Claxon |
It probably depends on what the laws are regarding corporations and subsidiaries.
Does having a incorporated business that owns other incorporated business provide legal protections in the pact world?
Because if not, it wouldn't be a subsidiary. It would just be a part of the regular business. You would have accounting, acquisitions, and "re-balancing" divisions, etc.
They'd use some sort of code word for it, but it'd just be another word to mean "hit squad".
Claxon |
Honestly, the more I think on this the more I love the idea that just higher "level" o existing divisions.
"Acquisitions Department" can be members who go and get things...by force.
"Account Managers" can terminate accounts....by assassination. Or be skilled negotiators to keep contracts going.
Really, you can use all sorts of euphemisms to cover basically everything you would want them to do.
Archpaladin Zousha |
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I once came up with an entire campaign concept centered around this idea in this thread here:
AbadarCorp is a massive, sprawling company, with branches doing all kinds of things out in the Pact Worlds. Every now and again, though, a branch does something...questionable. Promote the wrong director, create a product with troubling side-effects or hire a scientist whose ethics turn out to be TOO flexible. That's where you come in. Formed as a collaboration between AbadarCorp and the Stewards, you're an elite team sent to audit obscure AbadarCorp enterprises, ensuring their activities follow both company regulations and Pact World laws. When a branch manager begins violently crushing his android employees attempt to form a union, when a new brand of cookie appears to drive their consumers insane with cravings, when an entire research facility goes dark and their last transmission sounds like an angry roar, you're sent in to investigate, and if necessary, neutralize the problem with deadly force. Officially, you're company auditors, but most lower level employees call you...THE CLEANUP CREW.
Ascalaphus |
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In my game, well, Abadar's symbol is the key, and these are like his black ops, so I called them the Black Keys. XD
Sounds like a good vernacular name. Not precisely what you see printed on someone's office door, more how people call it. Variants: skeleton keys or master keys. Or locksmiths.
Steven "Troll" O'Neal |
Uchuujin wrote:In my game, well, Abadar's symbol is the key, and these are like his black ops, so I called them the Black Keys. XDSounds like a good vernacular name. Not precisely what you see printed on someone's office door, more how people call it. Variants: skeleton keys or master keys. Or locksmiths.
Or, pickers.
Archpaladin Zousha |
Ascalaphus wrote:Or, pickers.Uchuujin wrote:In my game, well, Abadar's symbol is the key, and these are like his black ops, so I called them the Black Keys. XDSounds like a good vernacular name. Not precisely what you see printed on someone's office door, more how people call it. Variants: skeleton keys or master keys. Or locksmiths.
How about grinners? Maybe lovers? Or perhaps sinners?
BigNorseWolf |
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Steven "Troll" O'Neal wrote:How about grinners? Maybe lovers? Or perhaps sinners?Ascalaphus wrote:Or, pickers.Uchuujin wrote:In my game, well, Abadar's symbol is the key, and these are like his black ops, so I called them the Black Keys. XDSounds like a good vernacular name. Not precisely what you see printed on someone's office door, more how people call it. Variants: skeleton keys or master keys. Or locksmiths.
playing my music in the sun? (literally)
Gamerskum |
RAE Consulting
Resource Acquisition Evaluations
Publicly the Human Resource Subsidiary of AbadarCorp, behind the scenes though they operate the black operations within the Corporation.
The Asset Re-appropriation Division- The dreaded black clad faceless Techno-mystic Repomen.
Tribunal Security Service- Elite Commando units and graduates of AbadarCorp's Vault Law School, providing protection from all assaults in and out of the courtroom.
The Nameless- Originally Aspis Consortium defectors acquired in a hostile take over during a brief and nearly completely one-sided trade war shortly after the gap these troubleshooters are made up of white hat hackers and repentant criminals serving out sentences for their crimes against AbadarCorp.