As in many places, the Asians in the Combat Zone tend to stick together in a small community known almost universally as Rice Town.  The Yellow Moon Society holds sway over everything that happens in this community.   The gang, as well as the Asian Combat Zone community itself, is made up of ethnicities from across Asia, but while there are Japanese, Koreans and Chinese, the majority are Thai, Vietnamese, and Filipino.

 

Nothing happens in Rice Town that the Yellow Moon Society does not have their hand in, and virtually every resident there is considered in one way or another to be a member.  The inhabitants of Rice Town are made up mostly of unregistered and undocumented immigrants, exiles from the various Asian communities in the city, or criminals who are on the run but lack the support or opportunity to flee the city. 

 

Rice Town, is one of the newer communities in the Zone.  While there were some Asians living in the area before the wall went up, the vast majority of the community has arrived in the four years since.   They have renovated the old buildings in their area, turf they negotiated for with Slaughterhouse in exchange for setting up Slaughterhouse with their Triad gun connections. 

 

The Triads and the Yellow Moon Society would have preferred to take over the drug and gun rackets in the Zone themselves, but they knew they were no match for Slaughterhouse and Stomp, especially once the 2-3 Set and their Russian connections began backing Stomp Street.  For now the Yellow Moon Society bides their time and waits for Stomp and Slaughterhouse to kill each other off, and hope that by that time their numbers have increased enough to take out whoever is left standing.  They are walking a Razors edge but they see it as using Slaughterhouse to further their own goals, and while Yellow Moon may not be getting as much out of it as they want, it’s where the profit is for the triads.  Their tag is the Chinese Zodiac, and their colors are red and yellow, but they only wear them for ceremonies.

The Yellow Moon society offers the Zone the Rice Town markets, where smuggled goods, especially electronics, can be easily purchased for the right price, usually at around a 50% markup.  The gang also deals in bootleg media and has the best selection in the Zone.

 

While Stomp and Slaughterhouse fight over the Synthcoke and derivative drugs being distributed in the zone, Yellow Moon controls the opiate trade, and they do so almost exclusively.  Inside the community they also deal in exotic “medicine” often made from endangered animals and plants.

The Yellow Moon Brothel is an excellent source of revenue for the gang, but is something akin to hell.  The girls and boys working there mostly come from the brothels of other Asian communities, and are seen by them as a way to dispose of girls who have been too ill used, gotten sick, or who are seen as troublemakers.  The Yellow Moon prostitutes are beaten, abused and forcibly addicted to drugs to keep them compliant.  The survival rate among these men and women is very short, as they are used up and discarded, or take their own lives.

 

The gang is led by Uncle Fish, a Vietnamese man some claim to be 123 years old.  Grandfather Fish led a smuggling operation out of Lost Angeles for years, before things got too hairy in the sunken city.  He fled to Night City after Carnival and began setting up shop.  The man has no morals whatsoever, but he places a very high importance on honor and that the measure of a man is his ability to make good on his word.  What he lacks in morals he more than makes up for in sons.  At last count Uncle Fish claimed 24 living sons and daughters and 62 living grandchildren.

 

The soldiers of Yellow Moon are generally between the ages of 14 and 30, and its members are required to undergo a ceremony whereupon they devote themselves completely to the organization.  Life itself of a member of Yellow Moon now belongs to Uncle Fish and his headmen, to be used or even sacrificed at their whim.  And death is a common punishment for failure, or even displeasure.  The soldiers are practicing martial artists, and are always armed with at least a melee weapon, but handguns and assault weapon are common among higher ranking members.  The Yellow Moon Society territory lies on the western edge of the Combat Zone and is bordered by Slaughterhouse and Hard 8.

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