Ganglands: Montgomery (Worldbuilding) [KYLARIS]

[Alinora]

GANGLANDS: MONTGOMERY

A KYLARIS ROLEPLAY

Montgomery... the state where dreams come true and where they die - a state of success, one that has fostered hundreds of famous film stars, artists, political figures, and countless heroes. It is a place in which many of the Federation's greatest accomplishments were made, and during the mid-20th Century, it grew into it's richest state. It is reknowned as one of Asteria's most beautiful, for both nature and it's cities, but there is a silver lining.

Drugs, murder, corruption, arms trafficking - underground criminals empires dominate many aspects of life in Montgomery. Cartels fuel the state's destructive drug problem, which costs billions each year, and gun violence increases as more and more arms are smuggled from overseas - most coming from Kaxakh. There are often pushes to make change, to reform the establishment that has allowed such behavior, but it is commonly undermined by corrupt government officials who make far more from crime families than they do for the state. Territorial street gangs are only the simplest form of violence, for it eventually grows into organized drug and weapons trafficking rings - headed mainly by grounds like the Archangels, the largest biker gang in the world. Cartels from the south, mafia and crime syndicates from Kaxakh and other countries, and even groups from Asteria itself, have all made Montgomery a battleground - determined to make sure only one comes out on top.

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- THINGS THAT NEED TO BE WORKED ON -

• Just about everything.
• Crime groups, minor and major.
• Detailed map of Montgomery.
• Rules, and all that jazz.
• Basic RP systems - likely will work on planning and creation of a story.

Code: Select all

[b]Proposition for Group:[/b]

[b]Name:[/b]
[b]Type:[/b]
[b]Main "Trades":[/b]
[b]Organization:[/b]
[b]Leader(s):[/b]
[b]Members:[/b]
[b]Description:[/b]

[Elepis]

ohh tag

[Senkaku]

I'm currently planning on doing an alliance of an ancient Carcosian crime syndicate that probably dates back to Solarian times or some shit, and a Baishadao triad that probably works with corrupt officials in the Songhua narcotics monopoly. They'll probably be big on smuggling via container ship and cargo jet and will be bulk importers of narcotics, which they'll probably sell off to various other organizations and middlemen.

[The Ik Ka Ek Akai]

Phuli cartel smuggling narcotics made from high-grade Phuli poppies. Known to put on a good public face.

[Alinora]

Proposition for Group:

Symbol - found on back of jackets with "Archangels" on top, and the location on the bottom - in this case, "Montgomery"

Name: Archangels
Type: Motorcycle Club
Main "Trades": Arms Trafficking, Narcotics, Methamphetamine, Marijuana
Organization: The Archangels are organized into separate Chapters - each with is own President and Chain of Command - that in the end, answers to the National President. The common ranks for the Archangels go like this:

• President
• Vice President
• Secretary
• Treasurer
• Sergeant at Arms
• Road Captain
• Patch Members
• Life Members
• Prospects

Leader(s):
Members: Nationally, the Archangels have around 4,100 members - 2,500 are in Montgomery alone.
Description:

The Archangels Motorcycle Club was originally founded by veterans of the Great War in 1939, who gave themselves the name due to their pasts as soldiers - defending Asteria in the same way Archangels defend Heaven from evil. They began innocent enough - serving as an outlet for ex-soldiers who wanted to relive the same comradery and brotherhood they had during the war. They would ride in large groups down the highways, together - growing faster than any other gang in the state. Starting with a mere 20 members in 1939, they grew to more than 500 by 1950, and by then, the group began to change.

The Archangels became highly territorial as more extreme Presidents took power, claiming various parts of Montgomery - including their home city of San Fierro - to be "theirs". Other Motorcycle Clubs were banned from the areas, sparking limited conflict - though rarely serious injury or death. It was as the 60s began that the Archangels began to get involved in the arms trafficking business - selling and distributing firearms across the state. By the 70s, they had begun to get involved in the cocaine business - making millions through cartels in Marirana, Wacoa, and Asteria Inferior. By the 80s, the gang had a solid hold over a major part of the Cocaine and Arms industry, then having more than 1,000 members, and more than 40 chapters across Montgomery. They began expanding, setting up chapters across the Federation throughout the 90s and early 2000s, when they began getting involved in the Narcotics Ring - a deadly business that kills thousands every year.

yadayada, blah

[The Holy Dominion of Inesea]

Tag. Senouillacan Socialist Christian drug runners probably

[Ugomvia]

Is this something open that I could join? Or do I need to fill out some application, or join a region?

