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'''Brat Gangs''', also known as ''Brats'',{{Fn|1c}} are one of the types of [[gang]]s known to exist on the [[Hive World]] of [[Necromunda (planet)|Necromunda]], and are composed of high status youths, who live in its [[Hive]]s' upper levels.{{Fn|1a}}
Although the [[noble house]]holds are outside the clan structure of Necromunda are not immune to the influence of the pervading tribal culture of the hive world.{{Fn|1b}} The idle and decadent youth from Necromunda’s nobility, {{Fn|1b}} rich middle class, {{Fn|1c}}, and even the [[Clan House]]ses{{Fn|4a}} emulate the young [[clan Gang|clan warriors]] by forming their own Brat gangs, which make it their business to look after the honour of their household.{{Fn|1b}} Many nobles run with the Brats in their youth for a time before they succeed to holding office, and can then continue to further the interest of their own household by more subtle means.{{Fn|1b}}
Brats are privileged, wealthy, inquisitive, rebellious and open to wider influences than are available in the lower levels of the hive. They sport fantastic, elaborated costumes and hairstyles, and flout the conventions of hive life as openly as possible – extravagant rather than practical clothing characterise these gangs. Brats are always in the forefront of any new fashion or cult that sweeps through the upper levels of the hive. They can be quite well armed due to wealth and access to imports.{{Fn|1b}} Exotic weaponry is especially favoured.{{Fn|1b}}{{Fn|2}}
Some Brat gangs are made up of unruly, discontent and rebellious youths that have been cast out of their house for committing acts against society and their clan. Those youths flee to the [[Hive Bottom]] to escape the persecution of the [[Adeptus Arbites]] or their former house.{{Fn|4a}}
Brats are often heavily into drug culture, and live for the sheer joy of the moment. {{Fn|4b}} Some Brat gangs get up to various rebellious, subversive, and anarchic activities, including involvement with [[Helot Cult|cultist]] and [[wyrd]]s.{{Fn|1b}}{{Fn|4b}}
[[Hive Trazior]] is infamous for the Brat gangs of its up-hive spires, who take a cruel delight in engaging in gang warfare with the ‘commoners’ of the underhive. They are well known for their brightly painted, and incredibly rare, [[jetbike]]s, which they race through the throughfares and [[transit tube]]s, inflicting mischief and mayhem wherever they pass.{{Fn|5}}
