated a bordering area that would be shared by the two syndicates, as well as placing a hard divide between which services each one held claim to. This way, business could extend beyond the borders of each family's territory without encroaching on the revenue of one another, allowing for a far more profitable arrangement for all parties involved.

After resuming talks with the Posthumans, a deal was structured in which a mid-ranking member of the Sisters was exchanged to work in service of the rival syndicate. The Posthumans were unclear as to the specifics of the tasks she would be assigned, but stated that they had found a way that they specifically could cross the boundary out of the LCD in order to retrieve supplies from the Mid-Stacks. Passage for the Sisters was expressly not included in the deal.

During the 2120 incursion into the LCD by the ATAS, the Sisters represented a major fighting force amongst the Syndicates. While the Enforcers were more direct in their combat strategies, the Sisters took advantage of the Hive's blind spot for female criminality, its heuristics skewed by global data that was far less representative of the LCD's syndicates. This allowed the Sisters greater opportunities for ambush and bombing tactics.

After the incursion ended and a new peace was established, the slight relaxation of the checkpoints brought the Sisters a new opportunity. Members of the syndicate would regularly capture photo or video evidence of important figures visiting their brothels from above, using it to blackmail residents of the Upper Stacks into ferrying sizeable quantities of designer drugs through the checkpoints. With large samples of each new product at their disposal, the Sisters got to work replicating what they could, and arranging trade for what they could not. This firmly established the narcotics trade as one belonging to their syndicate.

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