Antallos 3058 Update

Antallos remains a bandit's haven in 3058. Pirate bands from throughout the Periphery come to The Port to gamble, trade, and establish contracts for illegal mercenary work in the Inner Sphere. Representatives from almost every organized crime syndicate in the Inner Sphere and Periphery have set up shop on Antallos, most in Port Krin but some also in other city-states. According to recent rumors, Antallos has also become a favorite port of call for dezgra Clan warriors who fled into the Periphery after their shattering defeats on Luthien and Tukayyid. In addition, speculation is rife that outcast Clansmen - sometimes referred to as members of the "bandit" or "dark" caste - live on Antallos in the city-states and lawless Free Zones. While it is virtually impossible to verify these rumors, the presence of Clan outcasts on Antallos is certainly plausible. The planet's status as a free port and a major center of legal and illegal trade makes it possible for various types of people with no prospects anywhere else to suevive on Antallos. Antallos's population includes more than its share of outcasts from all over human-occupied space, many of whom make a point of keeping their pasts dark. If outcasts from the Clans are among them, they would have every incentive to keep their Clan origins a secret. Were they known to be Clan, they might easily become targets for Inner Sphere and Periphery citizens embittered by the Clans' devastation of their homeworlds, or for disgraced Clan warriors looking to regain a little of their lost honor by killing the outcasts who are more deeply dishonored than they.

The constant warefare among Antallos's city-states has subsided to a simmer under the influence of the current economic boom, though tensions may erupt again without warning or apparent reason. Every form of weapon known to humankind, with the exception of atomics, has been used at some point in the planet's history. A particularly grim legacy of Antallos's violent past is the residue of chemical and biological egents in the air, and often the soil, of the so-called Free Zones - large swaths of no man's land between the various dome-covered city-states, utterly lacking in what little passes for law and order on this world.

The Free Zones are home to nomad tribes and bandit gangs who prey on unsuspecting or underprotected trading caravans that travel from city to city. The gangs attack at the slightest provocation, often using dangerous native predators as well as whatever military hardware they have acquired. A few gangs are even rumored to possess BattleMechs. The best-equipped force known to roam the Free Zones is Vinson's Vigilantes, a rogue mercenary unit that appears to be sliding inexorably toward banditry.

Antallos Force Listing

(Deployment as of 3058)

Unit Name                        Experience   Regiments  Homeworld
Vinson's Vigilantes              Regular         1       Antallos
     (CO: Colonel Pada Vinson)

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Will Day < wd@firstcircuit.net >
John Dutka < jdutka@pcnet.com >
Sep 23, 1996