Without giving anything away, around the timframe previously given, would it be possible for a bad guy to escape OGJ custody by destructive downloading his mind into a computer and transmiting it to a pre-prepared 'backup' body?
Also, here's the latest version of the three articles.
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Pavonis Arcology
Pavonis Mons in Tharsis is home to
not one but several interconnected, quasi-subterranean communities that operate
under the banner of the Pavonis Arcology.
All of them were built and are still supported and partly managed by the NERV
Foundation. They are each a part of the multi-phase plan, Project RED EARTH,
that is the main focus of the foundation’s Natural Environment Re-creation
Venture. It is worth mentioning that, similar to Canada, Pavonis is bilingual
in its signage and education: English and Japanese, reflecting its founders.
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Flag of Armitage III Mars, used by Pavonis
Using Binford’s
super-hardy construction material vulcanocrete – a ceramic material made up of
the lava rock of Pavonis herself mixed with ground-up quartz and something else
(generic plaster mixed with pure handwavium; basic formula open domain as of
2017) – the NERV Foundation successfully carved several Martian settlements
into the extinct volcano.
While originally rather
bare of settlers who didn’t directly work for NERV members, the arcology had a
boom in population once construction on RED EARTH Phase Four started in March
2013 when the Elies, at least for the foreseeable future, threw their lot in
with Pavonis. It also saw a slight increase during the Boskone War of Belters,
but the majority who went to Mars instead of cislunar space went to Port Lowell
and Helium, instead. The arcology’s biggest population boom to date was shortly
after the opening ceremony for New Port City when a surprising number of
Japanese immigrants moved there.
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NERV Foundation
See NERV Foundation article.
Red Earth
Phase One – NERV Headquarters (No First Ancestral Race Lifeforms
were Harmed During Construction…): Started in 2010, the western quarter of
“the Big Peacock” houses the primary production lines, offices, and labs of the
NERV Foundation and SEELE Council members. Declared fully operational in January
2012, though expansion continues.
Phase Two – Hollow Fields Plantation (…or any Mad Scientist
Students…): More multi-sectioned, enormous greenhouses than plantation, these
sources of fresh foodstuffs are run by NERV Section One’s Agro Division and
were constructed at the same time as NERV HQ to provide local perishables and a
source of export revenue. Also like NERV HQ, while operational the moment the
first greenhouse was finished in 2011, improvements and expansion continue.
Phase Three – H.G. Wells Spaceport (…and Neither were any
Tripod-Driving Natives):
Located in the southern portion of Pavonis Mons’ cone, it was completed in
November 2013; again, expansions continue. Facilities include both slips for
ships of various sizes, several large joint hangars, as well as cheaply
rentable three to five room apartment flats called The Peacock Arms and simple
but comfortable temporary rooms at Hotel California. It was constructed at the
same time as and followed closely in completion by…
Phase Four – The Town of Sheffield (“For the
last time Kazuo – NO SPACE ELEVATOR!”): Completed in December 2013, just in time for a Christmas
Completion Party, Sheffield is built in an ancient (at least 2.2 billion years
old) secondary, vertical lava tube of Pavonis that was covered by its latter and
more obvious one. Uncovered and excavated during the spaceport’s construction
(the precious stones excavated filling the foundation’s coffer quite nicely),
the resulting settlement proved amusingly funnel-shaped and erned it the
nickname Mithril Hall by D&Ders.
Phase Five – The City of New Port (“Yes, I know the city plan is out of NGE, but
using the original name just doesn’t fit.”): After the caldera’s vulcanocrete lining and
Genesis-made, pitch black pressure dome were completed in June 2016,
construction on Phase Five was carried out in as secret an environment as
possible using Cyberdyne’s T-Series non-sapient robots as laborers and with
non-disclosure enforced supervision. After a certain fellow with the initials
“K.S.” was granted reluctant admission to assure the more paranoid that nothing
untoward was happening and agreeing to secrecy so long as this was true (“K.S.”
actually seems to get a kick out of just grinning whenever someone asks him
what he learned), nothing but rumors about parks and “the first forests on
Mars” managed to leak out until CorusCon, when the SEELE Council decided that
something positive needed to occur at the Convention for morale’s sake
following the Pan Terrorist Attack.
When first opened following CorusCon the only parts of the city
completed were Gakuen-cho (aka, Academytown; modeled after the Mahora Academy
campus and its environs, with assistance and permission of Ken Akamatsu) and Wilson
Heights (four city blocks of cheap but comfortable apartments).
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New Port City, main district (2029)
Phase Six – The Geofront (“’How did it get hollow?’ Oh, come on –
where do you think all the raw
material for the vulcanocrete used in Phase Five came from?!”):
An attempt by the NERV
Foundation to create a self-sustaining ecosystem, The information gained during
its development will hopefully provide useful data to the Mars Terraforming
Project. As of 2018, it consists of a lake, some lichens, moss, and simple
grasses, and a promising bloom of plankton. The first simple plants and
slow-breeding insects were introduced in 2022.
Rumors that the Geofront serves as the base of operations for a secret section
of the NERV Foundation are, of course, complete hogwash.
![[Image: Geo-Front.jpg]](http://i160.photobucket.com/albums/t178/Admiralvine/Geo-Front.jpg)
‘Ecosystem Monitoring
Facility’/NERV Section Five Complex
The Sightings: In the countless manmade tunnels and caverns of
Pavonis, sometimes the mind plays tricks on you – or does it? Rumors of
sightings of a mysterious teenage Japanese boy wearing a bandana and carrying a
backpack and umbrella wandering the tunnels lost are told in bars across the
Red Planet. Similar tales of the spirit of a mid-1800s American prospector – the
Miner 49er – lead people to wonder if ghosts haven’t followed people to space
(or maybe if someone’s working on a local version of “Carmen Miranda’s Ghost”);
And that isn’t all…the street one can only seem to find when one needs the
goods or services of one of the shops along its green flame gas lamp-laden
cobblestones in New Port City… the disappearing shop in Sheffield with its
bathrobe-cloaked attendant who always seems to know his customer’s name… the
legends seem boundless for a settlement barely more than a decade old in 2022…
Elysium Cooperative
No description of Pavonis can really be given without including a mention
of the basics about the Elysium Cooperative. Slayers Fen, Rune Soldier
Fen, Zero no Tsukaima Fen, GURPS and Palladium Fantasy Fen… a gaggle of the
fantasy-minded decided to band together to claim a homeland for themselves on the
Red Planet.
