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| |name = Zavodskoi Interstellar | | |name = Stellar Corporate Conglomerate |
| |logo = Zavodskoi_Interestellar | | |logo = SCC_logo |
| |headquarters = Nova Luxembourg, [[Moroz]], [[Empire of Dominia]] | | |headquarters = Unknown |
| |slogan = Even one matters on the battlefield. | | |slogan = The unbreakable chainlink, holding the Spur together. |
| |languages = Tradeband, Tau Ceti Basic, Sol Common | | |languages = Tau Ceti Basic, Sol Common, Tradeband |
| |ceo = [[Notable Humans#Lyudmila Zavodskoi|Lyudmila Zavodskoi]] | | |ceo = [[The Trasens#Miranda Trasen|Miranda Trasen]] |
| |colors = <span style="color:#363c43">Black (#363c43),</span> <span style="color:#920a0a">red (#920a0a),</span> <span style="color:#7a6347">brown (#7a6347)</span> | | |colors = <span style="color:#336699">Navy blue (#336699),</span> <span style="color:#81d9ee">cyan |
| |founded = 2259 (as Necropolis Industries) | | (#81d9ee),</span> <span style="color:#f1b61c">gold (#f1b61c)</span> |
| 2462 (as Zavodskoi Interstellar) | | |founded = 2458 (unofficially), 2462 (officially) |
| |founder = Yefim Dementyev (as Necropolis Industries) | | |founder = |
| Lyudmila Zavodskoi (as Zavodskoi Interstellar)
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| |regions = | | * [[Nanotrasen Corporation]] |
| | * [[Idris Incorporated]] |
| | * [[Hephaestus Industries]] |
| | * [[Zavodskoi Interstellar]] |
| | * [[Zeng-Hu Pharmaceuticals]] |
| | * [[Private Military Contracting Group|Eridani Private Military Contractors]] |
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| * [[Sol Alliance]]
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| * [[Empire of Dominia]]
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| * [[Republic of Biesel]] | | * [[Republic of Biesel]] |
| * [[Coalition of Colonies]] | | * [[Coalition of Colonies]] |
| | * [[Sol Alliance]] |
| | * [[Empire of Dominia]] |
| | * [[Nralakk Federation]] |
| | * [[People's Republic of Adhomai]] |
| | * [[New Kingdom of Adhomai]] |
| | * [[Izweski Hegemony]] |
| * [[Republic of Elyra]] | | * [[Republic of Elyra]] |
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| | <!-- <center>''Each point of the chainlink represents the five megacorporations, with the sixth - protruding arrowhead point - being the Conglomerate, overseeing them all.''</center> --> |
| | '''This is the page for the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate, the organization the players work for. This contains very important setting information.''' |
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| '''Zavodskoi Interstellar''', formerly Necropolis Industries, is a weapons and aerospace manufacturing and development conglomerate founded in 2259. Zavodskoi distributes everything from light to heavy arms, space vessel weapons, ship-building, aircraft, ground vehicles, combat spacesuits, and military software. They also produce the Z.I. line of positronics, used for private security and military contracting. As Necropolis Industries, it primarily focused on genetic research and the biosciences; though Zavodskoi continues to have a genetics division, it is vastly outstripped by its competitor [[Zeng-Hu Pharmaceuticals]]. | | '''Formerly, the players worked for solely NanoTrasen - while this is technically true to an extent, still, this sentence is an open request to all wiki readers to report inconsistencies in this matter, to wiki/lore development for gameplay pages/lore pages respectively.''' |
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| Since the beginning of the phoron scarcity, Zavodskoi Interstellar has seen a rise in its relevance and profits, as civil unrest grows around the Orion Spur. Its focus on the research and development of weaponry has made it vital to the continued “stability” of the [[Stellar Corporate Conglomerate]], as well as any other clients that have either purchased or hired their arms. Notably, its continued relationship with the [[Empire of Dominia]] has provided the Empire an opportunity for cooperative and profitable business relations with the rest of humanity.
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| == Corporate Affairs ==
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| | Formed at the height of corporate power in the galaxy, the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate — unofficially known as the “Chainlink” due to its emblem —is a group exercising undisputed economic dominance over the Orion Spur. The Chainlink was founded to secure privately owned assets within Tau Ceti owned by the various megacorporations during the Solarian incursion by Grand Admiral Raymond Özdemir, who commanded the 35th Fleet of the Solarian Navy during its siege of the [[Republic of Biesel]]. |
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| Necropolis Industries was founded in 2259 by Yefim Dementyev, a former aerospace engineer with the Soviet Union. With the Alliance's outer territories beginning to show signs of unrest, the concerns of pan-galactic war were seen as an inevitability. With this in mind, Necropolis' making-a-splash invention was the combat-capable voidsuit. Lighter than a typical space suit and equipped with specialised atmospheric shielding that allowed a soldier to quickly slip in and out of it, the "Dracula" combat voidsuit was nevertheless heavy, cumbersome, and expensive. But the design showed promise, and the Sol Alliance's need for military expansion pushed demand for newer, sleeker versions, which skyrocketed with the outbreak of the Interstellar War.
| | The Chainlink has essentially forced the largest economic influences into a corporation, with which the [[The Trasens|Trasen family]] holds an unsteady authority over. Though cooperation has been deemed “essential” at this point in time, the shaky peace still finds itself littered with cut-throat, espionage-ridden affairs as each megacorporation attempts to place itself on top. Though, their unlikely alliance comes as a result of [[Einstein Engines]]’ threat to their economic prowess, where the first trans-stellar corporation has maintained dominance within some of more influential sovereign states such as the [[Nralakk Federation]] and the [[Sol Alliance|Solarian Alliance]]. |
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| | ==Noteworthy members== |
| | * '''Titanius Aeson,''' Hephaestus CEO |
| | * '''Alex Mason,''' Idris CEO |
| | * '''Liqin Hsiao-Li,''' Zeng-Hu CEO |
| | * '''Lyudmila Zavodskoi,''' Zavodskoi CEO |
| | * '''Kubra Mobolaji,''' PMCG CEO |
| | * '''Chin-hae Hong,''' Orion Express CEO |
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| The years of the Interstellar War saw Dementyev oversee Necropolis branching into weapons and ship armaments, which were often purchased by the similarly-young and upcoming [[PMCG|Eridani private military contractors]]. When the Treaty of Xansan was finally settled, Necropolis had secured a contract with the Solarian military, leading to it supplying the Alliance with guns and its now-iconic "Gargoyle" combat voidsuit.
