Pregame Faction Mission 1- Independent Corporations "Untapped Market"- Begin

The planet of Druzi Prime, which has the twin moons of Druzi 1 and Druzi 2, is little more than a volcanic wasteland and thought to be uninhabited. During a battle between the Kasanthian Federation and the Iron Republic, a huge sprawling multi-dome city was discovered at the pole of Druzi Prime.
Owned by the extremely wealthy Diolo Clan, this Xanadu was called Fire Dome City. Doing its proper job as a pleasure palace for the family who have made their wealth in mining, Fire Dome City had entire neighborhoods of Consorts, and their illegitimate children.
It seems the elder patron of the Diolo Clan, Fra Hidoj Diolo, died from a congenital heart defect. The battle occurred right as the elder Diolo was still waiting for his clone to finish growing, and his illegitimate daughter Irene Diolo has attempted a coup de'etat.
It is relatively successful so far, but what are a few hours of a coup.

Irene Diolo is looking to spend significant money on what she feels is a successful direction for her fledgling colony.
This has two different levels of win.

Win 1- Successful Business proposal. Reward: 100K Ghaz

Win 2- Fundamental Shift in society. Reward: Corporate Outstation in Fire Dome City

All Independent Corporation players have the potential to win the Win 1, but only one player can Win 2!

Post your presentation in this thread, you have until this friday at 11pm E.S.T.

What sort of presentation you say?

Its a volcanic world on the cusp of a civil war, filled with untrained laborers, hookers and former servants. If you can't figure out some way your company can help their society, you might as well sell your last few widgets, buy a starship and turn to piracy.

((Assuming they by off on it I would like to propose a joint contract Blackheart/Maehl/Terranova, as prime contractor assuming its accepted Blackheart Security Solutions gets the outpost. If the others don't want to subcontract then assume those parts are dropped from the proposal))

Dear Irene Diolo,
I want to pass my regrets at your father's untimely passing. In all tragedy there is opportunity. The opportunity you have been presented is a huge one.

Fire Dome City stands at a cross roads. With your father's death Fire Dome City doesn't really make sense any more. I don't like pleasure domes, I'm guessing given your circumstances neither do you.
You have the money to change that. At the same time you are going to need help.

I will be making a number of business propositions to you. Its your choice whether to use my services , which ones, and for how long, however many of them would be looking at an extended timeline to accomplish their goals.

First thing you will need is security, your rule at first will be highly contested. Your entire dome can declare some degree of birth rite. You are going to need a force you can trust to take up security operations and especially provide you with personal protection. I am proposing that a large element of Blackwater Security Specialists deploy to Fire Dome City in order to bolster local law enforcement and provide you with a personal security detachment you can trust.

It is advisable that you split up some of your father's wealth among your people. It will help you legitimize yourself, and the old man was a hoarder anyway, its more money than you and yours could realistically spend in a lifetime. However that's your call, I am merely noting from my personal experience that new rulers need to earn their legitimacy in the peoples eyes.

After your rule stabilizes the number of visible security contractors will draw down to only those needed to train up security and defense forces.

The dome is positioned to be extremely prosperous. The planet has immense mineral wealth as well as being near an incredible galactic phenomena (The temporal worm hole). I propose utilizing both of these boons as well as a number of other initiatives. Diversity leads to prosperity. I am all about autonomy and partnership. People like to feel empowered and like to control their destiny. I will try to make all Blackheart contracts push toward your colony becoming autonomous, with Blackheart Security only providing certain functions indefinitely (For example it makes sense to continue to utilize our services for your personal security).

Mining colonies in the Iron Republic are by and large horrendous places to live and work, however their business model is not the only one that can be successful. I would like to personally give you or one of your trusted confidants a tour of the mining colony owned by Blackheart Security Solutions. I propose changing your economy and reopening the mines again. Mining is hard work but it need not be unsafe. This will likely form the industrial base for your city to thrive. This will require an infusion of equipment and trainers. Blackheart will gladly provide administrative and mining trainers however I will need to subcontract out the equipment acquisition to Maehl holdings. Also moving the ore from planet side to the markets can either be contracted out to Maehl holdings or slightly less efficiently by Blackheart Security. Which ever company you choose to contract with it should be a quarterly contract. Blackheart can also provide a security element for these runs (This would be a set rate based on duration of the trip and return trip and will likely be vastly more efficient than attempting to build an organic escort element). I would propose that you look into acquiring a freighter fleet, as a continuing contract Blackheart can train up crews to give you complete life cycle control of the ore mined on your planet.

Fire Dome City has a lot to offer the tourists, many of your fathers palaces can be made into luxury hotels, the volcanic terrain has much to offer the extreme adventuring tourist, and local flights to view the wormhole are a once in a life time chance for many of the galaxies wealthy. Many of these functions your people already have and can operate. For the wormhole tourism Blackheart can provide security and can quickly procure a luxury ship to provide sightseers with all the luxuries of space. The ship would be likely procured and initially crewed by Maehl Holdings, however Blackheart can fulfill this function at degraded efficiency. As with the mining contract for additional duration of the contract trainers can act to train a crew and transfer full operation. Stellar Security would continue to be maintained by Blackheart Security gunpods.

