Ourobouros as misdirection. That sounds like something Maverick is conniving enough to plan. If Jake and Kriem hadn't been members, it might've even been possible to see them as an underground freedom-fighter liberation movement. Unfortunately, because they held an entire city as hostage, it isn't possible to see that organization in that light.

Sternbilt is a city with major problems, though, and obviously its leaders are being portrayed as weak and self-interested at best, and completely power-crazed batshit evil at worst. It doesn't seem too unrealistic that they would have anarchic elements, as well as people who are just fighting in order not to be exploited.