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"Succeding where others fail"

"I liked seeing that we sold a lot on the South American market this quarter, Good job Fredrik" Quinten said as he was sitting across his head of sales in his own office, he really liked this new chair he got specifically made for maximum comfort, sure the price was higher than most premium chairs you would get in a store but it was definitely worth it.

"Thank you, sir I..." He was cut short as a redheaded woman peeked through the door, she had that assistant body so to say with a very slim build and essentially no curves to be found on her body. She was a really good assistant, she always made sure that Quinten never missed a meeting, now that he thought about it he has not missed one in 5 years because of her, she made sure the corporation ran smoothly and made sure that the work Quinten had to do was only the most important of matters. "Sir you have a meeting coming up with someone special, you told me not to tell anyone who it was but you told me that I should tell you to drop whatever you are doing and attend this meeting" Quinten had to think but then suddenly remembered and bolted off with a thank you to Rebecka and a "I will talk to you later" to Fredrik.

As he entered meeting room #4 on floor 5 he sat down across from the man on the other side of the table. "Thank you for being patient with me I was in the middle of another meeting" he said while being very nervous about this meeting as this is something he had been looking forward to awhile. "Ok so Mr. Lee lets talk business..."

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Tidal Enforcement



On April 3rd, 2090, Tidal Enforcement has unveiled the state of the art security system known as ‘Silver Eye’, which was a semi-autonomous system which kept sure to monitor all entrances of a building were watched over. The Silver Eye included an entryway unlocking system which scanned the customers eyes, voice recognition, and/or fingerprints, to the customers desire. This system was in connection of local criminal databases in order to identify a suspicious individual, which was identified via camera installations around the property, and reacts with a monotonous, robotic voice telling the potential intruder to exit the premises or be reported to the local authorities or nearby TEF Enforcements.

The Silver Eye system also connected to delivery services to account for delivery and keep any item delivered to the building safe from theft. The system is overviewed on a central system, worked by some of the best the business has to offer in keeping the beloved customers of Tidal Enforcement to ensure that there is no breach of security of the Silver Eye is available to the public at the low price $1500.
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Fiscal Quarter 2 (April-June)



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April, 2090


    North American Market
  • The biotechnology company Lance Solutions receives a Genetic Engineering Asset.
  • The pharmaceutical giant Helping Hands Industries produces it's goods for the fiscal quarter and receives a Pharmaceuticals Asset.

    South American Market
  • No significant changes in this market for this quarter.

    European Market
  • Security defense conglomerate Vindicate Operations receives a Cybersecurity Asset.

    Middle Eastern Market
  • Middle Eastern tech company advances it's Artificial Intelligence department in Jerusalem. [Artificial Intelligence is advanced to Level 2.]

    African Market
  • The financial giant Pretoria Qualified ramps up in anticipation for it's Orange Book Investment Plan being released later this year and subsequently receives a Financial Asset.

    East Asian Market
  • No significant changes in this market for this quarter.

    Aery Cities Market
  • No significant changes in this market for this quarter.

World Stock Market
  • The biotechnology company Lance Solutions spends $50,000,000,000 to purchase 5.7 million shares of their own stock. Share prices of LAS increase to $11,812 and LAS now owns 55% of it's own stock holdings.
  • The security defense company Vindicate Operations purchases 1 Million Shares of Highbeam Incorporated at $11,049 for a cost of $11.04 Billion.
  • Middle Eastern Cognitive Robotics purchase 3 Million of their own shares for $34.1 Billion.





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Fairview began to do something epic, it wasen't apparent at the start though. These epic plans were briefly put on hold when the "holo-fax" came in from Israel. Some dust pot in the middle of allah-nuke town, apparently some big-bagged corporate boys from robot labs decided to buy a shit ton of stocks. For reasons YET unknown, Mr. Fairview was awoken and brought via his hover-wheel chair to the board room as the old executives packed up their papers, lunch boxes and other things.