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| As relative peace followed the largest-scale conflict in human history, the board of directors turned their gaze to a yet-untouched (by them) field; biological experimentation. Though [[Zeng-Hu Pharmaceuticals]] was unambiguously more adept and well-established than their competitor, Necropolis' focus on gene therapy, xenobiology, and biological limb replacements led them to brief interest from the wider galactic community. While official correspondence pointed to a desire to broaden their sphere of influence and move away from solely weapons manufacturing, insiders at the company would later recount that Yefim Dementyev had begun to feel the creeping fear of his own mortality. Rumours would tell that he was obsessed with preserving himself and his legacy, and would use his own resources at any cost to achieve this preservation.
| | Though once shrouded in secrecy, the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate has become a staple of the Orion Spur, essentially acting as the puppet masters of the interstellar economy. With the earliest dated supply shipments being traced to 2458 – it appears that the constituent megacorporations within the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate have sought to cooperate with one another to ensure their economic dominance since the First Solarian Invasion of the [[Republic of Biesel]]; though within the shadows. Almost every element of the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate had been hidden and concealed from the greater public, and more so from the scrutiny of those uncovering secrets that the most powerful individuals in the Orion Spur preferred to not yet be revealed. |
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| However, Dementyev's pursuit was halted by his abrupt death from a septic infection in 2317. His son, Yevgeniy Dementyev, took hold of the company's reigns, and steered it into the twenty-fourth century. During this time, he would bear witness to the contact with the [[Empire of Dominia]] by the Alliance. Dementyev the younger quickly took advantage of the nascent Empire's newness to the galactic stage, and established relations with the Great Houses and Emperor Godwin Keeser himself. From then on, Necropolis and the Empire's intimate ties meant that Necropolis boosted the efforts of not just Dominia's conquest, but the efforts of its genetic modification.
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| In 2389, Yevgeniy Dementyev passed down the mantle of chief executive officer to his son, Kasimir Boytsov. While Boytsov was not just a dabbler in genetics and had a keen mind like his father and grandfather, he was reputed for his impulsiveness and stubbornness, refusing to admit when the tides were turning against him. While Necropolis' developments in weapons manufacturing and genetics were profitable, they were being easily outstripped in the manner of shipbuilding by [[Hephaestus Industries]], and left in the dust by Zeng-Hu Pharmaceuticals. By 2450 Necropolis had become the neglected runner-up of the megacorporations, the stocks of the other major corporate entities far outstripping them. But it was during this time that an information security operative at the company, Tikhon Zavodskoi, quietly recommended his cousin Lyudmila for a position as a weapons researcher. "The woman from [[Pluto]]", as she was known, quickly worked her way up the ranks of the company to become the assistant to the chief security officer, bringing in her own cohorts of associates from Dominia and Sol alike.
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| 2462 was when change would overwhelm Necropolis. Kasimir Boytsov was accused by the Alliance government of corruption, insider trading, bribery, and supplying the black market with weapons. He denied the accusations, but before a proper case could be brought against him, he collapsed at a press conference, and fell into a coma. The company was sent into turmoil; Boytsov had never named a proper successor, despite his rapidly-advancing age. Lyudmila Zavodskoi had become a surprise contender; her new group of executives, including her cousin Tikhon and the Imperial duchess Kamilla Strelitz, pushed out the old heads and helped turn Necropolis into rebranded, rebuilt Zavodskoi Interstellar.
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| Rather than pursue further genetics work, Zavodskoi Interstellar opted to pursue what it knew how to do better than any other megacorporation in the Orion Spur: military equipment. Three main pillars continue to drive Zavodskoi Interstellar. The largest is its classical military-industrial complex, and a massive amount of humanity's military equipment, ranging from infantry small arms to combat hardsuits to vehicles and much more, are today produced by it or one of its subsidiaries. Confiance Technologies, a recent subsidiary of Zavodskoi Interstellar, is one part of the military-industrial pillar that has even branched out into robotics. Its second pillar, as a result of Ingkom, is its robust engineering wing - Zavodskoi engineering staff are a common sight throughout the Orion Spur, though their usage within the Solarian Alliance has faltered following the Solarian Collapse of late 2462.
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| A third, less public, pillar of Zavodskoi Interstellar is its private security force. These officers go wherever Zavodskoi employees go and are known throughout the Orion Spur for their professionalism. According to company representatives, Zavodskoi's security wing is one of the most competitive in the Orion Spur and is trained longer than any other megacorporation's security force. A recent turnover in the highest ranks of the security forces following the rebranding of Necropolis to Zavodskoi has caused some suspicion among third-party observers, but no information has been released on this by Zavodskoi representatives.
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| As a hiring practice, Zavodski Interstellar finds itself poaching highly skilled workers from the other megacorporations. Workers with Zavodskoi usually flocked to the company to exploit its high pay - the dissolution of several underperforming departments and subsidiaries in more contested markets means that the company can focus and attract industry experts to work on weapons research. Although perfecting weapons of war is a task that will never truly be finished, the company is recognized as the uncontested leader in their development. As such, it holds a great deal of sway in almost every corner of the Spur.
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| Clients ranging from small colonial militias to interstellar governments trust and rely on the megacorporation for their expertise. In this day and age, Zavodskoi pioneers where others do not by developing and manufacturing the highest-quality niche-function firearms, or just the biggest and baddest weapons they can muster. The extent of this research dominates every echelon of the corporation leading to the unified pursuit of maximizing the efficiency of its stock, rather than trying to cover the widest range possible.
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| Zavodskoi Interstellar rarely works alongside Zeng-Hu contractors - intentionally so. The two corporations frequently butt heads after Zeng-Hu Pharmaceuticals left Zavodskoi genetics research in the dust, with the relation between the two sour at best. Although this attitude has lessened with the formation of the SCC, rivalry still occurs. This echoes down to the lowest ranks, as even the common worker can find themselves cheering onto outclassing the opposition. This isn’t an excuse to get fired for trashing your coworker.
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| === Positronics and Zavodskoi Interstellar === | |
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| In the aftermath of Necropolis Industries' rebranding into Zavodskoi Interstellar, synthetics and positronics have become more of a common sight in company facilities outside of the Empire of Dominia. These Zavodskoi IPCs are however banned from command and leadership positions within Zavodskoi Interstellar due to the corporation's internal policy, which views positronics as a workforce rather than a management force. This ban includes Zavodskoi Interstellar corporate liaisons.
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| Newly implemented and with some in the company opposed to their presence, Zavodskoi positronics face systemic fragility within Zavodskoi Interstellar. In an effort to employ and contract out the best representation for the company, Zavodskoi will routinely memory wipe, retool, or outright scrap and sell their IPCs for workplace accidents, failure to execute an order, or underperformance. This process has been largely seen as a lighter version of the Burzian Method. This authority does not extend to Zavodskoi Interstellar corporate liaisons although they are encouraged to check in with their positronic contractor personnel from time to time. Therefore, Zavodskoi positronic contractors are often those struggling to maintain a positive evaluation or saved from the scrapyard all together.
