Circle Of Fire

Circle of Fire

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President/CEO: Krix Nolle

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Holdings: Mutegun

The Circle of Fire Corporation (CoF) is a galactic-scale mega corporation that originates from planet Meta of the COF system. While the corporation mainly deals with spacing-faring technology and production, they acted until recently as the closest thing Alphaworld had to a government, having once controlled over 98% of the planet's space industry, travel, and defense.

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  1.   1.  Business Practice
  2.   2.  First Contact
  3.   3.  Transformations of Alphaworld

Business Practice

Unlike typical corporations, CoF's customers are entire planets. The corporation will seek out any post-industrial era planet as a suitable customer and, once first contact is established, will spend decades transforming and developing the planet. This is done thru several key technologies:

  • Modern space travel: the manufacturing and selling of the global space fleet, both civil and military.
  • Modern transportation: the implementation of personalized teleportation.
  • Modern communication: Interplanetary FTL communications and universal translators.

First Contact

CoF first made contact with Alphaworld in July 11th 1994, and over the course of a year triggered a shockwave of reform throughout the world. SW City declared it a new age, citing the start of the Corporate Era.

CoF first introduced itself to Beetlehorn Spacestation, Alphaworld's only space station at the time. The corporation made no delay at making its sales pitch to transform the world into the modern space age. However, CoF had no prior experience with serving anarchist worlds, and was unable to centralize any form of sale to anyone outside of the Scarabian Confederation. Despite the world's post-industrial state, there were simply no organizations large enough to deal with CoF's offering.

Over the next few months, CoF found out that Alphaworld was frequently hit by asteroid collisions which wreaked havoc on the world and theorized that this was the cause of the planet's anarchic and broken civilization which could thus be easily corrected. Then in January 1995, the unusually large JAYP-37Z0 asteroid collided and devastated one of the only developed parts of the world, Carschall Tip near SW City.

CoF quickly reorganized their marketing plan and offered to use their technology to protect the planet from future collisions, provided the local governments in the impact zones paid for the privilege. Most governments passed the fees onto their citizens in the form of an annual tax.

Transformations of Alphaworld

With a new sense of direction and urge to grow, corporations around the world joined with CoF, who sat agents on the boards of each corporation in exchange, giving them a voice in the direction of each corporation's operations. This resulted in an explosion of growth and market share for each corporation they helped guide.

  • 1996: Grays, one of the predominate races of the galaxy, begin to inhabit Alphaworld.
  • 1996: Early genetic testing spawns the creation of Bird-Enhanced, or 'birdes'.
  • 1998: Hovercrafts, already a native product of Alphaworld and ahead of their time, were rapidly made more feasible and found their way as a practical civil vehicle. Many new startup industries joined in such as Nakemura Heavy Industry, DCorp, CommieCorp Hovercrafts.
  • 1999: Modern alloys such as Duranium were introduced, as well as modern space propulsion, spurring new start-up industries in space travel such as TechStruction.
  • 2001: The first personalized teleportation company opened up - Hypergate Industries - based out of James River.
  • 2002: Anti-gravity and FTL communication technology is introduced, and new corporations in those sectors like OniTech and Antworks quickly put their products on the market.