Vices & Narcotics Trading Intergalactic Yakuza / VANITY

Started before the Empire’s crippling grasp choked out many populations, V.A.N.I.T.Y has been moving shipments of weaponry, narcotics, vices, spices, people, androids, tech, etc. for about 4 centuries (Est. 2552) and was originally passed down through lineage/nepotism, but this changed in 2720 after a seemingly innocuous trading of hands over to a one Viceroy Trenngall’das of the Tevarian homeworld, who represented their vast trade industry, or so he told. In reality, Trenngall’das had been killed about 8 years prior, his frozen corpse kept preserved when it was sucked out into space before being picked up in 2718 by scrappers, who upon failing to recognise who this man was, traded him for less than 6,000 Credits (now worth around 10,000 UEC) before being sold to an unknown buyer for almost 3 million Credits of unknown origin (approximated to be worth around 72.5 million UEC today) where he was then augmented and made into a flesh-puppet by a race of humanoid spiders, who implanted hundreds of thousands of eggs into his skin to keep him upright, and used plasma-based tech (this becomes important later) to manipulate his eyes, eyelids and beak into seeming lifelike (despite all depictions of his remains being very visibly severely crisped and torn). ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// At this time, the Company (known then only as Ghostdebt) were good at making people disappear, and did so quite efficiently, whether they were willing participants or not. Ironically enough, higher-ups and those associated to the group began to disappear as well. This caused a rumour to come about in the underground trade centers (UTC for short) and GD’s stock value (and reputation) became almost unsalvageable. This is when Trenngall’das (now being operated by spider-people) “became interested” with the company and out of the kindness of his cold, non-beating heart, bought the company for almost 1/8th of its original value (current-day value is unknown). Upon his takeover, several strange things occurred, such as the sudden return of most of those who had disappeared. Seeming unfazed on the surface, things operated as normal until one manager of a partner syndicate was found eating the head off her partner of 5 years, in front of their children. After being taken to rehabilitation, she began to mutter about “spider-people” and how they “could make webs into your mind”. Several more stepped forward, or, planned to. These members were assassinated, regardless of rank, status, or value to the overall hierarchy and success to the company. ////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////////// One Aberdeen evening in 2722, the scrappers who stumbled upon the corpse of Trenngall’das were surprised to discover that he had just become the representative once again for his planet in the Intergalactic Counsel. This was…peculiar, because he was dead, and they were sure of it. After searching for someone to contact, they stumbled upon Ghostdebt and after some digging (both literal and figurative) they learned of its past few years. Once learning of this, Ghostdebt made a plan to publicly execute their “Owner” during his acceptance speech of his position. Upon his head being blasted clean off by a sniper rifle stationed 2.2 miles away, the plasma inside ignited, sending scraps of his flesh and burning spider-eggs into the air and crowd. Ghostdebt dissolved, but a new Syndicate emerged: V.A.N.I.T.Y