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| In an effort to bolster company morale, organic personnel are able to lease out Zavodskoi asset IPCs, should they so choose. This allows personnel to ‘own’ a positronic for the home without the burden of maintenance fees. For the IPCs affected, this can work to their benefit or their demise. As more lax personnel may feel less inclined to report aberrancy, whereas other synthetics would find themselves under greater scrutiny.
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| '''It is expected for research and security Zavodskoi Interstellar IPCs to adopt the prefix Z.I. followed by their designation. An example of this formatting is Z.I. Name.'''
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| In late 2463, the Zo’ra Hive announced publicly a partnership with Zavodskoi Interstellar after selling the rights to the production of the hydrogen rifle, a complex Zo’rane design that is cheap in ammunition. Shortly after, a meeting in New Sedantis was held with Zavodskoi executives and Hive officials to allow Vaurcae enter their workforce, akin to the synthetic introduction following the Necropolis rebranding. Besides Nanotrasen, Zavodskoi is the other megacorporation that is comfortable in employing Bound assets, particularly in engineering, though they have no issue with Unbound as they are considered similar to the Z.I. synthetics, despite their many differences.
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| Prior to striking a deal with Zeng-Hu Pharmaceuticals, the C’thur Hive considered a deal with Necropolis Industries as an alternative. However, the proposition never followed through and the conversation between the two parties did not resurface until 2463. It is rumored that the Zo’ra deal with Zavodskoi was made only after C’thur began to sell their workforce mainly to Ingkom. Whatever the case may be, both Hives are now on equal terms with Zavodskoi Interstellar, who has no trouble dealing with them despite their differences.
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| [[File:LyudmilaZavodskoi.png|thumb|Lyudmila Zavodskoi, CEO of Zavodskoi Interstellar.]]
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| '''Chief Security Officer:''' Kamilla Strelitz, b. 2430
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| Advisor, and seen as the second-in-command of Lyudmila Zavodskoi, Kamilla Strelitz was only recently promoted to their position after the recent rebranding of the corporation. Kamilla has shown her aptitude for her position through the continued success of campaigns initiated by Zavodskoi Interstellar, despite commanding the company’s largest sector of personnel. She is known among the ranks as being belligerent and leaves little room for failure. Those that fail to achieve the standards set often find themselves personally experiencing the wrath of Kamilla Strelitz, enough to make desensitized men cry. Despite her “cheerful” personality, she is considered to be a close friend of the company’s CEO, almost guaranteed to be by her side when Lyudmila is in public.
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| '''Chief Research Officer:''' Jaco Du Plessis, b. 2413
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| Having previously been one of few top scientists with Zeng Hu Pharmaceuticals, Jaco Du Plessis was poached by Zavodskoi Interstellar shortly after the rebranding of the corporation. He is vocal regarding his stunted growth with his prior employer, advocating for those with ambitions to instead fill the ranks of Zavodskoi Interstellar, promising a fulfilment within the corporation they couldn’t get elsewhere. Despite his position as Chief Research Officer, some consider him instead to be the “face” of the corporation, often unveiling projects spearheaded by himself mostly through Confiance Technologies. Similarly to Kamilla Strelitz, he holds his personnel to a high standard, expecting them to either “be all in, or find employment elsewhere”.
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| One of few remnants of Boytsov’s reign, Tikhon Zavodskoi has managed to remain in his position as Chief Risk Officer for almost a decade. Considered to be an astute, sharp-witted individual that has successfully managed to fend the wolves off, despite the decaying nature of the company before being rebranded. Many consider his continued presence merely due to his familial relationship with Lyudmila Zavodskoi, but she has reassured that despite being her cousin, Tikhon would be undoubtedly useful to the continued perseverance of Zavodskoi Interstellar. Tikhon is very rarely seen outside of the company’s corporate facilities, if he is it’s often with his cousin.
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| '''Nova Luxembourg, [[Moroz]], Mira Sancta:''' The Dominian branch can be found near the city centre, prominently overlooking the Court of Chalser. Residing in what was once a bank, the grandiose exterior encloses a large research building that is well known for its incredibly high security. It has since rapidly expanded following the move of Zavodskoi Interstellar's main headquarters and has tripled in size. The move brought with it several manufacturing plants, located across the Empire of Dominia - revitalizing the megacorporation's interest in the region.
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| '''Tolyatti, Soviet Union, [[Earth]], [[Sol]]:''' The previous headquarters of Zavodskoi Interstellar can be found in Tolyatti. The skyscraper complex consisted of three Zavodskoi buildings, a Kumar Arms building, and a ConTec building. The complex was especially austere and compact, mostly as a result of socialist influences during its construction. Today, the Tolyatti Headquarters are abandoned, thanks to the collapse of the Solarian Alliance and Zavodskoi Interstellar's move to Mira Sancta.
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| '''Cape Town, Union of South Africa, Earth, Sol:''' The Cape Town branch sits on the edge of a small cliff, overlooking the ocean. Home to the headquarters of Ingkom, the Cape Town building is a sleek, modernist building with distinctive arched rooves. It is surrounded by several shuttle pads and hangars, some which provide direct transport to the Gagaringrad branch on Luna. The Cape Town branch continues to operate, despite Zavodskoi Interstellar's move to Mira Sancta, mostly due to the building being rented from the Solarian Alliance, instead of owned by the megacorporation.
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| '''Gagaringrad, [[Luna]], Sol:''' Gagaringrad's Zavodskoi headquarters consist of a black obelisk of a building on the outskirts of the city's dome. It is set behind winding alleyways and few good parking spaces, and possesses many subterranean basement levels leftover from its time as a Necropolis building. Much of these levels are locked by clearance level, with speculation and conspiracy surrounding what may await inside them.
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| '''Mendell City, [[Biesel]], [[Tau Ceti]]:''' The Mendell City branch situated within District 10 was renovated in 2462, shortly before the unveiling of the [[Stellar Corporate Conglomerate]]. It is constructed in the style of Soviet Classicism, said to be designed to Lyudmila Zavodskoi's personal tastes. With its Corinthian pillars, primarily stone and concrete materials, and tall, spindly central tower, the building is remarkably distinct from other buildings in Mendell's skyline.
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| === Security ===
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| Zavodskoi's private security division is among the most expansive in the Spur, and despite being largely cribbed together from Necropolis' old forces, has acquired a new reputation for professionalism and delivered results. Many of the new recruits originate from the [[Empire of Dominia]], whether they be Imperial frontiersmen looking to pay off their blood debt or young nobles looking for career experience before they take on the duties expected of their station. Being directly employed with Zavodskoi security involves escorting logistics vessels (usually hired by [[Orion Express]] or nation-states with fledgling militaries), stationing around research facilities, event security, and in some cases, Confiance employees acting as cybersecurity and forensics experts.
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| In contrast, Zavodskoi's private military excursions have begun to be folded into Falerio Security Services, though it is largely Jadraners and Morozian secondaries recruited. Elsewhere, Zavodskoi private military operations had a significant presence on [[Mictlan]] during the Peacekeeper Mandate, supporting [[Tau Ceti Armed Forces]] as corporate auxiliaries.
