The Southern Cross

The Southern Cross are a fictional New York City gang in 1979.

Description

The Southern Cross can be identified by their brown ponchos, brown pants, and originally intended to have large wooden cross on their back.

History

Formation and background

Little is known about the Southern Cross' formation, except that they were founded sometime before July 12, 1979. They were on the Gramercy Riffs' network.

The meeting

See also: The Warriors (Film), Desperate Dudes

When Cyrus and the Gramercy Riffs called a conclave of New York City's gang, nine delegates of the Southern Cross were sent to the meeting on behalf of the gang. At the meeting in Van Cortlandt Park, the Bronx; it is unknown what became of the gang's delegates when Cyrus was shot and the meeting was interrupted by the cops.

In The Film

They attended Cyrus' big meeting, unknown what happened to them after Cyrus was shot and police arrived.

In The Game

It's possible they were in that large cutscene at the big meeting.

Appearances

• The Warriors (Film)
• The Warriors (Game) - Desperate Dudes (Intro Only)

Trivia

• They are another gang that were purely listed at the end of the script.
• They're name Southern Cross is based on an asterism made up of groups of stars in the constellation Crux mainly visible from the Southern Hemisphere that hold importance to countries like Australia and New Zealand and also represented across multiple country flags (Australia, New Zealand, Brazil, Samoa and Papua New Guinea)
• To add on, among stories of indigenous Australian star lore, the Southern Cross depicts a possum hiding in a tree. For the Tainui Māori of New Zealand, it represents Te Punga, the anchor of a great sky canoe. For Wairarapa Māori, the Southern Cross is Māhutonga, an opening for storm winds to escape through the Milky Way
• They are commonly considered to be a white supremacist gang due to the naming, but that could be because people possibly mistake the Southern Cross with the Confederate flag (Southern heritage flag) which features a cross as its main design. As well as being often recently associated with racist controversy and hate crime against POC and Afro-Americans in particular.
• They're more likely be a mixed race + ethnic gang of young Australian/Aboriginal, Kiwi/Maori and Samoan immigrants.
• The Southern Cross were confirmed to originally have large wooden crosses on their backs.