Or, at least, to prepare for a future claiming of said homeland. The “Elies” have decided that, when the time
comes once the Mars Terraforming Project reaches that point, the Continent of
Elysium and her islands in the Sea of Utopia shall be their Promised Land.
Until then, however, the
Elies have hunkered down in Pavonis, some commuting daily to the future sites
of their individual or collective settlements to do what work they already can
– the (temporarily!) pressure-domed, pan-fandom city of Seiluun and her various
white-walled city districts seems to be coming right along – on Elysium, while still
others work for NERV or independent Pavonis employers to meet ends meat and
save up funds for their own special projects.
Education
Until what became known as the Red Earth Opening Ceremony at CorusCon,
the only educational facilities available were those classes available at the Sheffield
Community Center. Once Akamatsu-sensei (who requested the Hinata-sou built
as a private home for himself in return) and other copyright holders secretly
signed off on it, however, Mahora Academy, with classes from elementary
to graduate (and later post-graduate) curriculums was ready to open shortly following New Port City’s big reveal.
Religion
Reflecting the American and Japanese roots of its founders,
religious needs can be met at the non-denominational Travelers’ Chapel in
Sheffield and, later, the Tatsumiya Shrine in New Port City. Several
alternatives not sponsored by the foundation also exist.
Infrastructure
The four sections of the NERV Foundation and their various
divisions handle most public services throughout the arcology.
The Pavonis Arcology Police Department, Pavonis Arcology Fire
Department, and their precincts, while started by the NERV Foundation, were
immediately decentralized form NERV to private control following completion.
Sheffield and New Port City each possess a mayor and a town and city council,
respectively. H.G. Wells Spaceport and Hallow Fields Plantation each have an
administrator appointed by the SEELE Council. NERV Headquarters and the
Geofront are directly under NERV Foundation control.
At the CorusCon it was announced that a new five-member council, the GEHIRN Council,
would be taking over the Pavonis governance duties previously held by the SEELE
Council starting that January. The GEHIRN Council is composed of the democratically
elected mayors of Sheffield and New Port City, the administrators of H.G. Wells
and Hollow Fields (now to be appointed by GEHIRN majority vote), and the SEELE
Chairman representing the NERV Foundation.
Entertainment
While nowhere near the totality of Pavonis’ entertainment options,
some of them include: various activities at the Sheffield Community Center, the
same community’s four-screen Majestic Theatre, various clubs and the sixteen
screen Peacock Megaplex on NPC’s Electric Avenue, and, starting in 2022, the
fantastic Kaleido Stage.
Starting in 2014, the Mishima sponsored “Annual M1911 Competition”
attracted gun enthusiasts from both space and daneside.
Food
In addition to several
common American and Japanese chain and franchise stores, Pavonis also features,
as of 2022: Cheers (an American-style bar based on the one in the television
show of the same name; Sheffield), Bar Nonbou (a combination Japanese-style bar
and Korean BBQ; Sheffield), The Italian Job (Italian food, obviously; New Port
City), My Big Fat Greek Restaurant (Greek cuisine, again obviously; New Port
City), Café Relish (a Japanese maid café; New Port City), and The Ministry of
Silly Walks (an English-style pub; Sheffield).
Trivia
Due to a bit of secretly purposeful micro-managing by several
SEELE Council members, Toyota and Ford each opened shops on the same day at the
same time on 24 May 2019 on Copperhead Road in New Port City across from the
Rubber Duck Trucking Company – they each claim right of “first car dealership
off of Earth.”
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NERV Foundation
The NERV Foundation is essentially a business conglomerate with a board
of directors – the SEELE Council – who, while maintaining complete control over
their own enterprises, cooperate heavily with one another in various joint
projects and philanthropic ventures.
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Emblem used by the NERV Foundation
The most ambitious of the foundation’s philanthropic ventures and the plan from
which the foundation draws its name is its Natural Environment Re-creation
Venture, the natural environment in question being the natural environment for
humanity, the current focus project of which is Project RED EARTH (see Pavonis
Arcology article).
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NERV Section One
The Pavonis Arcology
Support Services (PASS) provide and service electrical utilities, water
supply and treatment, life support, running Hollow Fields (Agro Division), and
similar work for the Pavonis Arcology.
NERV Section Two
The Special Tactics And
Rescue Service (STARS) is a paramilitary organization whose Security
Division, Defense Division, Intelligence Division, Logistics Division,
Emergency Division (Medical Assistance), and Hazard Division (HAZMAT and
similar) serve the NERV Foundation and Pavonis Arcology.
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Badge prototype; RPD shield and POLICE banner replaced with Armitage III planet-in-tree symbol and
PAVONIS banner in final version
While the initial gear of the STARS was rather limited (a Saturday
Night Special or a hunting rifle if you were lucky), things did improve with
time. As of late 2018, the STARS armory consisted of, in varying numbers: Beretta
Px4 Storm (Standard Sidearm), Beretta Cx4 Storm (Standard Carbine), H&K MP5
(Security Submachine Gun). Serbu Super-Shorty (Security Shotgun), Steyr TMP
(Defense Machine Pistol), Steyr-Mishima ACR (Defense Assault Rifle), NeoSteed
2000 (Defense Shotgun), DPI USAS-12 (Defense Heavy Shotgun), M2 Browning
(Defense Machine Gun), SBD M136 AT4 (Defense Rocket Launcher), and the rare M202
FLASH (Defense Heavy Rocket Launcher).
Vehicles include small numbers of the ARTEC GmbH “Boxer” armored
fighting vehicles, some modified M8 “Greyhound” Light Armored Vehicles (MHI-T1)
purchased cheap from third world countries, a goodly number of Paramount Marauders,
and a goodly amount of waved civilian Hummers.
Note: The STARS do not provide regular police and firefighting
services.
NERV Section Three
Technological Research
And Development (T-RAD)…enough
said.
NERV Section Four
Biological Research And Development (B-RAD)… ditto.