[The Ik Ka Ek Akai]

Proposition for Group:

Name: सेतो बाघहरू (Sētō bāghaharu); The White Tigers
Type: Cartel
Main "Trades": Opiate trade, trafficking, and distribution; marijuana production and distribution; legal restaurants and laundering clothes. Some freelance work as mercenaries/guards.
Organization: The White Tigers are organized into a system mimicking and, to some extent, mocking the caste system:
सम्राट (Samrata) is the highest rank attainable. It denotes leadership of the entire organization, and is typically kept in the family.
राजोपाध्याय (Rajopadhyaya) are the second highest level of leadership. They simply govern things, plan deals, and scare people.
क्षेत्री (Kshetri) is where the lieutenants and other officers reside. These are mostly planners and high-level distributors.
बनिया (Baniya) consists of merchants and diplomats. These people are on the streets working day jobs and selling merchandise.
कामी (Kami) is a step up, these people are entrusted with handling and assembling equipment, as well as supplying good men with good guns.
दमाइ (Damai) is the lowest rank of the organization. These are usually petty guards, marijuana farmers, or simple laborers
Leader(s): प्रभु (Prabhu, like "don") Nugah Shukla, and स्वामिनी (Sbhamini) Ayushma Shukla
Members: Within relevant areas, the White Tigers are estimated to have a fair number of people. Between 2500 and 3000 most likely. This does not include contacts in Phula and across the rest of Asteria.
Description: Founded in 1954, the White Tigers were a group of honest Phuli immigrants who first began to arrive in 1938 in the wake of the Red Awakening. Acting initially as refugees, they planted themselves as distinct members of society, from both the Asterians and whatever Hyndi groups they came across, and began to establish simple businesses to make profit from the skills they had at home. In 1954, however, the Phuli merchants came together to create a new defense against the threat of gangs, as well as to support each other during periods of racial tension. They upheld their connections in Phula and began working to import home goods for their own use, and from there they began to spread them. It did not take long until a full cartel formed out of this small group of expats.

[Legatia]

lol tag

Is this something open that I could join? Or do I need to fill out some application, or join a region?

This is a RP for the region Kylaris. If you'd like to join, you are welcome to apply here.

[Alinora]

Current groups look okay, and we're working on a map

[Lunas Legion]

I'll throw up an app for the small branch of the Kaxakh mafia that would be there, although there'll probably be very few Kaxakhs since they tend to stick out like sore thumbs and are probably on every :notFBI: watchlist under suspicion of being GRU-SVR agents.

[Valentir]

Tagerino

[Ugomvia]

Proposition for Group:

Name: Savior Inc.
Type: Business
Main "Trades": Organ trade, along with illegal crime scene clean up("Cleaning") . Also some forging.
Organization:
CEO: The head of Savior Inc.
Managers: Heads of the branches of the organization such as; Organ trade, "Cleaning", forging, and relations.
Representatives: maintaining the organization's communications and image with others.
Salesperson: Deals with the buying and selling of organs.
Engineers: Craft forged documents
Janitors: Provide "cleaning" services for paying customers
Leader(s): Jack Darringer
Members: Savior Inc. Is actually quite small, with only 125 official members. However, not having a lot of members has played in their favor since the cost of maintenance is very low. Giving them tons of extra money.
Description: Savior Inc. was an organization that formed pretty recently. It started off as a very small band of five individuals, all of them were medical experts, three of which were surgeons that had lost there doctor's licenses. They'd lost there careers do to rescission and were pretty angry to have spent six years of there lives in med school for nothing. So to prevent there talents from going to waste they got into illegal organ trading. Buying organs from donors for cheap, and selling them to the rich, making a massive amounts of money. After this initial wave of income they expanded their business and now incorporate 120 more employees, as well as some illegal crime scene cleaning to other organizations, and are considered the best in the business Giving them a pretty good reputation within the world of crime.

