Velok the Younger
When I Was A Young Warthog
Company: Akure Executive Leatherworks
Modification Made: Tier advancement to IV
Rationale:
Haute couture sells very, very well. Where most companies would have to grow in influence and size through mass production, AEL's operations are of a more specialized nature. A massive network of contractors and temporary employees fills contracts for the disposal of terentateks, Leviathans of Corbos, tikulini, and other such critters. The resulting hides become exclusive limited- and minor-production items which command very, very high prices. For example, AEL's most exclusive product to date, the Kerrigan Coat, is more expensive than some capital ships, with comparable bartering power. Though it has begun a few tentative explorations of mass production, its focus remains entirely on haute couture.
Furthermore, AEL has expanded its operations to include artifact containment, on Mandalorian and Levantine worlds. It has the sole contract for artifact reclamation, cataloging, and containment on Dromund Kaas.
Pertinent Development Threads:
-Contracts
[Link] - AEL begins a long-term investment in the security of Etti IV, capital of the Corporate Sector and a major world of the Levantine Sanctum.
[Link] - Pursuant to an exclusive Mandalorian contract, AEL begins excavating, cataloging, and containing Force artifacts on Dromund Kaas, as well as securing many terentateks
[Link] - AEL contracts to link BlasTech industries (Tier V) with new markets, including the Tion Hegemony and the Levantine Sanctum
-Products
[Link] - Mass-produced
[Link] - Mass-produced
[Link] - Minor production (elite, components)
[Link] - Minor production (elite)
[Link] - Limited production (elite)
[Link] - Limited production (elite)
[Link] - Limited production (elite, components)
[Link] - Limited production (elite)
-Miscellaneous Threads
[Link] - Obtaining factories and weakening competition
[Link] - Recruitment (ongoing)
[Link] - Terentatek farm development and private contracting (ongoing)
[Link] - Trade and acquisition of development-relevant assets (Dray holocron)
[Link] - Trade and acquisition of development-relevant assets (Belia Darzu holocron)
[Link] - Development of a minor production set of alchemy equipment
[Link] - Acquisition of capital and raw materials
[Link] - AEL employee locates and partially neutralizes a terentatek nest
[Link] - AEL employee hunts terentateks
[Link] - AEL employee hunts terentateks
-Project of Sizeable Proportions
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. AEL 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 such as Aza'zoth and Serpena serve as free-range farms for terentateks, their maturition 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, AEL's terentatek efforts represent a major achievement in the history of alchemy, and may be unparalleled in the history of business.
Relevant items: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
New Submission:
Modification Made: Tier advancement to IV
Rationale:
Haute couture sells very, very well. Where most companies would have to grow in influence and size through mass production, AEL's operations are of a more specialized nature. A massive network of contractors and temporary employees fills contracts for the disposal of terentateks, Leviathans of Corbos, tikulini, and other such critters. The resulting hides become exclusive limited- and minor-production items which command very, very high prices. For example, AEL's most exclusive product to date, the Kerrigan Coat, is more expensive than some capital ships, with comparable bartering power. Though it has begun a few tentative explorations of mass production, its focus remains entirely on haute couture.
Furthermore, AEL has expanded its operations to include artifact containment, on Mandalorian and Levantine worlds. It has the sole contract for artifact reclamation, cataloging, and containment on Dromund Kaas.
Pertinent Development Threads:
-Contracts
[Link] - AEL begins a long-term investment in the security of Etti IV, capital of the Corporate Sector and a major world of the Levantine Sanctum.