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| Zavodskoi is the premier manufacturer of personal arms and vessel-class arms in the [[Orion Spur]], and is considered even more prolific in the field than Necropolis Industries was previously. Any entity, from nations to other megacorporations (even Zavodskoi's rival Zeng-Hu), will purchase weaponry from Kumar Arms. Kumar manufactures everything from pistols for the Solarian military to ship guns for their subsidiary, Ingkom, and their armaments are reputed as more reliable (though more expensive) than [[NanoTrasen]]. While [[Hephaestus Industries]] has attempted to compete with Zavodskoi in the ship weapons manufacturing department, their lack of establishment in the field means Zavodskoi continues to outstrip their sales.
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| Competing with [[Einstein Engines]] and Hephaestus Industries in the field with considerable success, Zavodskoi's subsidiary Ingkom is a source for many weapons shipping and military vessels that primarily collaborate with the [[Solarian Armed Forces]] and the Imperial Navy. Despite being a more recent acquisition by the company, purchased after Lyudmila Zavodskoi's ascension to chief executive officer, Ingkom's absorption into the company means Zavodskoi has poached several skilled engineers from its competitors with offers of better pay and security.
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| | However, following the Second Solarian Invasion of the Republic of Biesel in 2462, the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate revealed themselves to the interstellar community at large; proclaiming their goal was to protect the financial livelihood of all their corporate clients and assets, and to ensure their facilities across the Republic of Biesel would not be diminished as a result of “rogue actors” – similar in circumstances to their original founding, after Admiral Michael Frost’s incursion into their profits. |
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| | Since its reveal, the Chainlink has gone on to ensure its dominance through several masterful techniques – mostly centring around the [[Corporate Reconstruction Zone]]; or the annexed Solarian territories by the [[Republic of Biesel]]. Pouring countless resources into stabilizing the region so as to further exploit it, the Chainlink has all but managed to prop the annexation as a legal undertaking of colonies abandoned by the [[Sol Alliance|Solarian Alliance]] during the Collapse. Though, their efforts have not gone without resistance, in particular, the Republic of [[Mictlan]] has proven to be rather ungrateful for the Chainlink’s efforts to uplift them. Sponsoring the Peacekeeper Mandate - a Biesellite military operation that aims to enforce their annexation, regardless of what the local inhabitants think - the Chainlink has managed to quell the majority of the Republic of Mictlan’s more unsavoury elements, though there still exists significant unrest across the eastern hemisphere of the planet. |
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| | [[The Trasens|Miranda Trasen]] maintains her dominance of the Orion Spur through her manoeuvring into the Director of the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate; using her position to propel [[Nanotrasen|NanoTrasen]] interests to the dismay of the other constituent megacorporations. However, will this be the unravelling of the economic, and political entity that has so far been successful in their subjugation of the interstellar community, has not yet been revealed, but perhaps events in the future may change this. |
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| | The sheer size of the co-operating corporation’s influence, now tightly bound by their public front of allegiance to one another, is enough to sway many of the powers on the interstellar stage – while some of the larger political entities retain some measure of independence, they still ultimately rely on the constituent members of the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate for their respective niches within the interstellar economy. Despite attempts by the Solarian Alliance to keep megacorporations in check; they’ve merely facilitated a deal with the devil, exchanging their reliance on the Chainlink instead for Einstein Engines. |
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| | The Chainlink, through its member companies and their cooperation, has domination of several economies within the Orion Spur. From banks to manufacturers, only a sliver of economic productivity in the Spur is controlled by others, the main threat to the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate being Einstein Engines. Despite the power of the Chainlink, Einstein has managed to remain competitive against them through tight ties with the Solarian Alliance and Nrralakk Federation, both the largest economies to exploit. As one of the eldest megacorporations, Einstein Engines has maintained a constant throughout humanity's journey to the stars, the consequences it wrought. |
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| ===Kumar Arms===
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| <i>"The best defense is a Kumar offense."</i>
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| | However, as the alliance grows older, it can be seen that the constituent megacorporations seek their own power; desiring to diminish [[Nanotrasen|NanoTrasen]]’s domination of influence over their affairs, so far. Conducting themselves in a manner to not directly oppose [[Nanotrasen|NanoTrasen]], the various other megacorporations have begun leveraging their economic influence on nations; in particular, as seen with [[Hephaestus Industries]]’ planned expansion across [[Moghes]]. Yet another example is [[Idris Incorporated]]’s leveraging credit provided to [[NanoTrasen]] during its attempt to recapture control of Phoenixport. |
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| Kumar Arms is considered the backbone of Zavodskoi Interstellar, founded in the Soviet Union by Ilya Kumarvna, a former Sukhoi engineer, in 2114. They are one of the most prominent manufacturers of military and police equipment, and supplied much of the [[Solarian Armed Forces]] during the Interstellar War. After this burst of growth, however, a series of poor financial decisions led the company to be acquired by Necropolis Industries in 2295. The brand remained purchased, but Kumar Arms as a business gradually stagnated and became a shell company for Necropolis to use for shipping purposes. Once Necropolis became Zavodskoi Interstellar, however, Kumar Arms was revived and refurbished, diversifying into military vehicles and batteries for space vessels. It continues to supply not just the Solarian military, but that of the [[Empire of Dominia]] as well. Currently, it is headquartered in St. Petersburg on Earth, though there are whispers of plans to move the primary headquarters and manufacturing centre to Alterim Obirava.
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| * '''Compact M8 service pistol:''' Manufactured by Zavodskoi Interstellar and based off of a full-sized variant of their 9mm design, the compact M8 is the standard service pistol of the Solarian Armed Forces.
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| * '''2557 super-heavy pistol:''' The Kumar Arms 2557 is a newly designed type of "super-heavy" pistol. It features a light-weight polymer pistol grip, a bulky plasteel frame and an extra long barrel. It is chambered in the newly developed .599 Kumar Super rifle cartridge. Despite designed for rifle use, the newly developed propellants allows this cartridge for use in the Kumar Arms 2557, upping the stopping power significantly.
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| * '''40mm rotary cannon "Francisca":''' Developed in 2461, the Francisca or "Frankie" rotary cannon is a ship battery designed for small to medium-sized ships. It can be loaded with full metal jacket, fragmentation, and armour-piercing ammunition, and is deadly to unarmoured small-craft.
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| * '''ZA-98/5 200mm naval gun "Lammergeier":''' A cannon designed for corvette-class vessels at the smallest, the Lammergeier has been used to explosive effect on the Imperial Fleet's corvettes assigned to the Badlands. Smaller than its 406mm cousin the Longbow, the Lammergeier is nevertheless a useful and adaptable weapon.
