Emodriver Plot Role Info

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[cloudpotter]

okay, stop me if this seems off at any point:

Corentin Shinera, whose last name is definitely not Shinra with an extra letter, is the inheritor of a company that was okay before him and is much, much better now. Unlike other CEOs who turned their father's war companies into manufacturers of children's games, Corentin dug his heels in deep and committed to the technology that will now save the world. It took a lot to get AEGISCorp to this point of success. There were back-room deals, some people who were made to disappear, some scandals carefully crafted and then brought to light... and thanks to Corentin's efforts, AEGISCorp is now the only company producing the technology that the EDF needs to win this war.

He's confident, he's charismatic, and he's just a little bit on the side of being cold-blooded. He knows what to say and when to say it, and when the survival of the Earth is on the line it's So Easy to assure people that it's All For The Best. They might not like it, but what else are they going to do about it?

[carbonatedscientist]

Hey, boss, hey, just keep would-be nosy people off his back and out of his lab and Dr. Katsuragi will keep the scientific advancements coming.

[ninjayeehaw]

nOSES IN ON ALL A Y'ALL

[cloudpotter]

allaallayayalllyall

[carbonatedscientist]

BOSS, THE WEIRD TEXAN'S BACK can I just quietly arrange for him to disappear

[cloudpotter]

it's either you take him or a field test goes badly, take your pick

[carbonatedscientist]

okay but the field test is my favorite way of offing people so this works perfectly

[cloudpotter]

katsuragi his pride for you is like that of the son he never had

just don't screw up

[carbonatedscientist]

A genius of his caliber never screws up!

...there was just the one time with the rock musician he was testing an S-Tech thing on and accidentally killed the guy and took his face, but details, details, that was just the one time.

[cloudpotter]

iqolagiouhdljgahahaahahhahahahahahahaha

okay but if Katsuragi were in Corentin's employ at the time, that can definitely be one of the things Corentin's covered up in the process of Making AEGISCorp Great Again

[carbonatedscientist]

That is excellent; I'm posting his plotting comment there but yeah, I'm running with canon's "took the rock star's appearance for Reasons" as "screwed up some sketchy research real bad."

Katsuragi appreciates Corentin's dedication to covering his less-than-ethical screwup, and he'll send over a nice bottle of wine in thanks, he knows how to apply a token "thanks for covering up the murder" gift.

[otomechapilot]

sup Yakkimort hows the warmongering trade going? Pretty good it doesn’t seem

Congratulations, your tiresome shenanigans have attracted the attention of someone who’s job is military logistics.

[cloudpotter]

what warmongering? he wants the ESDF to win as surely as anyone. :) :) :)

[otomechapilot]

Munghungwa Dynamics called they want their munitions plant back.

Buddo she did antipiracy work she knows what deniable privateers look like

(take this and run with it if you want)

[cloudpotter]

oooooh are they actually using Munghungwa Dynamics' munition plant? if yes, did they buy it from the competitor or are they using it as part of an agreement?

alsoalso

is Thorne an AEGISCorp employee, an ESDF employee, or another company's employee altogether?

[otomechapilot]

I was suggesting industrial sabotage but buying it out (afterwards?) is cool too.

Thorne works for AEGIS, and liasons with the ESDF as an expert. Katsuragi is likely the same.

[cloudpotter]

excellent

On the topic of AEGISCorp's payroll - re: Philip/Nina's concerts, 'the people who pay for your concerts work for AEGISCorp'. So is that AEGISCorp are paying the concerts, or like, some people who work for AEGISCorp have a side-business set up where they're paying from pockets that are separate to AEGISCorp? If AEGISCorp are bankrolling these concerts, how much information on the idol is kept in AEGISCorp's files and should Corentin have interacted with them in the past?

[otomechapilot]

It’s a “wholly owned subsidiary” situation.

It’s unlikely but possible that he’s personally met Philip, considerably more likely that he’s met Nina, and almost certain he has a personell file going “yeah Philip is totes Nina.”

[cloudpotter]

Is it open knowledge that AEGISCorp is the parent company, and for the purposes of this Jaunt does it matter who's on that management team or can it be assumed that they'll just do whatever this guy tells them to do anyway? eg if he wants a concert to be held for [x] purposes, can he make that happen by handwaving telling the subsidiary's management team to do it?

[otomechapilot]

Not commonly known but easy enough to follow the trail of corporate structure.

It matters when someone wants to play Nina’s manager or smth and until then basically you can do stuff short of sending her directly into a warzone - it’s a civilian media company with the limits of such.

[thornsofmalkav]

I suspect Thorne signed on at some point before Dara was ousted, because she wanted a chance to work with her CHILDHOOD REAL LIFE SCIENCE HERO. Honestly, probably part of why she needles Takumi (besides him being fun to needle) is because she's still disappoint that he's her partner now and not her CHILDHOOD REAL LIFE SCIENCE HERO.