[quote=@Irredeemable]
A fun question for everyone: What is your faction's elite? Their Brotherhood Paladins, their Institute Coursers, their NCR Veteran Rangers? 
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besides the 5 families, leaders of groups, and some "bureaucrats" that generally keep things moving in the consortium on civilian levels, overall the consortium, operates more in the rule of might makes right with officers of the five families operating with high power and the bureaucrats that make sure things keep spinning giving me a sort of Oligarchic republic.