However, when it comes to things like territory, they own nothing. The only property they own is a small office building in Montgomery. But they work many areas within the city as wells as some other local areas. Savior Inc. runs a small network of corrupt doctors who preform the illegal organ transplants. As well as having contact with corrupt members in law enforcement to make sure their not arrested. But they will also forge documents and to make their illegal organ transplant deals seem more legitimate. Overall Savior Inc. isn't really a violent organization, and will often provide support to other organizations with high quality "cleaning" services, and even some medical support from time to time. Making them a good and dependable partner in crime.

[Senkaku]

Proposition for Group:


Name: Hyacinth Syndicate
Type: crime syndicate
Main "Trades": production, shipment, smuggling, and distribution of narcotics, arms, exotic animals, and other goods, human trafficking, piracy and hijacking, mortgage fraud, bid rigging, gambling, extortion, prostitution, assassinations, stock market manipulation
Organization: The Syndicate is broken into Divisions, each led by a "Viceroy", which are responsible for different regions. The Viceroy of Carcosa is the head of the organization (though due to the Syndicate's close association with Carcosa's great families, the real identity of the Viceroy is a closely guarded secret), with the Carcosian Division also being responsible for overall management and coordination efforts. Each Division then has its own Sectors, overseen by "Consuls", which are responsible for smaller areas. Each Consul then delegates to various Centurions and Optios (Optios acting either as assistants to Centurions or as the head of a smaller or less important region), who form the head of the organization's localized branches.
Leader(s): The current Viceroy of Carcosa is speculated to be an older woman from the Blue political faction, possibly connected to the Aquilii family (in fact, it is Chela Reyes-Aquila, the youngest daughter of the late family patriarch Enrico Aquilus and half-sister of current patriarch Abdesh Aquilus), while the Viceroy of Northern Asteria Superior is Lucien Magoni, and the Consul of Montgomery is currently Aaron Fitzgerald.
Members: est. 20-30,000 members, mainly in Carcosa, plus countless associates, partners, and clients
Description: The Hyacinth Syndicate is Carcosa's largest and oldest crime syndicate, beginning as a loose association of pirates and assassins in the days of the late Solarian Empire. As its wealth and membership grew, it became increasingly intertwined with the city-state's complex political landscape and its aristocratic families, and has developed into a highly organized global network engaged in all manner of criminal activity, including white-collar crime as well as more typical street violence.


Proposition for Group: (TBD)


Name: Three Cranes Society
Type: triad
Main "Trades": shipment, smuggling, and distribution of narcotics, arms, exotic animals, and other goods, human trafficking, prostitution, assassinations, extortion, gambling
Organization:
Leader(s):
Members:
Description: Baishadao-based triad

[Ugomvia]

Proposition for Group:

Name: The Salary Squad, or SS for short.
Type: Gang / Pseudo-terrorist organization
Main "Trades": Mainly Robbery, but with some hacking and illegal contract work. A slight mix of white and blue collar crimes.
Organization: Because of how small The Salary Squad is, there's not a very complex organization system.
Chief: Head of the organization.
Admins: Manage the more bureaucratic flow of the organization.
Operational Members: Members of The Salary Squad normally conducting more "hands on" kind of work.
Logistics Members Members of The Salary Squad that work on support, and the maintenance of the organization.
Leader(s): The gang is headed by a man only known as 'Rockefeller'
Members: 75 total
Description: The Salary Squad was formed only very recently. It was founded by several disgruntled fired employees, some white collared, other blue. They formed the gang as a rejection of legal means of gathering wealth, believing that it's all the same. Some have described them as a gang that follows illegalist ideals. Unlike most other gang in Montgomery, they're not very territorial, and is not a focus for them. With their "territory" only really consisting of several secret locations in the state, and their small headquarters in Atlas. It's small, but highly armed, and effective. They've mainly conducted a large amount of small robberies, and some notable large scale heists.

