The chosen shield-name of a loosely associated group of militias whose membership was composed solely of male, or culturally male cyberphobes. Arising in the cycles preceding the Droid Wars, and arguably the main cause of said wars, the Boys in the Belt were mostly ex-soldiers who were left without a purpose once the Revolution ended. Many of these ex-soldiers subsequently became asteroid miners in the various belts scattered about the galaxy, though this work was boring and tedious when compared to soldiering for a great cause. Casting about for a new cause, a new enemy to give their new lives new meaning, they settled on cyberlife, specifically androids. “Have you ever noticed they look a lot like humanoids?” (They were built by humanoids to look that way.) “Have you noticed how you see ‘em everywhere you go?” (They were built to assist primarily humanoid owners and are therefore ubiquitous in most of the civilized galaxy.) “Have you ever noticed how they think they’re better than us?” (Arguably, they are, but what androids actually think is a matter of speculation.) The red-hot focus of TBITB’s ire were Vercadian Protector Droids and the rogue Mediconian faction that had conceived of and built them. But VEEPS were and are incredibly dangerous, and most were under contract to incredibly wealthy and powerful individuals, so “The Boys” settled for ambushing and destroying the kind of droids (most of them) that were unable to fight back, this thanks to the Axon Block Need Inhibitors® that came standard on any member of a legal droid line. (Note: The definition of “legal” varies throughout the known multiverse.) The Boys were soundly defeated by the end of the conflict, the defining battle being the Tri-Clone Invasion, in which human allies and clones of said humans fought on the side of the Cyberforms. The few TBITB survivors are said to have fled to the Xychromozone, though this has not been verified. To this malton unit, small Neo-TBITB groups seem to pop up every so often, though they have so far been quickly dispatched, and none have so far posed a threat as severe as that of the original group.