Joint Projects
Ongoing joint research and development projects between the NERV
Foundation members include:
Project FRAGMENT
(Altimit/Heartland project that produced a working version of the DotHack
franchise in-series MMORPG, The World [available November 2014])
Project ATF (energy fields and force fields)
Project SUPER SOLENOID (energy generation)
Project EGO BOUNDRY (man-machine interfaces)
Project HEINFLICK LIMIT (FTL technologies)
Project REFRESHER (following Struve Conspiracy,
data on biomoding the Boskones considered ‘useless’ recovered during investigation
used to offer those getting on in years and otherwise down in health an option
of several ‘controlled biomods’ – Antarctic Press Furries [‘too strong and free
willed’] and Fantasy Short Folk [‘too limited a customer base’] surprisingly
popular, as is the Mischievous Kitsune Biomod)
Project DIRAC SEA (dimensional studies [after
Interdimensional Incursion Incident and release of WFC])
Project LONGINUS LANCE (paranormal studies
[after Interdimensional Incursion Incident and release of WFC])
Project BLACK MOON (Boskone War development plan
for defense programs; discontinued after the war; rumors that some continued
under a secret NERV section are, of course, entirely preposterous)
DECA
The Digital Enclave and
Cyberspace Archive is the central computer core of the foundation. It is
connected, but not integral, to the Pavonis Intranet, and can be isolated at a
moment’s notice both manually and automatically.
As one might imagine, it is controlled by the three MAGI – but
each MAGI is itself composed of three artificial intelligences. Casper is made
up of three based upon several ‘Vagrant AIs’ from the DotHack franchise: Aura,
Lycoris, and Macha. Balthazar is made up of Meg, Lou, and Nam from Bubblegum Crisis. Whoever Melchior
consists of, however, is classified.
NERV Section Five
***WHITENOISE***
This section of NERV – the U.N.
Mars Force (UNMF) – does not exist.
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ZotE Bufram Militia flag. Used by the U.N. Mars
Force
Following the Struve Conspiracy and the end of the Boskone War,
the remaining SEELE Council members decided to create a force that could help
to both prevent against and protect in the eventuality of similar troubles.
Unfortunately, the attitude of toning down on armed forces in Fenspace
prevalent after the war – including a formal request from OGJ to cease and
desist Project BLACK MOON research and development – meant that it had to be
done incognito.
The result is a force led by R. Lelouch Lamperouge (Director of
Covert Operations in STARS hierarchy) out of Ecosystem Monitoring Facility #2
in the Geofront.
Gear includes the standard STARS equipment (not recommended for
denial purposes), access to the secret Biwa Arsenal (see Mishima section of
SEELE Council article), products of the T-300 Specialist Combat Robot Series,
the MHI G11R assault rifle, and the MHI-T2 ‘Dominion” tank (based on data
gained from modifying several M8s into MHI-T1s; modeled after JSSDF 6x6 tank in
End of Evangelion).
Project WHITE MOON
***WHITENOISE***
STARS Intelligence Division File 1028.4
Investigative Report: Ravenwood (private military contractor)
Cross-Reference IR(s) x4: Jennings & Rall, Incorporated;
CyberConnect Corporation; Tricell Pharmaceutical Company; Struve, Harry
DETAILS FORTHCOMING
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SEELE Council
The NERV Foundation is essentially a business conglomerate with a board of
directors – the SEELE Council – who,
while maintaining complete control over their own enterprises, cooperate
heavily with one another in various joint projects and philanthropic ventures.
The eight people presently on the council are: Alex Xanatos, CEO Cyberdyne;
Biwa Mishima, CEO Mishima; R. Joseph Fenette, CEO WilPharma; Mary Gamblin, CEO
Altimit; James “Jimmy”Blake, CEO Binford; Kazuo Jenkins, CEO Ajax; Lana Izavia,
CEO Heartland; and The O, CEO DeLorean.
Former council members consist of: the late Airi Ikuhara-Xanatos, CEO Ikuhara;
and Harry Struve, ex CEO WilPharma, on the run and wanted by Great Justice
following the Battle of Serenity Valley.
Council chairmen: Alex Xanatos (founding-January 2019) and Kazuo
Jenkins (January 2019-Present)
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Cyberdyne Systems Corporation, Limited
Producing human-use
bionics and non-sapient robots, it originally outsourced a goodly amount of its
electrical components from daneside sources and later fellow councilmember
Ikuhara Electronics. Following the Battle of Serenity Valley, Cyberdyne absorbed
Ikuhara and its product lines in keeping with the prior owner’s wishes.
Its bionics fall under
the C-Series of products, which are increasingly customizable by the
generation.
Its main line of robots
come under the T-Series which, while having an internal computer brain,
possesses only a number of AI-designed specialist systems that are designed to
be easily modifiable and reprogrammable, o and consist of:
T-100 GASAR (Ground Assault and Support Actions
Robot; based on the T-1s/T-10s from the T3 movie; over time, 70 were made for
NERV HQ defense; 10 units designated T-110, based on the versions from the Salvation movie, were made and sold to Great
Justice in 2020, at cost; neither are legally available to the public)
T-200 Maintenance and Repair Robot (made in
various chassis configurations, the earliest T-202 model was available to the
public on 11 January 2014)
T-300 Specialist Combat Robot Series (Project
BLACK MOON programs to replicate the T-325 Mototerminator, T-350
Snowterminator, and T-375 Hydrobot; programs ‘requested’ by Great Justice to be
suspended following Boskone War conclusion; see ‘NERV Section Five’)
T-400 Stealth Combat Humanoid Robot (Project
BLACK MOON program to replicate the T-HX; program ‘requested’ by Great Justice
to be suspended following Boskone War conclusion; see ‘NERV Section Five’; no
successful prototype yet produced as of 2020)
T-500 “Harvester” Heavy Construction Robot
(customizable heavy labor robot; available to the public 18 March 2015)
T-600 Multi-Function Humanoid Robot (first successful
fully-humanoid robot approved for mass production; most noted quirk is that any
attempt at disguising a unit as being human fails [often humorously], much like
with its rubber-skinned source of inspiration; available to the public 5
November 2016; AI-Avatar capability upgrade package sold separately at same
time)
T-700 Heavy-Function Humanoid Robot (essentially
a larger and more durable version of the T-600, and available to the public at
the same time as its ‘little brother’)
T-800 Advanced-Function Humanoid Robot
(available to the public starting on 12 August 2018 [available ‘in house’ much
earlier as non-existant T-900], the T-800 Series initially comes in the T-801
“Governator” Classic Model, T-825 “Cameron” Customizable Female Model, and
T-850 “Cromartie” Customizable Male Model; utilizing WilPharma pioneered
CMS-101 Synthflesh, it is half again as expensive as the still-available T-600)
WilPharma Corporation
Initially acting as a
middle-man for Earth-made supplies, WilPharma began coming into its own in mid-2013
when it began producing its own hospital grade basic materials, and received a
hard won victory when several daneside health organizations certified its
products in 2014.
