"Very good. My contact information is in your desk. In the meantime, my personal attention will be directed towards achieving Lhotse's market entry into the Darwin Special Economic Zone. Crown and Slate is vulnerable there and a great deal of production is downstream of cheaper iron ore."

Crown and Slate. Corporate logo: the words Crown and Slate on a neutral grey background. Brand aesthetic: We are not interested in selling this to you. One of the big causes of the Red Decades, and the biggest loser of its conclusion, Crown and Slate started as patent trolls - a legal company that purchased promising intellectual property, patented it, and then waited to sue anyone else who tried to invent it. This process accelerated particularly in the fields of medical science, genetic engineering and agriculture. This paralysis of the life sciences contributed to the crisis and made Crown and Slate the chief scapegoat and sacrifice on the altar of the refounded State. Laws were introduced forcing them to activate their factories and sell their products, and some technologies were nationalized outright. Crown and Slate has kicked and dragged its heels every step of the way, producing unmarketed, tasteless, user-unfriendly products to meet the bare minimum of legal obligation - products that are, despite their unattractive packaging, positively miraculous in effect.