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| ===Confiance Technologies=== | | It is without a doubt that each and every constituent megacorporation has their own agendas with how the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate should operate, and most definitively to their own benefit. Though employees may find themselves “employed” by the Conglomerate, in reality they find themselves on long-term contracting agreements, still maintaining some ties to their original megacorporation, such as a Research Director from Zeng-Hu Pharmaceuticals would still remain employed by the megacorporation, even if technically they are contracted to the Conglomerate. |
| <i>“Have confidence in Confiance.”</i>
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| Founded in Harmony City, [[Luna]] in 2427, Confiance Technologies (or ConTec) remain a successful company focusing on AI and synthetic component manufacturing. Acquired by Zavodskoi shortly after the company's renaming, ConTec was divided into two branches; a military wing and a commercial wing. The military wing produces a great amount of the Sol Alliance Navy's on-board AIs and combat-grade robotics, and does not operate outside of Solarian space due to the sensitive data they handle. ConTec's commercial wing produces non-military equipment, including laptops, watches, and PDAs, and operates across the Spur.
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| * Centurion Prosthetics and Augmentations: Zavodskoi's iconic prosthetics line, usually offered to Zavodskoi employees at a discount in lieu of purchasing prosthetics from NanoTrasen, Zeng-Hu, or Hephaestus. The most recognizable look of Centurion prosthetics are their smooth, matte grey and red limb prosthetics, though the company also sells synthskin prosthetics to Imperial Zavodskoi employees who prefer to keep the nature of their disabilities less obvious. Centurion synthskin is not as reputable as the realistic prosthetics produced by Jeonshi Biotechnics, though it is easily mistaken for a real limb from a distance.
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| * '''Midnight Business Technology:''' Produced by the commercial wing of ConTec, the Midnight line of watches advertises itself as stylish yet cheap and functional workwear, mostly for Secondaries and Ma'zals in the [[Empire of Dominia]].
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| | NanoTrasen seeks to maintain the status quo of them being the dominant megacorporation, subverting the influence held by the combined might of the megacorporations to its own benefit, and will go to great lengths to ensure they remain on top – even so far as to diminish the Conglomerate’s influence to ensure their own is maintained. The Trasen’s openly claim that NanoTrasen will remain the most influential megacorporation, with Miranda clinging to her position as Acting Director to maintain the illusion that the corporation shall forever remain in the spotlight. Though the phoronics industry seems to be dwindling, the corporation seeks to expand its foothold in other industries that it enjoys sizeable market domination within. |
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| Ingkom, or Bedryfsingenieurswese Kommissie, is a primarily engineering-focused subsidiary of Zavodskoi Interstellar, founded in South Africa, Earth in 2099. It has a long intertwined history with South Africa the nation and its aggressive expansion into Southern Africa, and its interference in Central Africa. Initially a state-owned enterprise was tasked with rebuilding the destroyed infrastructure of Botswana, Zimbabwe, Lesotho and Eswatini after several successful military campaigns had rendered them territories. Early successes experienced by Ingkom resulted in its quick rise to importance within the South African economy, mostly due to reconstructions that allowed resource extraction operations to resume. The majority of the developed regions of these newly acquired territories were a direct result of Ingkom, and after sanctions had lifted, allowed them to prosper and expand into the international market - mostly through Zavodskoi’s acquiring of the corporation as a subsidiary in 2463.
| | Conflict pays, and it pays well. The Private Military Contracting Group knows such very well. Ensuring a strong hand through amassing military-grade technology and fleets capable of assisting even the strongest actors on the interstellar stage is merely one element of their agenda, the other being reliance on the Conglomerate – indirectly the Private Military Contracting Group – to maintain stability within their borders, and even outside of them. Mercenary work is one of the oldest careers and simply one of the most profitable. The Group maintains the Conglomerate should broaden its capabilities to fight, routinely citing the need for such when referring to the Second Solarian Incursion of Biesel. |
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| | Though not so obvious as the other megacorporations, the Orion Express sees the future of the economy relying on its ability to provide delivery, both with goods and with the services it would offer to nations – in particular, growing the reliance of these nations to the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate to ensure that their removal would be too costly, with far too many drawbacks to the interstellar economy, so that a similar body to the Solarian Corporate Authority could not deny their vitality. By any means necessary, Orion Express attempts to leverage influence within the Republic of Biesel, even where it means causing drifts with the other megacorporations who rely on it to supply them with much-needed resources and equipment, which it knows keenly. |
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| Born from the Eridani PMCs that first secured her holdings, Falerio Security Services was founded by [[Novi Jadran|Novi Jadranic]] Duchess Filomena di Falerio to continue their work, but using the (comparatively cheaper) local populace. Since then it has grown into a large and capable contractor that enjoys an excellent relationship with the Imperial Army, typically picking up assignments that are deemed too low priority for Army assistance. Headquartered on Novi Jadran, Falerio Security Services finds itself made up almost exclusively of Ma’zals (especially Jadraners), most of which have prior service in the armed forces. Their primary duties, outside of security of Falerio family assets, involve protection of Zavodskoi assets and House Caladius vessels. But creating a hint of tension between the Army and Falerio is the growing amount of Jadranics that see the PMC as a far more viable opportunity to pay off their Mo'ri'zal; some high-ranking Imperial officers have expressed concern that Falerio's venture has jeopardised the loyalty of the planet's Ma'zals.
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| == Corporate Relations ==
| | Hephaestus Industries, the manufacturing giant of the Spur, wishes to merely expand its foothold within its existing industries – terraforming, spacecraft construction, integrated positronic chassis manufacturing, resource extraction and lastly engine development. Similarly to Zeng-Hu, it seeks to combine the brightest minds within the Conglomerate to get a technological advantage, but with particular application to help its existing monopolies as opposed to Zeng-Hu’s broader wishes. The future resides within the furnaces of Hephaestus Industries, and Titanius Aeson seeks to ensure the interstellar stage knows it. Even with the damage wrought by the Solarian Corporate Authority, Hephaestus Industries seeks to ensure they remain in steady competition with Einstein Engines, and that the Conglomerate can only truly reach its potential when its bankrupted. |
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| Einstein Engines and Zavodskoi have a fairly neutral relationship - though the two do compete in the robotics sector, Zavodskoi has purchased many Einstein-made warp drives for its vessels over the years, and the two have both had generous supply contracts with the Solarian military in the past. In the modern day, Zavodskoi has lost a great deal of these contracts, while Einstein continues to hold many highly valuable government and military contracts - a factor which contributed to Zavodskoi's withdrawal of much of its Solarian business. In spite of this, it continues to purchase warp drives from Einstein frequently, due to the rising cost of phoron fuel and the easy availability of helium-3 from Zavodskoi's new home in the Empire of Dominia.
