The function of the guild is to provide networking opportunities and several services to non-corporate merchants of all classes. It’s good to have a friend to enter a venture with. It’s nice to have backers. Perhaps you’re heading through a dangerous system and would like a convoy. We hope to facilitate these interactions, providing members a common place to seek out collaborators for their economic endeavors. In essence, this is less of a proper organization with a strict direction and hierarchy, and more of a center for networking, IE, a proper guild.

Requirements for joining are quite simple: do you have an interest in trade, or working with merchants? If so, you are welcome in our halls. Of course, the guild is intended to be more than a glorified forum, and trusted members who make regular donations to guild coffers will be provided the social safety net typical of any good guild.

Services we hope to issue include

- Loans (with interest)

- Letters of Credit (to avoid piracy, give your cargo to us, and we will give you a letter you can redeem at your destination for money or cargo of equal value, either with the local branch or with an affiliated organization)

- Collective negotiation to protect the interests of freelance merchants

- A database of trustworthy and untrustworthy professionals. If you find a good claim, you shouldn’t have to worry about the miners you hire to extract the resources selling the location to pirates.

These services will, hopefully, be expanded upon as time goes on. It is intended, however, that this not become a large, impersonal, corporate affair. We are all freelance traders for a reason – for many, it is our dislike of the impersonal and bureaucratic nature of large corporations. We do not intend to become one. Our primary objective is to foster a community. Our secondary objective is to facilitate collaboration and help people get back on their feet or reach greater heights.