Frats

Frats
The Frats, or Fraternities are the collection of organised crime groups that operate and control Steimz, a world renowned for the best gambling, prostitution, chemical recreation and vice in the history of humanity, offering decadent pleasures that would make a citizen of ancient Rome blush.

Originally a seat of learning with the most prestigious tertiary education academies in the Protectorate, for the local businesses, catering to the vices of students soon became massive business. With vice comes crime, corruption, violence, and huge profit margins, but the students were proving better at the business of vice than the petty thugs who had set themselves up to exploit them.

The fraternities began setting up their own establishments, and when the local crooks tried to get tough, the students proved tougher, the power of their connections, their numbers, and ability to make or break an establishment by blacklisting it saw the thugs lose and the students win.

For a short time there was a golden age for student debauchery, but with the criminals shut out of the equation, the fraternities soon started competing with each other, first with competitive pricing and better experiences, but soon with the violence the thugs had helped make them adept at meting out.

As their power and control grew, the institutes started to disavow the fraternities, and even expelled the worst fraternity leaders.

The fraternities gradually became disconnected from the institutes, becoming purely criminal enterprises, and they began carving up the city with turf wars and subterfuge. The greek alphabet names became reduced to a single greek letter often matching the surname initial of the fraternity boss.

Latterly the biggest mob, Gamma Gambala, was run by the Gambala brothers, until the violent elimination of the upper-echelons of the mob by their protege, Darian Corvalis. Not wanting to change his name, the mob simply became known as Gamma Frat, the highest profile mob to end the established naming convention.

Darian Corvalis annexed huge amounts of smaller mobs' turf, quickly becoming vastly more powerful than any other fraternity. To keep the peace and prevent further losses, the other frats decided to acknowledge Corvalis as the Brother of All Brothers, the Fratello di Tutti Fratelli, and allowed him free-reign to control the city's expansion south, as long as they could have a place there too.