"It has been a good run sir." Mr. Jack Killstock said, an all american executive now .1% holder of the company since a corporation bought all the stocks. The other executives all left the room and the U.S. flag was folded up in exchange for the Israeli flag for some reason, Mr. Fairview was really sad and it's even said he cried one tear but it was unconfirmed. With these aliens now controlling Fairview (The All American Juggernaut) their future was uncertain.

One this was certain was, helpbot was NOT HELPING here.
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Pretoria Qualified: Best of a Kind.


Johannes van der Sandt slowly made his way down the hallway, high in the towering PQ headquarters in the African metropolis of Pretoria. His wheelchair, a robust but inexpensive contraption, stood a stark contrast to the man sitting in it—a frail old centenarian that was also one of the most obscenely wealthy multi-trillionaires on planet Earth. He'd bought his wheelchair used, eager to get a deal on the device that allowed him to still navigate his company's offices and personally manage its corporate affairs, in spite of his advanced state. His head shaved was shaved bald, and he was dressed in a fine black suit with an orange tie, the corporate colour of his company. He was not the only one in the hallway. Travelling in either direction, his various younger underlings gave him a polite and respectful wave or nod or smile as they passed him, eager to seem personable to the elder statesman of their employer. Johannes was known to have something of a temper, and there were rumours of him twisting the law to have employees that gave him impertinent looks terminated without pay. Some of the more conspiracy minded even said that anyone who crossed Mr. Van der Sandt was liable to be taken from their homes in the night, dragged off to a test chamber to be experimented on by PQ's genetic engineering department. They were probably just silly rumours, but they gave an accurate depiction of the atmosphere with which the old man carried himself: solemn and retributive were the Van der Sandt family's patriarchs.

A wall of glass flanked the wheelchair-bound CEO to his right, giving him a look out over the bustling downtown urban centre his company had helped to create. It was for the PQ that this skyline of towering skyscrapers was even still called 'Pretoria'. Decades ago, when Mr. Van der Sandt was only in his 30's and merely the company's heir apparent, the PQ's lobbying efforts had been the reason the city had avoided a politically influenced name change; it would not do for Pretoria Qualified to be based out of a city called 'Tshwane'. Since then, PQ had remained the lifeblood of Pretoria's economy, serving as the city's largest employer and the largest business presence by several orders of magnitude. The city government—and, eventually, the national government—became irrelevant, their duties to the city replaced by a private corporation that simply had more money to work with to solve the city's ills than City Hall could ever hope to have. Of course, the Van der Sandt family's efforts at outreach had not been charitable: it made managing a company so much easier when you enforced your own regulations and wrote your own laws.

At the far end of the hallway was Johannes' destination. Two guards, armed with latest small arms that PQ's corporate friends at SIMA had to offer, opened the heavy metal door for their chief executive before he had even come within twenty feet of the meeting room. They closed it after him just as quickly, staring daggers at any employees milling about the hall that had lingered their eyes on it too long. Pretoria Qualified was a closed corporation, and meetings of its management were equally closed, even to the most high ranking of non-family employees.

"Hello, Father." a young man's voice carried over the length of the room.

Johannes smiled, the first time his expression had changed from a persistent scowl since he made the descent from the top floor down to the meeting hall. The man addressing him was his grandson, not his son, but he'd taken up calling him 'father' ever since his real father had died.

The grandson checked his watch, an inexpensive thing that did not look like it belonged on a trillionaire's wrist. "Just on time, as always. One of these days the elevator will stall for a moment and you'll be a minute behind."

Mr. Van der Sandt nodded, sighing contentedly to himself as to wheeled over to the opposite end of the table from his grandson. The younger Van der Sandt had left the spot nearest the door open to his grandfather, as a courtesy. The boy had always been polite and respectful that way. "You will never live to see that happen, my boy!" the elder man replied. Curiously to any observers, of which there were curiously none, all other seats at the table were conspicuously empty: only Markus and Johannes seemed to be in attendance.

