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NERV Foundation

See
NERV Foundation article.

Red
Earth


Phase
One – NERV Headquarters (No First Ancestral Race Lifeforms were Harmed During
Construction... ):
Started in
2010, the western quarter of "the Big Peacock" houses the primary production
lines, offices, and labs of the NERV Foundation and SEELE Council members. Declared
fully operational in January 2011.

Phase
Two – Hollow Fields Plantation (... or any Mad Scientist Students... ):
More multi-sectioned, enormous
greenhouses than plantation, these sources of fresh foodstuffs are run by NERV
Section One's Agro Division and were
constructed at the same time as NERV HQ to provide local perishables and a
source of export revenue. Also like NERV HQ, while operational the moment the
first greenhouse was finished, constant improvements and the occasional
expansion continue.

Phase
Three – H.G. Wells Spaceport (... and Neither were any Tripod-Driving Natives):
located in the southern portion of Pavonis Mons's cone, it
was completed in November 2012. Facilities include both slips for ships of
various sizes, several large joint hangars, as well as cheaply rentable three
to five room apartment flats called The Peacock Arms and simple but comfortable
temporary rooms at Hotel California. It was constructed at the same time as and
followed closely by...

Phase Four – The Town of Sheffield ("For the last time Kazuo
– NO SPACE ELEVATOR!!"):
completed
in February 2013. Sheffield is built in an ancient (at least 2.2 billion years
old) secondary, vertical lava tube of Pavonis that was covered by its latter,
more obvious one. Uncovered and excavated during the spaceport's construction
(the precious stones recovered filled the foundation's joint project coffer
quite nicely), the resulting settlement proved amusingly funnel-shaped.

Phase Five – The City of New Port ("Yes, I know the city plan is out of NGE, but
using the original name just doesn't fit."):
After the caldera's vulcanocrete lining and Genesis-made,
pitch black pressure dome were completed in January 2014, construction on Phase
Four was carried out in as secret an environment as possible using Cyberdyne's
T-Series non-sapient robots as laborers and with non-disclosure enforced
supervision. After a certain fellow with the initials "K.S." was granted
reluctant admission to assure the more paranoid that nothing untoward was
happening and agreeing to secrecy so long as this was true ("K.S." actually seems
to get a kick out of just grinning whenever someone asks him what he learned),
nothing but rumors about parks and "the first forests on Mars" managed to leak
out until the Convention at Coruscant, shortly after the Pan Incident, when the
SEELE Council decided that something ‘very positive' needed to occur at the
Convention for morale's sake... see story "Red Earth Opening Ceremony" [Soon To
Come]

[Image: Tokyo-3.jpg]




New Port City, main district (2024)




Phase
Six – The Geofront ("'How did it get hollow?' Oh, come on – where do you think all the raw material for the
vulcanocrete used in Phase Five came from?!"):




An attempt by the NERV Foundation to
create a self-sustaining ecosystem, The information gained during its
development will hopefully provide useful data to the Mars Terraforming
Project.



Rumors that the Geofront serves as
the base of operations for a secret section of the NERV Foundation are, of
course, complete hogwash.



[Image: Geo-Front.jpg]



‘Ecosystem Monitoring Facility'/NERV
Section Five Complex



The Sightings:
In the countless manmade tunnels and caverns of Pavonis, sometimes the mind
plays tricks on you – or does it? Rumors of sightings of a mysterious teenage Japanese
boy wearing a bandana and carrying a backpack and umbrella wandering the
tunnels lost are told in the bars of Sheffield. And that isn't all...



Elysium
Cooperative


No
description of Pavonis can really be given without including a mention of the
basics about the Elysium Cooperative. Slayers Fen, Rune Soldier Fen, Zero
no Tsukaima Fen, GURPS and Palladium Fantasy Fen... Seemingly all fantasy-minded
short of the Wizards and D&Ders decided to band together to claim a
homeland for themselves on the Red Planet.

