#mega corps

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Environmental devastation, mass produced food products with little nutrients and big health concerns are just a few of the consequences related to outsourcing Americas farms to mega corps.

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[machetesurvivor]

so i just played my first session of The Sprawl, which is an Dungeon World style tabletop rpg set in a typical cyberpunk dystopia. 

One of the first things our DM did to make things interesting was have us each create our own mega-corporation. These corps were completely divorced from our characters, and we mainly used them as a vehicle for worldbuilding.

Everyone came up with such interesting ideas that it gave me a valid excuse to start fucking around w/ graphic design again. There are descriptions of each corp under the cut

 -- Damocles Orbital Trade & Security (by Zaine) :

A shipping, freighting and security company that has it’s roots in Old Earth. Run by the incredibly deadly and borderline psychotic CEO Stephanie Zhang, Damocles Orbital maintains a monopoly on intergalactic security by secretly funding intergalactic warfare. Damocles Orbital keeps their thumbs in a large number of shell companies, R&D divisions and journalism outlets. Ensuring that there is always enough threat, and that everybody always knows about it.

 -- V (by Nic) :

Operated by actual Cyber-Vampires. V is a secretive shadow organisation that manipulates social movements to suit their needs. If a government is overturned by it’s people, there is no doubt that V had a stake in their success. Agents of V will infiltrate revolutionary groups, assassinate & replace their leaders, and distribute mind numbing psycho-actives to the revolutionaries, turning a once righteous movement into an army of drones. Their secret “Hail Hydra” signal is the peace sign (a fist with two fingers up).

 -- Disney’s Media Sparks (by Marlee) : 

Yep, one of our mega-corporations is just Disney. Run and led by Walt Disney’s pickled brain in a jar. I’m glad some Old Earth shit doesn’t change. The only difference here is that, Disney owns all the media. News networks, political coverage, entertainment, magazines. If it’s hitting your eyeballs, chances are it was paid for with Disney money. The up-and-coming pop idol Media Sparks has become the new face of the corporation. She hasn’t aged a day in 70 years! If you want to see her perform live, you can sign up for a VR cortex-chip subscription, that can take you straight to the performance wherever you are! Remember to pay that subscription fee every month, or else the microchip we’ve embedded in your brain might sever your frontal lobe and turn you into a Disney-slave xo <3.

 -- The Dapper Hat’s Company (by Tegan) :

This one’s super fun. The Dapper Hats Company is a death-cult actually run by literally Cthulhu. Their base of operations is the nuclear husk of Old Earth (where i guess Cthulhu still is, like he wouldn’t be able to fit on a spaceship). The goal of The Dapper Hats Company is to travel the galaxy and give out their luxurious head wear to as many people who will take it. I’m not saying there’s an appendage of Cthulhu inside of every hat. I’m not saying that if you put one on the severed tentacle will dig it’s way into your brain and expose you to the dark Eldritch truth. What I’m saying is the hats look super snazzy try one you’ll love it.

 -- Enercom (by Pat) :

So Typhon Lancaster, founder of Enercom, was an aristocratic investor who decided to take a vacation to the Cyrus moon one cycle. What he found on that moon changed his life. A new mineral he named Typh, that turns out to be one of the galaxies most efficient fuel sources. What’s the best part? Something on this moon is making the mineral regenerate. He has no idea why, but whatever the quarries dig up simply reappears overnight. This is a miracle that Enercom has kept secret so that he can hike prices and establish a monopoly on the energy industry. Any and all electronics in the Sprawl are being powered by Enercom, and if you’re still using solar? Typhon will hire out a local gang to convince you.

 -- The Crown (by Iman, our DM) : 

A hardware and tech company, The Crown has faded into the background as the ‘Intel(c)’ of this world. If you’re using any kind of cybernetics, running any brand of OS, or piloting any breed of Mecha, you’re probably making use of Crown technology. They sell luxury cybernetics through their mainline, but outsource their chips and other tech to any and all willing buyers. The Crown also his it’s own privatised military force of cyber-enhanced super-soldiers called The Saints. The figureheads at the top of this company like to treat themselves as if they were a royal family. They make public appearances in long velvet gowns, and adorn themselves with monarch-style jewellery. I like to imagine their advertisements look like something out of a Magnum-brand ice cream commercial

[dj-tunic]

I know it's still kinda gonna be public access. But.. that's at the behest of a mega corporation. What happens when they decide its not financially viable to keep a public access show up and running? Netflix used to be ad free, remember? How will it be affected by censorship? Will they start chanting how mega corporations are your friend? More and more product placement? I see this as a huge loss.

[ground-zoro]

I wish Public Domain could be used as a weapon to beat Mega Corps into submission with. 

Like could you imagine The European Court of Justice, or equivalent, punishing the likes of Disney or Apples by consigning one or more of their patents or intellectual portieres to Public Domain. 

Apple constantly breaks European Law, that almost every other phone manufacturer abides. Apple decided it’s more profitable to just pay to pay the fine and keep making money off using chargers that only work with their devices and that only they make. So imagine  The European Court of Justice deciding to just transfer all of Apples Liquid Metal patents to Public Domain.

Similar with Disney, or Google or any of the other Mega Corps. 

Lets see them make money with all their big ticket properties taken away. Star Wars or Marvel now Public Domain. The Devil only knows what could be taken off Google.

Normal fines no matter how large, just don’t work on Mega Corps so large that they’ll barely notice the fine because of how fast they’ll make it back. 

They’ll notice a large reduction in their ability to earn money. 

[vegandreamkiller-blog]

Some of your beloved vegan products come from companies owned by mega corporations who have no interest in your health, access to healthy foods, or animals. 

I'm continually coming across things in life that seem really vegan, or cruelty-free and then it turns out they often are not. 

Join me in learning more about our compassionate choices and how they affect the animals, our fellow humans, and our planet. 

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