Editing Baroque Blue (section)

=====The Card Gang=====

Unlike the other big players, the Red Queen doesn't recuit as many competent members into her operations as possible. She instead actively excludes nearly everyone. She demands that there never be more than 52 employees in her entire outfit, bottom to top, and so to recruit the best and brightest, she kills a few employees every month. In consequence, the highly skilled looking to prove their worth flock to her. 

Criminals really are that stupid.

The Card Gang deal only in high-profile, high profit-crimes. Any one of their scores would be the crime of a lifetime for your normal thug, but their work is so expensive, they need to repeat such performances just to maintain their equipment and pay for their bosses extravagant lifestyle. Of course, they receive significant remuneration themselves.

The big question is - if 70% of the profits of crime belong to the Cammorae, they outnumber her hundreds to one and she has adopted an organizational model that prevents her from ever being real competition, why do the Cammorae care so much about her? Why is there talk of vendetta?

Because the Red Queen has absolutely no compunction about taking her profits from Cammorae holdings. She robs those they offer protection to, she robs a Made Man making his delivery to the capo, she steals the seveneenth century painting from Mr. Corrado's close friend in the Raith Estates. Since she arrived, she is attack, attack, attack, the only respite the two times the Midnight Samaritan put her away for a few months.