RE: [HOE] Law Dogs

["Jeff Yates" <jyates@primaryfunction.com>]

Darn straight!  All pretty much normal folk, with nuthin' but a trusty
weapon and the determination to bring right to the people they care for, and
the grit to do it.  And that Tin Star.  And us Marshals don't have to break
PEG canon to have Law Dogs be cool.

Jeff Y.

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> Sent: Friday, May 18, 2001 9:10 AM
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> Subject: [HOE] Law Dogs
>
>
> Whenever you discuss 'the major players', you should remember that
> communication is totally down in the Wasted West and as a result,
> there is a
> very limted ability for groups to get more members.
>
>     This means that groups like the Cult of doom just don't have
> the ability
> to become an everywhere plague on the entire watsed West, yet.  They're
> messing up southern Nevada real good, but beyond that, they have their
> occasional mutie village and their occasional missionary band.
> So a couple
> hundred actual robes plus maybe ten thousand believers in Souther
> Nevada plus
> believers here and there.
>     Templars? One or two hundred of them MAX
>     The Chamber, maybe two hundred folks.
>     The Purple Grapes?  also very few.  maybe one hundred.
>
>     Now Junkyard actually has quite a few people and resources,
> so they would
> be a MAJOR player, but their direct influence is very localized.  I'd say
> more than 150 miles away, they're little more than legend.
> Except from the
> point of view of The Convoy.
>     Throckmorton, well, it's more fun if he has LOTS.  He does have the
> resources to ravel the wastes despite the road gangs and to do so
> quickly,
> and recruit and give them big guns, and to bring resources back
> and to turn
> them into unstoppable robotic war machines.
>
>     So, what does this have to do with the Law Dogs?  They
> gathered BEFORE
> communication shut down.  They were a nationwide group BEFORE
> communication
> shut down.  and when the bombs fell, they lost many members, but
> they still
> had contacts, methods, and abilities to rebuild.  These guys were
> not founded
> by some Accountant from Boise, no, these guys had been organized for
> centuries, and they had to rebuild before, and they would know
> how to do it
> again.
>     I would say in just about every town, would be a tin star, just one,
> owned by someone whose predecessor says 'when someone else comes
> with one of
> these, help them'.
>     Remnants of the texas rangers, to The Agency, to FBI, to the
> ATF.  These
> men and women have been getting posse's together for centuries,
> deputizing,
> expanding, organizing.
>     They're not flashy, but if any force of good would have tendrils
> everywhere, it would be the Law Dogs.  Most in the Wasted West have only
> heard hushed rumors about Templars, but the vast majority have seen a Law
> Dog, or bands of them.
>
>     So, what do the Law Dogs bring to the table?  Manpower.
> These guys Run
> the River Watch.  Think about how many men and resources The River Watch
> would take?  Even done poorly!  When I run the  Boise Horror, Cole Ballad
> will find it funny that his group wasn't invited to the meeting.  "Don't
> worry'" he'll say, "We'll save their asses anyway".
>     Law Dogs simply outnumber everyone else (Except the Combine).
>  They're
> spread out, everywhere,  They're ignored, which suits them fine,
> it lets them
> do their damn job.  But of the forces of good, I think the Law
> Dogs are the
> only one which could field 10,000 armed men.
>
>     Each with a Tin Star.
>
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