Or, at
least, to prepare for a future claiming of said homeland. The "Elies" have decided that, when the time comes once the
Mars Terraforming Project reaches that point, the Continent of Elysium and her
islands in the Sea of Utopia shall be their Promised Land.

Until then, however, the Elies have
hunkered down in Pavonis, some commuting daily to the future sites of their
individual or collective settlements to do what work they already can – the
(temporarily!) pressure-domed, pan-fandom city of Seiluun and her various
white-walled city districts seems to be coming right along – on Elysium, while
still others work for NERV or independent Pavonis employers to meet ends meat
and save up funds for their own special projects.

Education

Until what
became known as the Red Earth Opening Ceremony, the only educational facilities
available were those classes available at the Sheffield Community Center.
Once Akamatsu-sensei (who requested the Hinata-sou built as a private home for
himself in return) and other copyright holders secretly signed off on it,
however, Mahora Academy, with mixed and separate gender classes from
elementary to graduate (and later post-graduate) curriculums was ready to open following New Port City's big reveal.

Religion

Reflecting
the American and Japanese roots of its founders, religious needs can be met at the
non-denominational Travelers' Chapel in Sheffield and, later, the Tatsumiya
Shrine in New Port City. Several alternatives not sponsored by the foundation
also exist.

Infrastructure

The four
departments of the NERV Foundation and their various divisions handle most
public services throughout the arcology.

The Pavonis
Arcology Police Department, Pavonis Arcology Fire Department, and their
precincts, while started by the NERV Foundation, were immediately decentralized
form NERV to private control following completion.

Sheffield
and New Port City each possess a mayor and a town and city council,
respectively. H.G. Wells Spaceport has an administrator appointed by the SEELE
Council. NERV Headquarters and the Geofront are directly under NERV Foundation
control.

Entertainment


While
nowhere near the totality of Pavonis' entertainment options, some of them
include: various activities at the Sheffield Community Center, the same
community's four-screen Majestic Theatre, various clubs and the sixteen screen
Peacock Megaplex on NPC's Electric Avenue, and, starting in 2022, the fantastic
Kaleido Stage.

Food


In
addition to several common American and Japanese chain and franchise stores,
Pavonis also features: Cheers (an American-style bar based on the one in the
television show of the same name; Sheffield), Bar Nonbou (a combination
Japanese-style bar and Korean BBQ; Sheffield), The Italian Job (Italian food,
obviously; New Port City), My Big Fat Greek Restaurant (Greek cuisine, again
obviously; New Port City), Café Relish (a Japanese maid café; New Port City),
and The Ministry of Silly Walks (an English-style pub; Sheffield).

