The "Harlan Family," a small but active posse of thieves led by Trace Harlan (they/them), works out of Wyllin's Gulch for one purpose: to stop ambitious tycoons from mining and producing essentia batteries. They hope to one day tear the factories from the walls of the mesa and drive out the greedy moguls that put profit over people.
They are one kind of slyborne community in the Drylands — more interested in stopping major operations from stripping essentia from the desert than in robbing anyone innocent. Plenty of the others are the ordinary sort of bad actor, getting rich and getting out quick by selling useless parcels of land, shilling water-and-vinegar "snake oil," or outright theft.
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