Valles:
Personally, theoreticisin' based simply on what little we see in canon...I'd assumed that the entire boardroom leadership of the corporation is Hou Bang...and so's the ownership, though that's probably cloaked behind dummy shareholders and the like.
So Hou Bang has free reign over Chang...but it's not like every single rung of management works for the secret societies. Most executives would know the score, of course, and even if they're not sworn brothers and sisters, would keep quiet due to self-interest. Besides, who are you going to complain to?
...I am also insanely amused by the notion of Wal-Mart and Disney as megacorps. I'm guessing retail and entertainment are still their core businesses, and Disney basically owns Florida?
*shrugs* No idea what Chang's main markets would be. We know they have a military hardware division, of course, but that can't be it. Pharmaceuticals? Medical technologies? Biotech? Agrotech?
robkelk:
...but the idea of a buncha Saber-style vigilante Combat Boomers. Oh yeah. That's got major, major possibilities.
I wonder, how would their operations be like? Would there be a level of misdirection - deliberately concealing their combat frames, somehow, to look like humans in bulkier power-armor or small battlemovers? Somethin' else?
That's a different kettle of fish, of course.
-- Acyl
Quote:Whether the entire Chang group is a Hou Bang front...I suppose that depends on how far the secret societies have closed ranks, and so on.
It honestly makes me wonder if the entire Chang megacorp isn't just a Hou Bang front organization... And keep in mind that, in my head, Chang is easily one of the 'second tier' transnationals, right beside Gulf&Bradley, Boeing-Lockheed, Wal-Mart, and Disney...
Speaking of which, I wonder what Chang's 'home niche' is?
Personally, theoreticisin' based simply on what little we see in canon...I'd assumed that the entire boardroom leadership of the corporation is Hou Bang...and so's the ownership, though that's probably cloaked behind dummy shareholders and the like.
So Hou Bang has free reign over Chang...but it's not like every single rung of management works for the secret societies. Most executives would know the score, of course, and even if they're not sworn brothers and sisters, would keep quiet due to self-interest. Besides, who are you going to complain to?
...I am also insanely amused by the notion of Wal-Mart and Disney as megacorps. I'm guessing retail and entertainment are still their core businesses, and Disney basically owns Florida?
*shrugs* No idea what Chang's main markets would be. We know they have a military hardware division, of course, but that can't be it. Pharmaceuticals? Medical technologies? Biotech? Agrotech?
robkelk:
Quote:Bob's already painted a compelling picture of a Boomer-run underground railroad, of sorts...
So that's what happened to the Boomers that Doug freed just before he left Mega-Tokyo...
...but the idea of a buncha Saber-style vigilante Combat Boomers. Oh yeah. That's got major, major possibilities.
I wonder, how would their operations be like? Would there be a level of misdirection - deliberately concealing their combat frames, somehow, to look like humans in bulkier power-armor or small battlemovers? Somethin' else?
That's a different kettle of fish, of course.
-- Acyl