{"data":{"id":18768,"title":"Portfolio: Nine Tails","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/comm-link\/spectrum-dispatch\/18768-Portfolio-Nine-Tails","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-links\/18768","api_public_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/comm-links\/18768","channel":"Undefined","category":"Undefined","series":"Portfolio","images":[{"id":26463,"name":"source.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/media.robertsspaceindustries.com\/weozjmuuh3hwh\/source.jpg","alt":"","size":843046,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2019-09-19T15:49:32+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/26463\/similar"},{"id":28955,"name":"Grim-HEX.jpg","rsi_url":"https:\/\/robertsspaceindustries.com\/media\/rv75i35c2u6hhr\/source\/Grim-HEX.jpg","alt":"","size":640029,"mime_type":"image\/jpeg","last_modified":"2022-06-29T18:04:14+00:00","api_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/28955","similar_url":"https:\/\/api.star-citizen.wiki\/api\/comm-link-images\/28955\/similar"}],"images_count":7,"translations":{"en_EN":"This portfolio originally appeared in Jump Point 9.9.\nEditor\u2019s Note: This portfolio is not intended to glorify or condone the Nine Tails. Instead, it\u2019s meant to educate readers on their actions and areas of influence. Only by fully understanding the operations and motivations of criminal organizations like the Nine Tails can we stop them from spreading their influence further across the UEE.\n\n\u201cOrganized and absolutely ruthless.\u201d Detective Alsup used those words in 2938 to summarize the first Nine Tails attack, an incident that left 28 Terra police officers dead. Despite the heavy toll on law enforcement, only one of the assailants was found dead on the scene, wearing gear marked with a snake entwined with the number nine. The then unknown symbol circulated widely before an informant identified it as belonging to a mysterious new gang calling themselves the Nine Tails.\n\nSince then, numerous reported heists and attacks have been linked back to the group with increasing scope and frequency over time. Despite their growing reputation, little is known publicly about the gang or its inner workings; making the group\u2019s meteoric rise to power only more worrisome to organized crime experts. Today, the Nine Tails gang operates almost exclusively within the Stanton system, using the infamous derelict space station known among locals as \u2018Grim HEX\u2019 as its headquarters.\n\nA former Green Imperial Housing Exchange used by miners working the asteroid belt encircling Yela (Stanton 2c), Grim HEX is technically owned by Crusader Industries. They acknowledge the Nine Tails presence but claim the gang isn\u2019t their issue alone, and refuse to wrestle control of Grim HEX away from the gang unless aided by the Advocacy or the system\u2019s other governing mega-corps. According to a 2950 Crusader statement, \u201cpiracy within the Stanton system needs to be addressed as a whole when other jurisdictions sit only a quick QT away.\n\nAs the influence of the Nine Tails criminal organization expands, investigators continue to try to understand the gang\u2019s inner workings. While money appears to be the gang\u2019s main motivator, the logic behind some of the Nine Tails\u2019 operations remain anomalous, leading one organized crime expert to describe the group as \u201ccredit-craving professional anarchists.\u201d\n\nFIRST STRIKE\nThe Nine Tails have come to specialize in savage attacks with enigmatic motivations, a deadly and unnerving mixture that goes all the way back to their first attack. Racketeering and piracy were just two of the many corruption charges Albert \u2018Sinkhole\u2019 Holden faced for leading Prime\u2019s Rangda syndicate for over a decade. This notoriety earned him a sentence of solitary confinement in an off-world detention center, but he wouldn\u2019t ever make it there. Nine Tails ships swarmed the transport once it was ripped out of QT above Terra. A coordinated attack quickly destroyed all Terra PD ships except the prison transport, which was disabled and boarded. Utilizing expert precision, well-practiced tactics, and the element of surprise, the Nine Tails stormed the transport and killed all police officers aboard. They then freed Holden from the stasis pod and fled.