The corporation received a major shake-up following the Battle of Serenity
Valley, where evidence recovered by the Roughriders revealed that not only had
CEO Harry Struve been supplying the Boskones via daneside intermediaries, but
had concocted a plot with the terrorists to kill the other members of the SEELE
Council – of the nine members, only he did not attend SerenityCon – and allow
him to subsume control of the NERV Foundation and the Pavonis Arcology.
Following these events, with the corporation routed of Boskones and their
supporters, control of WilPharma was seized by the SEELE Council until such a
time as the surviving seven members could appoint a replacement as CEO. It did
so on 1 January 2014 in the form of R. Joseph Fenette (T-888 Sapient Android).
Mishima Heavy Industries
Your friendly,
neighborhood defense concern.
Like many of the
original SEELE Council members, Mishima started out supplying Fenspace with
products it bought daneside as a middleman. Uniquely to Mishima’s case, and a
source of much groaning and headaches once the rest found out about it, a
goodly amount of its start-up capital went to purchasing items off of black
market arms dealers – partly to keep them out of the wrong hands, mostly
because Biwa, being the military otaku she is, just couldn’t help herself.
Fortunately, the council members managed to keep the “Biwa Arsenal” from
leaking out (they hope), though they now have a secret stockpile of weapons to
make any third world dictator envious.
The company’s most
famous products include its refit of a number of M8 “Greyhound” Light Armored
Vehicles and later, in cooperation with Steyr Mannlicher, a market version of its
Advanced Combat Rifle.
This being Fenspace, and
Ms. Mishima being a Japanese military otaku, one would think her company’s
products would include mecha – one would be right.
Following the mobile
suit scale MHI-M1 to M3’s failures, a try at arm slave scale produced and
admittedly underpowered and unimpressive MHI-M4 “Mistral II” for sale in July
2011. The much improved MHI-M5 “Type-96” was available by April 2013, with a
slightly better MHI-M6 “Bushnell” arriving in May 2015.
Rumors of a large, metal
container labeled “MHI-M9” and “GERNSBACK” being spotted in transit through a
NERV Personnel Only tunnel in Pavonis is denied outright (see‘NERV Section
Five’).
Altimit Corporation
Internet service,
network setup, software development, specialist programs, computer games – if
it needs to speak 010010, Altimit are the folks to talk to –especially as most
of the employees are AI themeselves. Starting by purchasing the rights to the DotHack
series and its related material, a LINUX-based operating system, ALTIMIT OS,
has been in use by the NERV Foundation and SEELE Council members since 2012
(upgraded to ALTIMIT MINE OS following the ‘Struve Conspiracy’).
Binford Tools Company
Producing first vulcanocrete,
then hand tools and basic parts, and finally power tools and heavy equipment,
an unknown fen working for a building crew at Mars Vegas once famously
commented that Binford could be described as “the backbone of any construction
project on Mars.” Needless to say, they take great pride in this.
Two of Binford’s
earliest successes – so early that the CEO was also sole employee – were also
critical to the development of the Pavonis Arcology: vulcanocrete and the
ultrasonic laser. Vulcanocrete is a ceramic material made up of lava rock mixed
with ground-up quartz and something else (generic plaster mixed with pure
handwavium). The ultrasonic laser is more the former than the latter, it is
made out of old sonogram and sonar equipment and modeled after the device of
the same name from The Core –
unfortunately, it’s not quite as effective as its inspiration and, thus far,
all attempts at making unobtanium have proven futile.
In a quirk that
alternately annoys and amuses the company’s employees and owner to no end, no
handwaved Binford product will work correctly unless it bears a 6100 Series
label.
Ajax Material Supply Company
Growing out of initial
obscurity in the early 2013s, whether it’s a product they produce themselves or
import from Earth, Ajax as of 2022 is recognized as the largest chemical, wood,
paper, plastic, and stone supplier outside of cislunar space.
They’re initially tried
to supply metals as well, but there was so much competition there already that
they just gave up on it – the main reason that metals of various sorts are now
one of Pavonis’ largest imports.
Heartland Play Systems
Handwavium and toys…
there exists not the space to encompass the joy and madness conceived.
Note: Never ask about
the Chucky dolls… just don’t…
Extra Note: Their
Jumanji holographic board game is pretty fun, though.
DeLorean Motor Company
Purchased outright from
Stephen Wynne, The O (never forget the ‘The’) now slaps the DMC logo on both
waved and unwaved nich-market products both space- and planet-side.
Products include the
DMC-12 Classic, the DMC-38 Yako (based on the Yak 38 Custom jet interceptor in Evangelion; space-capable), the DMC-40
Blue Angel (shuttle based on the ‘UN 789’ plane in Evangelion), the DMC-48 AD-Police Interceptor (chiefly exported to
Genaros; ‘Car 48, Where are You?’ opening music must be played before
starting), and the DMC-50 Peel (based on the Peel P50; rights purchased 2016).
Ikuhara Electronics
Selling waved, partly
waved, and non-waved electronics and electrical components, Ikuhara was a
successful business from its start to its end. Following Airi Ikuhara-Xanatos’
death at the Battle of Serenity Valley, the company was absorbed by Cyberdyne,
per its late owner’s wishes.
According to the SEELE
Council Charter, the membership of the council must remain at nine persons.
This means that another business enterprise must be invited to join both the
council as well as the NERV Foundation. This also means revealing a number of
secrets to said invitee, some still only in the planning stages. The council is
debating its choices…
Politics and Goals
While encouraging
maintaining ties of various sorts with Earth, the SEELE Council is quite open
with its opinion that each settlement on Mars - and in Fenspace in its entirety
- should be as self-sufficient at least in the essentials as possible. It is
also of the opinion that Mars, at least once the terraforming project is
completed, should be the capital of Fenspace and “the homeworld of Fen,
anywhere.”
The council fully supported the goals of Operation GREAT JUSTICE, and later the
organization Ggreat Justice. The SV Celestial
Court (TDD-2) – an unarmed but heavily armored design registered as a heavy
troop transport and emergency evacuation ship – was sold at cost to Great
Justice in June 2023. It and its NERV Foundation flagship predecessor – the SV Tuatha de Danaan (TDD-1), launched 2018 –
are based on the carrier submarine from Full
Metal Panic!.
Also, here's the latest version of the three articles.
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Pavonis Arcology
Pavonis Mons in Tharsis is home to
not one but several interconnected, quasi-subterranean communities that operate
under the banner of the Pavonis Arcology.
