The Story so Far
After an unfortunate series of events, the board of directors died within a one week span of each other. Some looked accidental, some unrelated, and one was an obvious assassination. The corporation’s true intents had been discovered by someone quiet, someone dangerous. A critical laboratory was destroyed by a bombing shortly before these killings costing valuable research on projects that no one knows about.
At least the corporation’s trusty “assistant” survived, and found a new group to take over the positions on the board of directors to continue its work. Kalanhrae is the board’s trusty Kalanhrae Imfeinsidekick armed with in depth knowledge about the corporation. He is currently most obssessed with finding out whoever orchestrated the recent attack on the previous board, as that means they know the shadow corporation exists.
Meanwhile, elsewhere in the system, the year is 1583 A.R. Shetou and Alnae are locked in heated conflict while trying to aggressively colonize other planets within the system to hopefully overshadow the other with sheer resources to win the ongoing war that has lasted since 1279.
The war itself is a slow process, field battles aren’t ocurring on a daily basis anymore though lots of dirty glances are exchanged. Most attacks occur as smaller skirmishes across the system, usually over newly colonized areas.
The only planets to be fully colonized are SR3 by Alnae and SV4 by Shetou. The other planets and moons have colonies ranging from an outpost to a continent but full planetary control has yet to be achieved just yet.
Many neutral colonies can be found across the system, founded by ambitious individuals or people who just got plain tired of the other two options. The most powerful of these neutral bodies is the vampire family Desoir and pirate faction Solvang. Desoir has some small colonies on various planets for resource collection, though in general the two neutral super factions are not interested in colonial expansion and have most of their assets in space.
There is quite a lot of hubbub about a report from both Shetou and Alnae astronomers, they think they have found very strong evidence for alien life but until closer observation can be made they aren’t entirely sure. The evidence is a large organic mass they discovered in deep space on the Rixa plane a few light years away, the other reason for such excitement and worry is that this mass is moving towards our star. This has ignited a more active conflict on the Rixa plane between Alnae and Shetou. Rixa’s outermost planet is SR3, controlled by the Alnae and both want to be involved in first contact if it is an alien, and don’t want the other there.
With the increase in trade and interplanetary business, piracy is also on the rise. The Solvang are very active and substantial bounties are offered for any information leading to the capture of their members or locations of their bases by the Desoir.
Yenneiros Whitetalon
In taking over the corporation as lead director, the current state of affairs are relatively solid. Whoever attacked the corporation didn’t touch MADHAMMER very much, this may be related to it being a lot of dudes with guns. However, the main offices on Thenica were the target of a major bombing and a new headquarters for office work needs to be selected. Someone’s gotta do the paperwork.
There has been a rise in jobs on the Rixa plane due to the ongoing conflict between Shetou and Alnae there, both jobs from Shetou itself and rogue colonies who find themselves in the path of Shetou. The drow empire has been seizing up colonies lately to act as military bases. The most notable conflict is on SR1 Alpha, a moon that is really more of a giant sandball then anything else. Powerful magic was used to give the wasteland an atmosphere to make it inhabitable because of the large amount of raw metals present beneath the sand. Colonists had been exporting the metal for a few decades now but one of the Shetou houses seems to want it now. SR1 Alpha has the largest ongoing armed resistance between colonists and the Shetou forces and this is where the most notable demand for mercenaries come from. Though they’re attempting to barter with their raw resources instead of standard currency. But given the resources are metals, Kalan is fairly certain it can be easily turned into money…or guns.
Mordekai Aberhoff
While the factory for the filter business wasn’t particularly effected, both the pharmaceutical companies main manufacturing plants and the cult have experienced some setbacks. The cult saw several small cells seemed to have been involved in armed robbery followed by a series of news pieces spread across the web involving some in depth interviews and documenting of the cult, this did not do well to endear them to people. A week or so later the same cells turned up dead and while police have cases across the system for these deaths their results don’t point to any singular source. Which given the nature of all these strikes definitely means they aren’t even close. Advisors note it is evident that the fact that only the lead psion is ever really functional leaves them easily targeted and manipulated if whoever is behind it can just get to the lead one.
Related to the heightened awareness of the cult along with the bad PR recruitment numbers are also certainly on the decline.
Edric Vandross
The raiders had a major problem through a series of events that seem a little too natural to be orchestrated. They were on a regular raiding gig after a high value shipment from SR1-Alpha and found themselves a little outmatched by the security forces and several members were either killed or arrested shortly afterwards. While the bank hasn’t experienced any critical problems, one of the offices on SZ3-Beta was the victim of a robbery. It remains unclear if either of these events are connected with the recent hit on the corporation as they seem fairly minor compared to the damage others have suffered and a little too run-of-the-mill to be shady. Though some of the company bosses do recommend looking into it, there’s always a chance we just weren’t hit very hard in the first wave.
Luci Serrano
The media company didn’t suffer much in the way of direct attack like the others, but there has been a sudden rise in the popularity of articles on the internet discrediting the brand. They’re a little cherry-picked as to find every possible fact that was even slightly wrong and call them out with long rambles as well as one of the anchor-ladies reporting suspicion of a stalker though police didn’t turn anything up.
Important Links:
Player Handbook – Basic mechanics outline
Main players page – Sort of the repository of info. The hiring rosters are over there.