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| Northway Faction | |
|---|---|
| Part of Prime Earth's history | |
| General Information | |
| Abbreviations | Northway NTF NDF (erroneously by Mikhail Kovac) |
| Other names | NorthWay Faction |
| Type | Criminal organization (before 2019) Private militarized organization |
| Motto | «Brother for Brother!» |
| Status | Defunct |
| Headquarters |  Moscow, Russian Federation |
| Established at | December 26, 2017 |
| Founder | Nikolai Volkov Egor Krupin Mikhail Kovac |
| Disestablished at | February 19, 2019 |
| Successor | NVRS-STF (short-lived, before the UNR) FinsetModen United Northway Refugees |
| Key locations | Russia Europe United States |
| Subsidiaries | Northway Faction Anomaly Research Center |
| Notable members | Bruce Norton Dmitry Viktorov |
| Leadership | |
| Leader | Nikolai Volkov |
| Second-in-Command | Mikhail Kovac |
| Additional information | |
| Number of members | 60,000 (2019) |
Northway Faction, sometimes simply called Northway (NTF), was a criminal organization, later a private militarized and research organization based in Russia. It was established on December 26, 2017, and disbanded on February 19, 2019, after losing the First Intergroup War. It was the first organization of the independent militarized factions period of Earth, the second being Boreas Research Facility.
Northway founders were Nikolai Volkov, Egor Krupin, and Mikhail Kovac. The organization was created with the goal of unifying street gangs of Moscow. In the early stages of the period, especially during 2019, the NTF was considered an incredibly militaristic organization. This may have been a result of Mikhail Kovac's influence on Nikolai Volkov (Kovac proposed the idea of attacking the BRF). During its lifetime, the organization frequently engaged in small conflicts with local gangs in Moscow, including the R Syndicate. Despite the latter conflict, Nikolai Volkov temporarily joined the Syndicate after the dissolution of Northway and established a special task force within it. This task force was short-lived and disbanded with the formation of the United Northway Refugees.
History
Background
Before December 26, 2017, Nikolai Volkov was a member of a local street gang in Moscow. After serving a small 8-month sentence in prison for a drug-related charge, he decided to leave his former gang and look for other partners. On November 4, 2017, he met Egor Krupin in a local pub. They quickly became friends after Krupin expressed sympathy for the reasons behind his imprisonment.
Somewhere shortly after the dissolution of HJT International Security Services, Mikhail Kovac arrived in Russia and settled in Moscow. Kovac sought employment with law enforcement and private security companies, but was almost always turned down because he did not have Russian citizenship. After being rejected by another private security firm, he joined the R Syndicate through a contact within the MVD. There he met Volkov and Krupin, who also joined the organization.
The trio bonded after a drug deal within the Syndicate went sideways. After the incident, Volkov proposed the idea of creating their own criminal empire based on brotherhood and unity among its members. Krupin and Kovac agreed on the idea. Volkov began procuring resources (mostly by stealing from Syndicate warehouses) and recruiting members. Krupin was in charge of training and Kovac was in charge of organizational matters.
Establishment
On December 26, 2017, Volkov officially declared the establishment of Northway Faction. At that time there were around 45 members, some being from R Syndicate. Artem Lebedev, the leader of the Syndicate, was furious that Volkov and Krupin had stolen weapons and equipment from his warehouses. But surprisingly, the Syndicate decided not to declare war on Northway, which allowed Northway to freely expand.
During the early stages of the organization, Northway was mostly in the process of procuring more weapons and vehicles for its members. Kovac was responsible for recruiting new members, while Krupin was still training the recruits. Volkov started to slowly expand the organization's territories in Moscow, which resulted in a rather short-lived gang war taking place. By late summer 2018, Northway Faction was in control of the southern parts of Moscow. The organization also recruited around 600 new members.
With the expansion of Northway, Kovac started proposing increasingly militaristic ideas to Volkov. Krupin was mostly against these ideas, which resulted in Kovac gradually turning Volkov against Krupin. The resulting tensions peaked on September 14, 2018, with a «civil» war breaking out within the organization.
Dispute within the leadership
On September 14, 2018, Krupin, with 210 NTF members, staged a revolt against Kovac and Volkov's plans for Northway Faction. He founded the Anti-Northway Faction Coalition and immediately started attacking loyalist territories. Volkov was extremely disappointed by the betrayal and declared a «no prisoners» policy for captured ANFCO members.
The dispute lasted until the end of October. Krupin, not wanting to fight his friends any longer, surrendered and left Moscow. Remaining ANFCO members were captured by Northway and executed. Due to Kovac's influence and propaganda, Volkov was still extremely angry at Krupin for betraying him and Northway. Volkov tried apprehending fleeing Krupin but failed to do so due to possible law enforcement interference. As a result of this internal dispute, around 400 NTF and ANFCO members were killed.
Expansion
Shortly after the dispute, Volkov continued to grow Northway Faction. In order to steal more weapons and vehicles, the organization decided to attack R Syndicate safehouses, which led to a war between both organizations. This war lasted until November 26, with Volkov and Lebedev signing a ceasefire and peaceful coexistence treaty.