Velok the Younger
When I Was A Young Warthog
[SIZE=9pt]OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Image Source: [/SIZE][SIZE=9pt]Angel Cartel logo (EVE Online) by Hegemon4Hire, found at https://hegemon4hire...artel-178826353[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Canon Link: [/SIZE][SIZE=9pt]N/A[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Development Thread: [/SIZE][SIZE=9pt]N/A[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Primary Source: [/SIZE][SIZE=9pt]N/A[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]CORPORATION INFORMATION[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Corporation Name:[/SIZE][SIZE=9pt] Akure Executive Interstellar, formerly Akure Executive Leatherworks[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Headquarters:[/SIZE][SIZE=9pt] Kyrikal 17[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Locations:[/SIZE]
- [SIZE=9pt]Former Levantine Sanctum territory (Laekia, Kelsier, Tash-Taral)[/SIZE]
- [SIZE=9pt]Tion Hegemony/Corporate Sector and environs ([/SIZE][SIZE=9pt]Tion Trade Nexus[/SIZE][SIZE=9pt], Etti IV, Cadomai, Bosph, Rudrig, Lianna, Dromund Kaas)[/SIZE]
- [SIZE=9pt]Blood Trail[/SIZE][SIZE=9pt] and environs (Soledad, Serpena, Kad V, Kalee, Esfandia, Solovarna, Sharb, Muunilinst)[/SIZE]
- [SIZE=9pt]Otherspace[/SIZE]
- [SIZE=9pt]Aboard the cruise liners of Bright Star Entertainment[/SIZE]
- [SIZE=9pt]Alchemy (clothing/gear, personal weapons, starship/vehicle components, creatures, artifact/site containment, certification, uplift, training, service provision/collaboration)[/SIZE]
- [SIZE=9pt]Incidental prospecting and service provision in Otherspace and along the Blood Trail[/SIZE]
- [SIZE=9pt]Stygium mining on the hidden world of Kelsier[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]DESCRIPTION[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Akure Executive Interstellar (AEI) is a moderately diversified, galaxy-spanning corporation that aims to make the eldritch accessible. AEI has pioneered mass-market Sith alchemy and put terentatek leather on the shelves. Nevertheless, AEI maintains quality and exclusivity: it’s a household name on some worlds, but only as a dream.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]AEI’s corporate character could be described as exploitative, with a business model influenced by Czerka. Many of its products hinge on farming a wide variety of animals for slaughter. AEI was founded by a Nightsister of Dathomir, and it shows. Nevertheless, for those willing to put in the effort, AEI can be a pathway to unnatural success.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]TIER VI SPECIALTY: [/SIZE][SIZE=9pt]May produce submissions up to limited production with the Restricted Material 'Alchemized Artifacts/Items'.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]RATIONALE[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]AEI is publicly traded. Notable stockholders include Cerbera (5%), the Foundation Trust (5%), Jonathon Patches (5%), and Mara Merrill (4%), Darth Metus (3%), The Slave (2%). Corporate bylaws cap ownership at 5% per stockholder. All full-time AEI employees are minor stockholders, totaling 33% of the company.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]The alchemist Rave Merrill purchased and refurbished a haute couture firm called Laekia House of Leatherwork during her tenure as a governor of the Lords of the Fringe. Merrill employed numerous Masters of the Force as hunting contractors and alchemical assistants, and carved out two large niches in the galactic economy: killing monsters and turning them into coats.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Akure Executive Leatherworks became Akure Executive Interstellar within a handful of years, diversifying its interests across the galaxy. For a time, the Akure brand’s many associates and subsidiaries comprised the galaxy’s closest equivalent to an alchemists’ guild.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]For reasons unknown, Rave Merrill snapped. She vanished after killing many of AEI’s alchemists or tampering with their memories. AEI had gone public not long before, and stock plummeted. A legal dispute around her will left the company’s future in doubt. A coalition of ambitious vice-presidents and stockholders - including a man named Ostanes[/SIZE] - pulled AEI up by its bootstraps. Around this time, a quiet investment group called the Foundation Trust purchased a minority stake in AEI. (As corporate bylaws prevent any one stockholder from owning more than 5% of the company, when Mara Merrill joined the Foundation Trust in later years, she needed to liquidate a fraction of her own stock.)
