THE KING OF CLUBS
Akimbe Deng was born to an impoverished family in a small Somalian village just south of Meereg, along the coastline.
His mother passed away when he was a young boy, and his father was arrested for unknown reasons when Akimbe was on the cusp of twenty. Having lost his family and soon after his home, Akimbe found himself alone and with nothing to his name. Desperate, angry, and misguided, he got involved with a large group of Somalian pirates. For years they raided, pillaged, raped, and kidnapped along the coastal line.
At some point, Deng became the leader of the pirates. Unlike his predecessor (presumably), Deng was by far a better leader. He recruited more actively, designated more efficient raids and attacks, and the pirates seized more lucrative targets. Four years after his rise to leadership, Deng and his cartel of pirates were the most feared in Somalia.
Things unraveled however when an internal struggle erupted, combined with intensified efforts by local authorities and “militia” to stand against Deng. As well as growing competition in Yemen, Eritrea, and Kenya. Within several months Akimbe Deng’s grand cartel was liquidated, and he and those who remained loyal to him fled far to the east into the Pacific.
Despite being foreigners and having high prices on their heads, Akimbe Deng and his pirates managed to establish a foothold in Southeast Asia, setting up basic operations in the Banda Sea and Arafura Sea off the coasts of Indonesia, Papua New Guinea, and Australia. Using his leadership skills, charisma, and taking a more tempered approach, Deng has rebuilt his criminal empire in the Pacific.
Deng has expanded his business into multiple fronts and markets in the underworld, and rebuilt his pirate cartel by recruiting from the local regions and nations (mostly African-Australians and Aboriginals of Australia and New Guinea, as well as Indonesians.). He has also established a network of contacts across the Pacific and Indian Ocean, and has since expanded his base pirate faction into an unirivaled criminal syndicate since forming a partnership with arms dealer Buckingham Smith and prostitution and opium mogul Aulia Wisnu.
Akimbe Deng’s syndicate has ruled the seas of the Pacific for roughly a decade now, and despite hundreds of warrants, the attention of numerous covert-ops and security agencies (not to mention bounties touching the millions), his underworld monopoly has yet to be toppled or rocked.
