NPC Corporation - The Blue Flame

[Trix]

The Blue Flame​

Roster

• Rank - Title - OOC Members - IC Chars
• Rank 3 - CEO/Board Chairman - NPC - Alic Fillar
• Rank 2 - Board Member - NPC
• Rank 2 - Board Member - NPC
• Rank 2 - Board Member - NPC
• Rank 1 - Supervisor - Trix - Mae
• Rank 1 - Supervisor - Coach - Rex Wolfbane
• Rank 1 - Supervisor - Empty/NPC
• Rank 1 - Supervisor - Empty/NPC

Assets

• Office on Coruscant, Corellia, and Nar Shaddaa.
• 1x Celtic-3 M&M
• 3x Minor Mining Skiffs
• 2x Small Manufacturing Plants on Corellia and Nar Shaddaa.
• 2x Light Freighters
• 8x Light Star Fighters
• Player Controlled Ships

Products

• Light Laser Cannons
• Light Components
• Light Hull
• Light Armor
• Civilian Shields
• Communications
• Ejection Seats
• Escape Pods
• Windows
• Weapon System Components
• Light Engines
• Light Rocket Launcher
• Light Rockets
• System Controls
• Various Ship Amenities
• Light Fighters

Overview

The Blue Flame is a new organization established by Mae and Alic Fillar (NPC). Originally, Mae was an avid manufacturer in her free time, and also worked as a pilot for hire. However, the expense of the materials led her to pursue her own mining opportunities so that she could actually make a profit. Mae connected with her existing clients to approach them about possibly investing into her new business venture. Unfortunately, this was a dry well, and she had to seek out investments elsewhere. It was harder than she thought to gain the funding for her business, even the crime families would not loan to her without a credible reputation. This is where Alic Fillar (NPC) came in. He had both reputation for being good on his investments to the Banking clan and the crime families. Alic took on the risk in exchange for a high percentage of the profits, leading control of the company, as well as a large buyout arrangement.

After establishing the corporation and the cooperation of Mae's established workers and customer list, Alic realized the literal Chromium mine he was sitting on and decided to push for supreme control over the corporation. In doing so, he was not able to push his former partner completely out, but was able to push her down to a lowly supervisor position and out of his worry, for the time being.

The initial funding went towards acquiring a Celtic-3 M&M ship to set up supply and manufactured goods. Although the company has allegiances to a few factions over others, it would be extremely bad for business if they denied service to anyone due to those allegiances. Mae recognizes the value in appealing to all customers, however, she has built her business model around mass production of high profit items with the occasional custom job from time to time.

The Blue Flame's goals are to start with just a mining and manufacturing but as profits increase, so will expenses and the corporation may dive into the darker sides of the galaxy to make it.

Mae intends to one day, hopefully soon, buyout Alic and gain full control of the company, however, with his push for supreme control over the company, it maybe harder than she first intended.​

Organization

The Blue Flame is broken down into many areas of income. While they are each at a starting point now, each area has plenty of room for improvement. The focus to start is mining, weapons and star fighter production. The core of the organization is that the product is made completely from start to finish through the company. This means from raw ore, to refined ore, to manufactured product.

Manufacturing Division Shady Division Research and Development Mining Division

• Weapons and Star Fighters
• TBD
• New Ship Designs
• Mining the various ores of the galaxy

Intent
To create a corporation that provides an area of growth for all parties involved. This is ran by NPC but will eventually become a PC ran by Mae with sufficient membership and plot threads completed.

Plots​

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[Wit]

A lot of this is a literal copy paste of Blackwell Independeng Technologies . While using the formatting template is one thing, just copying the intent and even the organization is not okay and will most probably result in an auto reject.

Also, as you seem to effectively copying BIT, you should know that all the assets and products listed by BIT were earned through RP. I see you have your own and Coach's characters already part of the roster, did you guys actually RP out that or are you just habdwavinf being part of this group?

I'd strongly suggest a complete rewrite of this as it is nothing short of plagiarized right now.

 

[Trix]

I thought I did a pretty good job at making it my own. Yes, I used the template but the ideas are my own. I deleted or changed everything that was not my original thought. And I was reading in the NPC faction creation thread that they can start out with the assets that fit its roll. I can remove the two small manufacturing plants and 8 light fighters if that is what you are talking about?

@Wit

 

[Trix]

you should know that all the assets and products listed by BIT were earned through RP.

Subsection F: NPC Organizations may start with assets reasonable to the size and type of organization

Thats what the Celtic-3 M&M is, the very least for the type of organization and the mining skiffs are needed for the mining. I can see the freighters and light fighters need a thread maybe?

 

[Wit]

That statement was more of "if you wanna copy everything then copy the effort they put in as well", be not a statement on rule violations. Also, if your PC is in charge of this thing then why isn't it a PC faction? NPC factions are more like flavor elements, this is more you putting yourself in a position of power that seems totally unearned.

 

[Trix]

My character is not in charge. It is controlled by an NPC. One day, it will be controlled by my character, but as it states in the write up, she does not have the reputation and credit to start a corporation or acquire loans and funding. She will do some RPing and plots to acquire control.

A PC organization needs 5 members to start up, I dont have that, so I was told to make an NPC organization until I can acquire the fire members through RP, and then make the switch.

*Discord Indie-Faction*
Trix wrote "Or could I make an NPC (faction) that eventually becomes a PC (faction)"

Aberforth Replied "Yes."

 

[The Good Doctor]

Yours and Coach character's are placed as board members/commanders, which are effectively leadership positions even if it's not the main leader, and you can not handwave being in such a high ranking position even in an NPC organization. You would be starting at the bottom like you would in a main faction.

