Croaker spoke to the assembled Company

"In olden times the outfit consisted entirely of black soldiers. Thus the name. Its slow drift northward has seen not only its diminution, but a shift in its makeup. One-eye is the black man with us today."

"We are the last of the Twelve True Companies. We have out-endured the others by more that a century, but i fear we're into out twilight days. I fear this may be the Company's final commission. A page of history is about to turn. Once it does, the great warrior brotherhoods will be gone and forgotten."

But Croaker was wrong....