Tertius C. Nargath
The Third
It has been quite some time since Tertius in his capacity of both the Marquis of Valkan and Chairman of the Board of Directors to the N&Z Umbrella Corporation, had made any sort of political or diplomatic move. For the better part of two years he had been content with letting others run the N&Z, expand it and fortify its galactic position, but even he could not ignore the elephant in the room: The Sith Order.
With its expansion, the Sith order had effectively taken hold of the Seswenna Sector, not to mention Tertius' own homeworld and the original center of the N&Z's corporate activities in the form of the industrial world Eriadu. Its importance to the company was understated and the weight on the shoulders of those running the company was immense, when the isolationist practices of the Sith Order effectively turned the company's seswenna activities and assets into costly posts where losses were guaranteed and stability was not.
While this had led to a quick reorganization, with the company's temporary headquarters being located on Mygeeto, while a large effort was made to expand their core operations to systems like Bescane and Corvus, Tertius knew that as long as the Sith Order wasn't properly addressed and an accord or understanding reached, even if for the most minimal and basic level of activity in the territorial assets within the Sith Order, the N&Z's expansionist ideology would be hampered greatly.
It was to this end that he held council with several of his division chiefs, non-aligned boardmembers and his legal representatives. In the end, it was agreed that direct negotiation with the Sith Order's primary authority in the form of the Dark Council was to be initiated in the hopes of allowing a better business precedent for the N&Z and to reaffirm the massive corporation's distinctly neutral stance in the political spectrum of the galaxy. With this recommendation in mind, Tertius had already sent a request for an audience through the proper channels to the Dark Council and hoped to receive an affirmation or answer to this request, as he knew that just showing up unanounced might be seen as a nuissance rather than something to look forward to. Not to mention the fact that each of the members of the Dark Council was no doubt busy in their own sphere of power, their own domains and territories, meaning getting them all at the table at once would most likely require some logistical effort.
Still, Tertius was fairly certain that a request coming from a corporation of such a magnitude as the N&Z couldn't just be handily ignored, not even by those who held the highest court in arguably the current most powerful faction in the galaxy. yet, despite his beliefs and his confidence, all he could do was wait for a reply to his request, an affirmation or a rejection...
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