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CORPORATION INFORMATION
Corporation Name: Imperial Mining Collective (IMICOL)
Headquarters: Scarif
Locations: Scarif, Hypori, Rishi
Operations: Mining, Refining, Fuel Enrichment
Tier: Two (II)
DESCRIPTION
The Imperial Mining Collective, commonly referred to as IMICOL, is technically a civilian corporation, but is deeply connected with the military-industrial complex of Wild Space's resurgent Galactic Empire. Operating on the Empire's subject planets, it extracts and processes the resources needed to keep the Imperial war machine running, producing the building blocks of starship fuel, stormtrooper armor, planetary and orbital base structures, and reinforced hulls for the fleet. Although IMICOL does not directly create any of these products, it maintains a steady flow of the necessary components into Imperial factories.
As a vital part of state industry, IMICOL does not do business outside the Empire. However, the corporation is privately owned, with executives outside the military hierarchy. So long as deadlines and quotas are met, these executives have the freedom to expand and streamline their operations as they see fit. Bonuses awarded for early delivery and substantial surpluses of vital materials provide incentives for productivity and efficiency which, combined with a lack of bureaucratic restrictions, have made IMICOL both innovative and ruthless. The hierarchy is a harsh but fair meritocracy, with the potential for all to rise or fall rapidly.
IMICOL is a collective in the sense that it is made up of multiple smaller organizations. Its structure is pseudo-feudal. Individual planetary work teams are all on equal footing, and each answer to site management teams. The site management teams answer to regional management, regional to planetary, planetary to operational, and operational to the board. Yet the relationship between each level is relatively loose, to allow for ambition and innovation in meeting quotas - this is deliberately designed to parallel the collective's relationship with the Imperial government. Those who thrive independently are promoted.
IMICOL is sensitive to the needs of the Imperial state and its own continued profitability, but it has few concerns beyond that. If environmental destruction, exploitation of local laborers, and forceful seizure of resources will help it meet its goals, the corporation will not hesitate to employ such methods. Employees are motivated both by the possibility of wealth and advancement and by the knowledge that their work helps make Imperial space and its citizens safer, and while competition can be fierce, patriotism is a unifying constant among most employees. Those who don't share this zeal tend to be drummed out rapidly.
IMICOL expands directly in the wake of Imperial conquests, taking immediate and maximum advantage of the resources of newly-annexed planets in order to bring the Imperial military back up to full strength and help stabilize the region. As a result, the corporation is prepared to work in hostile environments, and maintains its own security forces in addition to any military protection its facilities are afforded. C-Defs, as Corporate Defense Officers are commonly known, are well-trained and well-equipped. They are also notoriously harsh on tresspassers, using their authority to detain, question, and punish with great enthusiasm.
RATIONALE
IMICOL grew out of the Empire's expansion along the central Mara Corridor. As the size of the Imperial military increased, keeping pace with the rising amount of territory it controlled, the logistics behind keeping the troops and fleets fully supplied became complex and unwieldy. The Empire was geographically isolated, and most other galactic powers had little interest in dealing with it favorably. As a result, it produced most of its civilian and military supplies internally, and the web of diverse manufacturing grew more tangled with each expansion. A streamlined alternative was required before the supply chain became unmanageable.
Young but ambitious, fresh from the Baobab Merchant Marine Academy but at the top of his class, Frevik Margos was something of an unusual candidate to supply this alternative. Yet his solution to the logistical problem was simple and elegant. He proposed merging the resource production facilities essential to military operations under the authority of a single civilian corporation, removing the burden of managing them from High Command but preserving and incorporating existing infrastructure rather than wasting time and resources reorganizing everything from scratch. Investors across the Abrion Sector bought into his plan.
As a result, Margos found himself CEO of the newly-formed Imperial Mining Collective at the tender age of twenty-four, and rapidly became all the more known for his youthful energy and innovation. Under his leadership IMICOL not only successfully took control of existing facilities but began to rapidly expand Imperial resource extraction capabilities, aiming for a manufacturing surplus that would empower the Empire to achieve rapid expansion. Certain that his efforts would help secure and protect his formerly-lawless home sector and beyond, Margos worked tirelessly to build his company's reach, capacity, power, and profitability.
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