All of them were built and are still supported and partly managed by the NERV
Foundation. They are each a part of the multi-phase plan, Project RED EARTH,
that is the main focus of the foundation’s Natural Environment Re-creation
Venture. It is worth mentioning that, similar to Canada, Pavonis is bilingual
in its signage and education: English and Japanese, reflecting its founders.
Flag of Armitage III Mars, used by Pavonis
Using Binford’s
super-hardy construction material vulcanocrete – a ceramic material made up of
the lava rock of Pavonis herself mixed with ground-up quartz and something else
(generic plaster mixed with pure handwavium; basic formula open domain as of
2017) – the NERV Foundation successfully carved several Martian settlements
into the extinct volcano.
While originally rather
bare of settlers who didn’t directly work for NERV members, the arcology had a
boom in population once construction on RED EARTH Phase Four started in March
2013 when the Elies, at least for the foreseeable future, threw their lot in
with Pavonis. It also saw a slight increase during the Boskone War of Belters,
but the majority who went to Mars instead of cislunar space went to Port Lowell
and Helium, instead. The arcology’s biggest population boom to date was shortly
after the opening ceremony for New Port City when a surprising number of
Japanese immigrants moved there.
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- 1 NERV Foundation
- 2 Red Earth
- 3 Elysium
Cooperative
- 4 Education
- 5 Religion
- 6 Infrastructure
- 7 Entertainment
- 8 Food
- 9 Trivia
NERV Foundation
See NERV Foundation article.
Red Earth
Phase One – NERV Headquarters (No First Ancestral Race Lifeforms
were Harmed During Construction…): Started in 2010, the western quarter of
“the Big Peacock” houses the primary production lines, offices, and labs of the
NERV Foundation and SEELE Council members. Declared fully operational in January
2012, though expansion continues.
Phase Two – Hollow Fields Plantation (…or any Mad Scientist
Students…): More multi-sectioned, enormous greenhouses than plantation, these
sources of fresh foodstuffs are run by NERV Section One’s Agro Division and
were constructed at the same time as NERV HQ to provide local perishables and a
source of export revenue. Also like NERV HQ, while operational the moment the
first greenhouse was finished in 2011, improvements and expansion continue.
Phase Three – H.G. Wells Spaceport (…and Neither were any
Tripod-Driving Natives):
Located in the southern portion of Pavonis Mons’ cone, it was completed in
November 2013; again, expansions continue. Facilities include both slips for
ships of various sizes, several large joint hangars, as well as cheaply
rentable three to five room apartment flats called The Peacock Arms and simple
but comfortable temporary rooms at Hotel California. It was constructed at the
same time as and followed closely in completion by…
Phase Four – The Town of Sheffield (“For the
last time Kazuo – NO SPACE ELEVATOR!”): Completed in December 2013, just in time for a Christmas
Completion Party, Sheffield is built in an ancient (at least 2.2 billion years
old) secondary, vertical lava tube of Pavonis that was covered by its latter and
more obvious one. Uncovered and excavated during the spaceport’s construction
(the precious stones excavated filling the foundation’s coffer quite nicely),
the resulting settlement proved amusingly funnel-shaped and erned it the
nickname Mithril Hall by D&Ders.
Phase Five – The City of New Port (“Yes, I know the city plan is out of NGE, but
using the original name just doesn’t fit.”): After the caldera’s vulcanocrete lining and
Genesis-made, pitch black pressure dome were completed in June 2016,
construction on Phase Five was carried out in as secret an environment as
possible using Cyberdyne’s T-Series non-sapient robots as laborers and with
non-disclosure enforced supervision. After a certain fellow with the initials
“K.S.” was granted reluctant admission to assure the more paranoid that nothing
untoward was happening and agreeing to secrecy so long as this was true (“K.S.”
actually seems to get a kick out of just grinning whenever someone asks him
what he learned), nothing but rumors about parks and “the first forests on
Mars” managed to leak out until CorusCon, when the SEELE Council decided that
something positive needed to occur at the Convention for morale’s sake
following the Pan Terrorist Attack.
When first opened following CorusCon the only parts of the city
completed were Gakuen-cho (aka, Academytown; modeled after the Mahora Academy
campus and its environs, with assistance and permission of Ken Akamatsu) and Wilson
Heights (four city blocks of cheap but comfortable apartments).
New Port City, main district (2029)
Phase Six – The Geofront (“’How did it get hollow?’ Oh, come on –
where do you think all the raw
material for the vulcanocrete used in Phase Five came from?!”):
An attempt by the NERV
Foundation to create a self-sustaining ecosystem, The information gained during
its development will hopefully provide useful data to the Mars Terraforming
Project. As of 2018, it consists of a lake, some lichens, moss, and simple
grasses, and a promising bloom of plankton. The first simple plants and
slow-breeding insects were introduced in 2022.
Rumors that the Geofront serves as the base of operations for a secret section
of the NERV Foundation are, of course, complete hogwash.
‘Ecosystem Monitoring
Facility’/NERV Section Five Complex
The Sightings: In the countless manmade tunnels and caverns of
Pavonis, sometimes the mind plays tricks on you – or does it? Rumors of
sightings of a mysterious teenage Japanese boy wearing a bandana and carrying a
backpack and umbrella wandering the tunnels lost are told in bars across the
Red Planet. Similar tales of the spirit of a mid-1800s American prospector – the
Miner 49er – lead people to wonder if ghosts haven’t followed people to space
(or maybe if someone’s working on a local version of “Carmen Miranda’s Ghost”);
And that isn’t all…the street one can only seem to find when one needs the
goods or services of one of the shops along its green flame gas lamp-laden
cobblestones in New Port City… the disappearing shop in Sheffield with its
bathrobe-cloaked attendant who always seems to know his customer’s name… the
legends seem boundless for a settlement barely more than a decade old in 2022…
Elysium Cooperative
No description of Pavonis can really be given without including a mention
of the basics about the Elysium Cooperative. Slayers Fen, Rune Soldier
Fen, Zero no Tsukaima Fen, GURPS and Palladium Fantasy Fen… a gaggle of the
fantasy-minded decided to band together to claim a homeland for themselves on the
Red Planet.
Or, at least, to prepare for a future claiming of said homeland. The “Elies” have decided that, when the time
comes once the Mars Terraforming Project reaches that point, the Continent of
Elysium and her islands in the Sea of Utopia shall be their Promised Land.
Until then, however, the
Elies have hunkered down in Pavonis, some commuting daily to the future sites
of their individual or collective settlements to do what work they already can
– the (temporarily!) pressure-domed, pan-fandom city of Seiluun and her various
white-walled city districts seems to be coming right along – on Elysium, while still
others work for NERV or independent Pavonis employers to meet ends meat and
save up funds for their own special projects.