The Salary Squad's most infamous achievement was their heist on a large casino in Las Venturas, where they killed a single law enforcement officers and injured dozens more. They didn't loose a single member and made out with over a hundred million dollars. Accomplished by extensive infiltration and hacking prior to the heist. This heist gave them national infamy as news agencies broadcast the heist play out for hours. However, it wasn't until they were responsible for the assassination of a political figure that they were deemed a terrorist organization by the Asterian government. Even though the assassinations weren't politically motivated, since it purely monetary as a contract offered by an unknown client. But to them, even bad publicity is still good publicity.

[Danceria]

Tag! Hacktivism intensifies!

[Senkaku]

Proposition for Group:

Name: Savior Inc.
Type: Business
Main "Trades": Organ trade, along with illegal crime scene clean up("Cleaning") . Also some forging.
Organization:
CEO: The head of Savior Inc.
Managers: Heads of the branches of the organization such as; Organ trade, "Cleaning", forging, and relations.
Representatives: maintaining the organization's communications and image with others.
Salesperson: Deals with the buying and selling of organs.
Engineers: Craft forged documents
Janitors: Provide "cleaning" services for paying customers
Leader(s): Jack Darringer
Members: Savior Inc. Is actually quite small, with only 125 official members. However, not having a lot of members has played in their favor since the cost of maintenance is very low. Giving them tons of extra money.
Description: Savior Inc. was an organization that formed pretty recently. It started off as a very small band of five individuals, all of them were medical experts, three of which were surgeons that had lost there doctor's licenses. They'd lost there careers do to rescission and were pretty angry to have spent six years of there lives in med school for nothing. So to prevent there talents from going to waste they got into illegal organ trading. Buying organs from donors for cheap, and selling them to the rich, making a massive amounts of money. After this initial wave of income they expanded their business and now incorporate 120 more employees, as well as some illegal crime scene cleaning to other organizations, and are considered the best in the business Giving them a pretty good reputation within the world of crime.

However, when it comes to things like territory, they own nothing. The only property they own is a small office building in Montgomery. But they work many areas within the city as wells as some other local areas. Savior Inc. runs a small network of corrupt doctors who preform the illegal organ transplants. As well as having contact with corrupt members in law enforcement to make sure their not arrested. But they will also forge documents and to make their illegal organ transplant deals seem more legitimate. Overall Savior Inc. isn't really a violent organization, and will often provide support to other organizations with high quality "cleaning" services, and even some medical support from time to time. Making them a good and dependable partner in crime.

Proposition for Group:

Name: The Salary Squad, or SS for short.
Type: Gang / Pseudo-terrorist organization
Main "Trades": Mainly Robbery, but with some hacking and illegal contract work. A slight mix of white and blue collar crimes.
Organization: Because of how small The Salary Squad is, there's not a very complex organization system.
Chief: Head of the organization.
Admins: Manage the more bureaucratic flow of the organization.
Operational Members: Members of The Salary Squad normally conducting more "hands on" kind of work.
Logistics Members Members of The Salary Squad that work on support, and the maintenance of the organization.
Leader(s): The gang is headed by a man only known as 'Rockefeller'
Members: 75 total
Description: The Salary Squad was formed only very recently. It was founded by several disgruntled fired employees, some white collared, other blue. They formed the gang as a rejection of legal means of gathering wealth, believing that it's all the same. Some have described them as a gang that follows illegalist ideals. Unlike most other gang in Montgomery, they're not very territorial, and is not a focus for them. With their "territory" only really consisting of several secret locations in the state, and their small headquarters in Atlas. It's small, but highly armed, and effective. They've mainly conducted a large amount of small robberies, and some notable large scale heists.

The Salary Squad's most infamous achievement was their heist on a large casino in Las Venturas, where they killed a single law enforcement officers and injured dozens more. They didn't loose a single member and made out with over a hundred million dollars. Accomplished by extensive infiltration and hacking prior to the heist. This heist gave them national infamy as news agencies broadcast the heist play out for hours. However, it wasn't until they were responsible for the assassination of a political figure that they were deemed a terrorist organization by the Asterian government. Even though the assassinations weren't politically motivated, since it purely monetary as a contract offered by an unknown client. But to them, even bad publicity is still good publicity.

