Kintara Syndicate
The Kintara Syndicate is a sub-group of the Orion Syndicate with its base on Kintara IV after which it takes its name, the planet is located deep within Orion space and the males of that planet are highly sought after due to their craftiness and guile not to mention it has a somewhat heavier gravity than the other Orion worlds making its inhabitants more muscular and powerful.
The Kintara Syndicate then exists to provide intelligent muscle to the main body of the Orion Syndicate and has plans of its own.
One of its representatives is Lord Gled Forsch, a relatively young Orion male who worked his way up through the rank and file due to his brains as well as brawn and gained a sponsor who ranks just below the Syndicate council, it was due to his support that Gled's plan to establish a trading mission upon Starbase Geneva came before the ears of its ruling council.
His plan intrigued the council which provided a ship and money to establish that mission on the starbase. The trading mission has been wildly successful though not overtly so as most of its funds have been gained through the buying and selling of information, establishing of lucrative contacts within the Beta Quadrant and the precision smuggling of valuable cargos. This smuggling is not done on a whilly-nilly basis but under well thought out conditions and spaced out so as to minimize Starfleet intervention.
Gled has amassed a growing personal fortune due to those business dealings below the surface and the money has been well spent in procuring information on many facets of the Quadrant which even governments which operate within the Quadrant such as the Federation are not aware of.
Gled has used his fortune to groom supporters within the council and has ambitions of his own, he is currently working on a plan which he believes will bring him enough wealth to place him in the council itself if not head it.
First mentioned in the USS Hades mission A Day in the Sun
