The Assarians
A Black Corporation
"I told you before, Khal. Nobody betrays the Assarians. Especially not people like you and me. Therefor ... I hereby sentence you to death. Don't take it too personally.
The Assarians. To think that a name can carry such weight in so many circles. Nobody knows much about them, except for what the Assarians wants to be known. Everything else, the finances and other more sensitive dates are only accessible to a few high stationed Family Members of the Old Blood.
What do they deal with? Everything. Everything from assassination, to protection. From espionage to blackmail. On one mission, they might simply poison an important political member, while blackmailing those closes to him to keep things quiet. On another, the Assarians might preform a cyber-infiltration process to steal important data. Maybe even bomb the entire building later just to cover most of their tracks. And nobody is safe from the blade of their Executioners; not even members of the Family itself.
Structure
New Blood
Those who are disposable
10+
New Blood are the members who have been part of the Family for at least a decade. They are to be inspected and evaluated regularly. About 3 out of 5 are either considered to be a security breach or have become traitors and are taken care of by the Executioners. Most of them are considered by the Old Blood to be disposable simpletons, but a few rare ones are more fondly looked upon, especially if they have a high track record.
Most are simple muscle who act as enforcers or low ranking spies and smugglers. A small percentages are efficient assassins or Cyber-Infiltrators who do fairly simple — but high risk — jobs.
Medium Blood
Those who are trusted
25+
Those of Medium Blood are members who have been part of the family for about 25 years and are considered to be loyal and trusted. At least most of the time. They form the strong core of the family and are given specific roles, whether it is as mundane as a Protector or as special as an Executioner. Other roles include Elite Cyber Infiltrator, Elite Assassin, and Elite Enforcer, jobs similar to those of New Blood but with a higher pay grade, among other things.
These are members who truly consider themselves to be part of a family and sees each other as brother and sister.
Old Blood
Those who are respected
40+
Old Blood are members who have been part of the family for at least 40 years. They are the most respected members of the Assarian family and it is rumored that a small number of them can trace their blood lineage to the original House Assarian. Their word is absolute law and they oversee all the operations that the Assarian Family deals with. They are the ones who have the final word regarding new possible members and may sometimes even request that one is to be contacted. No one except themselves is aware of their true numbers and they also hold all knowledge regarding the Family Assets.
History
The Past
1748 - 2042 PD
Contact with Parallel.
The Assarian Family have been part of Parallel for about 400 years. At first, the Family was nothing more than a Noble Household. Members of the House took contact with Parallel in an attempt to save the Household from financial ruin when no other option appeared available.
A contract signed and sealed.
Parallel, who had grown in influence in the last century, saw a chance for profit; the Assarian House might have hit hard financial times, but it was still considered to have a hefty amount of influential power; something that was decreasing by the week. Because of this, an agreement was made and a contract signed and sealed. Parallel would provide the Assarian House with financial support and the Assarians would be doing them services like espionage, blackmail, and smuggling. At least to begin with.
A new path of blood.
Over the following generations, the Assarians provided more and more services for Parallel. Money laundering was one of the primary ones, as well as providing diplomatic immunity to Parallel members, and placing out false evidence to convict the unjust. The service that became one of the major turning points for the Assarians was when they began starting a career regarding killing for profit. It first began with poison in a goblet or a swift cutting of a throat done by corrupt nobles. A few generations thereafter, family members began to be trained in the art form at an early age and during these times, the power of the nobles began to weaken in nearly every nation in Mésvéstell. At the same time, the power of companies began to expand.
Adapt within the shadow of betrayal.
The Assarians noticed that to hold on to their influence, they needed to adapt with the current times and started their own family company. The Assarian Company. It would be short-lived but leave a big impact on the family. After several decades of financial success on both a legal level, as well on the black market, several coordinated attacks on family members crippled both the House and the company. The surviving members quickly understood that this had been ordered by Parallel, but instead of going out in an act of mad revenge, they kept silent and adapted. They played ignorant in front of Parallel members and spent some amount of time chasing scapegoats to keep them calm.
A promise.
Why had Parallel ordered the crippling of the Assarians House and company? It was easy to uncover; they had begun to be seen as a threat and the surviving family members took this to heart. Their Family would become so powerful that they never would be crippled again by Parallel. And that was a promise that would come to fruition. But the path up to that point would prove to be a real challenge.
A new beginning.
They began anew by securing contacts with several influential and respected people who they knew they could trust. People whose families and companions had been their family's trusted collaborators for generations. They offered many of them a place within their Family of Crime; a place where they could be safe and not be overseen by Parallel directly. Soon, things began to stabilize for them.