Markus smiled along. He enjoyed his grandfather's company, sincerely. He felt little remorse that his biological father had died; he'd always been a dispassionate man. This way, he not only was closer to succeeding as heir to the Van der Sandt fortune, but he also had better company to enjoy along the way. Regardless, it was time to get to business.

"I've been looking over the LAS file," Markus van der Sandt began, "and things seem to be proceeding along the lines of our second projection, unfortunately. They seem to have moved in defense of the actions we'd planned in P1. P2 is still an option, but you already know my thoughts on that."

"Yes, I know. You're a softie, Markus." Johannes had by now fixed his wheelchair in position at the table's head.

"Soft is the wiser course of action here. P3 is our best bet to—".

"I don't make bets, son." Johannes interjected. "Our best 'option'".

"Right," Markus conceded, "our best option, then, to achieve the goals you've sought out, is P3. Collaborating will be billions less costly than trying to muscle them out at this point. With P1 and P2 there was always the option something would be lost. Can you at least admit that much?"

"Hmph. P1 and P2 have their risks, I will concede that. So does your plan, Markus. In its case, there's the risk they will withhold something from us, and the risk they will say 'no'."

"There's no obvious impetus for them to be unreasonable, since we haven't moved on P1 or P2 yet. They have much to gain from collaboration with us as well. I'm confident they would hear me out."

Johannes raised a brow. "Hear you out? Our business with them regards me personally."

"And that is precisely why it shouldn't be you in Austin. It will create the appearance of desperation, for reasons that are obvious to us both. If it's me, we will appear serious, but not supplicant. It is not enough for us to have our best foot forward on this file: it needs to be the foot that isn't in need of a shoe."

There was silence in the room. For perhaps twenty seconds, Johannes silently deliberated on his grandson's remarks. This was an important thing to him, and not a matter he felt entirely comfortable delegating to an inferior. Yet, if he entrusted anyone with the matter, it would be Markus.

"Very well," came the eventual reply, in a solemn tone and as quiet as Markus could be expected to hear. He quickly added, "I hope that you will succeed."

"'Hope'?" Markus said, moving the LAS file underneath a stack of papers and sliding over a new set of documents—the rest of today's business—to his grandfather's end of the table. "Van der Sandts do not hope. You expect me to succeed."

Johannes found his smile again.

"That's my boy."
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HHI Testing Labs


Lukas Holt and Rebecca Turning, stood behind the one way plexiglass looking at the test subjects for Cronos-1. The test subjects were in a small room, eating food however this wasn’t ordinary food, no this was Synthfood the newest in a soon to be long line of cloned products. However, it appeared to be very addictive subject. As after they finished they would quickly want more and more.

“This looks very promising and could do wonders for the world. I think it’s ready. Is there any more testing that needs to be done.” Lukas holt asked as he turned around heading toward the door.

“Well, I’d like to bring down the addictiveness so it isn’t so dire. Otherwise people may fight or worse kill each other until they have some and that would look horrible for busines.” Rebecca said as she followed.

Lukas stopped before the door and turned back to Rebecca. “That’s a very good point, do that as quickly as possible so it can be sent out before the second quarter.” He turned and headed up to his office.
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June, 2090


    North American Market
  • Boston based Tech-Comm continues production of it's nightly news program GNN.
  • Seattle based Kettler-Russo Corporation trains nearly 5,000 new soldiers of fortune for it's security branch.
  • The weapons manufacturer Fairview-Clearweather Manufacturing unveils the FMC-101 Assault Rifle [Rating 1.10 | Price to be set by the Player | Characteristic to be set by the Player]. Similarly, attempts to create a new energy based weapons platform--even with an investment of nearly $25 billion ends in failure and the death of several employees.

    South American Market
  • South American weapons manufacturer SIMA produces nearly 11 million new Maurita-89 rifles and attempt a new weapons design that falls apart at the last second, even with a nearly $50,000,000,000 investment from the Research & Development Department.
  • Kettler-Russo Corporation sells the services of 8,000 PMC employees into the South American market.

