The Hunters of Ragol are a staple part of the Dreamcast RPG Phantasy Star Online. The basic concept involves a new colony, name of Ragol, that's having some mysterious problems with the local wildlife, missing colonists, all hell breaking loose, etc. In response to this problem, the Hunter's Guild arises (at least in Undocumented Features; it's entirely possibly that the Hunter's Guild exists prior to landfall in PSO itself) to handle the wildlife, round up the missing, and figure out exactly what the hell is going on down there.

For more info on the game-- it's worthy, I found it a lot of fun and others of the Usual Suspects agree-- you can look here:

PSO v.1

Basically, when I was looking for a decent world concept for UFme that wasn't taken, Ragol came up as a Likely Candidate, because:

a) no one else was using it;

b) I have played the game, read the sites, know the backstory, and I could work up something feasible from there and feed it to Gryph.

And no, he's not kidding when he says he knows nothing about it; Rob Shannon and I are doing most of the information legwork for him.

Ard

Ard Sumhenner
Ronin Research, Sacramento, CA