Starfield:Untold History of the Trackers
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| ID | FDxxE2FD | ||
| Editor ID | SFBGS003_TAHQ_TrackerHistory_Book | ||
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98 | 
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0.5 |
| Type | Book | ||
[A rather dry book about the extraordinary history of the Trackers Alliance. Below is an excerpt]
2217 was a different time - just a year after the Treaty of Narion was signed, signaling the end of a twenty year long war. But while the war had raged, issues of all kinds plagued society. There was hunger, supply chain disruptions, economic uncertainty, and rampant crime, as military and local law enforcement directed most of their resources towards the war efforts.
In the absence of state-sanctioned justice, the people took matters into their own hands in the form of extra-judicial killings to deal with Spacers, pirates, and other violent criminals. The growing problem of private citizens taking matters into their own hands, and either getting themselves or innocents killed in the process was enough to prompt some of those vigilante citizens to band together and work with the governments of the Settled Systems, rather than leave it to said governments to impose their own set of restrictions that could put their livelihoods in jeopardy.
Thus, the Trackers Alliance formed as a officially sanctioned way to work within the system, delivering criminals and the like to the United Colonies or Freestar Collective via an official bounty system. The governments of the Settled Systems found this arrangement to be a benefit, as their own resources to track down and capture dangerous criminals were stretched thin after the war, and who better to deal with the problem than elite trained professionals? On the other hand, it's also a poorly guarded secret that anyone with the resources can hire the Trackers for their own bounty purposes. The system, while far from perfect, still exists today.
