Universal Defenders

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Abbreviation: U.D.s
Leader: Jazz (real name is Drukklo)
Representing...: Other
How are members paid?: Quests
Open to..?: Sort of a top secret, underground "gang", the U.D.s are only open to approved individuals and is extremely hard to find, much less get into.
Location: Space Station
Description:

Vigilantes, some call them, the UDs are a form of universal, independently ran police. The UDs step in when extreme forms of tyranny and violence take place in some area of the universe. They're very controversial, going by their own written code of "right and wrong" and not so much what's commonly accepted. Though you'd be surprised how fluctuated the cultures can be from planet to planet (one more reason why some like them and some don't).

The sole reason the UD members have survived their mockery of the UTO is due to their impeccable stealth. They're very spread out, broken into small groups that reside on different planets. A few of the more ballsy guys are even Fif (Frieza's Imperial Forces) combat soldiers.

Requirements::

If you've been discovered and the higher-ups are actually cool with giving you a shot, joining is...well...still not easy.

The prerequisites are difficult, inhumane, and require a high degree of skill, discipline and abandon to accomplish. Once you've passed those and have been allowed to come into whatever group you're with, you've usually been lead to believe you're an honorary member while they stand back and watch you like a hawk for months on end. If they like you personally and find nothing suspicious about you (all UDs are ridiculously suspicious anyhow) they may...still not let you in.

After your little trial period you're taken away from the group you've been with 'till now and hauled off to some planet. It's always different, never announced, and the UD officers are notoriously jerk-wads for the entire two-year's worth of grueling, often fatal, training you're put through. You come out a hard*ss faithfully synchronized to their beloved code on pain of death itself or you don't come out alive.

At that point, you become a Universal Defender. :]

History:

The organization has been around for years (vigilante groups aren't uncommon) but their fame has only recently gone abroad under their latest administration. Their sudden fame is not so much because of their blatant opposition to the UTO, but because they've, so far, lived to tell about it.

Gjastarie, now Frieza Planet 869, was an example of the UD's boldness. When Gjastarie became an interest of the UTO, their government refused to abandon their homeworld. The UDs sneaked ships and fought back the planet's solders in order to let a good number of their race escape to safety (not all of them believed stubbornness would prevail) before Frieza's men arrived to eradicate them.

Many surviving Gjastarien people joined the UDs, the rest scattered to distant planets. But the tale of the "Universal Defenders" and their heroic, self-endangering acts went with them and were spread far beyond their district.

Contradictorily, a few months later the same group terrorized a planet who had recently been brought under Frieza's control, destroying the planet's value and killing thousands in the process.