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Corporate joint projects?

OsakanOne

OsakanOne

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Hey all,

To make things more plausable and share around the profit and knowledge, is it possible for corporations to take joint ventures and projects?

I'm busy at the moment but this weekend, I'm fixing and rolling out Lazarus who are absoloutely not a weapons manufacturer but want to make sure their product is as compatible as possible (and maybe include something to get users started).

And yes.

I suppose the Winter is the iPowerArmor.
Only without the closed-shell syndrome of Macintosh products.
 
There's been plenty of joint projects in the past (such as the Phoenix/QnS Byakko Carrier).
 
You'll want to first iron out an OOC agreement with the player who is controling the corp. For instance:

Leuter for the CSEIA
Zakalwe for Nova and Emrys
Derran for Phoenix
Milla for Oncari
Abwehran for Kaiserlich
FM for Stalwart
Myself for NAMs
and Wes for everything else.
 
CSEIA is currently working out slave-purchase contracts with pirates, possible training and arms dealing with the Abwehrans. Still, they're always looking for more legitimate contracts to help cover up their infamy, but be warned: I'm not sure if CSEIA is actually the kind of organization any legitimate corporation wants to be seen dealing with. They're in violation of several dozen technology, arms trafficking, human rights, and environmental laws. They're a good choice if you desperate for significantly cheaper research, or you want something crazy/exotic/illegal built, but otherwise any sane corporation would steer clear of them out of fear of taking a public relations blow.
 
Stalwart is currently helping out on Lor and working on many, many projects that usually explode. He is quite willing, however, to collaborate with anyone who wishes to. But he's not the kind of guy I would invite to the Christmas party, if you get what I'm saying.
 
NAMs is currently researching and producing their own line of power armors. We have the skills, distribution and the resources of the entire Nepleslian empire to bear. If your series of PAs are going to be in direct competition with ours, however, I'm afraid we cannot help you.
 
I see.

In synopsis, something new and very very interesting is about to be taken apart, within the next month or so.

Reverse engineering it might require some external expertise and practical knowledge in terms of warfare that Lor might lack.

It should be... Lucerative.
 
Exotic technologies and reverse engineering are both specialties of CSEIA. Without any sort of legal restrictions placed on them out there, they can reverse engineer and violate as many patent laws as they like. Something they get the opportunity to do quite often. And since nothing is illegal in their realm, they dabble in even the most unethical and restricted technologies.

Despite their infamy and rumored dabbling with criminals, they do maintain a politically neutral and no-questions-asked policies. If whatever you're working on is 'very interesting,' and involves warfare, it might not be something you'd want to show to empire-hugging groups like NovaCorp or NAM out of fear they may leak information to their respective governments. No offense intended to said corporations, of course. ^^;

I'd go with Stalwart myself if possible, since its both Lor-aligned and independent of foreign governments. Of course they may lack the resources and technology to dabble in whatever you're working on, as your description seems to hint its quite advanced or exotic. In that case I'd shamelessly recommend the advanced technologies, facilities, and staff of CSEIA. Maybe even a joint project between the two...

[/salespitch]

Unyuu said:
Leuter for the CSEIA
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By the way: It's Leutre not Leuter. I am NOT Neuter with an 'L,' damn it! XD
 
Private schools and pirate mercenary forces cost a lot of money to maintain, let alone research institutions; Technology research is one of the most expensive industries in existence. That requires lots of funding, which requires them to go at least semi-public in order to establish reputation and attract the volume of customers needed to support costs. Attracting customers equals advertising, equals public reputation.

Of course, remember there's a difference between hearsay in the criminal underground and having enough physical evidence to prosecute them. With their teleoperated ship technology, its quite easy to self-destruct vessels and destroy evidence if ambushed by authorities. ^^
 
If your organization does not belong to any empire then why would they receive the protection of law from those empires?

Anyone should be able to drop by and start blowing stuff up without legal repercussions.
 
Anyone should be able to drop by and start blowing stuff up without legal repercussions.
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Truth.
 
Nearby Halna provides a plentiful supply of cuthroats and other hired guns available for work when poo hits the fan. Plus a turret grid, a few hundred teleoperated attack drones with a handful of teleoperated frigates. And for when things really get messy, drone tech + weapons research = Cruise missiles (I was supposed to write up a submission for this but I never got around to it).

It's same principal deterrence theory in strategic warfare. It doesn't really matter how weak you are in terms of military; As long as you're much more expensive to destroy than to leave alone, you'll be left alone. And as long as (the vast majority of) CSEIA activity remains unseen, no one can really justify spending the military resources needed to destroy them.

Until some nation decides to plant moles in CSEIA (difficult, since students are hand-picked and a central supercomputer controls all communications), or they do something stupid and obvious enough to antagonize an nation into justifying an attack fleet, they should be left in peace.
 
I don't belive you've paid for any of those ships and you can't use weapons that haven't been approved.

Ontop of that if everything self destructs the moment an SA ship shows up what is to stop someone from impersonating a SA ship and flying by?

And if the organisation is as infamous as it protray's itself justifying the cost to take it out would be easy. Even if nothing but to test out weapons.
 
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