\n\nConsidering the professional behavior of the attackers, investigators were surprised that the gang left one of their own, who had been killed in the exchange with the guards. Police initially assumed the unknown snake symbol on their gear was a red herring, as investigators believed the Rangda syndicate carried out the attack to spring their boss. Yet a day after the attack, the case took an unexpected turn when Holden was found shot in the head and floating in space. Why the Nine Tails sprung Holden only to execute him later remains a mystery.\n\nWeeks passed before the first solid lead came when the same snake symbol was spotted by cameras during the hijacking of a Caterpillar loaded with valuable resources in Magnus. Over the next several years, the gang became more and more prolific and were linked to incidents in over a dozen systems that involved abductions, murders, robberies, and destruction of personal and private property. Predicting when and where it would strike proved nearly impossible. Then, in early 2942, incidents involving the Nine Tails suddenly stopped. Law enforcement officials secretly hoped internal divisions might have finally ripped the gang apart, but it was only planning its next move.\n\nSAFE HAVEN\nReports of renewed Nine Tails activity began coming out of Stanton in 2943. Accompanied by rumors within the outlaw community that the gang now controlled a defunct housing exchange nestled in Yela\u2019s asteroid belt. Before their arrival, squatters and small-time criminals called the ominously nicknamed Grim HEX home. They put up little resistance to the Nine Tails takeover. According to sources, anyone who opposed the gang got tossed out an airlock, while those offering no objection were allowed to stay and potentially prosper.\n\nUnder Nine Tails control, Grim HEX has become a hub for illegal activity in the Stanton system, with black market trading and gambling flourishing aboard the station. The gang is also believed to be behind the general rise in crime throughout the sector. It\u2019s gotten so egregious that Crusader CEO Kelly Caplan was called before the Senate to explain the company\u2019s security failings. Outside observers have accused Crusader Security of avoiding direct confrontation with Nine Tails out of fear over how the gang would respond. If true, this reinforces just how powerful the gang has become.\n\nWhy Nine Tails transitioned from a highly effective and elusive strike team into a Stanton-based force remains a mystery. Steady credits is the easy answer but some experts have wondered if the gang might have bigger plans in the works. Recently, the gang proved those experts right by blockading a rest stop with a powerful dampener that made quantum travel impossible near the station, grinding commerce to a halt in the sector. The Nine Tails were so effective that the lockdown was only broken after Crusader Security Director Sasha Rust instituted an emergency recruitment drive to bring security contractors to the station\u2019s aid. The Nine Tails motives for this attack remain unknown.\n\nNine Tails may now primarily operate in the Stanton system, but it is emblematic of this age of crime. Its quick and calculated rise to power, alongside its ability to keep the gang\u2019s inner workings a secret from investigators, only proves how truly dangerous it is.","de_DE":"Dieses Portfolio erschien urspr\u00fcnglich in Jump Point 9.9.\nAnmerkung der Redaktion: Dieses Portfolio soll die Nine Tails weder verherrlichen noch guthei\u00dfen. Vielmehr soll es die Leser \u00fcber ihre Aktionen und Einflussbereiche aufkl\u00e4ren. Nur wenn wir die Operationen und Beweggr\u00fcnde von kriminellen Organisationen wie den Nine Tails vollst\u00e4ndig verstehen, k\u00f6nnen wir sie daran hindern, ihren Einfluss weiter \u00fcber die UEE zu verbreiten.\n\n\"Organisiert und absolut skrupellos.\" Mit diesen Worten fasste Detective Alsup im Jahr 2938 den ersten Angriff der Nine Tails zusammen, bei dem 28 Polizeibeamte von Terra ums Leben kamen. Trotz des hohen Blutzolls f\u00fcr die Ordnungskr\u00e4fte wurde nur einer der Angreifer tot am Tatort aufgefunden. Er trug eine Ausr\u00fcstung mit einer Schlange, die mit der Zahl Neun verschlungen war. Das damals unbekannte Symbol kursierte weithin, bevor ein Informant es als das einer mysteri\u00f6sen neuen Bande identifizierte, die sich selbst die Nine Tails nannte.