    European Market
  • Production on the Zweier 77 civilian space aircraft begins, of which 4 are finished this quarter.

    Middle Eastern Market
  • No significant changes in this market for this quarter.

    African Market
  • Tech-Comm administers it's news program GNN to the African market for the first time, bringing in $11,000,000,000 in revenues.

    East Asian Market
  • No significant changes in this market for this quarter.

    Aery Cities Market
  • Zurich based space conglomerate sells it's first transports for commercial use from Earth to the Aery Cities market, bringing in net profits of $9,000,000,000.

World Stock Market
  • Share prices for Kettler-Russo Corporation increase by 4.5%.
  • Share prices for Andromeda Industries increase by 4.5%.






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【Beauty World。】





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The 2090 April Cherry Blossom Festival was celebrated above the Eastern Skyline of Tokyo, Japan three of the floating Tulips owned by Floating Lantern, Incorporated. The town of Okinawa had helped specially produce and organize the cherry blossom trees on display for the festivities. The branches were strung and lit with organic-looking lanterns that shimmered in the simplicity of the air crafts' indoor spectacles. Each fanciful aviation was renovated with a lovely viewing atrium, which consisted of a zen garden of relaxing hōkime aesthetic designs. These gardens were combed gracefully and patiently into the rippling beds of sand and tradition. The most highlighted set of stones was an arrangement of "running away" stones with several stones chasing them. All of the sedimentary had their best faces shining forward, and in reward, they received many superb compliments alongside photographs.

Each zen garden lead to a faux temple with intricate, ornate machine made woodsman-ship, and all the temples had a vermilion stage, which spotlighted the performances of its own unique dance. In between dances, Chanoyu were ceremoniously rehearsed. At night, a rare dance in dedication to Umemi was performed on each stage. The dinner serving prior to these dances included a side bowl of rice with an umeboshi in the middle. And, a special acknowledgement to the Japanese chemist Jokichi Takamine and former Tokyo City Mayor Yukio Ozaki who helped instruct the West's acceptance of this Eastern Tradition.

On the last night of the event, there was a bebop'd sensation featuring Alexander Daniel Amrstong & The Mustangs, Nat King K. Rool, and Jak & Daxter Dorsey with remastered hits from everyone's most loved big band & jazz musicians. This was supposedly an opening teaser campaign for Floating Lantern, Incorporated. This show was a huge hit inside the Tulips, and the event ended with bubble blowing and the release of floating lanterns into the sky, which was a spectacle against the gray scaled backdrop of the Eastern cityscape.
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Fiscal Quarter 3 | July, 2090

World Event: Famines Strike North American Union


By the end of June, incoming shipments from South America and Africa had slowed.

It's easily forgotten how much of a house of cards we live in. An intricate and interlocking web of networks and trade deals, all a single click or hiccup away from collapsing. Today, something definitely fell through. Things didn't really start to hurt until July--the shelves had been emptied long before that, but it's not until you've got nothing that you realize that your neighbor isn't the enemy, it's those who put us into the position anyway. Some say it was climate change: overworking the environment caused minuscule changes in the climate that caused crop yields to fall. Others believed it was the profit motive. Why sell to the Union when there were more mouths to feed with bigger wallets in Europe and Asia anyway?
Johannes Mahster, Journalist for the Chicago Exclusive

- +7 Chaos in North American Union
- Demand for Entertainment and Electronics decrease by 20%.
- Demand for Weapons increases by 20%.
- Rating for Synthfoods in North America market increases by 500%.




Persephone Station
  • The second richest man in the world, Alexandr Kurachev, age 66, is found dead in his holobath. Persephone Security Forces determine cause of death as strangulation and open an investigation. Literally a vacuum of the ultra rich, a panic occurs as headlines: "STUCK ON STATION WITH A MURDERER?" dominate the headlines. [+0.2 Chaos in Persephone Station.]