[SIZE=9pt]AEI entered a prolonged period of modest growth but, like Merrill before him, Ostanes imploded. Possessed by a Sith spirit, the executive and alchemist led an AEI fleet to the Third Battle of Atrisia and performed a devastating ritual. AEI lost billions of credits’ worth in starships and personnel overnight. Wisely, Ostanes disappeared.[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Remaining stockholders demanded severe reform. The Board of Directors brought in a woman named Cerbera[/SIZE] to right the ship. An experienced businesswoman and one of Rave Merrill’s personal assistants, Cerbera proved an effective CEO. The board approved sale of unprofitable divisions/subsidiaries (Wey’lan Dyu’tani, Marvand Publishing, brokerage services, etc.) and scattered locations (Wren’Goa Station, the Colluctari Nebula, and Eclipstica, among others). Stock stabilized, and AEI entered a long plateau phase as a more focused, but less ambitious, interstellar corporation.
[SIZE=9pt]Subsidiaries[/SIZE][SIZE=9pt]: None[/SIZE]
[SIZE=9pt]Parent Corporation:[/SIZE][SIZE=9pt] None[/SIZE]
Original Submission is as follows:
Corporation Name: Akure Executive Interstellar
Headquarters: Kyrikal 17
Locations: Laekia, Aza'zoth, Etti IV, Dromund Kaas, Kelsier, Tash-Taral, Serpena, Bosph, Colluctari Nebula, Cadomai, Tion Hegemony Trade Nexus, Otherspace (based around Jen’asha Station), aboard the cruise liners of Bright Star Entertainment, Rudrig, Soledad, Wren'Goa Station, Lianna, Eclipstica, Kad V, Kalee, Esfandia, Solovarna, Sharb, and Muunilinst.
Operations: High-end functional clothing/gear (primarily leatherworks and other animal derivatives, as well as haute couture); Sithspawn/biot/warbeast disposal/management/provision; artifact/Force location containment/disposal and incidental environmental reclamation; specialty starship/vehicle components; services/technology/zoological broker/middleman; incidental prospecting and service provision in Otherspace; alchemist certification; uplift; stygium mining.
Tier IV Specialty: Alchemized Artifacts/Items
Rationale:
Akure Executive Interstellar (33% employee-owned, 10% owned by [member="Jonathon Patches"], 57% owned by [member="Rave Merrill"]) began as Laekia House of Leatherwork, a haute couture line in the far Outer Rim which came under new management recently. Since then, through employing Masters of the Force as hunting contractors and as alchemical assistants, Akure Executive Leatherworks carved out two large niches in the galactic economy: extermination of troublesome monsters, and transformation of said monsters into exclusive clothing. The AEL brand, with its contractors, associates, and subsidiaries, is the closest thing the galaxy can boast to an alchemists' guild, but alchemy provides only one part of AEI’s revenue stream. The conglomerate also contracts with governments to contain and neutralize various Force-related items, species, and phenomena. It operates secretly in Otherspace, and was wholly responsible for containment/excavation efforts on Dromund Kaas. AEI is now a major conglomerate with a Czerka-influenced business model.
Tier: VI
Description:
The Akure Executive Leatherworks brand (a subset of AEI) relies on exclusivity and a dominant market share to maintain its profit margin. Though lines of expensive normal leathers are still produced, and other appropriate materials are sometimes used, the company's raison d'etre is light leather armor (generally publicly wearable coats and boots) composed mostly or wholly of the hides of some of the deadliest animals in existence. The name is a reference to Akure, the ancient apex of terentateks, as well as to the modern Akure Leviathan. Using Rave's alchemical and scholarly insights, AEL has access to many proprietary methods of handling, treating, and crafting these materials. AEL (specifically Rave) is the only source of the alchemical reagents and processes which allow master leatherworkers and junior alchemists to retain the special properties of the animal, such as terentatek Force-immunity. The face of AEL, for advertising purposes, is Dak Canton, who wears pretty much everything AEL has ever made in order to secure himself against Force-users. He's lucky he's photogenic.