Trivia


Due to a
bit of secretly purposeful micro-managing by several SEELE Council members, Toyota
and Ford each opened shops on the same day at the same time on 24 May 2019 on
Copperhead Road in New Port City across from the Rubber Duck Trucking Company –
they each claim right of "first car dealership off of Earth."

~~~

NERV Foundation

The NERV Foundation is essentially a business conglomerate with a board
of directors – the SEELE Council – who, while maintaining complete control over
their own enterprises, cooperate heavily with one another in various joint
projects and philanthropic ventures.

[Image: NERV-Emblem2.png]

Emblem used by the NERV Foundation

The most ambitious of the
foundation's philanthropic ventures and the plan from which the foundation
draws its name is its Natural Environment Re-creation Venture, the natural
environment in question being the natural environment for humanity, the current
focus project of which is Project RED EARTH (see Pavonis Arcology article).

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NERV Section One

The Pavonis Arcology Support Services (PASS)
provide and service electrical utilities, water supply and treatment, life
support, running Hollow Fields (Agro Division), and similar work for the
Pavonis Arcology.

NERV
Section Two


The Special Tactics And Rescue Service (STARS)
is a paramilitary organization whose Security Division, Defense Division, Intelligence
Division, Emergency Division, Logistics Division, and Hazard Division serve the
NERV Foundation and Pavonis Arcology.

[Image: stars_badge12.jpg]

Badge
prototype; RPD shield replaced with Armitage
III
planet-in-tree symbol in final version

Note: The
STARS do not provide regular police and firefighting services.

NERV
Section Three


Technological Research And
Development (T-RAD)
...
enough said.

NERV
Section Four


Biological Research And Development (B-RAD)... ditto.

Joint
Projects


Ongoing
joint research and development projects between the NERV Foundation members
include:

Project FRAGMENT (Altimit/Heartland
project that produced a working version of the DotHack franchise in-series
MMORPG, The World [available November 2012])

Project ATF (energy fields and force fields)

Project SUPER SOLENOID (energy generation)

Project EGO BOUNDRY (man-machine interfaces)

Project HEINFLICK LIMIT (FTL technologies)

Project REFRESHER (following Struve Conspiracy, data on
biomoding the Boskones considered ‘useless' recovered during investigation used
to offer those getting on in years and otherwise down in health an option of
several ‘controlled biomods' – Antarctic Press Furries [‘too strong and free
willed'] and Fantasy Short Folk [‘too limited a customer base'] surprisingly
popular, as is the Mischievous Kitsune Biomod)

Project DIRAC SEA (dimensional studies [after
Interdimensional Incursion Incident and release of WFC])

Project LONGINUS LANCE (paranormal studies [after
Interdimensional Incursion Incident and release of WFC])

Project BLACK MOON (Boskone War development plan for defense
programs; discontinued after the war; rumors that some continued under a secret
NERV section are, of course, entirely preposterous)

DECA

The
Digital Enclave and Cyberspace Archive
is the central computer core of the foundation. It is connected, but not
integral, to the Pavonis Intranet, and can be isolated at a moment's notice
both manually and automatically.

As
one might imagine, it is controlled by the three MAGI – but each MAGI is itself
composed of three artificial intelligences. Casper is made up of three based
upon several ‘Vagrant AIs' from the DotHack franchise: Aura, Lycoris, and
Macha. Balthazar is made up of Meg, Lou, and Nam from Bubblegum Crisis. Whoever Melchior consists of, however, is
classified.

NERV
Section Five


***WHITENOISE***

This
section of NERV – the U.N. Mars Force
(UNMF)
– does not exist.

[Image: ficbuframmilitia.gif]

ZotE Bufram Militia flag. Used by the U.N.
Mars Force

DETAILS
FORTHCOMING

Project
WHITE MOON


***WHITENOISE***

STARS Intelligence
Division File 1028.4

Investigative
Report: White Umbrella (underworld organization)

Cross-Reference
IR(s) x6: Umbrella Corporation; Jennings & Rall, Incorporated; CyberConnect
Corporation; PMC Ravenwood; Tricell Pharmaceutical Company; Struve, Harry

DETAILS
FORTHCOMING
~~~

SEELE Council

The
NERV Foundation is essentially a business conglomerate with a board of
directors – the SEELE Council – who,
while maintaining complete control over their own enterprises, cooperate
heavily with one another in various joint projects and philanthropic ventures.

The
seven people presently on the council are: SEELE Chairman Alex Xanatos, CEO
Cyberdyne; Biwa Mishima, CEO Mishima; Mary Gamblin, CEO Altimit; James "Jimmy"
Blake, CEO Binford; Kazuo Jenkins, CEO Ajax; Lana Izavia, CEO Heartland; and The
O, CEO DeLorean.

Former
council members consist of: the late Airi Ikuhara-Xanatos, CEO Ikuhara; and
Harry Struve, ex CEO WilPharma, on the run and wanted by Great Justice
following the Battle of Serenity Valley.

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Cyberdyne Systems Corporation, Limited

Producing
human-use bionics and non-sapient robots, it originally outsourced a goodly
amount of its electrical components from daneside sources and later fellow
councilmember Ikuhara Electronics. Following the Battle of Serenity Valley,
Cyberdyne absorbed Ikuhara and its product lines in keeping with the prior
owner's wishes.

Its
bionics fall under the C-Series of products, which are increasingly
customizable by the generation.

