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KAGULA SYNDICATE
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: To codify a supporting group aligned with the Imperial Revenant
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Role: Criminal Organization | Mafia
Links:
Group Name: Kagula Syndicate
Classification: Criminal Organization | Business Conglomerate
Headquarters: Nar Shaddaahttp://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Nar_Shaddaa/Legends | Cloudburst Casino
Loyalties: Kagula Nem’ro Faron | Secretly Darth Orthushttp://starwarsrp.net/topic/129751-darth-orthus/
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Description: The Kagula Syndicate, also referred to as the Kagula Cartel, Kagula the Hutt’s Syndicate, or Kagula the Hutt’s Cartel, is a criminal enterprise resembling the Hutt gangs of old. Kagula, the reigning Hutt Gangster who controls the underworld association built it from his meager inheritance into a respectable endeavor. Or at least, respectable in wealth.
The Syndicate deals in just about every organized criminal activity that exists, including slave trading, drug and arms dealing, smuggling, piracy, money laundering, chop shops, extortion, and racketeering in order to take over territory and exert its influence over the relatively small region it claims. For the most part, the Hutt simply takes a cut from the smaller gangs that operate within his territory rather than control every criminal activity that occurs in his domain. However most of its influence comes from Kagula’s position as a prolific information broker. He operates a series of informants, spies, and slicers to gather information on rivals, businesses for use dealing with insider trading and extortion.
In reality the Syndicate is fairly small, only operating on a small number of worlds in force, centered on a handful of neighborhoods and factory districts on Nar Shaddaa and Nal Hutta, including Jiguunahttp://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jiguuna, with a few small groups of pirates owing allegiance to the Hutt raiding the Kessel Sector. The main extension of Kagula’s influence comes from his investment in legitimate industries, buying and trading stocks using his criminal empire to fund his purchases.
Kagula operates the Cartel from his Casino floating in the Nar Shaddaa skyline, Cloudburst, where he resides in the a section of the hotel, using it as his palace.
SOCIAL INFORMATION
Hierarchy: Kagula Nem’ro stands as the absolute leader of his fledgling criminal empire. What he can’t do himself he can have done for him with bribes, threats, corporate subterfuge, intimidation, and assassination from the galaxies large contingent of bounty hunters, assassins, and pirates and through his own gangs of thugs and mercenaries.
His Majordomo, a position that requires a being of astute mind possessing the ability to read his master’s sinister moods, changes every so often. Sometimes the previous holder of the title is executed in a grizzly manner for certain financial failures, sometimes they are replaced by internal manueverings of others within the court. This being helps control the Hutt’s day to day business and manages the beings who assist in managing the Warlord’s finances.
Each cell or gang controlled by the Hutt and every business venture he has his fingers into has a Boss, Vigo, Don, or other personalized title, who oversees the Syndicate’s operations in that cell. Each Boss normally has an Underboss, various captains, enforcers and other resources to call upon in order to carry out their business. The only exception would be the legitimate arm of Kagula’s enterprise, who use standard business oriented hierarchies.
In addition to members, the gang deals with some information brokers, bounty hunters, smugglers, pirates, and assassins on a by contract basis using the broad term ‘Associate’ to define them.
Slaves, not uncommon in Hutt society, hold a special place at the bottom of the rung. Those working in labor camps or other such facilities are completely meaningless so long as the camp meets its expected output and remains under its expected operating costs. This is in stark contrast to the slaves within Kagula’s court, who are considered the Hutt’s personal property. An act made against them could be construed as an act against the Hutt himself, which if gone unpunished would diminish the fear and respect he is able to invoke.
Membership: Most members of the Syndicate are criminals, hired by the Hutt Gangster directly or indirectly through his network of Bosses, a scant few are professionals such as lawyers, accountants, and financiers paid large sums to manage the Hutt’s finances. Some are indentured to the Hutt, working off their debt in his factories or mines or are slaves owned by the Hutt and put to work.
Doctrines: The Syndicate as a whole has very few laws, primarily those revolving around doing one’s duties and responsibilities as delegated by the Hutt Gangster and work to his benefit in exchange for monetary compensation. The legitimate arm of the criminal enterprise is expected to follow the laws of the governing body they operate within, mostly just so they can continue to profit Kagula and his goons without incurring fines or penalties than a desire to adhere to the rule of law.