\n\nSeitdem wurden zahlreiche gemeldete Raub\u00fcberf\u00e4lle und Anschl\u00e4ge mit der Gruppe in Verbindung gebracht, die mit der Zeit immer umfangreicher und h\u00e4ufiger wurde. Trotz ihres wachsenden Ansehens ist in der \u00d6ffentlichkeit nur wenig \u00fcber die Bande oder ihr Innenleben bekannt, was den kometenhaften Aufstieg der Gruppe f\u00fcr Experten des organisierten Verbrechens nur noch beunruhigender macht. Heute operiert die Nine Tails-Gang fast ausschlie\u00dflich im Stanton-System und nutzt die ber\u00fcchtigte verlassene Raumstation, die unter den Einheimischen als \"Grim HEX\" bekannt ist, als Hauptquartier.\n\nDie Grim HEX, eine ehemalige Green Imperial Housing Exchange, die von Bergleuten genutzt wird, die im Asteroideng\u00fcrtel um Yela (Stanton 2c) arbeiten, ist technisch gesehen im Besitz von Crusader Industries. Sie erkennen die Anwesenheit der Nine Tails an, behaupten aber, dass die Bande nicht nur ihr Problem ist, und weigern sich, der Bande die Kontrolle \u00fcber Grim HEX zu entrei\u00dfen, es sei denn, die Advocacy oder die anderen regierenden Megacorps des Systems helfen ihnen dabei. In einer Erkl\u00e4rung der 2950 Crusaders hei\u00dft es: \"Die Piraterie im Stanton-System muss als Ganzes angegangen werden, wenn andere Gerichtsbarkeiten nur ein kurzes QT entfernt sitzen.\n\nW\u00e4hrend sich der Einfluss der kriminellen Organisation Nine Tails ausweitet, versuchen die Ermittler weiterhin, die inneren Abl\u00e4ufe der Bande zu verstehen. W\u00e4hrend Geld die Hauptmotivation der Bande zu sein scheint, bleibt die Logik hinter einigen der Operationen der Nine Tails anomal, was einen Experten f\u00fcr organisierte Kriminalit\u00e4t dazu veranlasst, die Gruppe als \"kreditgierige professionelle Anarchisten\" zu bezeichnen.\n\nERSTER SCHLAG\nDie Nine Tails haben sich auf brutale Angriffe mit r\u00e4tselhaften Motiven spezialisiert, eine t\u00f6dliche und beunruhigende Mischung, die bis zu ihrem ersten Angriff zur\u00fcckreicht. Schutzgelderpressung und Piraterie waren nur zwei der vielen Korruptionsvorw\u00fcrfe, mit denen Albert 'Sinkhole' Holden konfrontiert wurde, weil er \u00fcber ein Jahrzehnt lang das Rangda-Syndikat von Prime geleitet hatte. Diese Ber\u00fchmtheit brachte ihm eine Strafe in Form von Einzelhaft in einem Gef\u00e4ngnis au\u00dferhalb der Welt ein, aber er w\u00fcrde es nie dorthin schaffen. Neun Tails-Schiffe st\u00fcrmten den Transporter, nachdem er \u00fcber Terra aus dem QT gerissen worden war. Ein koordinierter Angriff zerst\u00f6rte schnell alle Terra PD-Schiffe mit Ausnahme des Gef\u00e4ngnistransporters, der deaktiviert und geentert wurde. Mit fachm\u00e4nnischer Pr\u00e4zision, gut einge\u00fcbten Taktiken und dem \u00dcberraschungsmoment st\u00fcrmten die Nine Tails den Transporter und t\u00f6teten alle Polizisten an Bord. Dann befreiten sie Holden aus der Stasiskapsel und flohen.\n\nIn Anbetracht des professionellen Verhaltens der Angreifer waren die Ermittler \u00fcberrascht, dass die Bande einen ihrer eigenen Leute zur\u00fccklie\u00df, der bei dem Schusswechsel mit den Wachen get\u00f6tet worden war. Die Polizei nahm zun\u00e4chst an, dass das unbekannte Schlangensymbol auf ihrer Ausr\u00fcstung ein Ablenkungsman\u00f6ver war, da die Ermittler glaubten, das Rangda-Syndikat habe den Angriff durchgef\u00fchrt, um ihren Boss zu befreien. Doch einen Tag nach dem Angriff nahm der Fall eine unerwartete Wendung, als Holden mit einem Kopfschuss im Weltraum schwebend aufgefunden wurde. Warum die Nine Tails Holden befreit haben, um ihn sp\u00e4ter hinzurichten, bleibt ein R\u00e4tsel.\n\nEs vergingen Wochen, bis die erste handfeste Spur kam, als das gleiche Schlangensymbol bei der Entf\u00fchrung einer mit wertvollen Rohstoffen beladenen Caterpillar in Magnus von den Kameras entdeckt wurde. Im Laufe der n\u00e4chsten Jahre wurde die Bande immer produktiver und wurde mit Vorf\u00e4llen in mehr als einem Dutzend Systemen in Verbindung gebracht, bei denen es um Entf\u00fchrungen, Morde, Raub\u00fcberf\u00e4lle und die Zerst\u00f6rung von pers\u00f6nlichem und privatem Eigentum ging. Vorhersagen, wann und wo sie zuschlagen w\u00fcrde, erwiesen sich als nahezu unm\u00f6glich. Dann, Anfang 2942, h\u00f6rten die Vorf\u00e4lle mit den Nine Tails pl\u00f6tzlich auf. Die Strafverfolgungsbeh\u00f6rden hofften insgeheim, dass die Bande durch interne Streitigkeiten auseinandergerissen worden war, aber sie plante nur ihren n\u00e4chsten Schritt.\n\nSICHERER ZUFLUCHTSORT\nIm Jahr 2943 kamen Berichte \u00fcber erneute Aktivit\u00e4ten der Nine Tails aus Stanton. Begleitet von Ger\u00fcchten innerhalb der gesetzlosen Gemeinschaft, dass die Bande nun eine stillgelegte Wohnungsb\u00f6rse im Asteroideng\u00fcrtel von Yela kontrollierte. Vor ihrer Ankunft nannten Hausbesetzer und Kleinkriminelle den omin\u00f6sen Spitznamen Grim HEX ihr Zuhause. Sie leisteten der \u00dcbernahme durch die Nine Tails nur wenig Widerstand. Quellen zufolge wurde jeder, der sich der Bande widersetzte, aus einer Luftschleuse geworfen, w\u00e4hrend diejenigen, die keine Einw\u00e4nde hatten, bleiben durften und potenziell Erfolg hatten.