Education
Until what became known as the Red Earth Opening Ceremony at CorusCon,
the only educational facilities available were those classes available at the Sheffield
Community Center. Once Akamatsu-sensei (who requested the Hinata-sou built
as a private home for himself in return) and other copyright holders secretly
signed off on it, however, Mahora Academy, with classes from elementary
to graduate (and later post-graduate) curriculums was ready to open shortly following New Port City’s big reveal.
Religion
Reflecting the American and Japanese roots of its founders,
religious needs can be met at the non-denominational Travelers’ Chapel in
Sheffield and, later, the Tatsumiya Shrine in New Port City. Several
alternatives not sponsored by the foundation also exist.
Infrastructure
The four sections of the NERV Foundation and their various
divisions handle most public services throughout the arcology.
The Pavonis Arcology Police Department, Pavonis Arcology Fire
Department, and their precincts, while started by the NERV Foundation, were
immediately decentralized form NERV to private control following completion.
Sheffield and New Port City each possess a mayor and a town and city council,
respectively. H.G. Wells Spaceport and Hallow Fields Plantation each have an
administrator appointed by the SEELE Council. NERV Headquarters and the
Geofront are directly under NERV Foundation control.
At the CorusCon it was announced that a new five-member council, the GEHIRN Council,
would be taking over the Pavonis governance duties previously held by the SEELE
Council starting that January. The GEHIRN Council is composed of the democratically
elected mayors of Sheffield and New Port City, the administrators of H.G. Wells
and Hollow Fields (now to be appointed by GEHIRN majority vote), and the SEELE
Chairman representing the NERV Foundation.
Entertainment
While nowhere near the totality of Pavonis’ entertainment options,
some of them include: various activities at the Sheffield Community Center, the
same community’s four-screen Majestic Theatre, various clubs and the sixteen
screen Peacock Megaplex on NPC’s Electric Avenue, and, starting in 2022, the
fantastic Kaleido Stage.
Starting in 2014, the Mishima sponsored “Annual M1911 Competition”
attracted gun enthusiasts from both space and daneside.
Food
In addition to several
common American and Japanese chain and franchise stores, Pavonis also features,
as of 2022: Cheers (an American-style bar based on the one in the television
show of the same name; Sheffield), Bar Nonbou (a combination Japanese-style bar
and Korean BBQ; Sheffield), The Italian Job (Italian food, obviously; New Port
City), My Big Fat Greek Restaurant (Greek cuisine, again obviously; New Port
City), Café Relish (a Japanese maid café; New Port City), and The Ministry of
Silly Walks (an English-style pub; Sheffield).
Trivia
Due to a bit of secretly purposeful micro-managing by several
SEELE Council members, Toyota and Ford each opened shops on the same day at the
same time on 24 May 2019 on Copperhead Road in New Port City across from the
Rubber Duck Trucking Company – they each claim right of “first car dealership
off of Earth.”
~~~
NERV Foundation
The NERV Foundation is essentially a business conglomerate with a board
of directors – the SEELE Council – who, while maintaining complete control over
their own enterprises, cooperate heavily with one another in various joint
projects and philanthropic ventures.
Emblem used by the NERV Foundation
The most ambitious of the foundation’s philanthropic ventures and the plan from
which the foundation draws its name is its Natural Environment Re-creation
Venture, the natural environment in question being the natural environment for
humanity, the current focus project of which is Project RED EARTH (see Pavonis
Arcology article).
[table]
- 1 NERV Section One
- 2 NERV Section Two
- 3 NERV Section
Three
- 4 NERV Section
Four
- 5 Joint Projects
- 6 DECA
- 7 NERV Section
Five
- 8 Project WHITE
MOON
NERV Section One
The Pavonis Arcology
Support Services (PASS) provide and service electrical utilities, water
supply and treatment, life support, running Hollow Fields (Agro Division), and
similar work for the Pavonis Arcology.
NERV Section Two
The Special Tactics And
Rescue Service (STARS) is a paramilitary organization whose Security
Division, Defense Division, Intelligence Division, Logistics Division,
Emergency Division (Medical Assistance), and Hazard Division (HAZMAT and
similar) serve the NERV Foundation and Pavonis Arcology.
Badge prototype; RPD shield and POLICE banner replaced with Armitage III planet-in-tree symbol and
PAVONIS banner in final version
While the initial gear of the STARS was rather limited (a Saturday
Night Special or a hunting rifle if you were lucky), things did improve with
time. As of late 2018, the STARS armory consisted of, in varying numbers: Beretta
Px4 Storm (Standard Sidearm), Beretta Cx4 Storm (Standard Carbine), H&K MP5
(Security Submachine Gun). Serbu Super-Shorty (Security Shotgun), Steyr TMP
(Defense Machine Pistol), Steyr-Mishima ACR (Defense Assault Rifle), NeoSteed
2000 (Defense Shotgun), DPI USAS-12 (Defense Heavy Shotgun), M2 Browning
(Defense Machine Gun), SBD M136 AT4 (Defense Rocket Launcher), and the rare M202
FLASH (Defense Heavy Rocket Launcher).
Vehicles include small numbers of the ARTEC GmbH “Boxer” armored
fighting vehicles, some modified M8 “Greyhound” Light Armored Vehicles (MHI-T1)
purchased cheap from third world countries, a goodly number of Paramount Marauders,
and a goodly amount of waved civilian Hummers.
Note: The STARS do not provide regular police and firefighting
services.
NERV Section Three
Technological Research
And Development (T-RAD)…enough
said.
NERV Section Four
Biological Research And Development (B-RAD)… ditto.
Joint Projects
Ongoing joint research and development projects between the NERV
Foundation members include:
Project FRAGMENT
(Altimit/Heartland project that produced a working version of the DotHack
franchise in-series MMORPG, The World [available November 2014])
Project ATF (energy fields and force fields)
Project SUPER SOLENOID (energy generation)
Project EGO BOUNDRY (man-machine interfaces)
Project HEINFLICK LIMIT (FTL technologies)
Project REFRESHER (following Struve Conspiracy,
data on biomoding the Boskones considered ‘useless’ recovered during investigation
used to offer those getting on in years and otherwise down in health an option
of several ‘controlled biomods’ – Antarctic Press Furries [‘too strong and free
willed’] and Fantasy Short Folk [‘too limited a customer base’] surprisingly
popular, as is the Mischievous Kitsune Biomod)
Project DIRAC SEA (dimensional studies [after
Interdimensional Incursion Incident and release of WFC])
Project LONGINUS LANCE (paranormal studies
[after Interdimensional Incursion Incident and release of WFC])
Project BLACK MOON (Boskone War development plan
for defense programs; discontinued after the war; rumors that some continued
under a secret NERV section are, of course, entirely preposterous)
DECA
The Digital Enclave and
Cyberspace Archive is the central computer core of the foundation. It is
connected, but not integral, to the Pavonis Intranet, and can be isolated at a
moment’s notice both manually and automatically.
