Mafia Empire

The Mafia Empire, also called the Mafia clan, was an ancient Halo 3 clan first mentioned and recorded in local ancient community texts, centered in the Archaic era and its surrounding community region. The clan united various players and clans under one rule and exercised influence across early community per-history, sending military expeditions across Halo 3.

The Mafia Empire reached its political peak between the 2008 to 2009 period, following the conquests by its founder Hunter 23x. During and after the Shadow Rebellion, Mafia power was briefly imposed from a disastrous winter campaign and the fall of the Mafia capital to rebel forces. The Mafia Clan is sometimes regarded as the first clan in local community history, though the meaning of this term is not precise and there are earlier claimants. After the war on the Mafia Clan, the rebellion eventually coalesced into the United Spartan Command (USC) and a few months later, the Monarchy of Halo (MOH).

History
Written USC records refers to the Mafia Empire extensively, which states that the beginning of the Mafia clan was in around 2008 Halo 3. The clan's accurate historical creation date is unknown but scribes in the USC time period have documented some lengths of texts from the 2009 period, written on both parchment and electrical documentation. Many later texts from the Monarchy of Halo and the United Nations clan also deal with the Mafia Empire.

Understanding of the Mafia clan continues to be hampered by the fact that its past members, extensive evidence of existence and scale of influence has not yet been located, despite numerous attempts. Precise dating of the most recent contacts were in 2010 and records are hindered by the fact that there are no clear distinctions between mythology or history, with some recorded documents thought to stem from propaganda dating to the USC era. Likewise, material that is thought to be legitimate continues to be followed through a clan lineage to the United Spartan Command to the Monarchy of Halo.

The clan was bound together by a classical single emblem structure, along which there was a basic hierarchy class system. First recorded usages of physical clan capitals were mentioned in addition to basic clan training and uniforms. The Mafia clan made possible Shadow Sniper172 's reign in leading the USC and the MOH a year after the rebellion.

Accounts of the rebellion vary, with the most extensive statements coming from the USC archives, ShadowSniper172's biography or the United Nations clan media, showcasing a variety of propaganda and historical footage from or near the time. The earliest accepted accounts claim after being a forger for the Mafia Clan for many months, Shadow witnessed many of Hunter23x's aggression towards certain clans and members, thus seceding and forming the Rebel Clan, a precursor to the United Spartan Command.

Fighting broke out around fall 2008 and well into the first months of 2009, with Rebel Clan forces engaging in multiple combative clan battles using guerilla warfare, being almost always outnumbered by numerically superior Mafia clan garrisons. On March 29, 2009, the conflict came to an end with the Treaty of Shadows being solidified, a physically typed clan document being likely the first evidence of a peace agreement in the halo clan community. With the end of the war, the Rebel Clan formed into the United Spartan Command the same day the treaty was made. One of the most restrictive requirements was the purposeful disbarment of communication between the two clans, which ironically led to little information about the clans whereabouts after the war, leading many scholars without any new sources.

It's unknown what became of the Mafia Empire or it's members. From what little information is available, the Mafia Clan continued well into the Golden Age (2010-2012) Halo 3 and Reach with the last known sightings in that time.

Records suggest that the Mafia Clan pursued into extensive forge art and screenshots.