Gentlesophonts:
PBJuzyk [email removed] writes:
> As the MCs continue to look at these old files listing the type and
> location of R&D they will begin to form ideas for sending teams to
> search and recover that data.
> Quite a number of
> such missions could be run for campaigns operating within the Regency.
I think this is a good take on the Regency megacorps that provides
excellent adventure possibilities.
See *The Cosmic Computer* another `Future History' novel by H. Beam Piper
that occurs prior to the period of the Space Vikings. (In fact, *The
Cosmic Computer* occurs just following the System States War between
the Terran Confederation and the rebels who fled to found the Sword
Worlds. Sound familiar?)
In *Computer*, the protagonist, Conn Maxwell, returns to his backwater
homeworld, Poictesme, after attending university on Earth. His father
heads a company that salvages military hardware left behind from the
war. The home folks want him to help them find Merlin, a `super'
computer rumored to have been left behind by the Confederation military.
As I've mentioned previously, the megacorps ought to figure prominently
in a Regency sourcebook. With the exception of the Vilani megacorps
all of them ought to be alive and relatively well in the Regency.
The megacorps c1120 from *MegaTraveller Journal* (may it rise again!) #3:
Delgado Trading (miniturization, heavy mining & refining, publishing and
trading)
- -A key player in the war against the Virus.
General Products (starships, non-starships, heavy machinery)
- -Quality problems were threatening existence by Rebellion. Domain/Regency
susbsidies would be likely in order to maintain a major shipbuilder (cf.
the Chrysler bailout).
GSbAG (starships)
- -Probably doing well equipping the Quarantine Service and the Deneb Navy.
Hortalez et Cie (banking and investment)
- -With addition of Zirunkariish assets most likely dominates Domain.
Instellarms (military products)
- -Probably doing well, although mercenary actions can be expected to be
limited in Deneb by government efforts to conserve resources. Can be
expected to favor the Expansionists and Santanocheevists.
Ling Standard Products (mining, electronics and computers, starships,
starship systems, power generation, small arms)
- -Probably the primary commercial and military contractor combating the Virus.
SuSAG (chemicals, pharmaceuticals, geneering, extra-Imperial psi drugs)
- -Will the illegal psi drug manufacturing move into the Regency? Obviously,
SuSAG will support the Tolerant bloc, if not openly then certainly with
financial backing.
Sternmetal Horizons (mining, manufacturing, power generation, food processors)
- -Probably doing well.
Tukera Lines (shipping)
- -Probably still active and possibly a supporter of the Imperialist bloc.
Vilani Bureaux (probably not active in Deneb after the Collapse):
Makhidkarun
Sharurshid
Naasirka (assets acquired by LSP?)
Zirunkariish (assets acquired by Hortalez)
Might there be any sector or domain corporations which now rival the former
megacorps in influence and power in the Regency? What commercial interests
are not represented by the Imperial megacorps?
It seems to me the megacorps were always `ignored' as the major players
they must have been in the Imperium - with the exception of Tukera's role
in Margaret's faction during the Rebellion. They ought to be very
powerful players in the Regency.
Happy Travelling,
David Johnson
Houston, Texas, USA