The Outlaws were part of the alliance called 'The Shadow Thieves'. The purpose of this alliance was to establish roleplay at camp banished, as for example robbery, kidnapping and other IC harassments. However, after the result of this has become mainly OOC harassment (see for example
http://hydlaa.com/smf/index.php?topic=33772.0), we disbanded this alliance to prevent ourselves from gameplay disruption.
What concerns the IC reasons, it is just fair that a secret criminal organisation does not take part in wars of allies where they do not know the reasons and see no benefit at all. Therefore the outlaws retreat from camp banished, which has become a foreign battleground recently.
--mod's note: by request, locking as they are restructuring and have decided to start afresh.