|
|
Thanks for taking the time to visit my site. Please feel free to e-mail me at[email protected] with your comments and thoughts.
|
Page One of this segment includes: Alcan Biotechnics. This page includes these corporations: Corporate Assistance Specialties Page Three includes these corporations
Holy Vengeance Munitions
Corporate Assistance Specialties Net Rating: 45 Major Interests Operations Security: 4 Military: none Primary Business: Corporate Assistance Specialties is a management and information clearinghouse. They provide, for a fee of course, managers and teach management classes. They also have an information gathering department that is as good as any of the majors. When given a topic to research, they access 99% of published materials and their intelligence agents and prepare a report, giving a very detailed report on the information requested.
Corporate Structure: CAS is a privately owned corporation with only two distinct divisions. The first, Managerial Assistance, is the arm that teaches management skills and loans out managers for companies. The second division is the Marketing wing, which is actually the division that handles all intelligence gathering and analyzing. Over a dozen offices are scattered through out CalFree, but each office, regardless of function, reports back to the headquarters in Sacramento.
Execs: Douglas Stone, President and CEO, takes very little interest in the day to day operations of CAS. Ramona Rodrigues, the Chairman of the Board, handles these details, but even she lets the office managers handle their own offices, for the most part.
Security: Security overall is rather lax. The current board sees very little profit in heavily armed guards. Physical and Magical Security: As stated, security is rather poor. Most sites only have a single mundane guard. The headquarters has better security, but not by much. Magicians are on off-site contract.
Matrix Security: Matrix security is far superior to it's physical counterpart. Given the fact that magazines, newsletter, faxes, news wires, fanzines and nearly everything else being published today is being continually sent in, careful measures are taken to insure nothing unwanted slips in.
Extended Security: CAS has rather poor relations with shadowrunners. CAS does however have a surprisingly large number of paid informants and outright spies from which it gathers information.
The Cygnus Group Net Rating: 68 Major Interests Operations Security: 7 Military: Company, Exceptional
Primary Business: This Seattle based company is primarily a weapons manufacturer, although it does have interests in other high-tech areas, such as cybernetics, aerospace and computer science. It is large enough to have two subsidiaries, California Advanced Aerospace and Next Generation Biotechnics. The Cygnus Group makes a healthy profit in the military and paramilitary markets, providing top-quality armaments, equipment and service. Borrowing a page from Ares Arms playbook, The Cygnus Group provides, for the asking, "end-user consultants" and various training for it's customers.
Corporate Structure: The parent corporation is a public entity with 6 series of shares and 4 debentures trading on the global markets. Aside from the large portions of stock owned and named above, approximately 10% is owned by the employees, as part of a bonus program.
The Cygnus Group was originally a consortium of smaller companies that banded together in the late teens and early twenties of this century, in an attempt to survive UGE and the corporate rush to buy one another. Amazingly, they survived, even past the Crash of '29. This consortium soon discovered however, that they would never be able to go their independent ways again, as they had originally hoped for. So in 2034, the Cygnus Group was officially formed, a corporation born of several dozen small companies. The largest of the companies, California Advanced Aerospace and Next Generation Biotechnics, remain as wholly owned subsidiaries. This diverse base has created a corporation with it's fingers in a large number of pies. It has been claimed that the Cygnus Group is a corporation with a conscience, granting rich benefits to it's employees and never treating them poorly. Based on all reports, this appears to be true.
Currently the Cygnus Group is using it's California Advanced Aerospace subsidiary to expand into space, with the stated goal of eventual space exploration and travel. So far, the only result of this line of research is a top-notch aerospace fighter. Major Divisions: In addition to it's two subsidiaries, the Cygnus Group splits into two primary divisions, Research and Production. The main office in Seattle provides the direction and parameters for these divisions, in addition to watching over California Advanced Aerospace and Next Generation Biotechnics. Under this system, each area is allowed to function as it sees fit, creating a wide variety of managerial styles. This also gives the employees unusual freedom to work with each other without excessive "red tape." As projects are completed or problems develop, this information is run up the chain of command. This structure also give the head office more freedom to focus on corporate matters, while each division or subsidiary takes care of it's own responsibilities.
Execs: Officially, Andrew Pinafore oversees all aspects of the corporations day-to-day business. According to reports, he is a man of deep convictions and is the one who set into place the bonus programs and corporate structure in use today.
Janet Bergting used to be a ranking wage mage with Saeder-Krupp until a contract dispute. Originally the head of magical security with The Cygnus Group, Bergting worked her way up the corporate ladder with good investments and a fair amount of luck.
Maxwell Bryant is a retired captain from the UCAS Army Special Forces. The Cygnus Group hired him back in 2047 and he's created their top notch security team himself.
Security: Within the Cygnus Group organization, the Internal Security Group (ISG) acts as the backbone for perimeter and internal defense. ISG reports directly to the head office and answers to no other division or subsidiary.
Physical and Magical Security: As stated above, ISG provides physical security that is military in precision. Borrowing a page from Lone Star, every employee is trained to use a weapon and all employees are issued a Cygnus Group light pistol.
Magical Security is handled by a group within ISG called the "Swan Dancers." This collection of mages and shamans are powerful, but are woefully lacking in military experience.
Matrix Security: Generally, a weak point for the Cygnus Group. The level of IC is rather low within the Cygnus Group nodes. However, the Matrix system has been set up so that you have to penetrate right to the core of the system to gather any paydata. This generally gives more than ample time for any silent alerts to be responded to.
Military: Officially, the Cygnus Group has no military, only technical advisors and end-use consultants for it's weapons and vehicles. However, these units are heavily trained military men, that could double as standard military units.
Extended Security: Strangely enough, the Cygnus Group is rather open about the use of extended security, or shadowrunners. No public statements, but it is a well known and accepted fact among corporate circles. The Cygnus Group has also shown no qualms about using these assets.
|
