Synth Foods, Inc.

[SimonBlack]

(I cant believe Im bumping this...in a good way of course)

Ingame activities.

We are legal (some more legal than others) traders who distribute monopoly of synth paste and other kind of foods. You can find our trade routes and (never ending) goals on faction proposal. We make convoys usually consisting of one - two synth's and a bunch of Bounty Hunter or Mercenary escorts. Usually its one synth, other trader heading the same route and about two escort fighters/bombers. (Bigest thing we hire is a gunship, but thats quite rear). I try to encourage forming up convoys. Our goals are also stated in the proposal. Now here comes some links.

The proposal is rather old and its natural for you to check if we havent died out yet, well I must say we havent... here you go. The topic is relatively new but often gets bumped to the top two pages.

http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=16579

We use this as message dump, to coordinate ourselves, but the real reason is to show some off-game roleplay to the discovery community in general. You can find at least 4 very active members posts there. Theres also Etapharevan too, but he only shows forum activity, as you already know.

Another major ahcievment, if I may say so is our bounty board.

http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=12922

It is a rather unique bounty board as the topic is never bumped. I update the front page frequently, though and Bounty Hunters are bound to check it weekly at least. Another interesting thing for the bounty board is that all the bounties reflect damage that Synth Foods corporation has taken from the bandits. The more you rob us, destroy our escorts and disrupt business in general, the higher the bounty becomes. It was pretty much done to try and decrease amounts of 30 mil bounties on a person. In my humble opinion, no corproation would put a bounty ten times higher than potential damage, espiacally if a bounty is put on each pirate encounter. We also have hall of fame for best bounty hunters, most wanted list and... well thats pretty much it.

Another thing that we did was to hire Mandalorians to escort us and go after our prey. In exchange of 20 percent bounty's fee Mandalorians have accepted to pay extra care on Synth Foods Inc. targets. So, we hired each other. It made for some interesting roleplay. You can see news reports (by me) on CNS.

http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?...11232&st=0

We have also raised a slogan competition. The RP was held on bounty board and we had the suggestions on this link.

http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?...ods+slogan

It was a fine way to get ourselves a slogan, which we did and now use it on message dump and bounty board. I have same plan for getting us a "flag". (well its not a flag, more like an icon)

Organised a non-public event for Rivaura mercenaries.

http://discoverygc.com/forums/index.php?showtopic=14888

I am thinking of creating a public event based on this piece of roleplay.

For other future plans... Create "flag" making competition.

Recruit some more members. (if we get approved we can make recruitment topic which will speed things up a lot)

Promote current members. (probably to be an inter-active roleplay due to time difference)

Hire a research from CRI (the participants would have to go from london to new york and collect data on how many times they are attacked. we would hire this kind of research to see which parts of our most important route are the most dangerous).

Honshu commerce theory event (you go from stuttgart to honshu via Frankfurt, but can never find a good route back). In RP we would hire economists of sirius to create a theory of what could synth foods bring back on this route or along the route. The winner would be awarded.

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Character background summaries:
Red Hessians Major Matthias Schwarz
Golden Chrysanthemums Chusa Fumiko Shimazu