Between Dromund Kaas, Bosph, and Tash-Taral, AEI is also highly experienced in the excavation and containment of Force-related locations, artifacts, and creatures.
Having helped to create the Akure Leviathan and taken possession of many flawed intermediate samples, as well as the fifty-metre-tall apex creature, Rave has access to leviathan hide in immense quantities. The Kyrikal 17 location allows access to tikulini hide, and contractors have even secured live tikulini, allowing Rave to breed them and other large beasts as available. AEL has also been known to accept contracts for terentatek extermination, and other Sithspawn control, throughout the former territories of the Sith Empire. While tikulini and leviathan farming operations remain relatively small-scale, AEL has devoted significant effort to terentatek farming on worlds as diverse as Serpena, Kyrikal 17, and Tash-Taral, among others.
The Great Hunt, an ancient Jedi initiative, sought to purge the terentatek scourge from the galaxy. It cost the lives of many Jedi, and was widely regarded as a bad idea. Enter Rave Merrill and several teams of expert contractors. Over AEL's period of operation, many terentateks have been killed or captured on many worlds, including worlds where terentateks have been a known and feared presence, such as Dromund Kaas and Kashyyyk. AEI has not only come farther in the Great Hunt than the Jedi Order ever did, it has -- paradoxically enough -- successfully removed the noble terentatek's millennia-old status as an endangered species, through farming. Continents or islands on remote worlds serve as free-range farms for terentateks, their maturation and breeding cycle quickened and strengthened by proprietary alchemical processes and reagents. Breeding stock is captured or cloned from the harvested gametes of AEL's many successfully killed terentateks. The resulting terentateks provide their skins to elite leather products and their flesh to mass-produced tinned meat which can bestow mild Force sensitivity if eaten consistently. In short, AEI's terentatek initiatives represent a major achievement in the history of alchemy, and may be unparalleled in the history of business. Furthermore, AEI gained access to cloning technology at the Battle of Sabarene, as well as genetic samples from a wide variety of sources, and is capable of providing essentially all historical Sithspawn, under the table.
After both creating and dominating the terentatek market, AEI turned its newfound expertise to another legendary Sithspawn, the tuk’ata or ‘Sith hound.’ Sometimes bipedal and sometimes intelligent, the tuk’ata lacked opposable thumbs and broad recognition as a sentient species. AEI embarked on a highly ambitious two-pronged project ofuplift.
The first prong involved use of top-secret Fringe Otherdrive technology to access Otherspace and begin prospecting and exploration efforts, using a secret CEC-build station called Jen’asha. AEI’s involvement in Otherspace has, thus far, been very secretive. It has involved careful mapping of potentially resource-rich worlds, and of Charon movement patterns, while negotiating unfamiliar physics and the very real risk of Charon hyperdrive acquisition. Apart from the significant material benefits of being literally the only hub station in that particular universe, Jen’asha Station functions as a Charon sample acquisition nexus. A major purpose of AEI’s Otherspace exploration involved acquisition of the Charon biotech which allowed acquired characteristics to be made heritable.
The second prong involved a mixture of Charon biotechnique with Sith alchemy and expert surgery. Most tuk’ata were already capable of bipedal locomotion to a limited extent; a part of the uplift process, targeted at the most intelligent tuk’ata, adjusted their hips to prioritize bipedalism. They were also given opposable thumbs, and provided with translator droids and language training. Many qo’saarai tuk’ata are employed by the Tion Hegemony, especially as security on the immense Trade Nexus, while others continue their traditional lifestyle on the largely unknown world of Tash-Taral.