\n\nUnter der Kontrolle von Nine Tails hat sich Grim HEX zu einem Zentrum f\u00fcr illegale Aktivit\u00e4ten im Stanton-System entwickelt, wobei der Schwarzmarkthandel und das Gl\u00fccksspiel an Bord der Station florieren. Die Bande wird auch f\u00fcr den allgemeinen Anstieg der Kriminalit\u00e4t in diesem Sektor verantwortlich gemacht. Es ist so ungeheuerlich geworden, dass Crusader CEO Kelly Caplan vor den Senat gerufen wurde, um die Sicherheitsm\u00e4ngel des Unternehmens zu erkl\u00e4ren. Au\u00dfenstehende Beobachter haben Crusader Security vorgeworfen, eine direkte Konfrontation mit Nine Tails zu vermeiden, weil sie Angst vor der Reaktion der Bande haben. Wenn das stimmt, zeigt dies, wie m\u00e4chtig die Bande geworden ist.\n\nWarum Nine Tails von einem \u00e4u\u00dferst effektiven und schwer fassbaren Einsatzteam zu einer in Stanton ans\u00e4ssigen Truppe wurde, bleibt ein R\u00e4tsel. Stetige Kredite sind die einfache Antwort, aber einige Experten haben sich gefragt, ob die Bande vielleicht gr\u00f6\u00dfere Pl\u00e4ne hat. K\u00fcrzlich gab die Bande diesen Experten recht, als sie eine Rastst\u00e4tte mit einem m\u00e4chtigen D\u00e4mpfer blockierte, der Quantenreisen in der N\u00e4he der Station unm\u00f6glich machte und den Handel in diesem Sektor zum Erliegen brachte. Die Nine Tails waren so effektiv, dass die Blockade erst durchbrochen werden konnte, nachdem die Sicherheitsdirektorin der Crusader, Sasha Rust, eine Notrekrutierungskampagne eingeleitet hatte, um Sicherheitskontraktoren zur Unterst\u00fctzung der Station zu holen. Die Motive der Nine Tails f\u00fcr diesen Angriff bleiben unbekannt.\n\nNine Tails mag jetzt haupts\u00e4chlich im Stanton-System operieren, aber es ist sinnbildlich f\u00fcr dieses Zeitalter des Verbrechens. Ihr schneller und kalkulierter Aufstieg zur Macht sowie ihre F\u00e4higkeit, das Innenleben der Bande vor den Ermittlern geheim zu halten, beweisen nur, wie gef\u00e4hrlich sie wirklich ist.","zh_CN":"This portfolio originally appeared in Jump Point 9.9.\nEditor\u2019s Note: This portfolio is not intended to glorify or condone the Nine Tails. Instead, it\u2019s meant to educate readers on their actions and areas of influence. Only by fully understanding the operations and motivations of criminal organizations like the Nine Tails can we stop them from spreading their influence further across the UEE.\n\n\u201cOrganized and absolutely ruthless.\u201d Detective Alsup used those words in 2938 to summarize the first Nine Tails attack, an incident that left 28 Terra police officers dead. Despite the heavy toll on law enforcement, only one of the assailants was found dead on the scene, wearing gear marked with a snake entwined with the number nine. The then unknown symbol circulated widely before an informant identified it as belonging to a mysterious new gang calling themselves the Nine Tails.\n\nSince then, numerous reported heists and attacks have been linked back to the group with increasing scope and frequency over time. Despite their growing reputation, little is known publicly about the gang or its inner workings; making the group\u2019s meteoric rise to power only more worrisome to organized crime experts. Today, the Nine Tails gang operates almost exclusively within the Stanton system, using the infamous derelict space station known among locals as \u2018Grim HEX\u2019 as its headquarters.\n\nA former Green Imperial Housing Exchange used by miners working the asteroid belt encircling Yela (Stanton 2c), Grim HEX is technically owned by Crusader Industries. They acknowledge the Nine Tails presence but claim the gang isn\u2019t their issue alone, and refuse to wrestle control of Grim HEX away from the gang unless aided by the Advocacy or the system\u2019s other governing mega-corps. According to a 2950 Crusader statement, \u201cpiracy within the Stanton system needs to be addressed as a whole when other jurisdictions sit only a quick QT away.\n\nAs the influence of the Nine Tails criminal organization expands, investigators continue to try to understand the gang\u2019s inner workings. While money appears to be the gang\u2019s main motivator, the logic behind some of the Nine Tails\u2019 operations remain anomalous, leading one organized crime expert to describe the group as \u201ccredit-craving professional anarchists.