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Fearless Jackals

The Fearless Jackals is a major underground crime syndicate specializaing in smuggling illegal goods, supplies, and weapons along with some black market operations. They have many fronts, but the most significant is Proxima/Durendal Export Company a subsidiary ofOlin Industries.

Organizational History

The Fearless Jackals was started byLeonardo the Jackal during the days of the 3rd Civil War specializing in illegal smuggling. Andrea Treschi after an intitial brief career the Tech Infantry and the Raptors joined the business. He purchased a Pelican-class freighter named The Fearless and recruited several were-creatures including a were-rhino. One of the Fearless Jackals first jobs was to transport arms and medical supplies to Frontier Worlds Territory in spite of a InSec unofficial but enforced embargo for Arthur Clarke.

During the war Treschi organized a coup. He traveled toWilke's Star, killed Leonardo, and took over the organization for himself.

After the death of his mother (who he murdered), Treschi inherited a substantial amount of stock of Olin Corporation. Later, the Jackals had expanded their activities to include complicated money laundering schemes, but desired a larger more formal front for their activies along with a more significant supplier of weapons to smuggle through the black market. At this time Olin Industries was on the verge of becoming a megacorp and was already a major conglomerate.

Fortunately for Treschi and Jackals, Olin Industries could help to solve both issues. Treschi used his shareholder leverage and magical abilities to influence the board of directors to restructure the operations of Proxima/Durendal Export Company and Winchester Repeating Arms which were some of the subsidiaries of Olin. Proxima/Durendal Export Company provided a front for the smuggling operations and Winchester provided arms to be sold in addition to weapon transactions that were taking place in black markets that needed transport.

Decades later the Organization continued to grow and the revenue streams from smuggling, money laundering, and other illegal activities became complicated.  At this time, Treschi turned towards the legal expertise of Douglas Munro who had been groomed for his roll as the primary attorney for the Jackals. Through the legal expertise of Munro and a major law firm on New Paris, the size of the Jackals operation was not revealed to auditors of Olin for decades. While the Federation and now the Holy Terran Empire recognize the existance of the Fearless Jackals, neither realize the full scope of the organization largely due to the efforts of Munro and his fellow attorneys.

Organizational Changes following the Rise Of the Holy Terran Empire

The rise of the Holy Terran Empire has benefited the Jackals and caused a significant setback. On the one hand, the disabling of the jumpgates, rising pirate activity disrupting intersellar transportation increased demand for Fearless Jackal smuggling services. Additionally, the rise in private house militias and planetary militaries has also increased the demand for arms and other supplies produced by weapon manufacturers including Winchester. As a result profits for the organization are soring.

The rise of Holy Terran Empire also caused the Fearless Jackals to make structural changes which they had no desire to do. Previously, the Jackals had no a centralized federation wide central base of operations preferring regional headquarters overseeing surrounding planetary offices, warehouses, and fronts spread galaxy with most of the legal expertise being provided out of New Paris by Douglas Munro and his law firm. The overall direction and goals of the organization were guided by Treschi and he could through the use of magic and other means keep the overall organzation concentrated on long run strategies that would result in greater profits, increased pay for its members, and revenue needed for special reseach projects and other interests.

Current Activities

More recently Treschi and several of his high ranking followers have left the Fearless Jackals as official leaders to pursue covert projects possibly geared towards removing Vin Dane from power. In his place, he has left the overall operation of the Fearless Jackals in the capable hands of Munro whose objective is to continue to grow the operation while skimming off the profits which are considerable and sending the to Treschi for his research.

Lacking the magical abilities of Treschi that allowed him to coordinate the activities of the Jackals across so many star systems, Munro has decided to create a central headquarters. His first choice would have been Babylon since that was at the heart of the former Terran republic. However, the main city on that planet has yet to recover from a major nuclear explosion a decade ago.

As a result, Munro has decided to turn to Jennifer's Star now under the rule of House Griswald. House Griswald currently is run by a triumvirate. It is rumored that one of Munro's agents has recruited a member into the Fearless Jackals for a considerable amount of cash and an exchange of favors.

Behind the Scenes

The Fearless Jackals was created by Chris as group to support Andrea Treschi who was meant to become the Jackal during season 4.3, but the character became much more political.

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