Ransom's Crew

'Ransom's Crew' is the name taken by followers of Marcus Ransom.

Exigence

During the Fourth Age, planet Altronis was subjugated by a consortium of business corporations, through gradual monopoly of all resources, and had begun a consequent ecological collapse. When Marcus Ransom arrived on Altronis, he objected to this situation; and supported by Gudersnipe School, organized a counter-initiative.

Purpose

Ransom's Crew was essentially a 'world-building' project, in so far as it meant to weaken the corporations' social model while replacing it by one more wholesome and self-perpetuating. To that end, members of the Crew were separated wholly from mainstream Altronis by N-Dimensional Travel and placed aboard Ransom's crippled spaceship, the Asho Zoroaster, from which they advanced into the corporations' reality for individual assignments.

Structure

The Crew was divided into multiple sub-crews or 'Cells', of which each believed itself the entire Crew, and between which Ransom and his supporters at Gudersnipe alone had social intercourse. Many members entered and exited the Zoroaster at least once; but only six, known as the 'Core of the Crew', had regular access to't;––– Slade, Hammer, Nexa, Belfast, Dallas, and Gabriel;––– other than Ransom and 2-5 lieutenants.