As one might imagine, it is controlled by the three MAGI – but
each MAGI is itself composed of three artificial intelligences. Casper is made
up of three based upon several ‘Vagrant AIs’ from the DotHack franchise: Aura,
Lycoris, and Macha. Balthazar is made up of Meg, Lou, and Nam from Bubblegum Crisis. Whoever Melchior
consists of, however, is classified.
NERV Section Five
***WHITENOISE***
This section of NERV – the U.N.
Mars Force (UNMF) – does not exist.
ZotE Bufram Militia flag. Used by the U.N. Mars
Force
Following the Struve Conspiracy and the end of the Boskone War,
the remaining SEELE Council members decided to create a force that could help
to both prevent against and protect in the eventuality of similar troubles.
Unfortunately, the attitude of toning down on armed forces in Fenspace
prevalent after the war – including a formal request from OGJ to cease and
desist Project BLACK MOON research and development – meant that it had to be
done incognito.
The result is a force led by R. Lelouch Lamperouge (Director of
Covert Operations in STARS hierarchy) out of Ecosystem Monitoring Facility #2
in the Geofront.
Gear includes the standard STARS equipment (not recommended for
denial purposes), access to the secret Biwa Arsenal (see Mishima section of
SEELE Council article), products of the T-300 Specialist Combat Robot Series,
the MHI G11R assault rifle, and the MHI-T2 ‘Dominion” tank (based on data
gained from modifying several M8s into MHI-T1s; modeled after JSSDF 6x6 tank in
End of Evangelion).
Project WHITE MOON
***WHITENOISE***
STARS Intelligence Division File 1028.4
Investigative Report: Ravenwood (private military contractor)
Cross-Reference IR(s) x4: Jennings & Rall, Incorporated;
CyberConnect Corporation; Tricell Pharmaceutical Company; Struve, Harry
DETAILS FORTHCOMING
~~~
SEELE Council
The NERV Foundation is essentially a business conglomerate with a board of
directors – the SEELE Council – who,
while maintaining complete control over their own enterprises, cooperate
heavily with one another in various joint projects and philanthropic ventures.
The eight people presently on the council are: Alex Xanatos, CEO Cyberdyne;
Biwa Mishima, CEO Mishima; R. Joseph Fenette, CEO WilPharma; Mary Gamblin, CEO
Altimit; James “Jimmy”Blake, CEO Binford; Kazuo Jenkins, CEO Ajax; Lana Izavia,
CEO Heartland; and The O, CEO DeLorean.
Former council members consist of: the late Airi Ikuhara-Xanatos, CEO Ikuhara;
and Harry Struve, ex CEO WilPharma, on the run and wanted by Great Justice
following the Battle of Serenity Valley.
Council chairmen: Alex Xanatos (founding-January 2019) and Kazuo
Jenkins (January 2019-Present)
[table]
- 1 Cyberdyne
Systems Corporation, Limited
- 2 WilPharma
Corporation
- 3 Mishima Heavy
Industries
- 4 Altimit
Corporation
- 5 Binford Tools
Company
- 6 Ajax Material
Supply Company
- 7 Heartland Play
Systems
- 8 DeLorean Motor
Company
- 9 Ikuhara
Electronics
- 10 Politics and
Goals
Cyberdyne Systems Corporation, Limited
Producing human-use
bionics and non-sapient robots, it originally outsourced a goodly amount of its
electrical components from daneside sources and later fellow councilmember
Ikuhara Electronics. Following the Battle of Serenity Valley, Cyberdyne absorbed
Ikuhara and its product lines in keeping with the prior owner’s wishes.
Its bionics fall under
the C-Series of products, which are increasingly customizable by the
generation.
Its main line of robots
come under the T-Series which, while having an internal computer brain,
possesses only a number of AI-designed specialist systems that are designed to
be easily modifiable and reprogrammable, o and consist of:
T-100 GASAR (Ground Assault and Support Actions
Robot; based on the T-1s/T-10s from the T3 movie; over time, 70 were made for
NERV HQ defense; 10 units designated T-110, based on the versions from the Salvation movie, were made and sold to Great
Justice in 2020, at cost; neither are legally available to the public)
T-200 Maintenance and Repair Robot (made in
various chassis configurations, the earliest T-202 model was available to the
public on 11 January 2014)
T-300 Specialist Combat Robot Series (Project
BLACK MOON programs to replicate the T-325 Mototerminator, T-350
Snowterminator, and T-375 Hydrobot; programs ‘requested’ by Great Justice to be
suspended following Boskone War conclusion; see ‘NERV Section Five’)
T-400 Stealth Combat Humanoid Robot (Project
BLACK MOON program to replicate the T-HX; program ‘requested’ by Great Justice
to be suspended following Boskone War conclusion; see ‘NERV Section Five’; no
successful prototype yet produced as of 2020)
T-500 “Harvester” Heavy Construction Robot
(customizable heavy labor robot; available to the public 18 March 2015)
T-600 Multi-Function Humanoid Robot (first successful
fully-humanoid robot approved for mass production; most noted quirk is that any
attempt at disguising a unit as being human fails [often humorously], much like
with its rubber-skinned source of inspiration; available to the public 5
November 2016; AI-Avatar capability upgrade package sold separately at same
time)
T-700 Heavy-Function Humanoid Robot (essentially
a larger and more durable version of the T-600, and available to the public at
the same time as its ‘little brother’)
T-800 Advanced-Function Humanoid Robot
(available to the public starting on 12 August 2018 [available ‘in house’ much
earlier as non-existant T-900], the T-800 Series initially comes in the T-801
“Governator” Classic Model, T-825 “Cameron” Customizable Female Model, and
T-850 “Cromartie” Customizable Male Model; utilizing WilPharma pioneered
CMS-101 Synthflesh, it is half again as expensive as the still-available T-600)
WilPharma Corporation
Initially acting as a
middle-man for Earth-made supplies, WilPharma began coming into its own in mid-2013
when it began producing its own hospital grade basic materials, and received a
hard won victory when several daneside health organizations certified its
products in 2014.