North American Market
  • Dreamcloud spent the second fiscal quarter of the year producing goods for the year and then subsequently received an asset.
  • Helping Hands Industries spends $60,000,000,000 to upgrade it's pharmaceutical research center.

South American Market
  • Pending.

European Market
  • Pending.

Middle Eastern Market
  • Robotics company Cognitive Robotics unveiled the Ma Musaeid, a handheld artificial partner not unlike the System-1 apparatus. Except this unit was designed for accounting, translation and navigating the web instead of playing video games. Subsequently, the company deployed it's own Artificial Intelligence asset.


    An arabic citizen interacting with a Ma Musaeid prototype, 2090

East Asian Market
  • Tech and transport giant SH Holdings enters the transport market in the hotbed of East Asia--bolstered by the Shanghai, Hong Kong, Shangzhou super highway. The SNR was dropped into the market but at $2,000,000 sales were.. good, but left a bad taste in the mouth of the designer who felt they were being taken of by a lack of competition in the market. "A nine hundred percent mark up," one talk show host lamented. Intending to sell 20 million units, SH Holding found themselves selling only two million, for a total of $40,000,000,000. [Rating for SNR drops to 1.22].
  • Sales for the SH7 were modestly better, but citizens remained all too aware that SH Holding was overpriced. SH7 sales came to a total of only twenty million units for a total of $20,000,000,000. [SH7 rating drops to 0.90]

World Stock Market
  • Share prices for Cognitive Robotics increase by 4.5%.
  • Due to uncertainty in the market, share prices for Dreamcloud, Lance Solutions, Helping Hands Industries, Fairview-Clearweather Manufacturing, Kettler-Russo Corporation Tidel Enforcement and Tech-Comm fall 3%





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"KRC units conducting a raid in a Cuban Favela."


KRC deployed various security personnel to the South American blocs as soon as the media campaign was over, a group of analysts reviewed the initial feedback from the first few weeks of airing the aid. It was perfect, the panic was rising, the paranoia of it all and the uncertainty of existence. The strong survive the said, the strong protected by the stronger. Through a vigorous boot camp, thousands of 'Soldiers of Fortune' they were called were put through a boot camp and training to supplement their skills where afterward they were deployed to South America.

Profits were being turned in with haste, however, this started to slow down as the inability to meet demand slowed the profits for this quarter. For KRC, their interests turned back to North America as a famine started in the countries, guess the farmers will need some men to protect the crops.

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Technical-Communications, Fiscal Quarter 2 of 2090





The world is my oyster...

In South Africa Global News Network began it's setup and deployment in Johanneseberg, South Africa. The network held various casting calls for new anchors for the channel. Personalities from across the country, many applied but few succeeded. The organized network and it's now local affilates began to peddle out news, local entertainment and other various entertainment to the country with improved success from the intital estitmates.

When asked Tech-Comm refused comment if they would be expanding to other markets, an insider speaking on the condition of anonyomity told reporters "R&D is working on something new but it's all hush hush." The world waited with bated breath, would this media-corp become more than your run of the mill media juggler? Onto other news, rebel attacks in the northern part of New Chad...


-Justin Triblok, Free Press Int.
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"Succeding where others fail"

Quinten, Rebecka and Lukas is standing in Lukas office that overlooks the research facility, In there was the prototype for OWP-1 and OWM-1 it is a Military/Police Walker that is manned by one person, The Police walker known as OWP-1 is equipped with a riot shield that has the measurements 3 meters in width and 5 meters in length it also has an improvised 40 mm beanbag launcher the improvisation being that its belt fed meaning that it is one of the easiest ways to disperse crowds especially since its 6.5 meters tall and 2.5 meters wide. The Military walker known as OWM-1 has 2 currently tested sets of equipment: Set #1 Known as "Support Set" is equipped with an M134 Minigun on one arm and a Grabber on the other, A grabber is a hand fitted on the walker that is used to move around cover like sandbags and heavy objects that are in the way. Set #2 Known as "Rifle Set" is equipped with a Walker specialized version of the TBR-90 that shoots 10x bigger bullets than it usually does and the second arm is equipped with a Grenade launcher. All OW-1 Walkers have bullet and Explosion proof glass so that the pilot is safe.

