1881: Fabio Amato is born as Fabio Nania, the third out of five sons to Fabrizio and Maria Nania.
1886: Fabio Nania's father is murdered after insulting the local Don, Tommaso Cataldo. The Nanias flee to Amato, Calabria and adopt their new home's name as their surname.
1890: Massimiliano Amato, eldest of the five Amato brothers, founds his street gang with other like-minded poor kids.
1898: Fabio Amato is made one of his brother's lieutenants in the Amato gang.
1904: Fabio Amato picks up Gianna Faiella, a Sicilian peasant he met while traveling through the eastern part of the island, as his lover.
1906: The Amatos assassinate Don Cataldo, at last avenging their father's death. The Cataldos perpetuate the vendetta by killing three of the Amatos' Nania cousins, leading the Amato sons (and Fabio's lover Faiella) to flee to America.
1907: The Amatos arrive in the United States. After settling into New York's growing Little Italy, Massimiliano Amato founds his pizza parlor, the second brother Enrico Amato finds work gutting fish, Fabio as an apprentice clockmaker, and the younger brothers Federico and Gian as dockworkers.
1910: Local 'padrone' and gang chief Don Alejandro Mamazza bullies the Amatos, harassing their sister Fiorella, forcing Enrico from his job and raiding Fabio's boss's workshop. The Amatos retaliate by marshaling a new street gang.
1911: The Amatos strike back against Don Mamazza, and defeat his larger but less-organized gang within a few weeks. Mamazza is executed by the five Amato brothers in his home, and the remnants of his gang absorbed into the Amato organization. Figuring that crime pays a lot better than his legitimate job as a 'pizzaman', Don Massimiliano Amato decides to keep the Amato Gang in operation, with his pizza parlor as a front business.
1912: Fabio Amato's lover Gianna Faiella gives birth to their only son, Fabio's older illegitimate son Aldobrando.
1911-1929: The Amato Gang continued to expand, duking it out with the Irish, Jewish and other Italian gangs fighting for control over New York City. They eventually succeed in monopolizing all gambling on Manhattan, and profited greatly from Prohibition until its repeal.
1918: Fabio Amato finally marries, taking Sicilian aristocrat Catarina Girafalco. Lady Girafalco, twenty years his junior, would prove astoundingly fertile and give him nine children, though only one son (Leone, born in 1922).
1929-1931: Castellammarese War. Salvatore Maranzano is sent by the Sicilian Mafia back home to win the allegiance of their American counterparts and immediately comes into conflict with Joe 'The Boss' Masseria, the 'capo di tutti capi' of the American Mob. While initially serving Masseria, the Amatos turned against 'The Boss' after he callously ordered a hit on the brothers' first cousin once removed Gaspar Nania, in which Nania's heavily pregnant wife was also killed. Fabio and Federico in particular led the secret negotiations with Maranzano, eventually agreeing to betray Masseria to his death.
1931: Maranzano, now capo di tutti capi in his own right, reorganizes the New York crime scene, consolidating power into five families - Amato, Barbera, Lucania, Romano and Vitale, each led by a particularly important partisan of his. The ambitious new Dons turn against their benefactor and assassinate him by the end of the year, however, and in the power vacuum that followed the Amatos boldly challenged the four other Families for total supremacy over the American Mafia.
1931-1941: The Five Families' War saw the Amato Family pitted against the four other crime families left in the wake of Maranzano's ascension and sudden death - Lucania, Barbera, Romano and Vitale. The war began well for the Amatos, who were able to secure the largest slices of Masseria's and Maranzano's empires and thus held their own despite mounting casualties. Furthermore, they succeeded in killing Don Vitale in 1932, and Don Barbera the year after. Unfortunately, their fortunes were reversed in a ferocious counterattack spearheaded by the Lucanias, which saw Don Massimiliano's immediate family picked off one by one, offing the second Amato brother Enrico along the way, and ended up driving the aging and world-weary Don to suicide by early 1934.
Left to pick up the pieces, Don Fabio continued to lead the Family against the Lucanias and Romanos in memory of his brothers, nieces and nephew. He oversaw the destruction of the Lucanias over a six-year war of attrition, eventually disposing of both Don Lucania himself and his dreaded right-hand man, the seven-foot-tall Luca 'The Axeman' Tattaglia, within weeks of each other in 1939. The remaining Lucanias were invited to a formal banquet the day after Don Lucania's assassination, ostensibly to hammer out peace terms, but were instead all poisoned, with the survivors finished off with knives.
After taking two years to lick his Family's wounds, Don Fabio turned his sights against the last of the four rival Families, the Romanos, who at this point had been constantly needling the Amatos. Faced with the full wrath of the Amato Family and keeping the fate of Don Lucania in mind, Don Stefano Romano surrendered at once, marrying his son Stefano II to Fabio's eldest daughter Lucrezia as part of the peace settlement that saw his family absorbed into the Amatos, and fled west at the first opportunity.
Don Fabio, victorious at last, claims the title of 'capo di tutti capi'.
1941-45: The Amatos withdraw to their powerbases and other critical areas throughout the city, rebuilding their power and consolidating their hold over the most important and lucrative of their gains while leaving the rest to rot. Many smaller gangs and self-proclaimed 'families' arise to take advantage of the power vacuum outside areas under direct Amato control, and worse yet the Irish and Jewish Mobs begin to plot their return.
1945: Don Fabio gives the order for the organization of a Commission, to be composed of five of the best and brightest men who had not yet crossed him, with orders to found their own Families and consolidate their hold over the NYC underworld...while showing him the respect he's due and coughing up the necessary annual tribute, of course. Game start.
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