| Feb. 2nd, 2006 @ 01:54 pm Megacorps |
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Eventually, I am thinking I may have to start a website as a central place for all the material I am working on. Until then, I'll post some of what I have done concerning the megas and the geographical layout of Vermont here, because I'm sure people want to see it sooner than later. I'm sure there may be some weird terms or locations in here, but fear not - it will all be brought together.
Vermont as defined by counties:
The Burlington Metroplex comprises Chittenden, Lamoille, and Washington counties.
Franklin county is similar to the layout of chittenden county around the turn of the mellenium with Trevolpol, which was formerly St Albans, at its center.
Orleans, Caledonia, and Essex counties comprise the Vermont Wilderness
Orange and Addison counties are heavily renovated and often serve as bedroom communities for people commuting to Burlington.
Rutland and Windsor counties only slightly felt the Vermont Renovation, turning Rutland and Woodstock into communities comparable to burlington at the turn of the mellenium
bennington and windham are either rediculously poor communities or small commuter communities for the Boston metroplex
Megacorporate profiles:
-(Ares Macrotechnology)-
The Ares corporate headquarters for the tristate region is a five-building complex, called the Ares' Five-Point, in the heart of the Burlington business district surrounded with various smaller support offices. The doors to the complex are open to the general public, and many products and services offered by Ares can be purchased here for a factory-direct discount. They also feature a Vermont historical museem, employment recruiting office, press office, and daily schedualed tours of the complex itself. Remote busses run a non-stop circuit of the complex as well as the five underground parking garages the number of people employed there necesitates.
Ares Macrotechnology was the first megacorporation in New England, and was instrumental to the urban renovation of Burlington. The vast number of subsidary companies under Ares' banner are managed through their Burlington headquarters, but the complex itself is known as an influential research institute in its own right.
>>>>> It's no coincidence that your friendly neighborhood Ares representative swooped into Burlington in the nick of time. If you follow the paper trail far enough back, turns out Ares was buying up real estate just prior to the population surge that caused the Third World Crisis. If you ask me, I bet someone at Ares made a backroom deal with some of the other corps; everyone grabs the entirety of one of the tiny parts of the Vermont economy and makes a bundle by slowly raising prices and blaming inflation or some crap.
-Johan the Johan
>>>>> Not only that, but then Ares swoops in like, pun intended, a cowboy from the old west to save the day in the nick of time. Makes all the megacorps look pretty shiney, and before you know it, Burlington is just another corporate-induced concrete nightmare.
-Flapjack
>>>>> You better believe they work hard to keep that rumor quiet, though. A buddy of mine had his house broken into, and Lone Star nailed it on some punk runner wannabees in the area. I'm not saying names, but he's a reporter, and he found some paperwork he wasn't supposed to.
-Johan the Johan
>>>>> Burlington Lone Star paid off? That would NEVER happen... not on a friday...
-Squiggles
>>>>> I heard they can get you some sweet firearm permits if you get cozy with your Johnson.
-Neo-Necker
>>>>> Yea, so they can track you and make sure you're only working for them.
-Flapjack
-(Aztechnology)-
The Aztechnology district headquarters for new england is a single, massive, plasteel-and-glass skyscrapper in Winooski. The top ten floors of the goliath structure have the corporation's logo laser-etched into each face of the building, and the very top of the tower is capped with a triangular green house containing a lush, tropical garden for the enjoyment of employees and their families. The megacorporate giant, from this gleaming command center, oversees innumerable subsidary companies and operations in both new england and parts of the Republic of Quebec. While the Northeastern Aztechnology Tower, or NAT, may not house the same level of public recreational services as the Ares' Five-Point, it certainly does not suffer any decreased production. Rather than concentrating their assests into a massive district headquarters, Aztechnology decided to dispurse their district funding amongst the individual subsidaries themselves. Working for an Aztecnology-owned company is known to have good job security, great benefits, and very comfortable work environments.
Of course, this doesn't mean that their disctrict HQ is any less productive than those of the more centralized megacorps in the area. The Aztec building in Winooski is like the command center of a colonial country. Aztechnology's projects, research operations, manufacturing, and distribution grids are constantly evaluated by the district office; in fact, there are many successful Aztec employees whose job at the disctrict office is to work together to maintain the flow of economic and statistical data through the Northeastern Aztechnology district for constant evaluation, giving Aztechnology a big advantage over their rivals interpreting local fiscal trends and, therefore, making their business the most effecient in New England next to Saeder-Krupp Heavy Industries. Then again, who could hope to keep up with the attention to detail only Lofwyr could grant a megacorporate entity?
>>>>> Is it just me, or did they just use a whole bunch of words with the sole intention of sounding cool or is it actually an impressive network?
-Nightstick
>>>>> The fact that you're not sure just goes to show what kind of wiz kids the Aztecs have working in their public relations departments. Aztechnology is thought by many to be one of the most benevolent and conciencious corporations in the world, but anyone who's existed in the shadows for five seconds knows theres something seriously sketchy about those guys.
-Squiggles
>>>>> I knew this one really tough guy who took up a moderate-sounding run against the corp. I'd seen the guy in tight spots before so I knew he could handle himself better than some of us, but I found his obituary in the weekend newsnet posts. Said he died in a car accident, and that the car caught fire somehow, so the whole thing looked like just another stupid eco-case that no one read. I've got no proof, but sometimes that scares me more than what I think happened.
-Neo-necker
>>>>> Yea, I even heard a rumor somewhere they got people workin the word on the street. I doubt it, but if it's true, that's some dedication.
-Johan the Johan
-(Evo Corporation)-
The Evo corporation's disctrict office for New England is a secure industrial and research complex located in Richmond. Some of its more well known research projects pertain to agriculture, nanotechnology, and genetics testing; and the complex is, in addition, a manufacturing plant for many products distributed by subsidary or secondary companies. The Evo corporation also maintains the four massive, ivy-covered, brick buildings that make up Mev'revol Chinrikinast, the university and center for metahuman cultural development located in beautiful Trevolpol.
>>>>> A very to-the-point introduction here that leaves a lot to be said. How typical.
-Flapjack
>>>>> Yea, like their active blacklist of enemies of Trevolpol (Evo's personal little cultural experiment, opps!). It saddens me, being an elf, to see what they're doing out there, but trying to press the point is like trying to teach a horny elephant how to use china, namely, it leads to things being broken.
-Johan the Johan
>>>>> You can say that again. I've heard all kinds of rumors as to the validity of some of the historical endeavors of Mev-chin, but I was stupid enough to ask someone about it, and of course, that someone was an orc that I didn't know was packing heat. It's the reason I have a crappy cyberarm today.
-Nightstick
>>>>> screw you guys, you're just mad we orcs finally stood up and came into our own, and if it was me, ya'd have yourself a cyber toroso to boot. Trev'rikol har shifeetzin!
-Squiggles |
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