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| Hephaestus and Zavodskoi are long-enduring rivals, with the two megacorporations competing extensively in industry, manufacturing, robotics and engineering fields for decades. Mutual sabotage and espionage are common between Hephaestus and Zavodskoi, with both corporations having extensively bankrolled privateers, saboteurs and other plausibly deniable agents to sabotage their rivals. As Zavodskoi has expanded into the Empire of Dominia and Hephaestus into the Izweski Hegemony, the Sparring Sea and Badlands have become two of the largest modern battlegrounds for the megacorporations, with corporate-funded pirates commonly targeting one another's vessels. Beyond the use of privateers, Zavodskoi has often been accused of funding radical anti-Hephaestus groups within the Izweski Hegemony, most notably the Champions of Moghes - a terrorist organization which has remained suspiciously well-equipped and well-informed of Hephaestus operations. Hephaestus, meanwhile, has often been suspected of bankrolling various Dominian rebel groups in recent years, in the hopes of weakening Zavodskoi's large investment in the Empire's development. Shared membership in the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate has done nothing to quell the two giants' bitter feud, with only the shared threat of the phoron crisis forcing them into cooperation.
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| | Though the Solarian Corporate Authority saw it fit to revoke some of the megacorporation’s presence within the Solarian Alliance, Zavodskoi Interstellar still seeks to maintain strong ties. Majority of their footholds, outside of Dominia, flourish within the now NanoTrasen-free Solarian Alliance and are likely to keep growing if the megacorporation can maintain an amiable relationship with the nation. Though Zavodskoi Interstellar agrees with the Private Military Contracting Group’s own agenda, and sometimes even contributes to its growth within the Conglomerate, it ultimately believes that the Conglomerate should remain “neutral” in the face of interstellar conflict, and profit from the lucrative opportunities that arise from playing both sides. |
| Zavodskoi and Idris have been frequent competitors in the fields of security and IPC manufacturing, leading to a long-running mutual rivalry between the two corporation. Lyudmila Zavodskoi is known to have a personal distaste for Alex Mason, and Zavodskoi has frequently undercut Idris security operations in the Sol Alliance and Republic of Biesel. Zavodskoi employees are strongly discouraged from using Idris financial services, which NanoTrasen has done its best to encourage as many Zavodskoi employees in Biesel opt to make use of NanoTrasen banks instead. Idris has marketed its security division extensively as a high-class security option, with unstated implications of the marketing casting other corporations' security as little better than thuggish mercenaries, which Zavodskoi unsuccessfully attempted to sue Idris over. Though their rivalry is not as intense as that of Zavodskoi and Hephaestus, the two corporations remain on far from friendly terms.
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| Zavodskoi and NanoTrasen maintain a decent relationship, with little open conflict between the two corporations. Since the beginning of the phoron scarcity, however, Zavodskoi has taken full advantage of NanoTrasen's waning power in the Republic of Biesel, expanding its arms industry into the Republic. Since the formation of the Tau Ceti Armed Forces and the negotiation of several new supply contracts with Biesel's government, Zavodskoi has managed to take a great deal of business from NanoTrasen - seizing NT's position as the Republic's main weapons supplier. Though NanoTrasen still holds onto their original contract for the Tau Ceti Foreign Legion, the Minutemen and Republican Fleet are both almost entirely outfitted with Zavodskoi-made weapons, armor, and voidsuits. NanoTrasen has attempted to counteract this influence through the recent appointment of Nathan Trasen as Secretary of Defense - but even with a Trasen in such a prestigious position, Zavodskoi has still managed to secure a solid grasp on the Republic's military industry. NanoTrasen has increased funding to Nexus Corporate Security several times in an effort to use their newly-formed PMC to undermine Zavodskoi's security business in the Corporate Reconstruction Zone, with some measure of success.
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| | Money ensures the cogs of the machines are well-oiled, and who better to oversee the economic affairs of the Spur than Idris Incorporated and its CEO, Alex Mason. Leveraging the corporation’s extensive ties and financial resources, Idris Incorporated seeks to in-debt the entirety of the Spur with its profitable foresight – extending loans, and ensuring a healthy supply of Idris Reclamation Units into the market to ensure liability is kept to a minimum. Though it enjoys a sizeable foothold within the service industry, Idris Incorporated’s true agenda lies wherever the money leads. |
| Zavodskoi contributed large portions of its logistics division to Orion Express, and has maintained a decent relationship with the logistics corporation. Though their Solarian business has been scaled back substantially, Zavodskoi still relies on Orion vessels for transport of its goods in the Alliance, and Orion has been known to favor Zavodskoi security when outside force is required for particularly troublesome work. Orion's ties to Hephaestus are the largest source of tension between the two corporations, and Zavodskoi is rumored to have attempted to seed several of its own agents within Orion-Hephaestus joint operations in order to gather intelligence on their rival.
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| When Zavodskoi Interstellar was still known as Necropolis Industries, it was Zeng-Hu's major rival in the genetics sector, leading to fierce competition between the two corporations. Rumors of sabotage and corporate espionage were commonplace, and the theft of company secrets was commonplace on both sides. Following the rebrand to Zavodskoi Interstellar, however, the corporation has significantly cut back on its genetics division, leaving Zeng-Hu as a mostly unchallenged monopoly in the field. With the two megacorporations no longer in direct competition, the relationship between them has warmed significantly, with Zavodskoi choosing instead to redouble its efforts against its main rival, Hephaestus Industries. Though the two do still compete in the robotics sector, so far this has been far less of a source of tension between them.
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| | Though the “cooperation” of the megacorporations has proven to be beneficial, it is still common practice to poach workers from one another, and leak more classified information during these employee transfers, an attempt to combat these methods, the Chainlink has formalised a third-party oversight agency that acts independently of the other megacorporations. Commonly referred to as the Chainlink’s enforcers, the '''Stellar Corporate Conglomerate Internal Affairs Agency''' has become notorious for its handling of those against the megacorporate agenda. Agents have widespread authority to disable any potential threats to the corporations through the soul-crushing bureaucracy, in particular through their knowledge of corporate regulations and laws that act as a powerful weapon against any that stand in their way. |
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| | However, outside of the '''Stellar Corporate Conglomerate Internal Affairs Agency''', much of the existing corporate oversight from the various constituent megacorporations has remained untouched, remaining as it was prior to the Chainlink’s formation. Despite this some agencies have been incorporated into the greater Stellar Corporate Conglomerate, operating as Human Resources. The '''Stellar Corporate Conglomerate Internal Affairs Agency''' are the corporate oversight, however, '''Human Resources''' are their legitimate investigative force in dealing with civil and criminal problems that might erupt across the various facilities within the Conglomerate. |
| The newly founded Conglomerate’s ties with Zavodskoi are blatant with a newly founded Corporate Force Projection Fleet bearing weapons, munitions and equipment of Zavodskoi make across the board. From high-end starship pieces to antique small arms, Zavodskoi provides it all, making them a key player in the Conglomerate’s private military. This newfound niche has led to a resurgence of its presence galaxy-wide, and cooperation with the other megacorporations has proven very profitable.
