Derisive Umbaran
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: To establish the Commerce Guild's base of operations. Because we needed one.
- Image Credit: Found here - original was done by an artist "BDraw2012" who no longer seems to have their own page. Banner by Arage Bao
- Canon: N/A
- Permissions: Nakaioma Contract 1, Nakaioma Contract 2, Golden Order
- Links: Eviction of Hyperi 7
- Structure Name: Commerce Guild Megaplex
- Classification:
- Temple to the Hideous Netherworld Gods of Greed and Cruelty (detractors)
- Upscale Commercial and Residential Sector (everyone else)
- Location: Sakedo Tower Ward, Denon
- Affiliation: Commerce Guild
- Accessibility:
While the Megaplex was open to the public, many areas required prior clearance to obtain access to. Residential areas required resident identification and Section Scepter and Section Crown similarly required some form of employee identification. For visitors, guest passes could be obtained. The top of the building hosted a private landing pad for the Guild's uppermost leadership and most distinguished visitors.
- Description:
The Commerce Guild Megaplex was a towering building with a sleek, stylized edifice. As its name implied, it was the headquarters of the Commerce Guild. In addition to the Guild's administrative centers, the megaplex also housed residential, commercial, and leisure spaces. These were usually rented by smaller businesses and organizations from around the galaxy. It possessed 105 floors, divided unequally into three sections. Building control and maintenance was handled by a network of administrative AI and a small army of droids.
POINTS OF INTERESTSection Armill: The largest section. Contained a variety of consumer outlets - it was essentially a large and glorified shopping and leisure center. Some wings of the lower levels were private, containing upscale apartments for those who could afford them.
- Grand Atrium: The main entrance hall of the Megaplex, decorated richly with pleasant greenery. It was essentially an indoor park. A gilded fountain dominated the center. The opulent architecture of the Atrium imitated the cultural sensibilities of the Tion Hegemony. Most floors of the Megaplex were open and had balconies that overlooked the Grand Atrium.
- Xim's Crown: A deeply exclusive, preposterously expensive restaurant favored by high-ranking Commerce Guild employees. Intimate, sophisticated atmosphere. Specialized in Tionese cuisine.
- Sweeping Gardens: An upscale residential section, primarily occupied by the Megaplex's overpaid white collar employees and their immediate families. The apartments of the Sweeping Gardens featured many luxury amenities, but were quite small. Known for having a particularly nosy and overzealous "Unit Managers Association."
Section Scepter: Contained mostly administrative or research facilities. A variety of organizations rented offices, server rooms, and secure vaults from the Commerce Guild on this level.
- Expo Floors: Each member of the Commerce Guild maintained its own exposition floor. Annual industry expositions were held there. These were suitably grand events that pulled in industrialists and investors from around the galaxy.
- Gilded Academy: A peculiarity, the Golden Order was invited to maintain a satellite campus and dojo in this section. It was impossible not to find something, be it architecture or furniture, that hadn't been gilded. The Academy hosted its own exhibitions periodically, meant to dazzle prospective applicants and corporate headhunters.
Section Crown: The smallest section and personal domain of the Commerce Guild, where its member-companies operated administrative centers. This area also included private cafeterias, gyms, spas, and lounges for Guild employees - some of which were reserved for executives and their guests.
- Executive Lounge: The private lounge used by the Commerce Guild's executive board was ornate and well-secured. Stocked with a number of amenities, attended to by factotum servants. It additionally housed a number of displays featuring exotic curios from across the Guild's territories.
- Provisional Authority Headquarters: The main operating facilities of the Commerce Guild Provisional Authority were located in Section Crown. The Oversight Committee and the Defense Command carried out their duties here.
- Silver Control: The Silver Shield Group ran all security operations within the Megaplex. Silver Control was the main hub of this activity, where inspections, patrols, and day-to-day operations were coordinated. The actions of security and administrative AI could only be overwritten from this center.
Each section featured a number of Deployment Posts scattered throughout. These were essentially miniature barracks that Silver Shield Contractors or security drones could be rapidly mobilized from. Most areas of the Megaplex were under visual and audio surveillance, which was monitored at all times by a network of security AI. Internal computer systems relied on "Ironmaze" software for protection from slicers. Courtesy of the Globex Corporation.
Residential areas of Section Armill were essentially gated communities, requiring individuals to display a valid residence badge to pass through a checkpoint. Similarly, gaining access to Section Scepter and Section Crown required a valid employee ID in order to proceed through the relevant checkpoints. Guest passes were commonly used.
Contractors regularly patrolled Section Armill, with a much lighter presence in Section Scepter and Section Crown.
Additional security features were supplied from Nakaioma, including: security cameras, intruder detectors, security turrets, and deployable electron walls.
HISTORICAL INFORMATION
The Commerce Guild Megaplex was once Hyperi 7, a lower and middle class tenement tower located in the same ward as Sakedo Tower. It was acquired by the Commerce Guild for its strategic location, and they were cruelly evicted the residents. The eviction culminated in a glitter-related terrorist attack, though there were no casualties outside of minor to moderate injuries.
Investigators attributed the attack to Darkwire agitators, though the Elysium Empire was later implicated after reports surfaced regarding the conduct of a bizarre, unidentified man who claimed "the Elysium Empire appreciates your service" to a nearby witness. His motives remain undetermined.
Remodeling of Hyperi 7 was handled by Azimuth Industries and financed by the First Bank of Procopia, both founding members of the Guild. After repeated stalling and failures, executive Marcus Tritum was dismissed from Azimuth and replaced by his former protégé, Xun. With increased pressure and oversight from the rest of the Guild, construction was finally completed.
The Megaplex now stands as a growing center of commerce, attracting a number of minor firms and entities that could otherwise not afford or find space in nearby Sakedo Tower.
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