Ashland Slavers

The Ashland Slavers are a faction of slavers working out of Ashland. They originate from Vault 83, prisoners who escaped from their captors. They have since repurposed Vault 83 to be a slave prison.

Background
When the prisoners of Vault 83 escaped, the leader of the riot, Eugene Harper, began to organize them around Ashland. Some prisoners wanted to remain free and without a leader, leaving the main force and going to form gangs like the Belmonts. Those who remained, however, set to work.

Ashland at first was simply another settlement in the wasteland until they were put under siege by slavers from the Capital Wasteland in 2127. Using the military-grade equipment the vault had contained, the prisoners repelled them, taking the leader of the assault hostage. When the slaver saw the vault however, he offered Harper a deal: make Ashland into a slaver outpost, and they would have the full support of the Capital Wasteland slavers. Thus, the Ashland Slavers were born.

With the support of the Capital Wasteland's slavers, soon they were able to rapidly expand through the area. The small raider groups in the area stood no chance against the combined might of the slavers, and were quickly either killed or enslaved. When they reached the Ashland Mill, Eugune Harper ordered the slaves to begin working the pre-war tech, cutting timber and shipping it both to the Capital Wasteland and Ashland, growing the settlement into a fortress of wood and slave labor.