Curios: Bosses often receive a simple brand or tattoo of the Syndicates symbol somewhere on their person, marking them as members to other Hutt Clans or organizations.
Goals: The Syndicate’s purpose is built around the accumulation of wealth, power, and influence. Kagula seeks to gain authority and voice among the various Hutt Cartels, Organizations, and Councils that have risen since the end of the Four Hundred Year Darkness by acquiring more holdings, eliminating rivals, and gathering increasingly grandiose treasures. Similarly, the other members of the syndicate who serve the Hutt’s interests are well compensated.
MEMBERS
Kagula Nem’ro, the brutal Hutt warlord who has spent his life building the small underworld empire. Roughly six hundred years old, Kagula is a adult Hutt, nearing middle aged. He is distinguished by his numerous lower lip rings, and a scar on the left side of his face over his eye, leaving it a milky white, which he gained from rival criminal gang during a takeover.
The Hutt gangster uses a combination of reputation and charm, with occasional fluctuations of brutal displays of ruthlessness like most Hutts, not above feeding a disappointing minion to a beast in his arena. The Hutt himself is fat and unlikely to be a serious threat to any skilled warrior, his danger lies in his ability to gather information in secret, hide his involvement in criminal activities, and his understanding of the business world, which has allowed him to make a great deal of money.
The Hutt has been known to refer to himself as Kagula Nem’ro, one of few Hutts who are known by two names to outsiders. The Hutt normally allows those serving under him to call him Nem’ro the Hutt, using his clan name; while he prefers outsiders formally address him by both for reasons unknown. It’s possible he prefers this solely to be eccentric.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Kagula Nem’ro Faron was born before the Four Hundred Year Darkness but by the outbreak of the Gulag Plague he had not yet reached adulthood. His father, Germaga Nem’ro Faron died during the initial outbreak of the disease, infecting numerous hutts and much of his own gang in the process, leaving Kagula with only a scant inheritance on Nar Shaddaa. The young Hutt grew into adulthood during the era of the Four Hundred Year Darkness, using what little money his father had left him to hire a group of thugs on Nar Shaddaa, who he used to shake down and drive out local shop owners in the district. He then bought the abandoned shops, insured them far above their value, and had them burned, collecting the insurance money and kickstarting his criminal empire.
Over the years he consolidated his influence in the neighborhood, coming to own most of its property and leasing it to others. As Kagula’s wealth grew, he encountered his first rival, Durthra, who possessed a vast fortune and was well known. With comparably small resources, the inability to hire forces to overpower Durtha, Kagula found himself as the upstart attempting to usurp the elder Hutt. Without the ability to directly assail Durtha or risk an overwhelming confrontation he was not likely to win, Kagula was forced to rely on more covert means. He began building his information network even before the Darkness lifted from the galaxy, using informants, shady businessmen, and spies planted in his enemy’s camp to gather intelligence he could use for personal gain.
Kagula began insider trading, using his knowledge of Durtha’s finances to subvert the elder Hutt’s business ventures costing him a great deal of credits while also increasing his own wealth. His masterstroke came as a plot to cost Durtha enough money that the hutt became desperate, which inevitably came to pass. Durtha took out a loan, using his palace casino as collateral, in order to fund a big score which would put him back on track. Kagula meanwhile opened a debt buying company, buying up the debt owed by Durtha in secret. Once he possessed it, it was merely a waiting game, trading and selling off the other debts while holding Durtha’s loan and running out the clock, having the loan’s ownership change corporations often so that Durtha would be unable to pay the appropriate company and his term would come up, drowning the Hutt’s accountants in a mess of bureaucracy and red-tape.
Durtha, who did not know his debt was owned by his rival, simply went back to business as usual letting his minions handle the loan. Being a Hutt, they were not willing to present him with bad news or tell him of their failures for some time. It wasn’t until it was too late that he realized his beloved seat of power was soon to be repossessed. The elder hutt fought the eviction with every legal and illegal tactic possible, but with his wealth largely spent or tied up in illegal activities he was unable to stop the inevitable. When Kagula and the authorities arrived to evict the Hutt and his gangsters, Durtha attacked Kagula, slashing him with a vibroblade across the eye in Kagula’s moment of triumph. Kagula’s Houk bodyguard attacked the hutt, leading to both Durtha and the Houk falling from the platform to their deaths kilometers below.