A Family of Crime
Over the next several decades, the Assarian Family of Crime grew quickly in power, both in the political spectrum as well as the corporate. It no longer began to see kinship as the most valuable source of trust, but in bonds that had been sealed through oaths. Oaths that, if broken, would be met with death. Members of their Family of Crime started to call themselves the Assarians, in honor of their founders. Through hardships and a few big and small failures, the name Assarian became yet again a big player within Parallel. Only this time, they were not held back by family blood, and as such could grow even bigger and more powerful than before. As of 2042 PD, they have become the biggest player within Parallel. Their influence and resources could easily go toe to toe with those of the biggest Corporations.
Present
2151 PD
A Black Corporation
At the present, the Assarian Family of Crime have solidified their power within Parallel to such an extent that one would need to first cripple the syndicate to have a chance of destroying them. In the current times, they see a part of themselves as the biggest Black Corporation. However, they first and foremost see themselves as one big family, as they have for nearly 200 years. They take care of each other and will punish any who hurts their sisters and brothers.
Listen to us. And you will live.
Specter Corp.
Sandstorm Corp.
Frell's Sec Corp.
Assassination.
Money laundering.
Espionage.
Protection.
Smuggling.
Terror missions.
Blood Type ~ Old Blood.Board member Izack.
Name ~ Izack Jareck.
Age ~ 52 years old.
Weapon(s) of choice ~ One pistol.
Operations ~ Political influences. Blackmail. Assassination.
Foremost Loyalty towards ~ The Assarians.
Secondarily Loyalty towards ~ Himself.
Trust Level ~ Very High & Extremely acceptable.
One of the Family's board members who oversee the family as a whole, Izack take his role very seriously. He specializes in politics and blackmail, as well as high value assassinations when he has the time. He is respected among his fellow board members and feared by most of the lower bloods.
Blood Type ~ Medium Blood.Executioner Shayn.
Name ~ Shayn Hemeln.
Age ~ 39 years old.
Weapon(s) of choice ~ One pistol.
Operations ~ Assassination. Espionage.
Foremost Loyalty towards ~ The Assarians.
Secondarily Loyalty towards ~ Unknown.
Trust Level ~ High & Very acceptable.
One of few Executioners within the Family, it is Shayn's duty to find and execute the Family Members who has either become a security risk or turned traitor for one reason of another. He is to evaluate how big of a problem it all is and if it proves necessary, he is permitted to ask for assistance from a fellow Executioner.
Being one of the Executioners, his true purpose within The Family is highly confidential, and if compromised, he must deal with it within 24 hours or consider himself a dead man. The Family has no use of an exposed Executioner.
The newest members
Assassin Ella
Blood Type ~ New Blood.The Black Widow
Age ~ 33 years old.
Name ~ Ella Sandmark.
Weapon(s) of choice ~ Dual pistols & Assault Rifle.
Operations ~ Assassination. Protection.
Foremost Loyalty towards ~ Lucas Larsson.
Secondarily Loyalty towards ~ The Assarians.
Trust Level ~ Medium & Acceptable.
One of the fairly recent individuals to join the Assarian Family is the professional assassin Ella Sandmark a.k.a Black Widow. She has had an rather dark history with Parallel, who evaluated her as a potential assassin when she still went to senior high school. With several successful jobs on her certificate, she was contacted by the Family who always had space for another efficient assassin. She accepted the offer reluctantly, on the promise that those she loved would be protected and cared for. The Assarian Family agreed to the terms, since they had been given far worse requests.
When she found out that the assassin known as Black Wolf had joined the Family as well, she nearly quit out of anger, but manged to be persuaded to stay with them. She and Black Wolf shares a very long history and their relationship is complicated, to say the least.
Assassin Lucas.
Blood Type ~ New Blood.The Black Wolf
Name ~ Lucas Larsson.
Age ~ 33 years old.
Weapon(s) of choice ~ Sniper Rifle & Pistol.
Operations ~ Assassination. Protection. Infiltration.
Foremost Loyalty towards ~ Ella Sandmark.
Secondarily Loyalty towards ~ The Assarians.
Trust Level ~ Low & Unacceptable.
One of the Family's most recent members who is under constant watch by two Executioners, is the infamous assassin known as The Black Wolf. He is considered one of the best assassins in the business and shares a dark history with Parallel. Being evaluated as as a potential assassin when he went to senior high school, he was one of their most successful experiments. To successful in fact, since he single-handendly nearly crippled Parallel and executed several of their high members in his quest for revenge.
He stopped only once he was contacted by the Assarian Family, who offered a great amount of money for his loyalty. At first, he refused and even took out a few of their members. Only when he realized that the Black Widow was one of their members did he ask to join and wholeheartedly promised to follow their cause. As long as Black Widow was alive and well. He was the one who manged to persuade her not to quite, as it would mean her death.
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