Its main
line of robots come under the T-Series which, while having an internal computer
brain, possesses only a number of AI-designed specialist systems that are
designed to be easily modifiable and reprogrammable, o and consist of:

T-100 GASAR (Ground Assault and Support Actions Robot; based
on the T-1s/T-10s from the T3 movie; 70 were made for NERV HQ defense; 10 units
designated T-110, based on the versions from the Salvation movie, were made and sold to Operation Great Justice, at
cost; neither are legally available to the public)

T-200 Maintenance and Repair Robot (made in various chassis
configurations, the earliest T-202 model was available to the public on 11
January 2011)

T-300 Specialist Combat Robot Series (Project BLACK MOON
programs to replicate the T-325 Mototerminator, T-350 Snowterminator, and T-375
Hydrobot; programs ‘requested' by Great Justice to be suspended following
Boskone War conclusion; see ‘NERV Section Five')

T-400 Stealth Combat Humanoid Robot (Project BLACK MOON
program to replicate the T-HX; program ‘requested' by Great Justice to be
suspended following Boskone War conclusion; see ‘NERV Section Five'; no
successful prototype yet produced as of 2020)

T-500 "Harvester" Heavy Construction Robot (customizable
heavy labor robot; available to the public 18 March 2012)

T-600 Multi-Function Humanoid Robot (first successful
fully-humanoid robot approved for mass production; most noted quirk is that any
attempt at disguising a unit as being human fails [often humorously], much like
with its rubber-skinned source of inspiration; available to the public 5
November 2013; AI-Avatar capability upgrade package sold separately at same
time)

T-700 Heavy-Function Humanoid Robot (essentially a larger
and more durable version of the T-600, and available to the public at the same
time as its ‘little brother')

T-800 Advanced-Function Humanoid Robot (available to the
public starting on 12 August 2018, the T-800 Series initially comes in the
T-801 "Governator" Classic Model, T-825 "Cameron" Customizable Female Model,
and T-850 "" Customizable Male Model; utilizing WilPharma pioneered CMS-101
Synthflesh, it is half again as expensive as the still-available T-600)

WilPharma
Corporation


Initially
acting as a middle-man for Earth-made supplies, WilPharma began coming into its
own in early 2011 when it began producing its own hospital grade basic
materials, and received a hard won victory when the several daneside health
organizations certified its products in 2012.

The
corporation received a major shake-up following the Battle of Serenity Valley,
where evidence recovered by the Roughriders revealed that not only had CEO
Harry Struve been supplying the Boskones via daneside intermediaries, but had
concocted a plot with the terrorists to kill the other members of the SEELE
Council – of the nine members, only he did not attend SerenityCon – and allow
him to subsume control of the NERV Foundation and the Pavonis Arcology.

Following
these events, with the corporation routed of Boskones and their supporters,
control of WilPharma was seized by the SEELE Council until such a time as the
surviving seven members could appoint a replacement as CEO. This presents
problems (see Ikuhara section).

Mishima
Heavy Industries


Your
friendly, neighborhood defense concern.

Like many
of the original SEELE Council members, Mishima started out supplying Fenspace
with products it bought daneside as a middleman. Uniquely to Mishima's case,
and a source of much groaning and headaches once the rest found out about it, a
goodly amount of its start-up capital went to purchasing items off of black
market arms dealers – partly to keep them out of the wrong hands, mostly
because Biwa, being the military otaku she is, just couldn't help herself.
Fortunately, the council members managed to keep any of this from leaking out
(they hope), though they now have a secret stockpile of weapons to make any
Third World dictator envious.

This being
Fenspace, and Ms. Mishima being a Japanese military otaku, one would think her
company's products would include mecha – one would be right.

Following
the mobile suit scale MHI-M1 to M3's failures, a try at arm slave scale
produced and admittedly underpowered and unimpressive MHI-M4 "Mistral II" for
sale in July 2011. The much improved MHI-M5 "Type-96" was available by April
2013, with a slightly better MHI-M6 "Bushnell" arriving in May 2015.

