Lotus
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Image Source: I made it myself
- Canon Link: N/A
- Primary Source: Original Submission
- Corporation Name: Black Lotus
- Headquarters: Cloud City, Bespin
- Locations: The flagship store is in Cloud City, although there are boutiques in Avalonia, Xam'Chi, Aldera, Coruscant, Cinnagar, and Canto Bight.
- Operations: Publicly, Black Lotus is a prestigious purveyor of high-end fashion (lingerie and accessories) designed by the celebrated fashion impresario Isobel Nakano; cosmetics; and consumer electronics. Secretly, the company is a front for the manufacture, transport, and sale of spy gadgetry.
- Parent Corporation: N/A
- Subsidiaries: N/A
Black Lotus launched to great fanfare in Xam'Chi with a glamorous fashion show celebrating local-girl-made-good Isobel Nakano. The company started as it meant to go on, with glossy advertisements, high fashion displays, and pop-up boutiques across civilized worlds. The company bills itself as an exclusive, private label luxury clothing line, a slightly more risqué sister to Blue Lotus, Isobel Nakano's other fashion label. The public face of the company is profit-motivated, pushing expensive fashions in wealthy circles. This is to offset its losses in developing and manufacturing its spy gadgetry (originally for the First Order, but later for the Galactic Alliance) at cost -- functionally at a loss after paying its employees' wages. It also offers some wares through third parties to non-government sources like mercenary groups.
RATIONALE
After the successful double act of Blue Lotus, fashion house-cum-intelligence cover organization, Isobel Nakano branched operations out with Black Lotus. Billed as an exclusive and slightly naughty 'private label' version of Blue Lotus, trading in high-end lingerie, accessories, cosmetics, and consumer electronics. Unlike Blue Lotus, however, Black Lotus was specifically established as a front organization for another purpose: to develop and manufacture spy gadgetry for the First Order Security Bureau and private individuals. Following Isobel's departure from the First Order, she continued using Black Lotus to develop spy tech for use by her own agency and, later, the Galactic Alliance's SIA.