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Relari Coalition
Description
The Relari Coalition is an informal and somewhat vacuous organization that
functions as something in between a crime syndicate and an unregistered
corporation. Spreading silently across the face of the galaxy, their primary
goal is the acquisition of money. They tend to settle into an area
inconspicuously, pushing the limits of local laws and satisfying niche markets
that appease the local populace while maintaining an easy peace with local law
enforcement.
The Relari participate in
a variety of activities designed to collect the finances of the universe and
make them their own. They buy goods in locations where they are legal and
broker their delivery to locations where they are “less legal”. They run
gambling and entertainment ventures, particularly on the fringes of society
where limits can be pushed and high profits earned. They provide finance for
private business interests, asking few questions and charging high rates of
return, which sometimes finances illegal activities like piracy and smuggling.
They are not prone to violence, as it tends to sour local relations and hamper
business, but will respond to individual or political threats through monetary
pressure, violence, or quiet assassination.
Stories have it that the
Relari were originally an organization from an alien species that lived in the
Prodigal Void during the first colonization of the stars before the
Dark Age.
While their race developed only moderate technology and traded quietly with
early races like the Humans and
Bjaki, the Relari sect was secretive and
ambitious, manipulating the other fledgling star travelers and working them
for hard cash. They forged a wide-spread secret empire through finance and
diplomacy, eventually initiating members of other races and empires. Over the
millennia, their race would die off, for reasons speculated at in a hundred
stories, but the Relari organization would live on.
Functional
The Relari is run by a secretive group of individuals called the Senate and
occasionally referred to as the Sodality. The Senate is an extremely complex
web of powerful individuals who run operations within geographic areas. Their
structure is complicated and not made public, making it a baffling prospect to
attempt to seize or disable local operations by striking at the top of the
organization. Most attempt to remain secretive and out of the public eye,
though some are relatively outgoing where their individual operations make it
prudent. They are generally obscure but accessible individuals.
The Relari is structured
around small, independent groups that function within geographic areas with
the permission of the slightly less small, independent groups above them. On
the bottom, local bosses are often recruited, giving them the opportunity to
run their businesses, legal or illegal, within the framework of the Relari
structure. The local bosses control the local activities of Relari members and
channel money up to the organization above them. They are also expected to
respond to special requests from above and facilitate the activities of their
superiors. In exchange, they can exploit the power and finances of the Relari
organization to fuel their own local activities and are gradually given
expanded operations and power within their local area.
The Relari maintain large
facilities throughout the galaxy from which their regional operations are run.
These include system-wide facilities like
Nje 944, where they essentially
function as the system's government, to smuggling and entertainment bases such
as those quietly condoned by authorities in the
Rheanno system.
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