United Merchants Guild

Even long before the Calamity, merchants fed up with poorly defended trade routes throughout the Caedonia Galaxy have illegally installed weapons onto their cargo ships. After the Collapse, a brief period of chaos and piracy was followed by the establishment of a loose confederation as the the Guild Tribunal under Lord Amadeus Hess consisting of former admirals, captains, and trade bosses. Despite this, the members of the Merchant's Guild have earned themselves a reputation as ruthless pirates in this short period of time, a brand which Lord Hess and his successors desperately tried to shake up.

Recent threats by the Reimann Corporation have resulted in an uneasy truce with the New Galactic Federation, the toothless remnant of the former government, to halt aggressive Reimann Corporation expansion and quell raider attacks from non-Guild members.