Kagula has since consolidated control over several districts on Nar Shaddaa and Nal Hutta, expanding his empire little by little, placing spies and buying off the well informed in many places throughout the galaxy.
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
Intent: To codify a supporting group aligned with the Imperial Revenant
Image Credit: Herehttp://www.swtor.com/ | Here
Role: Criminal Organization | Mafia
Links:
- Hutt Cartelhttp://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Hutt_Cartel
- Imperial Revenanthttp://starwarsrp.net/topic/134802-the-imperial-revenant/
Group Name: Kagula Syndicate
Classification: Criminal Organization | Business Conglomerate
Headquarters: Nar Shaddaahttp://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Nar_Shaddaa/Legends | Cloudburst Casino
Loyalties: Kagula Nem’ro Faron | Secretly Darth Orthushttp://starwarsrp.net/topic/129751-darth-orthus/
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The Syndicate deals in just about every organized criminal activity that exists, including slave trading, drug and arms dealing, smuggling, piracy, money laundering, chop shops, extortion, and racketeering in order to take over territory and exert its influence over the relatively small region it claims. For the most part, the Hutt simply takes a cut from the smaller gangs that operate within his territory rather than control every criminal activity that occurs in his domain. However most of its influence comes from Kagula’s position as a prolific information broker. He operates a series of informants, spies, and slicers to gather information on rivals, businesses for use dealing with insider trading and extortion.
In reality the Syndicate is fairly small, only operating on a small number of worlds in force, centered on a handful of neighborhoods and factory districts on Nar Shaddaa and Nal Hutta, including Jiguunahttp://starwars.wikia.com/wiki/Jiguuna, with a few small groups of pirates owing allegiance to the Hutt raiding the Kessel Sector. The main extension of Kagula’s influence comes from his investment in legitimate industries, buying and trading stocks using his criminal empire to fund his purchases.
Kagula operates the Cartel from his Casino floating in the Nar Shaddaa skyline, Cloudburst, where he resides in the a section of the hotel, using it as his palace.
SOCIAL INFORMATION
Hierarchy: Kagula Nem’ro stands as the absolute leader of his fledgling criminal empire. What he can’t do himself he can have done for him with bribes, threats, corporate subterfuge, intimidation, and assassination from the galaxies large contingent of bounty hunters, assassins, and pirates and through his own gangs of thugs and mercenaries.
His Majordomo, a position that requires a being of astute mind possessing the ability to read his master’s sinister moods, changes every so often. Sometimes the previous holder of the title is executed in a grizzly manner for certain financial failures, sometimes they are replaced by internal manueverings of others within the court. This being helps control the Hutt’s day to day business and manages the beings who assist in managing the Warlord’s finances.
Each cell or gang controlled by the Hutt and every business venture he has his fingers into has a Boss, Vigo, Don, or other personalized title, who oversees the Syndicate’s operations in that cell. Each Boss normally has an Underboss, various captains, enforcers and other resources to call upon in order to carry out their business. The only exception would be the legitimate arm of Kagula’s enterprise, who use standard business oriented hierarchies.
In addition to members, the gang deals with some information brokers, bounty hunters, smugglers, pirates, and assassins on a by contract basis using the broad term ‘Associate’ to define them.
Slaves, not uncommon in Hutt society, hold a special place at the bottom of the rung. Those working in labor camps or other such facilities are completely meaningless so long as the camp meets its expected output and remains under its expected operating costs. This is in stark contrast to the slaves within Kagula’s court, who are considered the Hutt’s personal property. An act made against them could be construed as an act against the Hutt himself, which if gone unpunished would diminish the fear and respect he is able to invoke.
Membership: Most members of the Syndicate are criminals, hired by the Hutt Gangster directly or indirectly through his network of Bosses, a scant few are professionals such as lawyers, accountants, and financiers paid large sums to manage the Hutt’s finances. Some are indentured to the Hutt, working off their debt in his factories or mines or are slaves owned by the Hutt and put to work.
Doctrines: The Syndicate as a whole has very few laws, primarily those revolving around doing one’s duties and responsibilities as delegated by the Hutt Gangster and work to his benefit in exchange for monetary compensation. The legitimate arm of the criminal enterprise is expected to follow the laws of the governing body they operate within, mostly just so they can continue to profit Kagula and his goons without incurring fines or penalties than a desire to adhere to the rule of law.
