01-11-2019, 04:38 AM | #41 |
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Re: Comment my megacorporation
Honestly, you're looking at setting up shop in a place more like Singapore, which refuses to enter treaties that acknowledge other nations' patent and copyright laws. So select one of the smaller Caribbean/Lesser Antilles nations (Grenada, Barbados, Haiti, etc) and alter their laws enough to let it happen. Or just make one up (a long and storied tradition in comics; see not just the afore-mentioned Latveria but Genosha, Wakanda, Qurac, Biyalia, Markovia, etc.)
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01-11-2019, 04:46 AM | #42 |
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I like this idea and will check them for sure, but at this moment I have put my mind on claiming the antarctica.
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01-11-2019, 04:49 AM | #43 | |
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*Starting with an organisation that has no military tradition, no experienced officers and trainers and no infrastructure to make war, you'd need several years and access to a wide recruiting pool of people who don't consider you an enemy of their state just to be able to transform from a commercial corporation to effective military. As your headquarters and any executives that could be located would probably be destroyed or dead in the first few hours of a shooting war with NATO, ideally, you should probably still avoid that war.
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01-11-2019, 04:50 AM | #44 |
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After running a test I hace come with a maximum military budget would be 100.8 billion dollars (before the merger, each company would be worth about 200 billion dollars and able to contribute 25.2 billion dollars to the shared effort), for which NATO would require 403.2 billion dollars for a 50% probability of success, if NATO budget is 1 trillion dollars, the corporation would have a 23.5% of success.
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01-11-2019, 04:52 AM | #45 |
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Then Genesis have biomorphic combat androids and artificial intelligences, so they dont need to do any recruiting, only a safe warehouse and sufficient means of transport to conveniently allocate the units before launching their claim on the Antarctic.
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01-11-2019, 04:54 AM | #46 | |
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It takes time to turn money into military assets. How would your corporation buy that time, when it is certain that as soon as they started to prepare a military force to match NATO, they would be publicly known to be a revolutionary organisation and there would be no significant political difficulty in ordering the full force of any country that harbored assets of the company to dismantle it completely?
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01-11-2019, 04:57 AM | #47 | |
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Remember, you are trying to claim a sovereign territory so that you are not bound by inconvenient national laws. Before you do this, you don't have any place to hide military infrastructure equivalent to that of multiple nations, whether you are using digital means to control these military assets or not. Basically, without your secret Antarctic lair, you don't have any way to store secret stealth bombers, interceptors, thousands of nuclear weapons, stealth subs, tank divisions, airports and naval stations around the world. Nor all the other stuff you need.
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01-11-2019, 05:04 AM | #48 | |
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01-11-2019, 05:09 AM | #49 | |
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Presumably, the TL10/11 is a deep dark secret, probably kept with black magic and comic book hand-waving. If any technology that the company has access to that is higher than early TL9 (normal experimental lab stuff) is known by the outside world to exist, then the company has probably been taken over as time-travelers or an alien outpost and the rest of the world is rapidly approaching TL10 from reverse engineering the alien or future technology.
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01-11-2019, 05:21 AM | #50 |
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At any moment there is a limited number of human engineers working at skill 26 (18 (skill)+4(assistants)+4(versatile 4)). By selling just some TL10 technology they would be rolling at -27 (-22(amazing)+5(working model)-10(TL+2)). If they were to take 30 times the basic time, that would be rolling against 4, which means 1.85% probability for success, or about 1418 years to reverse anything. And this presupposes that the androids, being artificial intelligences, consented instead of resorting to self-destruction.
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