Renaming the MegaCorps Options

[CanRay]

Thanks DLN, couldn't remember who they were supposed to be. Just knew they were a Drug Cartel.

[PlatonicPimp]

Ares = Haliburton.

Just throwing that out there.

[Nath]

As far as I know, the cartel things in Aztechnology historical background doesn't show up before the 1995 Aztlan sourcebook. It precisely refers to the Medellin cartel, along with made-up David and Masaya cartels from Panama and Nicaragua (the Colombian Cali cartel is also mentionned, but isn't involved in ORO). The letters ORO stand for Juan Ortega, Julio Ramos and Diego Oriz, the heads of those cartels.

[Daddy's Litt...]

Didn't Otega, RL die in a hail of bullets from police who were in the shoot first and skip the questions mind set?

[hermit]

British Industrial was in food, energy and mining. The british industrial-military complex (in other words, BAE) is IWS group.

... which, according to London, is a subsidiary of BI.

There's also a good chunk of inspiration drawn from Google.

Good Point. Come to think of it, Hollywoogle.com would be a good alternative name for Horizon ...

As far as SR history goes, Yamatetsu (Evo's old name) was first a merger of japanese and filipino companies, moving to Russia much later.

And, according to Runner Havens, they bought up a bunch of nautics and general industry combinates there.

Saeder-Krupp is known to dominate the aerospace, nuclear and oil industries, so you can add French companies Safran, Areva, GDF, Schlumberger and parts of Total to the mix.

Yeah, though Total-Elf are part of GIAT and/or ESPRIT. The Oil stuff is more because of their massive Middle eastern investments, I'd suppose.

Also, Volkswagen is still independent, and Daimler is part of IFMU. Only BMW and Porsche belongs to Saeder-Krupp. BMW is, actually, the original company on which the Saeder-Krupp megacorporation was built.

Wasn't Volkswagen supposed to be an EMC company, and EMC an SK subsidiary? Anyway, that might be another German-only not-quite-canonic piece of info.

Ares = Haliburton.

Just throwing that out there.

MUCH bigger than that.

Didn't Otega, RL die in a hail of bullets from police who were in the shoot first and skip the questions mind set?

I'd think so. On a roof while making a hasty escape, IIRC.

[Nath]

British Industrial was in food, energy and mining. The british industrial-military complex (in other words, BAE) is IWS group.

... which, according to London, is a subsidiary of BI.

I'm pretty sure the London sourcebook doesn't say that. BI and IWS have a common shareholder, Justin Carmichael. IWS capital is also held by Edward Symington and George Matthews, and supposedly as much as 30% by Ares Macrotechnology. No reference to BI owning IWS that I could find. Honestly, I'd be quite disappointed by my work, had I missed such fact.

Yeah, though Total-Elf are part of GIAT and/or ESPRIT. The Oil stuff is more because of their massive Middle eastern investments, I'd suppose.

Saeder-Krupp owns GIAT, GIAT owns shares in Esprit, and Esprit owns Total-Elf. Having wrote that part, the idea was to have various guise under which Seader-Krupp would dominate Europe (and the middle east oil industry in that case) instead of having it just owning everything plainly. In this case, Total-Elf is still around, but nearly all its oilfields would be joint-ventures with S-K. Lofwyr gives the money and pulls the strings, Total-Elf does the day-to-day work, and Lofwyr got oil back.

Wasn't Volkswagen supposed to be an EMC company, and EMC an SK subsidiary? Anyway, that might be another German-only not-quite-canonic piece of info.

According to Germany SB and Rigger 3, the European Motor Company is made of Peugeot, Citroën, Skoda, Opel, Jaguar, Range Rover and DAF, and the Ford Motor Company owns it. According to the Germany SB, Volskwagen belongs to the Deutsche Treuhandstalt Finanztransaktions-und consulting ÖAG.

[Voran]

All restaurants are Taco Bell.


Following the franchise wars.

[DWC]

I'd think so. On a roof while making a hasty escape, IIRC.

Pablo Escobar was the drug czar shot and killed while crossing a roof, fleeing a police raid.