Knight Errant

A division of Ares Macrotechnology, not a subsidiary with its own politics: Knight Errant sells policing to anyone with a budget, the way Ares sells everything else. Los Angeles has no citywide contract for it to hold, so it sells by the district instead, block by block, to whoever can pay the retainer.

It stands behind the money on the Westside and owes nothing at all to the streets in between. That's not a slogan, it's the coverage map: a Knight Errant patrol answers calls inside its contracted district and does not cross the line to help anybody else, because the district that isn't paying isn't the client.

What the crew knows#

• Wants the free city's first police contract, citywide, and has wanted it since the district-by-district model made the gap obvious to everyone paying attention. Whoever's fighting that in the districts, and what they'd trade to stop it, is worth finding out.
• Equipment and training are Ares house issue: Predators, house calibers, and a doctrine built for a contract that answers to whoever's paying rather than to a badge.
• Rejects and layoffs feed ex-uniforms. A contract renewal that trims the roster puts trained people on the street with nothing to do but the same work, freelance.
• Rivalry with Lone Star is corporate, not personal, and it's constant: every Seattle contract renewal is a chance to make the other one look bad, and both sides take it.

Standing with the crew#

Neutral, and transactional on both sides. A contracted district's Knight Errant patrol will detain the crew like anybody else's private security would; outside the district line, they're not involved and won't pretend otherwise.