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73.Anon.52 wrote: Megadracosaurus wrote: Uhm...When was it stated that was the case? I don’t recall Raven ever mentioning anything about a protection racket. To me, it seemed pretty clear that they were talking about raids. Plus, bandits don’t really do protection rackets. The name is misleading, I say "protection" but the truth of any "protection" racket is that it is not required that the person "protect" anything, all it really boils down to is "Party A goes to party B demanding payment or ELSE", this can cover a vast swath of slightly different legitimacy;


 * the most legit actually defending their wards from certain other groups, which generally is limited to other criminal organizations, this is the standard "mob" usage of the terminology.


 * the least legit will ONLY "protect" you from themselves, and by this I mean not just murder you, this is what Raven does and how her tribe lives.

I know what a protection racket is. But I don’t recall Raven ever saying she runs stuff like that. As far as I remember, she never said something along the lines of ‘they couldn’t afford our ‘protection’, so we took the ‘fee’ instead’ or that she had dealings like that. All we know is that we saw massacred villages and Raven claiming responsibility for it in the name of survival. Nothing suggests she had a racket going and everything points in the direction of her being a raider.