Outrider Caravan Company

Overview

Year Founded: 2021

Status: Active

The Outriders are a band of post-apocalyptic traders and those who provide them with safety and protection during their line of work. They strive to answer the growing need for commerce, as well as establish a proper network for trade across South Zagoria; aiming to function similarly to the trade companies of the old Wild West. They provide a transportation of goods across the region by contract and offer a safe trading outpost for travelers both local and foreign - believing that a strong commercial foundation is the best course on the path to rebuild society.

To the Outriders, to open up as a trader - especially one that deals in arms - means dealing with everyone and becoming embroiled in, the victim of, the instigator, funding, winning and losing many wars and skirmishes. They have weathered many difficulties, adapted and moved around the map, similarly to the old caravanners that The Company attempts to emulate.

With their initially established trading post near the town of Sosnovka, The Outrider Caravan Company has formed close ties with the predominant groups in the western regions of the map. While expanding their network, many survivors have come across their caravans on the road, or even visited their trade posts in the West around Green Mountain, on the streets of Chernogorsk, or perhaps discovered smaller operative stations to the North and East.

Alignment

Lawful Neutral

The Outrider Caravan Company is structured into three chains of command focused on trade, security, and scavenging. The captains of each branch form a tribunal that votes on decisions which affect the entire company.

In their dealings with the remnants of the dystopian society, they are willing to trade with anyone that respects them and their trade post, though they would not hesitate do whatever is necessary in order to protect themselves and their goals. They aim to be a guiding hand for society through commerce, using their influence as a respectable trading organization that isn’t afraid to get its hands dirty.

Individually, members can be motivated by their idealism, profits or just looking for an honest job.

Appearance

Most Outriders wear practical articles of clothing, suitable for the life they lead - often in tones of brown, grey, blue, and green.

Their merchants could be dressed in a more colorful and civilian manner, while their guards would use tactical gear.

In the early days of their establishment, their members could be recognized by grey armbands wrapped around their arms, while sometimes wearing the same color-corresponding bandanas. Nowadays their armbands are colored tan-brown with the logo of their company emblazoned upon it.

Origins

In 2021, Samuel J. Finch and Squirrel left the Pavlovo Trade Union in order to attempt to make new lives elsewhere. After Squirrel’s Novo Trade Union collapsed, he was approached by Finch, who during his time in Vigil, had to perform a tour with the Merchant Navy. He came back to Squirrel with the idea for a new trade company that was designed to survive the new era of the world - one that took inspiration from the law bringers, gunslingers and cowboys of the Old West.

By October of the same year, now 'Chief' Samuel Finch had the Outrider Caravan Company up and running with the help of Jordan (of Rangers Chernaurus) taking charge of the guardsmen and Birdy looking after the merchant business.