12 Finger Guilds

Type: Mining Cartel | Base: Serambi

The 12 Finger Guilds are a cartel of mining oligarchs who control the precious mineral extraction on Serambi. Their orbital foundries and mega-mines produce the rare ores essential for advanced technology manufacturing across the sector.

The Guilds maintain their monopoly through market manipulation, political bribery, and the threat of their well-equipped enforcers—Ore Wardens in powered armor who double as industrial laborers and security forces, and the elite Auric Guard equipped with rare pretech weapons. Workers in Guild operations toil in toxic conditions while the oligarchs grow fabulously wealthy.

Fiercely protective of their market dominance, the Guilds clash with the Counters Guild over sales channels, suppress labor organizing by the Cobalt Syndicate, and defend their shipments against Maelstrom Corsairs raids.