The crime cartel of the Low Spiral. Colour green. Founded in year 1015, when the crime families of Vesk joined together. Seat on Vesk and the Night Bazaar station.
The Nine Bosses. Each boss heads one crime family. They meet on Vesk to settle deals and fights.
Lieutenants. Each boss has lieutenants who run a trade, such as Rush, guns or fight pits.
Fixers. Go-betweens in every port who hand out jobs and collect debts.
The Wardens of Gallow. They run the prison world for profit.
Vesk, Gallow, Sump and Marrow. The station Night Bazaar is a black market made of old hulls welded together.
Make money.
Keep the Rush trade growing.
Make the war last as long as possible, so both sides keep buying.
Keep every power in debt to the Syndicate.
Makes Rush in the labs of Sump from the crystal-fungus of Marrow.
Smuggles guns to both the Dominion and the Union.
Runs Gallow as a prison world for profit, with fight pits and labour auctions.
Uses bribes, blackmail and debts to control officials.
Sells anything at the Night Bazaar.
Each other. The Nine Bosses do not trust one another.
Dominion customs and Union militia. Both hunt smugglers.
Order of the Last Light. The Order treats Rush users in its hospitals and hates the trade.
Free Drift Compact. Sometimes partners, sometimes rivals for the same cargo.
Take a job from a fixer and do it well.
Owe a boss a debt you cannot pay.
Be born into one of the families of Vesk.
Win in the fight pits of Gallow or Vesk.
Two bosses are close to open war over the Marrow fields.
A new kind of Rush is turning some users strange and silent.
Someone is selling black crystal at the Night Bazaar.