Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26535281-20170706200003

'It's all a facade you know, squeaky clean, elimination of poverty and crime, it's all just a big, fancy, and expensive facade by the governments of this galaxy and many others trying to hide the dark under belly that runs their world and the best part, no matter how hard they try to get rid of us we will always come back like the humble rat."

- Baron Varo of the Var Conglomerate

The Underworld is the shady, seedy, dark, and rather illegal side of the known universe. A place of slaving guilds, smuggling rings, pirate dens, and all sorts of enterprises some legal some not. The people of this world come from all sorts of back grounds from business men, run a ways, dregs, and at times citizens of the other world looking for an escape.

No matter how hard a government will try the underworld will always thrive. Under the bowls of every major city lies vast nests and networks of traders and smugglers. At times entire worlds of the fringes of empire's or nations are dedicated to the pursuit of rather immoral deeds like slavery and prostitution. Now those rather 'slimy' side is not the entirety nor is it even the majority most of the under world is made up of business men/women looking to make profits with no questions asked, morals put aside, and ethics thrown away. A necessary evil as some would say. Things like bounty hunters, mercenaries, 'rouge' scientists, and many others dot this scene.

In the Underworld crime thrives both in it's organized and unorganized states. Things like thugs, brutes, and muggers are common place and hired thugs and 'protectors' are even more common place. Most of the mercenary or slaving guilds play off of this need and hire out individuals as body guards to both the rich and those who can pay. Other organizations also use thugs and the like mainly Trading Guilds and the 'Criminal Families' who use thugs as both guards and enforcers. Now this may seem 'bad', but hey someones got to beat up joe for not paying his bills.

The Organized Criminals are not all ways 'bad' at times they are the only semblance of order and law in some underworld cities or dens. They from what we would recognize as 'governors', 'police', and many other necessary civil functions all while practicing embezzlement and loan sharking.

Now the actual 'Underworld' comes in many forms in most places it's the under belly of a city in the dark sectors or the literal underworld where the law tends to stray away from. On some worlds the Underworld is the world itself and is run by these enterprises (pleasure worlds), and on some the local Government has given up a portion of the planet to better 'contain' crime.

The Underworld has some major players and names known across it's wide and far reaching borders and networks. Here are a list of some of the most important (My own factions if anyone wants to have one added in a later longer post on these major players ask away)

- Gretch Cartel:

The Cartel is a 'union' of the major guilds, clans, and unions within Gretch society for the betterment of their economic survival. The Gretch long ago abandoned the rather redundant 'emotions' and 'morals' other species still harbor and will and do deal in any enterprise imaginable both legal and illegal both moral and immoral. They really don't care as long as they make money.

- Black Hand:

The Black Hand is both a famous criminal organization and family lead by the Carta Family for centuries. They once started out as a small business acting as middle men between other criminal families and selling out thugs to anyone that could pay. They still do that but now on (at times) a planetary level still acting as trusted middle men between the largest criminal families.

- Black Dragon Society:

Hailing from the world of Shamo the Black Dragons are a famous mercenary and smuggling guild willing to do any job if enough money is behind it. They either train themselves or find and hire extremely skilled fighters and assassins able to tackle a wide range of jobs.

- Genome Syndicate:

A collection of 'rouge' scientists dedicated to the work and research others would try and shot down claiming it is 'immoral' or 'dangerous' the Genome Syndicate sees it as research that must be done. It's members come from all walks of life and from all races imaginable a society of highly intellectual exiles and outcasts. They are known to do anything to get what they want and are known to hire thugs to steal what ever they need or to capture test subjects. In the name of science of course. 