\u201d\n\nFIRST STRIKE\nThe Nine Tails have come to specialize in savage attacks with enigmatic motivations, a deadly and unnerving mixture that goes all the way back to their first attack. Racketeering and piracy were just two of the many corruption charges Albert \u2018Sinkhole\u2019 Holden faced for leading Prime\u2019s Rangda syndicate for over a decade. This notoriety earned him a sentence of solitary confinement in an off-world detention center, but he wouldn\u2019t ever make it there. Nine Tails ships swarmed the transport once it was ripped out of QT above Terra. A coordinated attack quickly destroyed all Terra PD ships except the prison transport, which was disabled and boarded. Utilizing expert precision, well-practiced tactics, and the element of surprise, the Nine Tails stormed the transport and killed all police officers aboard. They then freed Holden from the stasis pod and fled.\n\nConsidering the professional behavior of the attackers, investigators were surprised that the gang left one of their own, who had been killed in the exchange with the guards. Police initially assumed the unknown snake symbol on their gear was a red herring, as investigators believed the Rangda syndicate carried out the attack to spring their boss. Yet a day after the attack, the case took an unexpected turn when Holden was found shot in the head and floating in space. Why the Nine Tails sprung Holden only to execute him later remains a mystery.\n\nWeeks passed before the first solid lead came when the same snake symbol was spotted by cameras during the hijacking of a Caterpillar loaded with valuable resources in Magnus. Over the next several years, the gang became more and more prolific and were linked to incidents in over a dozen systems that involved abductions, murders, robberies, and destruction of personal and private property. Predicting when and where it would strike proved nearly impossible. Then, in early 2942, incidents involving the Nine Tails suddenly stopped. Law enforcement officials secretly hoped internal divisions might have finally ripped the gang apart, but it was only planning its next move.\n\nSAFE HAVEN\nReports of renewed Nine Tails activity began coming out of Stanton in 2943. Accompanied by rumors within the outlaw community that the gang now controlled a defunct housing exchange nestled in Yela\u2019s asteroid belt. Before their arrival, squatters and small-time criminals called the ominously nicknamed Grim HEX home. They put up little resistance to the Nine Tails takeover. According to sources, anyone who opposed the gang got tossed out an airlock, while those offering no objection were allowed to stay and potentially prosper.\n\nUnder Nine Tails control, Grim HEX has become a hub for illegal activity in the Stanton system, with black market trading and gambling flourishing aboard the station. The gang is also believed to be behind the general rise in crime throughout the sector. It\u2019s gotten so egregious that Crusader CEO Kelly Caplan was called before the Senate to explain the company\u2019s security failings. Outside observers have accused Crusader Security of avoiding direct confrontation with Nine Tails out of fear over how the gang would respond. If true, this reinforces just how powerful the gang has become.\n\nWhy Nine Tails transitioned from a highly effective and elusive strike team into a Stanton-based force remains a mystery. Steady credits is the easy answer but some experts have wondered if the gang might have bigger plans in the works. Recently, the gang proved those experts right by blockading a rest stop with a powerful dampener that made quantum travel impossible near the station, grinding commerce to a halt in the sector. The Nine Tails were so effective that the lockdown was only broken after Crusader Security Director Sasha Rust instituted an emergency recruitment drive to bring security contractors to the station\u2019s aid. The Nine Tails motives for this attack remain unknown.\n\nNine Tails may now primarily operate in the Stanton system, but it is emblematic of this age of crime. Its quick and calculated rise to power, alongside its ability to keep the gang\u2019s inner workings a secret from investigators, only proves how truly dangerous it is."},"links_count":0,"comment_count":18,"created_at":"2022-07-12T20:00:00+00:00","created_at_human":"3 years ago"},"meta":{"processed_at":"2026-04-25 19:23:48","valid_relations":["images","links","translations"],"prev_id":18767,"next_id":18769}}