The end result of this two-part process has been the emergence of the qo’saarai race of tuk’ata as a sentient, bipedal, sapient, communicating species with the ability to manipulate their environment dextrously. This is an aspect of the process known as uplift, or taking species into what the ideological might call the brotherhood of sentience. Uplift has been practiced by very few species, with mixed results; the Arkanians have been known for various forms of it (for example, the Yaka and the Arkanian offshoots) and AEI employs a number of Arkanian geneticists and surgeons. AEI intends to continue partnering with biotech firms to explore further uplift possibilities.
Akure Executive Interstellar has pioneered trade routes into uncharted space, and functions as the primary gateway to the Unknown Regions.
Subsidiaries:
Wey'lan Dyu'tani - 51% owned, Tier 1
Marvand Publishing - 100% owned, Tier 1
Headquarters: Kyrikal 17
Locations: Laekia, Aza'zoth, Etti IV, Dromund Kaas, Kelsier, Tash-Taral, Serpena, Bosph, Colluctari Nebula, Cadomai, Tion Hegemony Trade Nexus, Otherspace (based around Jen’asha Station), aboard the cruise liners of Bright Star Entertainment, Rudrig, Soledad, Wren'Goa Station, Lianna, Eclipstica, Kad V, Kalee, Esfandia, Solovarna, Sharb, and Muunilinst.
Operations: High-end functional clothing/gear (primarily leatherworks and other animal derivatives, as well as haute couture); Sithspawn/biot/warbeast disposal/management/provision; artifact/Force location containment/disposal and incidental environmental reclamation; specialty starship/vehicle components; services/technology/zoological broker/middleman; incidental prospecting and service provision in Otherspace; alchemist certification; uplift; stygium mining.
Tier IV Specialty: Alchemized Artifacts/Items
Rationale:
Akure Executive Interstellar (33% employee-owned, 10% owned by [member="Jonathon Patches"], 57% owned by [member="Rave Merrill"]) began as Laekia House of Leatherwork, a haute couture line in the far Outer Rim which came under new management recently. Since then, through employing Masters of the Force as hunting contractors and as alchemical assistants, Akure Executive Leatherworks carved out two large niches in the galactic economy: extermination of troublesome monsters, and transformation of said monsters into exclusive clothing. The AEL brand, with its contractors, associates, and subsidiaries, is the closest thing the galaxy can boast to an alchemists' guild, but alchemy provides only one part of AEI’s revenue stream. The conglomerate also contracts with governments to contain and neutralize various Force-related items, species, and phenomena. It operates secretly in Otherspace, and was wholly responsible for containment/excavation efforts on Dromund Kaas. AEI is now a major conglomerate with a Czerka-influenced business model.
Tier: VI
Description:
The Akure Executive Leatherworks brand (a subset of AEI) relies on exclusivity and a dominant market share to maintain its profit margin. Though lines of expensive normal leathers are still produced, and other appropriate materials are sometimes used, the company's raison d'etre is light leather armor (generally publicly wearable coats and boots) composed mostly or wholly of the hides of some of the deadliest animals in existence. The name is a reference to Akure, the ancient apex of terentateks, as well as to the modern Akure Leviathan. Using Rave's alchemical and scholarly insights, AEL has access to many proprietary methods of handling, treating, and crafting these materials. AEL (specifically Rave) is the only source of the alchemical reagents and processes which allow master leatherworkers and junior alchemists to retain the special properties of the animal, such as terentatek Force-immunity. The face of AEL, for advertising purposes, is Dak Canton, who wears pretty much everything AEL has ever made in order to secure himself against Force-users. He's lucky he's photogenic.
Between Dromund Kaas, Bosph, and Tash-Taral, AEI is also highly experienced in the excavation and containment of Force-related locations, artifacts, and creatures.
Having helped to create the Akure Leviathan and taken possession of many flawed intermediate samples, as well as the fifty-metre-tall apex creature, Rave has access to leviathan hide in immense quantities. The Kyrikal 17 location allows access to tikulini hide, and contractors have even secured live tikulini, allowing Rave to breed them and other large beasts as available. AEL has also been known to accept contracts for terentatek extermination, and other Sithspawn control, throughout the former territories of the Sith Empire. While tikulini and leviathan farming operations remain relatively small-scale, AEL has devoted significant effort to terentatek farming on worlds as diverse as Serpena, Kyrikal 17, and Tash-Taral, among others.