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| Since its rebranding from Necropolis Industries, Zavodskoi Interstellar often employs synthetics as precise, dextrous labour in machining, manufacturing and blanket industrial work. Many stubborn advocates of hand-crafting and several subsidiaries oriented around quality have made large steps towards vilifying these robotic mechanics, claiming that the “organic touch” is the key to quality, rather than objective fact. This case often seeps down to the working persons of the company through rough opinions of the synthetics which threaten the work of their lives. Contrarily, major steps to save the company face have echoed from executives, painting out a confusing and chaotic internal struggle against synthetics in the company.
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| === The Empire of Dominia ===
| | The Chainlink is headed by the '''League of Chief Directors''', from which ultimate authority is delegated to respective corporations. This League of Chief Directors is responsible for oversight of the entire Chainlink. Though, most of the lesser positions find themselves comprising mostly of former NanoTrasen employees, retained for their display of excellence during Miranda Trasen’s reign as Chief Executive Officer of NanoTrasen – though they have slowly become replaced through corporate restructuring, supported by all except NanoTrasen. |
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| Since its arrival in the Dominian industrial scene, Zavodskoi has made headway to monopolizing itself over the fledgling empire as best it can, to decent success. Its sway in the Imperial politics up high remains a mystery, but the certainty of Zavodskoi presence across the Empire’s domain is all there. In recent times, the company can be found reaching out to various establishments in the Empire in an attempt to, for whatever reason it can make up, buy them out. Whether this is a pitiful desperate attempt to grab power or grow a new monopoly is on you to decide.
| | The '''Corporate Committee of Affairs''' – having only been founded in 2465 during the new financial year, though rather dull-sounding in name, attempts to off-set this imbalance by comprising of representatives placed by the other megacorporations; even vested with the power to determine the funding of the Chainlink, and ultimately veto the League of Chief Directors in a simple majority vote. Matters pertaining to the Chainlink’s operations are often overseen by direct subordinates of the League itself, who operate above the corporate employees and consist of major shareholders or high-ranking internal affairs. |
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The unbreakable chainlink, holding the Spur together.
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Miranda Trasen
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Tau Ceti Basic, Sol Common, Tradeband
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Navy blue (#336699), cyan
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This is the page for the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate, the organization the players work for. This contains very important setting information.
Formerly, the players worked for solely NanoTrasen - while this is technically true to an extent, still, this sentence is an open request to all wiki readers to report inconsistencies in this matter, to wiki/lore development for gameplay pages/lore pages respectively.
Formed at the height of corporate power in the galaxy, the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate — unofficially known as the “Chainlink” due to its emblem —is a group exercising undisputed economic dominance over the Orion Spur. The Chainlink was founded to secure privately owned assets within Tau Ceti owned by the various megacorporations during the Solarian incursion by Grand Admiral Raymond Özdemir, who commanded the 35th Fleet of the Solarian Navy during its siege of the Republic of Biesel.
The Chainlink has essentially forced the largest economic influences into a corporation, with which the Trasen family holds an unsteady authority over. Though cooperation has been deemed “essential” at this point in time, the shaky peace still finds itself littered with cut-throat, espionage-ridden affairs as each megacorporation attempts to place itself on top. Though, their unlikely alliance comes as a result of Einstein Engines’ threat to their economic prowess, where the first trans-stellar corporation has maintained dominance within some of more influential sovereign states such as the Nralakk Federation and the Solarian Alliance.
Noteworthy members
- Titanius Aeson, Hephaestus CEO
- Alex Mason, Idris CEO
- Liqin Hsiao-Li, Zeng-Hu CEO
- Lyudmila Zavodskoi, Zavodskoi CEO
- Kubra Mobolaji, PMCG CEO
- Chin-hae Hong, Orion Express CEO
Corporate Affairs
History
Though once shrouded in secrecy, the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate has become a staple of the Orion Spur, essentially acting as the puppet masters of the interstellar economy. With the earliest dated supply shipments being traced to 2458 – it appears that the constituent megacorporations within the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate have sought to cooperate with one another to ensure their economic dominance since the First Solarian Invasion of the Republic of Biesel; though within the shadows. Almost every element of the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate had been hidden and concealed from the greater public, and more so from the scrutiny of those uncovering secrets that the most powerful individuals in the Orion Spur preferred to not yet be revealed.
However, following the Second Solarian Invasion of the Republic of Biesel in 2462, the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate revealed themselves to the interstellar community at large; proclaiming their goal was to protect the financial livelihood of all their corporate clients and assets, and to ensure their facilities across the Republic of Biesel would not be diminished as a result of “rogue actors” – similar in circumstances to their original founding, after Admiral Michael Frost’s incursion into their profits.
Since its reveal, the Chainlink has gone on to ensure its dominance through several masterful techniques – mostly centring around the Corporate Reconstruction Zone; or the annexed Solarian territories by the Republic of Biesel. Pouring countless resources into stabilizing the region so as to further exploit it, the Chainlink has all but managed to prop the annexation as a legal undertaking of colonies abandoned by the Solarian Alliance during the Collapse. Though, their efforts have not gone without resistance, in particular, the Republic of Mictlan has proven to be rather ungrateful for the Chainlink’s efforts to uplift them. Sponsoring the Peacekeeper Mandate - a Biesellite military operation that aims to enforce their annexation, regardless of what the local inhabitants think - the Chainlink has managed to quell the majority of the Republic of Mictlan’s more unsavoury elements, though there still exists significant unrest across the eastern hemisphere of the planet.
Miranda Trasen maintains her dominance of the Orion Spur through her manoeuvring into the Director of the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate; using her position to propel NanoTrasen interests to the dismay of the other constituent megacorporations. However, will this be the unravelling of the economic, and political entity that has so far been successful in their subjugation of the interstellar community, has not yet been revealed, but perhaps events in the future may change this.
Influence
The sheer size of the co-operating corporation’s influence, now tightly bound by their public front of allegiance to one another, is enough to sway many of the powers on the interstellar stage – while some of the larger political entities retain some measure of independence, they still ultimately rely on the constituent members of the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate for their respective niches within the interstellar economy. Despite attempts by the Solarian Alliance to keep megacorporations in check; they’ve merely facilitated a deal with the devil, exchanging their reliance on the Chainlink instead for Einstein Engines.
The Chainlink, through its member companies and their cooperation, has domination of several economies within the Orion Spur. From banks to manufacturers, only a sliver of economic productivity in the Spur is controlled by others, the main threat to the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate being Einstein Engines. Despite the power of the Chainlink, Einstein has managed to remain competitive against them through tight ties with the Solarian Alliance and Nrralakk Federation, both the largest economies to exploit. As one of the eldest megacorporations, Einstein Engines has maintained a constant throughout humanity's journey to the stars, the consequences it wrought.
