The Eclipse

• Black-Market Trade – Weapons, cybernetics, experimental tech, stolen artifacts—if it’s illegal, they sell it.
• Smuggling & Contraband – Running high-risk cargo past military blockades and planetary customs.
• Slavery & Flesh Markets – Dealing in genetically modified slaves, cyber-slaved AI, and indentured war captives.
• Cybercrime & Data Theft – Controlling the dark web of the stars, selling secrets and manipulating economies.
• Assassination & Mercenary Contracts – Eliminating high-profile targets, offering covert war services to the highest bidder.

The Eclipse Nexus, an encrypted data-market where buyers can purchase stolen secrets, alter records, or commission underworld services, all completely untraceable.

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The Eclipse does not believe in loyalty, honor, or ideology—they believe only in power and wealth.

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• "Laws exist for fools. We exist for profit." – The only rule is what one can enforce.
• "Control the market, and you control the war." – By owning trade, they own the galaxy.
• "We are the cracks in the system." – No government is incorruptible, only underbid.
• "Loyalty is an illusion, leverage is real." – They do not trust people, only the secrets and debts that bind them.
• To the Eclipse, there is no order, only control—and those who understand this will always thrive in the dark.

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The Eclipse Cartel is not a single entity, but a network of independent crime lords, all bound by mutual profit and unspoken rules. The higher one rises, the deeper their secrets, and the more dangerous betrayal becomes.

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• The Eclipse Lords: The true power of the Eclipse, a council of the wealthiest, deadliest, and most ruthless crime lords in the galaxy. Each Eclipse Lord controls a sector of the underworld, from arms dealing to high-level espionage.
• The Black Tide: The backbone of the Cartel’s illegal trade operations, moving weapons, technology, drugs, and stolen artifacts past military blockades. Their pilots and blockade runners are some of the best in the galaxy, using black-market warp drives and sensor-masking technology.
• The Flesh Brokers: The dealers of lives, trafficking biotech-enhanced slaves, war captives, and cyber-slaved AI to wealthy buyers.Many criminal factions, rogue scientists, and decadent elites rely on their supply.
• The Black Codex: The Cartel’s cyberwarfare division, specializing in hacking financial markets, erasing identities, and selling stolen government secrets. They run the Eclipse Nexus, the most secure dark-web network in the galaxy.
• Wraiths: Assassins, saboteurs, and covert agents used for silent removals of political figures, rivals, or targets who pose a threat to Eclipse operations. They have no recorded identities, existing only as whispers in the underworld.
• Eclipse Tactical Services (ETS): The Eclipse’s brutal enforcers and security force, available to the highest bidder. ETS presents itself as a professional entity—they present a polished corporate front, ensuring that their brutal efficiency is masked by layers of legal deniability.

Feared as the most powerful criminal empire in the galaxy. Respected by those who profit from their markets and services. Despised by factions who seek order, law, and ethical governance.

The Crimson Pact – The Pact despises the Eclipse’s lawlessness, preferring structured warfare over crime and betrayal.

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The Helion Combine – The Combine sees the Cartel as a financial threat, as their black-market economy disrupts regulated trade.

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The Celestial Covenant – The Covenant considers the Eclipse a blight on the galaxy, viewing their slave markets and assassinations as crimes against the divine.

The Eclipse is more than a crime syndicate—it is an empire, a vast network of smugglers, warlords, cyber-criminals, and slavers who operate in the shadows of galactic civilization. Their reach extends beyond borders, beyond laws, beyond morality. The Eclipse do not care about empires as long as they do not interfere with their doings. 

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Where war leaves ruins, the Eclipse profits. Where factions fight, the Eclipse sells weapons to both sides. Where laws forbid trade, the Eclipse opens markets.

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They are not an organization bound by tradition or honor—they are a fluid, adaptable empire of crime, shifting their operati