Curios: Bosses often receive a simple brand or tattoo of the Syndicates symbol somewhere on their person, marking them as members to other Hutt Clans or organizations.
Goals: The Syndicate’s purpose is built around the accumulation of wealth, power, and influence. Kagula seeks to gain authority and voice among the various Hutt Cartels, Organizations, and Councils that have risen since the end of the Four Hundred Year Darkness by acquiring more holdings, eliminating rivals, and gathering increasingly grandiose treasures. Similarly, the other members of the syndicate who serve the Hutt’s interests are well compensated.
MEMBERS
The Hutt gangster uses a combination of reputation and charm, with occasional fluctuations of brutal displays of ruthlessness like most Hutts, not above feeding a disappointing minion to a beast in his arena. The Hutt himself is fat and unlikely to be a serious threat to any skilled warrior, his danger lies in his ability to gather information in secret, hide his involvement in criminal activities, and his understanding of the business world, which has allowed him to make a great deal of money.
The Hutt has been known to refer to himself as Kagula Nem’ro, one of few Hutts who are known by two names to outsiders. The Hutt normally allows those serving under him to call him Nem’ro the Hutt, using his clan name; while he prefers outsiders formally address him by both for reasons unknown. It’s possible he prefers this solely to be eccentric.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
Kagula Nem’ro Faron was born before the Four Hundred Year Darkness but by the outbreak of the Gulag Plague he had not yet reached adulthood. His father, Germaga Nem’ro Faron died during the initial outbreak of the disease, infecting numerous hutts and much of his own gang in the process, leaving Kagula with only a scant inheritance on Nar Shaddaa. The young Hutt grew into adulthood during the era of the Four Hundred Year Darkness, using what little money his father had left him to hire a group of thugs on Nar Shaddaa, who he used to shake down and drive out local shop owners in the district. He then bought the abandoned shops, insured them far above their value, and had them burned, collecting the insurance money and kickstarting his criminal empire.
Over the years he consolidated his influence in the neighborhood, coming to own most of its property and leasing it to others. As Kagula’s wealth grew, he encountered his first rival, Durthra, who possessed a vast fortune and was well known. With comparably small resources, the inability to hire forces to overpower Durtha, Kagula found himself as the upstart attempting to usurp the elder Hutt. Without the ability to directly assail Durtha or risk an overwhelming confrontation he was not likely to win, Kagula was forced to rely on more covert means. He began building his information network even before the Darkness lifted from the galaxy, using informants, shady businessmen, and spies planted in his enemy’s camp to gather intelligence he could use for personal gain.
Kagula began insider trading, using his knowledge of Durtha’s finances to subvert the elder Hutt’s business ventures costing him a great deal of credits while also increasing his own wealth. His masterstroke came as a plot to cost Durtha enough money that the hutt became desperate, which inevitably came to pass. Durtha took out a loan, using his palace casino as collateral, in order to fund a big score which would put him back on track. Kagula meanwhile opened a debt buying company, buying up the debt owed by Durtha in secret. Once he possessed it, it was merely a waiting game, trading and selling off the other debts while holding Durtha’s loan and running out the clock, having the loan’s ownership change corporations often so that Durtha would be unable to pay the appropriate company and his term would come up, drowning the Hutt’s accountants in a mess of bureaucracy and red-tape.
Durtha, who did not know his debt was owned by his rival, simply went back to business as usual letting his minions handle the loan. Being a Hutt, they were not willing to present him with bad news or tell him of their failures for some time. It wasn’t until it was too late that he realized his beloved seat of power was soon to be repossessed. The elder hutt fought the eviction with every legal and illegal tactic possible, but with his wealth largely spent or tied up in illegal activities he was unable to stop the inevitable. When Kagula and the authorities arrived to evict the Hutt and his gangsters, Durtha attacked Kagula, slashing him with a vibroblade across the eye in Kagula’s moment of triumph. Kagula’s Houk bodyguard attacked the hutt, leading to both Durtha and the Houk falling from the platform to their deaths kilometers below.
Kagula has since consolidated control over several districts on Nar Shaddaa and Nal Hutta, expanding his empire little by little, placing spies and buying off the well informed in many places throughout the galaxy.
