The Nomad Clans descend from the ark families of the Long Dark who came to believe that stopping was what had killed the Cradle. A people who never stops, they reasoned, can never be harvested. When the other arks landed at Aurelia, the Clans kept moving.

They have been moving ever since. The Clans trade, raid, salvage and vanish, and their stripped-down raiders trade every luxury for raw velocity. To stop is to die, and to be caught is to have already failed. They are the only power in the Frontier that was not surprised when the Tide returned.