Either way with the establishing a PC organization or becoming the head of a NPC organization, any influence/ranking up has to have in-character merit through roleplay to back it up, such as plots. And taking over an NPC organization isn't going to be a walk in the park either.

 

[Trix]

Yours and Coach character's are placed as board members/commanders, which are effectively leadership positions even if it's not the main leader, and you can not handwave being in such a high ranking position even in an NPC organization. You would be starting at the bottom like you would in a main faction.

Either way with the establishing a PC organization or becoming the head of a NPC organization, any influence/ranking up has to have in-character merit through roleplay to back it up, such as plots. And taking over an NPC organization isn't going to be a walk in the park either.

Thank you for the detailed explanation. I understand. I will edit to comply.

 

[Trix]

@Faster Than Light

Okay, I made Coaches character and my own at the bottom rank. I also edited the description to show why the company was originally set up by Mae and the NPC and how she was forced to the bottom and establishes a plot line for her to eventually take over the company.

 

[Wit]

@Faster Than Light

Okay, I made Coaches character and my own at the bottom rank. I also edited the description to show why the company was originally set up by Mae and the NPC and how she was forced to the bottom and establishes a plot line for her to eventually take over the company.

Just asking from a character bio point of view, was her role in establishing and losing the company a part of her bio? Or is that something that happens in the period after her approval? In which case you'd have to RP that out as it's an established character. I ask because something like that would not have been approved for a level 1 character as it gives her an unfair advantage with respect to the influence she could gain from this faction. Also, she's 19, when did she have the time to set up a company and lose it?

 

[Trix]

Just asking from a character bio point of view, was her role in establishing and losing the company a part of her bio? Or is that something that happens in the period after her approval?

Period after and I plan to RP it.

I ask because something like that would not have been approved for a level 1 character as it gives her an unfair advantage with respect to the influence she could gain from this faction.

An idea cannot be limited to a level 4 character. A faction, yes, and I understand that she cant own a faction at level 1, but the idea cannot be limited to rank. Thats all it is, an idea, she tried to make it happen but it was stolen and set up under someone else. Now she much RP, and gain rank to gain control of her idea in physical form.

Also, she's 19, when did she have the time to set up a company and lose it?

The idea set in motion could take a week to six months. Seeing as how time is pretty fluid within the timeline, I think you can understand the answer to your own question. If not, how about asking Doogie Howser how he became a doctor by the age of 14.

 

[Wit]

Period after and I plan to RP it.

Good, I needed to confirm this to make sure you weren't modifying the character's bio to force this into their background.

An idea cannot be limited to a level 4 character. A faction, yes, and I understand that she cant own a faction at level 1, but the idea cannot be limited to rank. Thats all it is, an idea, she tried to make it happen but it was stolen and set up under someone else. Now she much RP, and gain rank to gain control of her idea in physical form.

An idea cannot be limited, but its execution can be. The execution is what I asked about from a character bio point of view. If the creation of the faction was somehow part of the character's bio then it would not have been approved, because that is restricted by level 1 characters. All characters have to start at a similar footing, and having such a faction's creation in their background would mean that this character did not start at that level footing. Which is why I asked because as character mod I had to make sure that this was not the case, and that such a change wasn't being inserted into the bio.

Now she much RP, and gain rank to gain control of her idea in physical form.

Are you going to RP out the faction being formed and getting stolen from her or just her attempt to reclaim it? The original setup and it getting stolen will also have to be RP'd is the original point I made, and if you want to just RP the recovery then you are very much making it more than just an idea. You're handwaving a part of the actual setup.

The idea set in motion could take a week to six months. Seeing as how time is pretty fluid within the timeline, I think you can understand the answer to your own question. If not, how about asking Doogie Howser how he became a doctor by the age of 14.

Time is fluid, but not that fluid. We've asked characters to be aged up when people have accomplished too much with them without aging them up. So yes, I do know the answer to that question is, and nine times out of ten the answer is that things were treated in a highly unrealistic manner. Which is why I asked so as to help identify and fix any potential issues. Also, if we're being snarky then a Doogie Howser character would have been rejected on the spot. If Doogie Howser is your defense then I don't really have more to say.

 

[Trix]

You know, I wrote all of this to help with RPing... I did not write any of this to get a leg up on anyone. I defended you when Coach took things personal, but now I am kinda seeing his point. Instead of attacking me and making me feel like i did something wrong, why do you not just help me fix the mistakes and move forward?

The Doogie Howser comment was not to be snarky, but to point out that he is fiction and so is this....

 

[Wit]

You know, I wrote all of this to help with RPing... I did not write any of this to get a leg up on anyone. I defended you when Coach took things personal, but now I am kinda seeing his point. Instead of attacking me and making me feel like i did something wrong, why do you not just help me fix the mistakes and move forward?

The Doogie Howser comment was not to be snarky, but to point out that he is fiction and so is this....

That’s very big of you, but whether or not you or anyone else takes things personally makes no difference to me. You literally plagiarized another faction, I pointed out what was copied. You had issues with the write up where you made your characters the faction leaders in all but name, which would have been hand waving a lot of character development rules and might have made this go into PC faction territory if not changed. And then I asked what you would be RPing and what you would be treating as background to make sure no character rules are being broken. Along all these steps I pointed out things that needed to be changed to make this faction work, if that is not helping then I am sorry but you’re expecting a level of hand holding that is beyond me. If you had not made the changes you have made so far I can assure you this submission would get auto rejected the moment it got reviewed and you’d probably be getting a warning for plagiarism. So best of luck with this, whatever if any mistakes might remain will probably be pointed out when the official review happens.