The Great Hunt, an ancient Jedi initiative, sought to purge the terentatek scourge from the galaxy. It cost the lives of many Jedi, and was widely regarded as a bad idea. Enter Rave Merrill and several teams of expert contractors. Over AEL's period of operation, many terentateks have been killed or captured on many worlds, including worlds where terentateks have been a known and feared presence, such as Dromund Kaas and Kashyyyk. AEI has not only come farther in the Great Hunt than the Jedi Order ever did, it has -- paradoxically enough -- successfully removed the noble terentatek's millennia-old status as an endangered species, through farming. Continents or islands on remote worlds serve as free-range farms for terentateks, their maturation and breeding cycle quickened and strengthened by proprietary alchemical processes and reagents. Breeding stock is captured or cloned from the harvested gametes of AEL's many successfully killed terentateks. The resulting terentateks provide their skins to elite leather products and their flesh to mass-produced tinned meat which can bestow mild Force sensitivity if eaten consistently. In short, AEI's terentatek initiatives represent a major achievement in the history of alchemy, and may be unparalleled in the history of business. Furthermore, AEI gained access to cloning technology at the Battle of Sabarene, as well as genetic samples from a wide variety of sources, and is capable of providing essentially all historical Sithspawn, under the table.
After both creating and dominating the terentatek market, AEI turned its newfound expertise to another legendary Sithspawn, the tuk’ata or ‘Sith hound.’ Sometimes bipedal and sometimes intelligent, the tuk’ata lacked opposable thumbs and broad recognition as a sentient species. AEI embarked on a highly ambitious two-pronged project ofuplift.
The first prong involved use of top-secret Fringe Otherdrive technology to access Otherspace and begin prospecting and exploration efforts, using a secret CEC-build station called Jen’asha. AEI’s involvement in Otherspace has, thus far, been very secretive. It has involved careful mapping of potentially resource-rich worlds, and of Charon movement patterns, while negotiating unfamiliar physics and the very real risk of Charon hyperdrive acquisition. Apart from the significant material benefits of being literally the only hub station in that particular universe, Jen’asha Station functions as a Charon sample acquisition nexus. A major purpose of AEI’s Otherspace exploration involved acquisition of the Charon biotech which allowed acquired characteristics to be made heritable.
The second prong involved a mixture of Charon biotechnique with Sith alchemy and expert surgery. Most tuk’ata were already capable of bipedal locomotion to a limited extent; a part of the uplift process, targeted at the most intelligent tuk’ata, adjusted their hips to prioritize bipedalism. They were also given opposable thumbs, and provided with translator droids and language training. Many qo’saarai tuk’ata are employed by the Tion Hegemony, especially as security on the immense Trade Nexus, while others continue their traditional lifestyle on the largely unknown world of Tash-Taral.
The end result of this two-part process has been the emergence of the qo’saarai race of tuk’ata as a sentient, bipedal, sapient, communicating species with the ability to manipulate their environment dextrously. This is an aspect of the process known as uplift, or taking species into what the ideological might call the brotherhood of sentience. Uplift has been practiced by very few species, with mixed results; the Arkanians have been known for various forms of it (for example, the Yaka and the Arkanian offshoots) and AEI employs a number of Arkanian geneticists and surgeons. AEI intends to continue partnering with biotech firms to explore further uplift possibilities.
Akure Executive Interstellar has pioneered trade routes into uncharted space, and functions as the primary gateway to the Unknown Regions.
Subsidiaries:
Wey'lan Dyu'tani - 51% owned, Tier 1
Marvand Publishing - 100% owned, Tier 1
Modification: Add a Speciality: Can produce up to Semi-Unique submissions using the Restricted Material ‘Alchemized Artifacts/Items’
Added Darth Metus and The Slave as shareholders as a result of this thread
