Pirates
Rustblood Cartel
Ex-pirates trying to go legit and take Kessler Reach for the workers
// On Record
Leader
Not named on record -- Narok Tor, a lieutenant working to drag the gang legitimate one business at a time, is the highest-ranking member the crew has met.
Structure
A former pirate gang restructuring itself into something closer to a legitimate outfit, business by business, under lieutenants like Narok Tor.
Goals
Take Kessler Reach's salvage economy away from Halvorsen Reike and run it for the workers instead.
Philosophy
Legitimacy isn't granted by a company charter, it's taken and held. Narok Tor pushes the gang toward that one deal at a time rather than by force alone.
Limits
Not established on record. Narok Tor's read of Vyakti Nau's sword the moment he saw it suggests the cartel still thinks in those terms even while going straight.
Rivals
- Halvorsen - Rykecontests the cartel's claim to Kessler Reach
// Referenced In
Session 6 — What Is the Universe, Brother?The Record
…She laid out the board plainly: the bar brawl was never a test, the real audition is the jobs H&R and the Rustblood Cartel have already offered, and a third way exists if the crew is willing to work it.…
Session 5 — Three Doors, One ClockThe RecordBack at the Slag Pit, the crew laid the system out in plain terms for each other: side with Narok Tarr and the cartel and get a ship fast down a dirty road, side with H&R and get a cleaner ship slower while the corporations tighten their grip, or back the station's grassroots third faction and probably end up broke and…
Session 3 — Forge HomeThe Record
…lk-marked wayfinding, and two sets of guards who watch each other as much as the crowd: the polished uniforms of Halvorsen Reike and the scavenged black of the Rustblood Cartel.
A dock foreman for the Rustblood Cartel, first name on Zabetta Tarr's list of suspected H&R moles.
A Rustblood Cartel medic, on Zabetta Tarr's list of suspected H&R moles.
A Rustblood Cartel enforcer, on Zabetta Tarr's list of suspected H&R moles.
A new recruit to the Rustblood Cartel, last name on Zabetta Tarr's list of suspected H&R moles.
The Rustblood Cartel's comms tech, on Zabetta Tarr's list of suspected H&R moles.
