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The Blackwake Syndicate / TBWS
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Piracy
This is the Blackwake Syndicate. We don’t ask questions, we deliver results. Bounties, black-market cargo, ship extractions, sabotage if the price is right we’re already on it.
We operate outside the law, beyond borders, and under no one’s flag. Some call us criminals. Others call us professionals.
History
They didn’t start out as legends. Hell, they barely started out at all — just a bunch of nobodies scraping by. Drifters. Thieves. Low-level smugglers hopping between rusted freighters and abandoned moons, trying to stay one step ahead of hunger and two steps ahead of the law.
No grand plans. No loyalty. Just survival.
But survival teaches you a thing or two — like who you can count on when things go sideways, who you’d better shoot before they shoot you, and when it’s time to stop running and start hitting back.
That’s how it began. A few desperate souls thrown together by bad luck, worse choices, and shared enemies. They didn’t set out to form something big — they just needed each other. A favor here, a double-cross there, and before long they had a name: Blackwake.
It came from the scorched trail a dying ship leaves as it burns across the void — dark, deadly, and unmistakable. “Follow in our wake, and you drown.” It wasn’t just a name. It was a warning.
At first, it was petty stuff — hijacking shipments, boosting cargo, ghosting patrol routes. But they got better. Smarter. Meaner. They took the jobs no one else would touch: dangerous, dirty, and usually ending with someone bleeding out in low gravity.
And with every success, the legend grew.
Blackwake stopped being just a crew. It became a symbol — a banner flying in the shadows, run by code and credits. No mercy. No masters. No second chances. They wormed their way into every system, every station, every backwater planet where people whispered about them but never said their name out loud.
They didn’t care about empires or causes. Just power. Just profit. And they took both, whether it meant slicing through systems, blasting through hulls, or slipping away before anyone knew they’d been there at all.
These days? You don’t find Blackwake — they find you. If you’re lucky, you’ll never even know they were close. If you’re not… well, let’s just say the last thing you’ll hear is the silence that follows.
Manifesto
WE MOVE IN SHADOW — BUT WE LIVE BY CODE:
NO MASTERS.
No captains in clean uniforms, no warlords behind walls, no corporate leash.
We answer to each other.
If you try to own us, you disappear.
NO MERCY.
We hit first. We don’t ask. We don’t forgive.
You cross us, you drown in the wake.
NO LOOSE ENDS.
Trust is rare. Loyalty is everything.
If you sell us out, pray the void takes you before we do.
NO HEROES.
We’re not here to save the system.
We’re here to survive it — and profit from the ashes.We don’t recruit.
We don’t advertise.
We take in those who have nothing left — and give them something that lasts.
Blackwake is purpose.
Blackwake is power.
Blackwake is family, forged in fire and debt and the knowledge that no one else is coming to save you.
You earn your place here.
You fight to keep it.
And if you fall, you fall with your blade drawn.
So if you’re out there — lost, hunted, burned too many bridges — and you’re ready to stop running…
We’ll find you.
Or you’ll hear the name.
And know it’s already too late.
BLACKWAKE.
No mercy. No masters.
Charter
BLACKWAKE SYNDICATE: CODE OF CONDUCT
“Live by the code, or die outside it.”
Rule 1: No Masters
We serve no throne, no flag, no name but our own.
Take orders only from within the Syndicate — and only if they earn it.
Rule 2: Loyalty or Death
Your word is your bond. Your crew is your life.
Break either, and you’re gone — fast, quiet, and permanent.
Rule 3: No Loose Ends
Keep your mouth shut, your data clean, and your shadow short.
Anyone who compromises us is erased — no debate, no delay.
Rule 4: No Mercy
We strike first. We strike hard.
Weakness is a liability. Show it, and you won’t get a second chance.
Rule 5: The Job Is Sacred
If we take a contract, we finish it.
No bailouts. No second thoughts. If you say yes, you see it through.
Rule 6: Take Care of Our Own
Credits are split fair based on risk and role.
Skimming is stealing. Stealing from us is suicide.
Rule 7: Operate in Silence
We do not advertise. We do not leave trails.
If they know who hit them, you did it wrong.
Rule 8: Civilians Are Not Targets
Collateral draws heat. Only burn what you have to.
If they get in the way willingly, they made their choice.
Rule 9: Respect the Circle
Leadership is earned through blood, not talk.
Challenge is allowed — disrespect is not.
Rule 10: Protect the Name
Blackwake is more than a crew — it’s our shield, our weapon, and our legend.
Don’t drag it through the mud. Don’t sell it out. Don’t forget it.
Break the rules, and you break yourself.
We don’t forgive. We don’t forget. We don’t bury twice.
BLACKWAKE
No mercy. No masters.