The corporation received a major shake-up following the Battle of Serenity
Valley, where evidence recovered by the Roughriders revealed that not only had
CEO Harry Struve been supplying the Boskones via daneside intermediaries, but
had concocted a plot with the terrorists to kill the other members of the SEELE
Council – of the nine members, only he did not attend SerenityCon – and allow
him to subsume control of the NERV Foundation and the Pavonis Arcology.
Following these events, with the corporation routed of Boskones and their
supporters, control of WilPharma was seized by the SEELE Council until such a
time as the surviving seven members could appoint a replacement as CEO. It did
so on 1 January 2014 in the form of R. Joseph Fenette (T-888 Sapient Android).
Mishima Heavy Industries
Your friendly,
neighborhood defense concern.
Like many of the
original SEELE Council members, Mishima started out supplying Fenspace with
products it bought daneside as a middleman. Uniquely to Mishima’s case, and a
source of much groaning and headaches once the rest found out about it, a
goodly amount of its start-up capital went to purchasing items off of black
market arms dealers – partly to keep them out of the wrong hands, mostly
because Biwa, being the military otaku she is, just couldn’t help herself.
Fortunately, the council members managed to keep the “Biwa Arsenal” from
leaking out (they hope), though they now have a secret stockpile of weapons to
make any third world dictator envious.
The company’s most
famous products include its refit of a number of M8 “Greyhound” Light Armored
Vehicles and later, in cooperation with Steyr Mannlicher, a market version of its
Advanced Combat Rifle.
This being Fenspace, and
Ms. Mishima being a Japanese military otaku, one would think her company’s
products would include mecha – one would be right.
Following the mobile
suit scale MHI-M1 to M3’s failures, a try at arm slave scale produced and
admittedly underpowered and unimpressive MHI-M4 “Mistral II” for sale in July
2011. The much improved MHI-M5 “Type-96” was available by April 2013, with a
slightly better MHI-M6 “Bushnell” arriving in May 2015.
Rumors of a large, metal
container labeled “MHI-M9” and “GERNSBACK” being spotted in transit through a
NERV Personnel Only tunnel in Pavonis is denied outright (see‘NERV Section
Five’).
Altimit Corporation
Internet service,
network setup, software development, specialist programs, computer games – if
it needs to speak 010010, Altimit are the folks to talk to –especially as most
of the employees are AI themeselves. Starting by purchasing the rights to the DotHack
series and its related material, a LINUX-based operating system, ALTIMIT OS,
has been in use by the NERV Foundation and SEELE Council members since 2012
(upgraded to ALTIMIT MINE OS following the ‘Struve Conspiracy’).
Binford Tools Company
Producing first vulcanocrete,
then hand tools and basic parts, and finally power tools and heavy equipment,
an unknown fen working for a building crew at Mars Vegas once famously
commented that Binford could be described as “the backbone of any construction
project on Mars.” Needless to say, they take great pride in this.
Two of Binford’s
earliest successes – so early that the CEO was also sole employee – were also
critical to the development of the Pavonis Arcology: vulcanocrete and the
ultrasonic laser. Vulcanocrete is a ceramic material made up of lava rock mixed
with ground-up quartz and something else (generic plaster mixed with pure
handwavium). The ultrasonic laser is more the former than the latter, it is
made out of old sonogram and sonar equipment and modeled after the device of
the same name from The Core –
unfortunately, it’s not quite as effective as its inspiration and, thus far,
all attempts at making unobtanium have proven futile.
In a quirk that
alternately annoys and amuses the company’s employees and owner to no end, no
handwaved Binford product will work correctly unless it bears a 6100 Series
label.
Ajax Material Supply Company
Growing out of initial
obscurity in the early 2013s, whether it’s a product they produce themselves or
import from Earth, Ajax as of 2022 is recognized as the largest chemical, wood,
paper, plastic, and stone supplier outside of cislunar space.
They’re initially tried
to supply metals as well, but there was so much competition there already that
they just gave up on it – the main reason that metals of various sorts are now
one of Pavonis’ largest imports.
Heartland Play Systems
Handwavium and toys…
there exists not the space to encompass the joy and madness conceived.
Note: Never ask about
the Chucky dolls… just don’t…
Extra Note: Their
Jumanji holographic board game is pretty fun, though.
DeLorean Motor Company
Purchased outright from
Stephen Wynne, The O (never forget the ‘The’) now slaps the DMC logo on both
waved and unwaved nich-market products both space- and planet-side.
Products include the
DMC-12 Classic, the DMC-38 Yako (based on the Yak 38 Custom jet interceptor in Evangelion; space-capable), the DMC-40
Blue Angel (shuttle based on the ‘UN 789’ plane in Evangelion), the DMC-48 AD-Police Interceptor (chiefly exported to
Genaros; ‘Car 48, Where are You?’ opening music must be played before
starting), and the DMC-50 Peel (based on the Peel P50; rights purchased 2016).
Ikuhara Electronics
Selling waved, partly
waved, and non-waved electronics and electrical components, Ikuhara was a
successful business from its start to its end. Following Airi Ikuhara-Xanatos’
death at the Battle of Serenity Valley, the company was absorbed by Cyberdyne,
per its late owner’s wishes.
According to the SEELE
Council Charter, the membership of the council must remain at nine persons.
This means that another business enterprise must be invited to join both the
council as well as the NERV Foundation. This also means revealing a number of
secrets to said invitee, some still only in the planning stages. The council is
debating its choices…
Politics and Goals
While encouraging
maintaining ties of various sorts with Earth, the SEELE Council is quite open
with its opinion that each settlement on Mars - and in Fenspace in its entirety
- should be as self-sufficient at least in the essentials as possible. It is
also of the opinion that Mars, at least once the terraforming project is
completed, should be the capital of Fenspace and “the homeworld of Fen,
anywhere.”
The council fully supported the goals of Operation GREAT JUSTICE, and later the
organization Ggreat Justice. The SV Celestial
Court (TDD-2) – an unarmed but heavily armored design registered as a heavy
troop transport and emergency evacuation ship – was sold at cost to Great
Justice in June 2023. It and its NERV Foundation flagship predecessor – the SV Tuatha de Danaan (TDD-1), launched 2018 –
are based on the carrier submarine from Full
Metal Panic!.
“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
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“They opened up a can’a dumbass!” – Jon Stewart regarding Fox News, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.” – Harvey Fierstein