Rumors of a
large, metal container labeled "MHI-M9" and "GERNSBACK" being spotted in
transit through a NERV Personnel Only tunnel in Pavonis is denied outright (see
‘NERV Section Five').

Altimit
Corporation


Internet
service, network setup, software development, specialist programs, computer
games – if it needs to speak 010010, Altimit are the folks to talk to –
especially as most of the employees are AI themeselves. Starting by purchasing
the rights to the DotHack series and its related material, a LINUX-based
operating system, ALTIMIT OS, has been in use by the NERV Foundation and SEELE
Council members since 2010 (upgraded to ALTIMIT MINE OS following the ‘Struve
Conspiracy').

Binford
Tools Company


Producing
first hand tools and basic parts, then power tools, and finally actual heavy
equipment, an unknown fen working for a building crew at Mars Vegas once
famously commented that Binford could be described as "the backbone of any
construction project on Mars." Needless to say, they take great pride in this.

Two of
Binford's earliest successes – so early that the CEO was also sole employee –
were also critical to the development of the Pavonis arcology: vulcanocrete and
the ultrasonic laser. Vulcanocrete is a ceramic material made up of lava rock
mixed with ground-up quartz and something else (generic plaster mixed with pure
handwavium, it's not a very good secret). The ultrasonic laser is more the
former than the latter, it is made out of old sonogram and sonar equipment and
modeled after the device of the same name from The Core – unfortunately, its not quite as effective as its
inspiration and, thus far, all attempts at making unobtanium have proven
futile.

In a quirk
that alternately annoys and amuses the company's employees and owner to no end,
no handwaved Binford product will work correctly unless it bears a ‘6100
Series' label.

Ajax
Material Supply Company


Growing
out of initial obscurity in the early 2010s, whether it's a product they
produce themselves or import from Earth, Ajax as of 2022 is recognized as the
largest chemical, wood, paper, plastic, and stone supplier outside of cislunar
space.

They're
initially tried to supply metals as well, but there was so much competition
there already that they just gave up on it – the main reason that metals of
various sorts are now one of Pavonis' largest imports.

Heartland
Play Systems


Handwavium
and toys... there exists not the space to encompass the joy and madness conceived.

Note:
Never ask about the Chucky dolls... just don't...

Extra
Note: Their Jumanji holographic board game is pretty fun, though.

DeLorean
Motor Company


Purchased
outright from Stephen Wynne, The O (never forget the ‘The') now slaps the DMC
logo on both waved and unwaved nich-market products both space- and
planet-side.

Products
include the DMC-12 Classic, the DMC-38 Yako (based Yak 38 Custom jet interceptor
in Evangelion; space-capable), the
DMC-40 Blue Angel (shuttle based on ‘UN 789' plane in Evangelion), the DMC-48 AD-Police Interceptor (chiefly exported to
Genaros; ‘Car 48, Where are You?' opening music must be played before
starting), and the DMC-50 Peel (based Peel P50; rights purchased 2016).

Ikuhara
Electronics


Selling
waved, partly waved, and non-waved electronics and electrical components, Ikuhara
was a successful business from its start to its end. Following Airi
Ikuhara-Xanatos' death at the Battle of Serenity Valley, the company was
absorbed by Cyberdyne, per its late owner's wishes.

