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Membership
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Full Time: Ing, Sybyl, Fracas,
Dozer,
Furnace, Kamikaze
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Background / History
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This band of super-saboteurs and industrial espionage specialists has been plaguing
big industry across North America and the European Union for the last couple of
years and have a very successful track record. They have had encounters with a number
of superhero teams as well as conventional security forces, and though they have
occasionally been stymied, they have largely been successful and remain at large.
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Group Relations
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Not much is publicly known about the inner workings of the group. However, Ing is
the undisputed leader and mastermind of the group; the others do his bidding. Sybyl
is the most mysterious of the group, but appears to act as an advisor to Ing, helping
him plan and coordinate missions.
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Fracas is hired help; Ing pays him a flat salary to be his muscle and keep the rest
of the group in line if necessary. He is standoffish and surly, maintaining a "hired
gun" professionalism. Dozer is young and sometimes difficult to control, but he's
smart enough to recognize he's on a gravy train and not push the envelope too far.
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Kamikaze and Furnace are relatively recent additions to the group and are still
in the process of integrating with the groups dynamic. However both have their own
personality quirks and Fracas might have to earn his paycheck to keep them under
control.
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Tactics
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The ideal Violators job is unopposed, but in case of combat Ing generally stays
focused on the mission plan and then contributes to a fighting retreat once this
goal is completed...unless things go badly, in which case he prioritizes appropriately.
Fracas is the group's main beater and typically engages the most obvious brick or
martial artist of an opposing team, beating them into submission and moving on to
the next one. Dozer is kept on a short leash as his powers are massively destructive,
but when he's given a go ahead he typically just starts wrecking stuff, blasting
opponents and wreaking collateral damage with little restraint...though he has learned
the hard way to not "accidentally" catch one of his allies in his blasts.
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Furnace is intended to function similarly to Dozer, inflicting collateral damage
and forcing opposing heroes to deal with a chaotic environment. Kamikaze is intended
to seek out opponents that stay back from the main engagment and knock them out
of the area, destabilizing opposing support capabilities.
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It is not clear what exactly Sybyl does on the rare occasions that she accompanies
the group in the field.
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Campaign Use
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Theft / sabotage oriented group of villains who operate by having a specific mission,
getting in and making it happen, and getting out. Their ideal mission involves only
as much effort as necessary to accomplish the goal, but when they meet resistance
in the form of security forces or supers they do what they have to in order to secure
the situation.
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The Violators are a dangerous group of saboteurs and industrial spies. Ing plans
and executes very efficient raids to either cripple a company in some way, steal
crucial business intelligence such as schematics, formula, and equipment, or all
the above at a given facility. Fracas, Dozer, Furnace, and Kamikaze are around to
deal with sec forces and supers, and on the missions that require massive destruction.
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Public Relations
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The Violators aren't splashy or theatrical. They function more like an elite military
unit, executing very well planned raids and actions, often at night and always from
surprise, and thus have not been much in the public eye.
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However their string of successes ensure that they are treated as a real menace
rather than a subject for humor or mockery by the media.
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PRIMUS considers them to be a real threat, but since they target private industry
they haven't committed the same level of resources to the group as they would to
more mainstream villains.
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- A PC recognizes that Kamikaze isn't really of a criminal mind, and is basically
just a kid that's caught up with the wrong crowd. Do they try to extract the hyperactive
kid and try to turn him to good?
- Dozer loses his temper on a job against a facility that is near to a residential
area. He wipes out a good chunk of a townhouse community, causing mass destruction,
injuring many people, and killing two. Now he's wanted for murder, PRIMUS want's
him apprehended, and the PC's are kind of on the hook for it since it happened on
their watch / in their city.
- The green supergroup Aegis has
had a few encounters with the Violators and are tired of them getting away. The
PC's have fought the Violators and had success at it. They are contacted by Aegis;
they want to team up and put an end to the Violators once and for all.
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