"This looks very good Lukas, do you think we will be able to start producing next quarter?" Quinten says after being briefed on the state of the OW-1 prototype. "I believe we will sir but I would like to run some tests on how good the protective glass is." "Very good Lukas... I will be back in two weeks and I hope you some news for me then" He says as he is walking out of Lukas office.
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Fiscal Quarter 3 | July, 2090

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Global Earnings Report


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Though it single handedly destroyed the Asian platforming market for the next decade, the Great Swindle of early 2091 turned Phoenix Rising Entertainment into a superstar literally overnight. Similarly, while making huge strides in the fields of Artificial Intelligence and Robotics, Cognitive Robotics woefully underperformed and lost substantial ground in the market. Similarly, Tidal Enforcement was seen as the smallest fish in a big North American pond and investors quickly sent their investments to other more lucrative tracts in the Security and Weapons industry.

Persephone Station

North American Market
  • Weapons manufacturer Fairview-Clearweather Manufacturing introduces the FCM-101 Assault Rifle to the market and immediately begins production of it to meet demand. The weapon sells fantastically, selling nearly 5,000,000 units at a total net profit of $25,000,000,000.
  • An attempt by Tech-Comm to introduce a breakthrough in the Media sector amounts to nothing at a cost of $50 Billion.
  • Dreamcloud introduces DMC News into the North American market at a price of $3.
  • Dreamcloud purchases 2 Million Shares of Helping Hands Industry for $22.09 Billion.
  • Election Campaigns in the North American Union get underway with the nationalist and protectionist America First Party seek to regain power, while the progressive Alliance for Equality seek to maintain the status quo. Campaigns are expected to end in Fiscal Quarter 1, 2091. Given the current food shortage problem, prospects for the America First Party look promising, while the Alliance for Equality are campaigning on the strength of the current economy.

    Polling (Election Chances)
    - America First Party: 43%
    - Alliance for Equality: 38%


    Flag of the North American Union (2046-)

South American Market
  • [Needs Update]

European Market
  • Media conglomerate Tech-Comm introduces it's GNN--Global News Network--to the European Market at a price of $10.6 Billion per syndicated viewership.

Middle Eastern Market
  • [Needs Update]

East Asian Market
  • [Needs Update]

World Stock Market
  • Share prices in Cognitive Robotics fall 15%.
  • Share prices in Tidal Enforcement fall 15%.
  • Share prices in Lance Solutions fall 15%.





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Cognitive Robotics
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The Artificial Intelligence department had been upgraded to the genius inventor Aaron William Brooks' specifications. He had a vision of a product that would utilize sophisticated AI technology in order to aid everyday people with day to day tasks. It was a practical idea. One that the people of the Middle East should appreciate. Or so he hoped. He had been relatively unknown in the world, but when the executives at Cognitive Robotics saw the potential in him they signed him on for an extended contract with excellent pay. The upgraded department was exactly what he needed to breakthrough to create the most sophisticated AI on the planet. "Now let's get to work," Aaron stated.

Two Months Later in Research...


Millions and millions of lines of code danced within the hologram at fantastic speeds. 0's and 1's in almost incalculable numbers flashed forward, backward and within three dimensions. Aaron's coke-bottle glasses stared at the numerical show before him. His assistants stood and watched him with a polite quietness. He was on to something. Finally after what seemed to be an eternity he shouted, "Eureka!" His assistants jumped in surprise. One even dropped her notebook filled with notes the inventor had made through the last few months. It spilled to the ground as she desperately tried to pick it all up. Aaron didn't even notice. He turned to his staff with an enormous grin on his face. "Do you all realize what this means?" They all shook their heads. He sighed and continued, "It means our program has become sentient. It will guide people into making intelligent decisions in the marketplace as well as the internet! Think of the potentialities.." Aaron stared off into the hologram once more. He smiled all the more and quietly muttered to no one in particular, "We've done it..where will this take us next?"
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Fiscal Quarter 3 | July, 2090

