Fabian Augments cartel
also known as Fabian Augments
A criminal organisation in the stranger's home dimension that finances expensive augments for desperate clients in exchange for unwritten lifetime debts; Ulric Stromfin currently heads its Seattle branch, and entire crews of thieves are bound to skim takes back to it. STD:FWH:Ch 7
Known facts
- recruits-by-debt-trapsSpecialises in finding desperate people — aspiring unrestricted-enhancement fighters, families needing rare medical nanites, anyone hungry for illegal stealth or weapons augments — and locking them into unwritten lifetime contracts; breaking a contract is fatal, and whole crews of thieves are obligated to share their takes.STD:FWH:Ch 7
- weapons-biometric-lockedAsked whether a stolen Ulric gun could be turned on him, John explains that the cartel's weapons are coded to the hands of their owners — a trigger that will not engage for anyone else. There is no advantage to be had from disarming them.STD:FWH:Ch 12
- kidnapping-kids-to-bait-ryan-chuQuinn confirms the trap Ealstan and Sefawynn have stumbled into: the cartel has been seizing children from Weswaran villages and spreading rumours about the seizures specifically because they know how Ryan reacts to kidnappings. The strategy is meant to flush him out of stealth on a sealed dimension, and the supposed reeve's son in Wealdsig's pit was bait.STD:FWH:Ch 21
- base-at-maelportQuinn lets slip — in the act of bragging about how poor John's chances are — that Maelport is the cartel's base of operations in this dimension; that they have a tracker that flagged John's warp-in to the north; and that the dimension was locked off after Ryan entered it, which is what has kept the cartel's hold on Weswara incomplete.STD:FWH:Ch 21
Backreferences
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