NIGHT CARTEL
Major Stations: New Sicily (The Belt)
When affiliation to one of the many multi-ethnic
habitats replaced the concepts of ethnicity and
nationality, cultural heritage and traditions faded
with them into history. Several pre-Fall ethnic
syndicates formed a careful alliance of necessity at
first, but uploading and morphing soon after tore
down any remaining social codes or racial prejudice.
Progressive in both entrepreneurial and criminal
vision, the Night Cartel emerged from the remnants
of Earth’s underworld syndicates, merging the best
qualities of each.
The Night Cartel holds legitimate hypercorp status
in certain habitats while clearly working outside the
law in more law-abiding or less corrupt regimes. The
Night Cartel is involved in a number of traditional
crime outlets: racketeering, extortion, kidnapping,
pod slavery, and prostitution. They have also adapted
well to the latest technological developments and
compete with the triads in the electronic stimulant,
drug, and nanofab piracy markets. Like the triads, the
Night Cartel sometimes operates though legitimate
hypercorp fronts.