[Link] - Pursuant to an exclusive Mandalorian contract, AEL begins excavating, cataloging, and containing Force artifacts on Dromund Kaas, as well as securing many terentateks
[Link] - AEL contracts to link BlasTech industries (Tier V) with new markets, including the Tion Hegemony and the Levantine Sanctum
-Products
[Link] - Mass-produced
[Link] - Mass-produced
[Link] - Minor production (elite, components)
[Link] - Minor production (elite)
[Link] - Limited production (elite)
[Link] - Limited production (elite)
[Link] - Limited production (elite, components)
[Link] - Limited production (elite)
-Miscellaneous Threads
[Link] - Obtaining factories and weakening competition
[Link] - Recruitment (ongoing)
[Link] - Terentatek farm development and private contracting (ongoing)
[Link] - Trade and acquisition of development-relevant assets (Dray holocron)
[Link] - Trade and acquisition of development-relevant assets (Belia Darzu holocron)
[Link] - Development of a minor production set of alchemy equipment
[Link] - Acquisition of capital and raw materials
[Link] - AEL employee locates and partially neutralizes a terentatek nest
[Link] - AEL employee hunts terentateks
[Link] - AEL employee hunts terentateks
-Project of Sizeable Proportions
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. AEL 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 such as Aza'zoth and Serpena serve as free-range farms for terentateks, their maturition 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, AEL's terentatek efforts represent a major achievement in the history of alchemy, and may be unparalleled in the history of business.
Relevant items: 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8
New Submission:
Corporation Name: Akure Executive Leatherworks
Headquarters: Kyrikal 17
Locations: Laekia, Aza'zoth, Etti IV, Dromund Kaas
Operations: High-end functional clothing, primarily leather coats and boots; terentatek/leviathan/tikulini disposal, artifact containment
Rationale:
Akure Executive Leatherworks (33% employee-owned, 10% owned by Jonathon Patches, 57% owned by 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, AEL has carved out two large niches in the galactic economy: extermination of troublesome monsters, and transformation of said monsters into exclusive clothing. AEL, with its contractors, associates, and subsidiaries, is the closest thing the galaxy can boast to an alchemists' guild. It also contracts with governments to contain and neutralize various Force-related items, species, and phenomena.
Tier: IV
Description:
Akure Executive Leatherworks 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 is the only source of the alchemical reagents and processes which allow master leatherworkers to retain the special properties of the animal, such as terentatek Force-immunity.
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.
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. AEL 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 such as Aza'zoth and Serpena serve as free-range farms for terentateks, their maturition 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, AEL's terentatek efforts represent a major achievement in the history of alchemy, and may be unparalleled in the history of business.
For the foreseeable future, each AEL product involving leviathan, tikulini, and terentatek hide will result from a development thread. Additionally, most of those products will be Unique or Limited in scale, to maintain exclusivity. Increases in tier have resulted in more product lines, but generally not massively larger product lines.
The face of AEL, for advertising purposes, is [member="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.
Subsidiaries:
Mohc Extractives - 66.67% owned, Tier 2
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
Operations: High-end functional clothing, primarily leather coats and boots; terentatek/leviathan/tikulini disposal, artifact containment
Rationale:
Akure Executive Leatherworks (33% employee-owned, 10% owned by Jonathon Patches, 57% owned by 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, AEL has carved out two large niches in the galactic economy: extermination of troublesome monsters, and transformation of said monsters into exclusive clothing. AEL, with its contractors, associates, and subsidiaries, is the closest thing the galaxy can boast to an alchemists' guild. It also contracts with governments to contain and neutralize various Force-related items, species, and phenomena.
Tier: IV
Description:
Akure Executive Leatherworks 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 is the only source of the alchemical reagents and processes which allow master leatherworkers to retain the special properties of the animal, such as terentatek Force-immunity.
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.
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. AEL 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 such as Aza'zoth and Serpena serve as free-range farms for terentateks, their maturition 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, AEL's terentatek efforts represent a major achievement in the history of alchemy, and may be unparalleled in the history of business.
For the foreseeable future, each AEL product involving leviathan, tikulini, and terentatek hide will result from a development thread. Additionally, most of those products will be Unique or Limited in scale, to maintain exclusivity. Increases in tier have resulted in more product lines, but generally not massively larger product lines.
The face of AEL, for advertising purposes, is [member="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.
Subsidiaries:
Mohc Extractives - 66.67% owned, Tier 2
Wey'lan Dyu'tani - 51% owned, Tier 1
Marvand Publishing - 100% owned, Tier 1