Tag! Hacktivism intensifies!

Perhaps the [KYLARIS] tag in the title confused you or you missed it, but this thread is restricted to members of Kylaris. If you want to participate please apply through proper channels to join the region.

[Lunas Legion]

Proposition for Group:

Name: Bratva
Type: Mafia Group
Main "Trades": Arms, Drugs (seller mainly, produces some artificial drugs for sale), Cybercrime, Smuggling, Money Laundering, Fraud, Illegal Organs, Illegal Animals, Human Trafficking (rarely)
Organization: The Bratva does not have a clearly defined structure, but there are ranks.
Vor (thief) (head of all Bratva presence in a loose geographical area)
Derzhatel Obschaka (Book Keeper) (handles group finances)
Shpion (Spy) (keeps tabs on lower ranks for Vor, link between Brigadiers and Vor)
Brigadier (subordinate to Vor, runs all operations within internal division of Vor's territory)
Bratok (Brat) (the muscle/average criminals of the Bratva, can be subordinate to any higher rank)
Shukher (Nix) (lookouts, runners, non-Bratva associates)
Leader(s): The Bratva is run by the Vor Sovet, formed from all the currently alive Vory. Most Vory remain in their home countries, which are normally in Western Euclea or Isla Juana, along with their Derzhatel Obschaka. Kaxakh is believed to be home to the vast majority of Vor. As Kaxakh (and Western Eucleans in general) tend to stick out like sore thumbs abroad, normally only the two Shpion are the only Kaxakh on the ground in a Vor's territory, the rest of the group's manpower being formed from local recruits who are often unaware of their group's links back to the Bratva. Normally only the two Spies and the Brigadier are aware of the identity of the Vor, with everyone else believing that the Brigadier is the head of the group. The current Vor of Eastern Asteria is Yuri Kedrov, with Alfie Soze serving as his Brigadier for the Montgomery area.
Members: Worldwide, the Bratva has approximately 9,000 direct members involved in active criminal operations, but they have an extensive network of subordinate groups, clients, associates not to mention rumoured links with the kaxakh government through the NKVD and GRU-SVR. Within Montgomery, their numbers are low for a major criminal group, at 200 total, with all bar the Brigadier and Spies presuming they're working for a local gun-running group called the Redwood Handlers.
Description: The Bratva owes its existence to the GULAG programs undertaken by Pytor Bronzov in the early 1920s. Although banditry and robbery had been common in Kaxakh under the Tsars, no organised groups formed due to the backstabbing nature of the underworld in Kaxakh at that time. The GULAGs forced large parts of the disparate underworld together and united them against a common enemy; the government. This anti-government streak did not last long, however, as in 1928 all GULAG inmates were promised their freedom if they served in the Kaxakh People's Army during the Great War.

Large swathes of the Bratva put aside their hatred of the government for the pursuit of both freedom and survival. Some rose to high ranks within the armed forces, and after the war, those Bratva who retained their positions in the military began to create connections with their discharged comrades. Over the course of several decades, the Bratva monopolised organised crime in Kaxakh and reached a silent, mutually-beneficial arrangement with the NKVD and GRU-SVR while the occasional 'exiled' Bratva members established new territories across the world, forming supposedly local criminal groups to cover their involvement. The Bratva, despite its small size compared to other groups, packs a large amount of firepower for its size and most of its cover groups tend to remain on the defensive unless their Vor pours resources in for the purpose of expansion.

[Ugomvia]

Perhaps the [KYLARIS] tag in the title confused you or you missed it, but this thread is restricted to members of Kylaris. If you want to participate please apply through proper channels to join the region.

I have already applied and got accepted.

[Senkaku]

Perhaps the [KYLARIS] tag in the title confused you or you missed it, but this thread is restricted to members of Kylaris. If you want to participate please apply through proper channels to join the region.

I have already applied and got accepted.

well


this is awkward then