However, as the alliance grows older, it can be seen that the constituent megacorporations seek their own power; desiring to diminish NanoTrasen’s domination of influence over their affairs, so far. Conducting themselves in a manner to not directly oppose NanoTrasen, the various other megacorporations have begun leveraging their economic influence on nations; in particular, as seen with Hephaestus Industries’ planned expansion across Moghes. Yet another example is Idris Incorporated’s leveraging credit provided to NanoTrasen during its attempt to recapture control of Phoenixport.
Agendas and Advertising
It is without a doubt that each and every constituent megacorporation has their own agendas with how the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate should operate, and most definitively to their own benefit. Though employees may find themselves “employed” by the Conglomerate, in reality they find themselves on long-term contracting agreements, still maintaining some ties to their original megacorporation, such as a Research Director from Zeng-Hu Pharmaceuticals would still remain employed by the megacorporation, even if technically they are contracted to the Conglomerate.
Zeng-Hu seeks to combine the innovation of the megacorporations to its own benefit, creating technology that many play off as being fantastical. Though with the inception of the Conglomerate, the megacorporation has certainly benefitted from the shared technological ties to certain industries, it still seeks to ensure its technological edge through careful manipulation of its patents and intellectual property: ensuring it stakes its claim before anyone else when it comes to discovery and innovation.
NanoTrasen seeks to maintain the status quo of them being the dominant megacorporation, subverting the influence held by the combined might of the megacorporations to its own benefit, and will go to great lengths to ensure they remain on top – even so far as to diminish the Conglomerate’s influence to ensure their own is maintained. The Trasen’s openly claim that NanoTrasen will remain the most influential megacorporation, with Miranda clinging to her position as Acting Director to maintain the illusion that the corporation shall forever remain in the spotlight. Though the phoronics industry seems to be dwindling, the corporation seeks to expand its foothold in other industries that it enjoys sizeable market domination within.
Conflict pays, and it pays well. The Private Military Contracting Group knows such very well. Ensuring a strong hand through amassing military-grade technology and fleets capable of assisting even the strongest actors on the interstellar stage is merely one element of their agenda, the other being reliance on the Conglomerate – indirectly the Private Military Contracting Group – to maintain stability within their borders, and even outside of them. Mercenary work is one of the oldest careers and simply one of the most profitable. The Group maintains the Conglomerate should broaden its capabilities to fight, routinely citing the need for such when referring to the Second Solarian Incursion of Biesel.
Though not so obvious as the other megacorporations, the Orion Express sees the future of the economy relying on its ability to provide delivery, both with goods and with the services it would offer to nations – in particular, growing the reliance of these nations to the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate to ensure that their removal would be too costly, with far too many drawbacks to the interstellar economy, so that a similar body to the Solarian Corporate Authority could not deny their vitality. By any means necessary, Orion Express attempts to leverage influence within the Republic of Biesel, even where it means causing drifts with the other megacorporations who rely on it to supply them with much-needed resources and equipment, which it knows keenly.
Hephaestus Industries, the manufacturing giant of the Spur, wishes to merely expand its foothold within its existing industries – terraforming, spacecraft construction, integrated positronic chassis manufacturing, resource extraction and lastly engine development. Similarly to Zeng-Hu, it seeks to combine the brightest minds within the Conglomerate to get a technological advantage, but with particular application to help its existing monopolies as opposed to Zeng-Hu’s broader wishes. The future resides within the furnaces of Hephaestus Industries, and Titanius Aeson seeks to ensure the interstellar stage knows it. Even with the damage wrought by the Solarian Corporate Authority, Hephaestus Industries seeks to ensure they remain in steady competition with Einstein Engines, and that the Conglomerate can only truly reach its potential when its bankrupted.
Though the Solarian Corporate Authority saw it fit to revoke some of the megacorporation’s presence within the Solarian Alliance, Zavodskoi Interstellar still seeks to maintain strong ties. Majority of their footholds, outside of Dominia, flourish within the now NanoTrasen-free Solarian Alliance and are likely to keep growing if the megacorporation can maintain an amiable relationship with the nation. Though Zavodskoi Interstellar agrees with the Private Military Contracting Group’s own agenda, and sometimes even contributes to its growth within the Conglomerate, it ultimately believes that the Conglomerate should remain “neutral” in the face of interstellar conflict, and profit from the lucrative opportunities that arise from playing both sides.
Money ensures the cogs of the machines are well-oiled, and who better to oversee the economic affairs of the Spur than Idris Incorporated and its CEO, Alex Mason. Leveraging the corporation’s extensive ties and financial resources, Idris Incorporated seeks to in-debt the entirety of the Spur with its profitable foresight – extending loans, and ensuring a healthy supply of Idris Reclamation Units into the market to ensure liability is kept to a minimum. Though it enjoys a sizeable foothold within the service industry, Idris Incorporated’s true agenda lies wherever the money leads.
Corporate Oversight
Though the “cooperation” of the megacorporations has proven to be beneficial, it is still common practice to poach workers from one another, and leak more classified information during these employee transfers, an attempt to combat these methods, the Chainlink has formalised a third-party oversight agency that acts independently of the other megacorporations. Commonly referred to as the Chainlink’s enforcers, the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate Internal Affairs Agency has become notorious for its handling of those against the megacorporate agenda. Agents have widespread authority to disable any potential threats to the corporations through the soul-crushing bureaucracy, in particular through their knowledge of corporate regulations and laws that act as a powerful weapon against any that stand in their way.
However, outside of the Stellar Corporate Conglomerate Internal Affairs Agency, much of the existing corporate oversight from the various constituent megacorporations has remained untouched, remaining as it was prior to the Chainlink’s formation. Despite this some agencies have been incorporated into the greater Stellar Corporate Conglomerate, operating as Human Resources. The Stellar Corporate Conglomerate Internal Affairs Agency are the corporate oversight, however, Human Resources are their legitimate investigative force in dealing with civil and criminal problems that might erupt across the various facilities within the Conglomerate.
Executives and Branches
The Chainlink is headed by the League of Chief Directors, from which ultimate authority is delegated to respective corporations. This League of Chief Directors is responsible for oversight of the entire Chainlink. Though, most of the lesser positions find themselves comprising mostly of former NanoTrasen employees, retained for their display of excellence during Miranda Trasen’s reign as Chief Executive Officer of NanoTrasen – though they have slowly become replaced through corporate restructuring, supported by all except NanoTrasen.
The Corporate Committee of Affairs – having only been founded in 2465 during the new financial year, though rather dull-sounding in name, attempts to off-set this imbalance by comprising of representatives placed by the other megacorporations; even vested with the power to determine the funding of the Chainlink, and ultimately veto the League of Chief Directors in a simple majority vote. Matters pertaining to the Chainlink’s operations are often overseen by direct subordinates of the League itself, who operate above the corporate employees and consist of major shareholders or high-ranking internal affairs.
