The Pork Chop Platoon devotes itself to the success of individuals in whom the rest of society finds depreciated value: inept pilots, bankrupt traders, infirm veterans, disoriented explorers, and all others relegated to irrelevancy. Their name, derived from an unofficial military term referring to soldiers unfit for duty, parallels their purpose. Drawn to the Alliance for its recognition of character over corporation and person over property, the Pork Chop Platoon engages in trade, exploration, mining, and necessary martial activities as ardent champions of the expansion of democracy, free markets, and individual dignity.