Jairus Starvald
Eidoloclast
OUT OF CHARACTER INFORMATION
- Intent: Adding more detail to the Raykkans
- Image Credit: Oddworld
- Role: A corporate cartel that holds a lot of clout within Raykkan society.
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- Group Name: The Makesh Cartel
- Classification: Corporate Cartel
- Headquarters: Raykka
- Loyalties: Their shareholders and stock value.
- Group Sigil: See above.
- Description: The Makesh Cartel is an organisation that controls most of the Raykkan industry and corporate holdings through numerous subsidiaries, partners and beneficiaries. It leverages this position to further increase the industrialization of the Raykkans while driving up their own profit margins. They are defined by their greed and hunt for ever bigger paydays, many species have already been exterminated, their territories cut up and ruined, all in an attempt to drive up their stock value. There does not seem to be a limit or boundary that they won't cross.
- Hierarchy: The Cartel is run by a Board of Directors which consists of the most wealthy and powerful Raykkans in the organization. Usually they are also the heads of their particular department or subsidiaries, but it has been known for outside Raykkans to gain enough clout to take a seat before becoming a CEO in their own right. This is very rare and the current Directors do their best to stamp out that kind of upward mobility. The Chairman of the Board is usually selected by the size of their influence and wealth- this is not guaranteed, but at the very least expected to be followed by the Directors. The Board's Chairman has the right of veto and can propose new initiatives, if he believes that they will be of benefit to the Cartel. Otherwise initiatives have to receive at least half of the votes to be brought up for discussion. In an increasingly competitive scene the Chairman is often seen as the driving force of the Cartel, ensuring that progress is made even in the face of inner-conflicts.
- Membership: If you work for a Makesh-owned business you are an employee of the larger Cartel. Even the lowest slave is referred to as a beloved and loyal employee by official corporate documentation. Rising through the ranks requires a combination of ruthless resolve, keen intellect and plain luck, but it almost always involves bloody murder or treachery.
- Dogma/Doctrines:
Harming a Raykkan is punishable by death. - Profit comes before all!
- Do not attempt to kidnap beloved Makesh employees.
- Mandatory breaks have been removed.
- Do not pet the security personnel, thank you.
- Curios: An employee card. Used to check in and out of work. It also doubles as a point gathering system to earn prizes!
- Goals: Raise profit margins, increase stock prices and expand Raykkan industrial might.
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The Makesh Cartel was formed by the first industrialists that landed on Raykka. Their business acumen and mechanical know-how formed the foundations of the early push for industrialization of Raykka, the enslavement of the various native species and the exploitation of the system’s resources for a continued expansion of the Raykkan territories. This granted them a start-up advantage over any other initiative and as per usual the Raykkans involved took advantage of that in every way they could.
As the primary gatekeeper to most manufacturing capabilities they were able to position themselves in a very lucrative place. Making themselves indispensable in their weakest moment ensured that no organization rose up to challenge them... once the initial groundwork for the foundries and ports were established that solidified their hold. Any Raykkan wishing to move up in their society had to either start from scratch, while facing an organized force pushing them down or join the fold and earn their riches in a relatively easy and straight-forward way. It was no surprise that the strongest, brightest and most ruthless of the species flowed into the Cartel.
Generations later the Makesh Cartel is here to stay.
They control the most valuable and productive industry through direct and indirect means, constantly push for the advancement of the Raykkan species (ensuring that they are looked upon favorable by the only species that matters on Raykka) and have a choke-hold on the entire system through legislation, logistics and cutthroat business tactics.
