Registered Vex Offenders / RVO

History of Registered Vex Offenders:

Miners turned crime syndicate, RVO is currently an operation that mixes honest workers, pioneering surveyors and pirate cutthroats.

Originating in the Cathcart system, the organization is legally a young one, but the actual history of the syndicate goes way back;
According to stories told by veteran miners and pirates, RVO was originally a group of asteroid miners who dealt raw resources to the powerful pirate council that built the station known as Spider.
They brought their families out to the system after constructing their own small habitat in a hollowed out asteroid. From this base, their small operation continued to prosper modestly.
As the years passed and the heads of family changed however, Cathcart became a much more dangerous system than it had been previously, and the families found that their connections with the pirate lords were not enough to keep them safe anymore.

This came to a climax when a gang, newly formed on Spider, boarded the RVO habitat and held some family members hostage; but the response was not what the gangers had expected. The entirety of the habitat took up arms and locked the hostage takers in with their hostages. They were then offered the chance to put down down their arms and leave the families habitat or die slowly as the room was cut off from life support.
The hostage takers, put off by the cold and heartless actions of the families, accepted the offer and made to flee back to Spider.
As the dock doors opened however, they found the miners lasers waiting for them, melting their ship back into the slag it once was.

This showed the families that change needed to happen to keep them all safe. Firstly, a council was called between the family heads. In the council, the issues that had arisen in recent years were brought to light; namely, that the Cathcart system had changed from a rough place, to a deadly place. If the families were going to survive, they would have to change with it.
After much deliberation, it was agreed that although the main income of the families would remain industrial, there would be margins to meet, to ensure that the families were taken seriously by the rest of the system. Piracy and other illegal activities were green-lit to this effect.

The delegation of Responsibilities was implemented, to ensure that every family had a distinct role in protecting everyone else. thes signalled the end of the small, family mining business, and the beginning of a strong-knit syndicate with fingers in many pies of commerce.
Many generations later the syndicate has moved away from the pirate system, but keeps to it’s roots. New responsibilities have been added, as have new families, to what has legally been labeled as “RVO”.
But the times are hard, the UEE is facing tough years ahead, and it is the duty and responsibility of RVO leadership, to see their people through.