Checks-And-Balances: The Corporate Downfall (OOC Discussion)

[Castiel Darkstar]

General Out-of-Character discussion for the Checks-And-Balances: The Corporate Downfall role play.

This is a Corporate Sector Authority faction development role play based on the Levatine Sanctum planet of Etti IV. If you have a corporation that would like to be involved or if you're a businessman/woman, lawyer, scoundrel worried about profits after the fall of the Corporate Sector Authority please feel free to voice your interest in joining the thread here.

For those of you already involved, feel free to start arriving as you like. The summit will begin as soon as we get everyone on board.

 

[Zanders Darkstrider]

So you are starting a galactic SEC?

 

[Castiel Darkstar]

As of right now myself and about 8-10 other players are just role-playing. We do have a faction created for the Corporate Sector Authority but it's going to take time to develop since the Authority has shattered and the Levatine Sanctum holds a huge chunk of Corporate space, including the Capital. This is the very first role play we're conducting, which will basically be a corporate summit of CEO's, Presidents and businessmen discussing the future of the Corporate Sector.

However, with the Corporate Sector currently being "free" instead of tightly regulated, we're playing that it is creating a financial crisis due to the monopolization of certain industries (which the Authority would have previously prevented) that will be felt galaxy-wide.

Tue true question is, will the leaders of these corporations elect to restore the Authority and appoint a new Direx Board, or will they allow the Levatine Sanctum to continue pushing into the sector promoting peace and absolute freedom without recourse?

 

[Jorus Merrill]

[member="Castiel Darkstar"]

Yeah, we at the Sanctum are all for cooperating, and we love it when people use our territory, but nothing you're writing really has relevance to what we've already established. There's been a lot more going on than you might think, and it conflicts pretty directly with things you're trying to establish here and in your IC thread. PM me to talk if you like, 'cause I think someone's steered you wrong.

 

[Castiel Darkstar]

[member="Jorus Merrill"], this is where I got the information about the anarchy on Etti IV that I used to start the role play.

 

[Jorus Merrill]

[member="Castiel Darkstar"] - That's just the latest in a long line of things, and what you're seeing is very well-established connections being invoked. That was part of a huge board-wide event where every faction lost about 2/3 of their territory and had the opportunity to regain it, if they were active enough, via short 50-post dominions like that one. The context of all of those short dominions was massive unrest, no more or less than anywhere else in the galaxy. There've been lots and lots of LS-related threads set in the Corporate Sector. The first Etti IV dominion, for example -- the one where, at local government's request and due to a threat of another faction's invasion, the LS and the corporations who're most powerful in the region in this era turned Etti into one of the most heavily fortified planets in the quadrant.

Basically, the Levantines and others have put a lot of work into fleshing out how the Corporate Sector works these days. We're more than willing to work with new arrivals.

 

[Castiel Darkstar]

[member="Jorus Merrill"], since the new Dominion thread took place after the first, I assumed (quite fairly) that it took place after the events of your original dominion thread. None-the-less, the unrest has happened and some of us (but not all, by any means) are role playing that we've lost significant amounts of money because of it. As a direct result, we're currently holding a summit to discuss it. Nothing more, nothing less.

I have absolutely no plan for the Corporate Sector Authority as it stands. I'm just riding it out and seeing how everyone reacts to it. Ideally, I'd like it to be a separate faction but that's not my decision. I'm only one man with a tiny, faltering company on Etti IV. The decisions that the bigger companies make in this meeting will directly impact how we react to Levatine influence in the Corporate Sector.

You and the Levatines are more than welcome to attend the thread. It has no set direction. I'd plead your case IC instead of OOC simply because we're only roleplaying a continuation of events that your faction created in the most recent dominion thread.

 

[Jorus Merrill]

[member="Castiel Darkstar"]

That unrest was managed at and after end of the event. It's not about pleading our case, lol - and it's not about having Levantines participate. It's about the premise of your thread being out of synch with the major faction that actually controls that territory. Maybe I'll be clearer with examples.

the political instability of the now-crumbling Corporate Sector Authority

The CSA, as an NPC organization, has featured heavily in LS faction RPs. LS currently controls most of the CSA worlds OOC, and it's their decision OOC whether the CSA as an organization crumbles.

Since the fall of the Direx Board of the Corporate Sector Authority most of the Corporate Sector had been plunged into chaos and anarchy

all-out Corporate warfare had ensued. Stock markets crashed, businesses faltered while others boomed, and recently with the absence of the Espos, small battles had erupted in the streets of most of the densely populated planets.

Again, the bulk of these worlds are controlled OOC by a major faction that hasn't consented to mass unrest and economic crashes in an important part of its territory.

It was then that the Levatine Sanctum had swooped in, taking advantage of the upheaval and expanding their influence under the guise of a peacekeeping, freedom-loving alliance of hippies.

Once you set aside exposition-through-character-lens, whatever -- this doesn't reflect that the impetus wasn't internal to the Corporate Sector; the entire galaxy was in the exact same state of serious but mainly temporary upheaval, and LS was honoring its existing treaty obligations by showing up with humanitarian aid and peacekeeping. The second dominion thread didn't exist in a vacuum.

Without a system of checks-and-balances, laws, governance, loop-holes, profit monitoring and the corporate politics of business growth and development the Corporate Sector could no longer function as a safe-haven for the largest and most powerful corporations in the galaxy. That, Castiel thought, was what they had failed to understand.

That system does exist, the corporate environment in CSA space is relatively stable and even booming, and -- bottom line -- other stories are already being written in relation to this stuff, and have been for a long while. Thanks for inviting us to join yours, but your thread's invalid without substantive edits, and you're more than welcome to come RP with the people who've already invested months or more. Some of'em dig your writing and initiative, and we'd like to see you do well.

 

[Castiel Darkstar]

[member="Jorus Merrill"], I don't think you're understanding the premise behind the role play being conducted.

The unrest is over. We're aware of that, but incorporating it into a "ripple effect" that caused us to lose profits. When cities riot, businesses shut down. When entire corporate hubs shut down, it causes a pretty big impact on their business.

The only world I see the LS holding on the map is Etti IV. But keep in mind, this isn't an invasion thread. It's not a dominion thread. It has nothing to do with taking Etti IV. It's just a meeting being held on Etti IV. If you'd prefer, I can move it to Coruscant. I honestly don't care either way.

As for the consent of an economic crash, I never said Etti IV's economy had crashed or that the unrest was still in progress. I incorporated the unrest dominion into a history context for my thread. I even said some companies were booming while others were faltering. Mine happens to be the faltering company struggling to survive which is, incidentally what the entire thread is about.

However, since the Levatine Sanctum doesn't want any competition over the Corporate Sector, which in my opinion has enormous potential to be a massive PC faction rather than an NPC incorporation for story line purposes for the sake of Levatine advancement, I'll gladly scrap this character and the idea of bringing the corporations of the galaxy back where they belong, in the Corporate Sector and move on to something that will generate some excitement rather than push-back.

My apologies.