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An employee of Vindicate Operations testing with Securnet 1.0


Vindicate Operations unveils its new asset, Securnet 1.0, a portable handheld hacking access system. Securnet 1.0 is the first commercial grade handheld cybersecurity apparatus in the world. Easily handled, managed, serviced and used, this will allow us to every day IT staff into season cybersecurity veterans.
- Opens the Cybersecurity market.
- Gifts Vindicate Operations the Securnet 1.0 Operating System. (Rating 1.0) [Played Selected Price $1-$20]
- Creates 1d20 number of Anti-Corpo Blackhats across the world.
- -2 CHAOS in every Market that is not CLOSED.

Persephone Station
  • Investigation into the Murder of Alexandr Kurachev continues, with half a dozen suspects being rounded up.

North American Market
  • Pretoria Qualified introduces it's Orange Book Investment Plan to the market at a cost of $4 Billion.
  • Kettler-Russo Corporation introduces their PMCs to the market at a price of $10.
  • Kettler-Russo Corporation designs develops a second PMC, [Ravensoft PMC: 0/5 Enforcers | Rating 1.55]
  • Weapons manufacturer Fairview-Clearweather Manufacturing introduces the FCM-101 Assault Rifle to the market and immediately begins production of it to meet demand. The weapon sells fantastically, selling nearly 5,000,000 units at a total net profit of $25,000,000,000.
  • An attempt by Tech-Comm to introduce a breakthrough in the Media sector amounts to nothing at a cost of $50 Billion.
  • Dreamcloud introduces DMC News into the North American market at a price of $3.
  • Dreamcloud purchases 2 Million Shares of Helping Hands Industry for $22.09 Billion.
  • Lance Solutions opens a new department by spending $50 Billion. The industry? Weapons.
  • Lance Solutions develops a new product in the Genetic Engineering department, the FocusFast, a neural enhancement designed to combat and destroy a short attention span. [Rating: 1.51]
  • Helping Hands Industries introduces the MedQuik product into the North American market at a price of $9, selling $18 Billion worth.

South American Market
  • Weapons magnate SIMA attempts a breakthrough of heavy machinery and weaponry in a similar vein to the OW-1 from Orwell Technologies but testing ends in failure.

European Market
  • Media conglomerate Tech-Comm introduces it's GNN--Global News Network--to the European Market at a price of $10.6 Billion per syndicated viewership.
  • Space corporation Highbeam Incorporated spends $70 Billion by upgrading it's existing space industry. [Space Industry is upgraded to Level 3, additionally they continue production of their Orbital Shuttles.
  • Orwell Technologies opens it's own Weapons Department at a cost of $50 Billion.
  • Orwell Technologies unveils its OW-1 Walker Prototype [Rating 1.61, Weapon, Characteristic: ???] that is now available for production. Given it's ability to move on its own, the OW-1 will enter the battlefield faster than any other purchased weapon.
  • Andromeda Industries develops the Mirage 2092 (Aerospace) [Rating: 1.38].

African Market
  • Pretoria Qualified loans $6 Billion to Orwell Technologies at an interest rate of 30% per Quarter.
  • Pretoria Qualified develops a new product, NVISION, as a cybersecurity asset. [Rating: 1.04] (Characteristic: ???)

Middle Eastern Market
  • [Needs Update]

East Asian Market
  • Floating Lanterns, Incorporated spends $50 Billion to open a new Space Department at it's Headquarters.
  • Floating Lantern, Incorporated sells the new Suikodoragon VTOL into the East Asian market, totaling nearly $30 Billion in sales.
  • Phoenix Rising Entertainment purchases 21 Million Shares of Helping Hands Industriesfor $232 Billion, and they additionally expand their Virtual Reality department by spending $60 Billion.
  • SIMA introduces 100% of the Maurita-89 into the East Asia Market, selling $66 Billion worth of product.

