After The Storm:Organizations

Organized groups

Corporations, gangs and other groups encountered in the campaign.

Gangs

Demons

The ranks of the Demons are indicated by the jackets they wear. Gang initiates only wear demon's head armbands. Gang members have black jackets with the gang symbol on the back. Officers have red jackets.

Most of the gang members are rather young, and tend to eventually wash out due to violence, getting arrested, or other reasons. Long time members usually get elevated to ranking positions or drafted to the gang leader's cadre of bodyguards.

Stars

Stars have a similar rank and age structure to Demons, but different symbols. Their symbol is a star that resembles a caricature of a sheriff's badge. Initiates have pins. Full members carry silver-colored badges and officers have badges of golden color. The gang boss has a white star.

The Stars are a wealthy gang and generally well armed, although their rank and file tend to be less tough in a fight than the more violent Demons. But the internal jockeying for position tends to be cutthroat among the Stars, and their higher ranking members can be dangerous indeed. The leadership of the Stars changes far more often than among the Demons.

Highwaymen

A criminal motorcycle gang. The gang members tend to be more mature than those of Demons or Stars. Their headquarters are in Brooklyn, but the gang also owns a roadhouse outside the City.

Cyborgs

MC Cyborgs are more of a motorcycle club than a gang. Young people who like motorcycles and gadgets. They wear faux cyberware and dress up as cyborgs as a matter of style and club image.

Death Masks

A gang of urban terrorists operating in Queens. Death Masks have done a number of public strikes against Hillman's police force. Formerly lead by Long Knife, currently under the control of Jade Mask.

Corporations

SwanBevy

SwanBevy transportation company, owned by Henrietta Swann. Mrs. Swann is fond of community projects such as supporting superheroes, which sometimes gets the company involved in activities many other corporations would consider peculiar.

Other

AGILE

Anti-Gang Initiative of Law Enforcement

A soft method approach to gang violence. After a number of studies showed that young people sentenced to lengthy jail terms ended up either returning to their gang upon release or, even worse, getting drafted to larger organized crime units after making contacts in jail, AGILE was created in an effort to break the cycle. It includes police and detention officers, prison authorities and also people of more civilian capacity, such as school and family counselors, psychologists and other medical professionals, and community workers.

AGILE targets primarily first time offenders, providing alternative sentencing, education options and outreach programs in an effort to direct people away from gangs and point them towards other kinds of groups where they can feel to belong, such as sports clubs and community groups. It is not uncommon for people who successfully broke their gang ties to end up joining AGILE themselves, and many former gang members visit schools and youth venues providing a less glorified and more disillusioning view of gang life in an effort to stop people joining gangs in the first place. They may even directly approach gang initiates in an effort to get them to reconsider joining, often working together with school counsilors to this end.

Both gangs and organized crime see AGILE as interfering with their recruiting pool, and people involved with AGILE sometimes have to deal with threats and harassment. They are not often targeted with direct violence, though, since the police officers involved treat attacks on AGILE civilian personnel with almost the same seriousness as attacks on the police, and gangs do not wish that kind of heat on themselves.