Board Thread:Custom Lore Development/@comment-26535281-20170902165313

Throughout the Empire plenty of gangs and clans fester beneath the surface. Generally this stems from large sections of planets being bow lawless and walled off while on others the recent contact with technology has lead to some of the native clans to fight among themselves.

These organizations tend be classified as 'war bands' with each having either a single strong man or a strong family in charge of the overarching organization. They also tend to have hosts of both soldiers/enforcers and a host of 'tributes' and 'tributaries' from which they draw slaves, concubines, and well tribute. Generally such organizations tend to have a large sway over the criminal enterprises of a world with each world expected to have at least 2 or 3 major families who frequently fight turf wars and have assassination campaigns. Some of the major families within the Empire include:

- the Profaci family is a old family seated upon the world of 'Mortis' they rule over roughly 1/3 of the world directly through lesser families and another 1/3 through affiliated gangs and so on. This has made them one of the few crime families to have Senators within their ranks.

- the Iccia family is a younger family that has a Empire stretching across the Aquila sector. They mainly deal with the smuggiling of illict goods and slaves into the nations beyond the border (seeing as most of these aren't illegal in the Empire itself) they also tend to deal with weapons both of stolen and manufactured nature as well as selling all sorts of antiques and art pieces they collect from their raids.

- the Laberia family is a older family that has controlled the fighting pits of Juventia since time and memorial they also both sell and train pit fighters as well as mercenaries. This has lead to the Laberians to have massive private armies.

They can also be local clans and natives hiding out in the mountains, steppes, and other vast and rather untouched areas of their worlds fighting off the 'Imperialist Aggressors' or simply just living in their traditional land in peace. Either way the Empire tends to attempt to assimilate these people first and if that fails either leave them be or extermination/enslavement.

Now their are also gangs simply of thugs, hooligans, and so on although they tend to simply just vandalize property and steal some stuff or become middle men/tributaries for a large family acting as envoys and so on.

Now most of these organizations are border line legal in the Empire for those that are Legal the Empire demands tithes of mainly soldiers recruited from captives or members of lesser families they tend to be put into the Auxilia of the army. For the more successful families the Empire may demand tithes of resources or monetary materials.

For those that aren't legal or directly attack the State or it's workers the Empire tends to crack down hard and fast when ever it can having massive operations that tend to lead of plenty of deaths from the ensuing fire fights between the Gangs and the Vigils. 