The final and in the long term most promising proposition is the possibility to attract scientists who want to study the temporal wormhole. I propose constructing a Research station away but connected to Fire Dome City. Blackheart would provide security and some expertise for the construction however this construction would be most efficiently completed by Terranova Industries, however if they are not willing to perform the contract the corporations/empires you want to lease too would likely absorb the construction costs to make it happen. Either way the property should remain under your ownership but be leased out to other groups. I would also be sure to include an education clause. As part of being able to conduct research from the planet the scientists must also lecture and teach in Fire Dome City. While this will bring some extra income into your colony the biggest benefit is intangible. It is tough to overstate the value of education for your populous.

I hope this business proposition meets your desires for your colony. All points and durations are open for negotiations.

Very Respectfully,
Director Childeen Blackheart

First and foremost I appreciate the opportunity to present this proposal to you, Honorable Irene Diolo. On behalf of Maehl Holdings, I present this document to you because I want to empower you, on behalf of Druzi Prime, and serve as your vehicle of growth. We wish to serve as the vehicle to get you where you want to go.

First, I’d like to share a bit about our company. Maehl Holdings is a recently sanctioned IRLC that is a multifaceted company whose mission is to serve as a vehicle for growth and development. The primary means by which we do this is through our logistics and shipping divisions. We serve our clients by providing them simple shipping and logistics solutions to ensure that both import and export of goods are fluid, easy to track, generate desired revenue goals, and incur the minimal amount of cost, i.e. tax and tariff. Through our various subdivisions and sub-companies we also provide additional services and tools that assist with capital growth and protection.

Our services enable our clients to find markets for their goods that would otherwise not exist. We match goods with clients, and clients with goods. In doing so, we also have the singular capacity to remove most of our clients' overhead costs for interplanatery trade and ensure optimal revenue gains for their exported products. In addition, we can provide the lowest cost imports for those products that are either rare or economically unfeasible to produce locally. Our services ensure that our clients’ economies operate to their maximum potential while making available goods and services that would otherwise be unattainable. This optimization allows strong industries to grow larger, and empowers burgeoning industries to develop by creating demand where demand may not otherwise be available.

We are able to perform this development by being the only logistics organization officially sanctioned by the Iron Republic. Furthermore, we also we also have exclusive trade rights between their territories and the EEF, the Unity, the Free Systems, and portions of Fort Lendil. Our trade rights, and most importantly the protection we are granted within these territories, provides us a competitive edge and, most importantly, the ability to fulfill our promise to aid in the development of your domain. Furthermore, with discussions soon to begin with Kasanth, we hope to be able to serve our clients, such as Druzi Prime, throughout the Polar Expanse.

Our proposal to you centers on the core of our business. Simply put, allow us to serve as your primary logistics and trade development organization. We will enact everything we claim above and ensure the growth and development of Druzi Prime. By utilizing our services your population would have automatic trade parters for the goods you produce. By utilizing our services you gross domestic product will increase by no less than 30 percent in the next year. Through our wide and expansive trade network, your interplanetary prestige will increase throughout the polar expanse merely by utilizing our service.

More specifically, we want to make Druzi prime a regional hub of trade and commerce. Your proximity to Kasanth puts you in a fortuitous location to serve as a natural conduit for goods and trade traveling in and out of the Iron Republic. By being our regional hub, and having available to us the resources required to do so, every ship carrying any goods in the region will have to dock on Druzi Prime. Thousands of people will go through your domes and cities on a daily basis. Business and industry that do not currently exist on Druzi Prime will organically develop as a result. And most importantly, you will have the ability to influence this entire process.

We acknowledge that we are boastful in our promises. And while we may be a relatively new IRLC, we have proven track record of success. For example, Esiroh 6 and 7, two clients of ours, knew little other than hardship, war, and slavery. They were both underdeveloped economically and subject to the whims of pirates such as the dreaded Captain Magnus Ironsbane. Fortunately, through our investment models and by fomenting domestic and interplanetary partnerships, the populations of both these planets have grown, revenue has increased, and capital has been created. These planets now know peace and prosperity as they had not previously known. We want to do the same for Druzi Prime. We want to work with you so that we can meet your economic goals so that you can ensure the prosperity of your population.

In conclusion, our most powerful proposal to you is the biggest advantage we offer you, freedom. We are only the vehicle, but you, Honorable Diolo, will be in the driver's seat with the freedom to guide your people to the future of prosperity that you envision for them. As such, we look forward to hearing from you as we look forward to helping you, and Druzi Prime, grow business.

Yours sincerely,
Su Maehl, CEO
Maehl Holdings, IRLC

Salutations Ms. Diolo

Congradulations on your rise to power. Terra Nova Industries bellieves that Fire Dome City is in a position to offer a few unique services to a select clientele. Terra Nova Industries is a new and exciting technology firm specializing in custom engineering. Terra Nova Industries believes that Fire Dome Citys future lies in geothermal energy exportation, tectonic research and inter-dimensional being tourisim. Terra Nova Industries would like to know if any of these ideas are appealing to you.

Many thanks,
Clemente Samuels
Terra Nova Industries... A better world through better technology.