Aery Cities
  • Andromeda Industries introduces the Mirage to the market, though without a price, no sales are made.

World Stock Market
  • No change.





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Pretoria Qualified: Best of a Kind.


Kelly Eze lounged in her oversized chair, sipping a fizzy, sugary, beverage through a straw as her eyes darted between three different holographic screens lighting up the dark bedroom around her. A vaguely spherical controller of some kind was grasped in her left hand, with which she seemed to be manipulating the finer details of the various displayed projections. With her right arm she made gestures to signal broader strokes, switching between pages or scrolling through new tools in her program. She'd only recently woken up, despite it being well past noon in Nairobi, though she wouldn't have been able to tell from the sunlight. Even if she hadn't had her blinds shut, the city sky outside her apartment was usually dark grey even on the clearest days—denied the sun's rays by persistent smog from massive urban and industrial over-development. Kelly was barely dressed, as well, black and blue polka dot pajamas and a sock from two different pairs, one solid red and the other a tiger pattern, her only clothes. Her head was shaved to a buzz cut so she wouldn't have to keep her hair out of her eyes, and she had little reason to care about the rest of her appearance (or hygiene); she probably wouldn't see any other human beings today, certainly not in person.

Despite being totally unkempt, though, Kelly was not some lazy do-nothing 20-something idly wasting her time surfing the internet. No, she was a highly skilled professional, and lucky enough to be making a few thousand dollars an hour right now. The eminently talented Miss Eze was one of the leading software developers of NVIGORATE, the cybersecurity branch of Pretoria Qualified. She and a team of other hotshot devs from across the world were working on a project together, with Kelly—the closest among them to PQ's headquarters in Pretoria—tasked with coordinating their efforts. Their project was called 'NVISION', NVIGORATE's first foray into the world of consumer software. NVISION was to be an entirely new operating system, built from the ground up with a separate architecture from the systems NVIGORATE developed for in-house use by the execs at PQ—the Van der Sandts had been insistent that NVISION's proliferation not compromise PQ's own cybersecurity. The project was in the earlier phases still, but was coming along well. Kelly and her team were competent, and even if the specifications for NVISION were for a basic, affordable, easy-to-use operating system alternative, each of the developers wanted it to be something they could be proud to add to their resumes.

PQ had hired Kelly years ago, back before the company's supremely elderly CEO had celebrated his 100th birthday. She'd defied the trope of the blackhat gone good, finding honest work assisting in cyberspace solutions for smaller companies from her teenage years. When she did sign on with Pretoria, it had been entirely about the money: their cheques were simply larger and had more zeros than the ones she'd been earning before. PQ quickly found her to be a useful asset, and it only took a few years for her to climb the ranks and find herself assisting in developing NVIGORATE's big, breakout mass-market project. She knew better than to cock it up. If she got this right, it could be her ticket to the big leagues. If she was lucky, maybe she'd be boarding a flight to HQ in Pretoria before the year was out.

But, then she'd probably have to get dressed in the morning. Maybe be expected to grow her hair out. Still: worth it for the pay.

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Fiscal Quarter 3 Update | August, 2090


Dividend Stocks
Some megacorporations, to incentivize investment, may pay out dividends in Fiscal Quarter 3 of every year their their investors. Dividends are a sum of money paid regularly (typically quarterly) by a company to its shareholders out of its profits (or reserves). These dividends are on a scale of one to five percent.

Every Public Megacorporation will, via IC post, decide whether their shares will pair out Dividends. If so, they will select between 1 and 5% to pay out. Paying out Dividends will increase the likelihood of Foreign Investors in buying their stocks. This also means in Fiscal Quarter 3 of every year, the MegaCorporation will need to pay out dividends to those investors.




North American Market
Finance corporation Pretoria Qualified sells 24 Orange Book Investment Plants at a price of $4 Billion per unit, totaling sales of $96 Billion at a much needed time for the NAU economy.

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