The Darling Of Great Tendor, the hero who took on large mining corporations before setting his eyes on an ambitious law and order campaign in his state, is currently the subject of many terrible rumors.

The Princely State of Karnataka has been plagued with underlying poverty for over a century. Former princes sold the state’s vast mineral wealth to the rest of Tendor for personal profit, and they largely missed the great industrial campaigns of the sixth century because of it. The central government is weak, local governments are corrupt, and gangs have flaunted their control over territory for years. This made Karnataka the ideal route for cartels to smuggling drugs into the massive tendori market.

For the past three years Prince Tipu has worked to crush these gangs and the corrupt officials, and his campaigns are going well. He created a private, elite army of loyalists and worked to cleanse his state by sectioning off neighborhoods before arresting everyone suspected of working with criminals.

Lord Protector Ratkewitz, whose mandate was built on brining cartels to heel, gave Tipu his personal endorsement.

The price of this success has been rumors of torture, assassinations, and collective punishments.

Karnataka’s population is around 18 million, and they’ve arrested over 300,000 people so far, and about 7,000 foreign citizens.

Many of the accused have rotted in overcrowded jails for years without trial. The official story is that the courts are backlogged by the sheer number of offenders, and to alleviate this backlog, tens of thousands of prisoners were ‘encouraged’ to sign written confessions of their crimes. Allegations say these confessions were forged or received after torture.

Some Senators are calling for an investigation into these possible abuses, but the Protectorate Marshals are already committed to their own war on crime in the Cabella Sector.