Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-25396609-20161018164833/@comment-14138255-20161020174916

70.195.128.73 wrote: I started wondering if the outlaw situation is similar in anyway to the way the Wild West in the USA was at first. The sudden aquistion of territory and understaffed man power in the area to police it at the time led to so many outlaws that the civilian orgsnizations known as Vigilances were founded. Those grouos are the root from which the word "Vigilante" was derived from.

-Defcon Deceiver It's more like Roman or Byzantine stratification and crime. There were Vigils in Rome too, sort of a town watch for policing and defense (in the days when settlements were attacked), though I imagine they have their own bad apples in them.