According
to the SEELE Council Charter, the membership of the council must remain at nine
persons. This means that another business enterprise must be invited to join
both the council as well as the NERV Foundation. This also means revealing a
number of secrets to said invitee, some still only in the planning stages. The
council is debating its choices...
~~~
Well, there it is. *releases breath*
I guess I'll just come back in a couple of hours and check for any responses.
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“They opened up a can’a dumbass!” – Jon Stewart regarding Fox News, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.” – Harvey Fierstein
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#2
Quote:Thanks again to Bob wor welcoming me to the community.
My pleasure, Deputy. Just remember our two all-encompassing rules: 1) Have fun, and 2) Play nice.
Quote:After a certain fellow with the initials “K.S.” was granted reluctant admission
Katsuhito Stingray?
Quote:Mahora Academy
Sounds like just the place to set up some magic instruction once those parts of the Catalog become public...
Quote:My Big Fat Greek Restaurant
Seeing this, I just have to mention http://www.zagat.com/r/my-little-fat-gr ... t-freehold]My Little Fat Greek Restaurant in Freehold, NJ...
Quote:Biological Research And Development (B-RAD)
This really ought to be working in conjunction with the Joint Allied NERV Environmental Team.
Quote:Whoever Melchior consists of, however, is classified.
Manny, Moe and Jack. Or maybe Moe, Larry and Curly.

And that's as far as I got before I had to leave work. So far, looks very good.
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
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#3
Hello, and welcome!

That's ... a whole lot of text. It'll take me a while to go through it all, but I will read it. Just not tonight.

As for posting to the FenWiki, one gets an account there after one has posted here enough to show that one understands the setting. We've had a few folks come by who didn't quite understand Fenspace, and this is our defense mechanism against contributions that would warp the setting beyond recognizability. Getting a FenWiki account is the final hurdle that one gets to clear, not the first one.
--
Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."

- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012
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#4
Thanks for the welcome and the heads up on the wiki, robkelk!
As for the "K.S.", Bob, I figured I needed to pick someone Great Justice would trust enough to know whether what was going on under that new, oddly-shaped black dome in Tharsis was something GJ needed to know. To that end, I picked Katz Schrödinger - though, in retrospect, I should have asked Griever first, shouldn't I? Honestly, though - doen't Katz seem like the kinda guy that, after learning about New Port City being under construction, would take great delight in just grinning and staying silent whenever anyone asked what was going on the Big Peacock?
I wholeheartedly agree on Mahora.
As for the MAGI Melchior comment... My first draft had a Larry, Moe, Curly, and Shemp 'Mount Stoogemoore' inside the caldera/future New Port City site. Think I should put it back?
And to anyone who finishes the three articles - who do you think should, a) be chosen to take over WilPharma as of one year post-SerenityCon and, b) what business and its leader should be invited (and would actually accept) into Ikuhara's palce in the NERV/SEELE family?
“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
“They opened up a can’a dumbass!” – Jon Stewart regarding Fox News, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.” – Harvey Fierstein
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#5
Wow. That's one way to make a splash on the first post.

I am intrigued, and I wish to know more. Who are these people who built this mountain holdfast with their bare hands and supply of inexhaustible labor robots? Where did they come from? How did they end up getting hold of their seed money? Which chucklefuck among them thought invoking the Umbrella Corporation was a good idea? Where does SEELE stand on the question of Martian unity? So many questions...
Mr. Fnord interdimensional man of mystery

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#6
... how is Shinji Ikari going to react when he learns about them over in a certain other thread?
-- Bob
---------
Then the horns kicked in...
...and my shoes began to squeak.
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#7
Greetings, Comrade Fnord!
I'll be answering those first three questions of yours in a story titled "Project-E", which should - and emphasize the should - be ready in one to two weeks.
For my working material, highlight the following (Beware! Here there be Spoilers!): All of the original nine SEELE Council members met one another online, and videochatted with one another for several years prior to THAT convention. When it happened, while interested, none of them really thought they would be getting involved with it. That is, until the postal worker who would become Alex Xanatos discovered a partly torn package containing a coffee can which itself contained something that was NOT coffee.
After an experiment with his old laptop earned him a rather unexpected wake-up call by one Edwin Jarvis (the Marvel Zombies version, apparently, as the last thing he remembers is being about to be EATEN in the Avengers Mansion), he spent several days wondering what to do. While watching a History Channel piece on the Watergate Scandal, a mention of slush funds sparked off a conversation between 'Alex' and Ed (who doen't like being referred to by just his last name) about secret government programs and black project budgets and where DOES all that money come from and go to? And then 'Alex' had to go to work. When he got home, Edwin revealed he'd spent the time finding just that out - and in one particular case that become critical to their and other's futures, they were rather gobsmacked by what was found.
It seems that shortly after President Johnson took office, he started a highly hush-hush program that skimmed a very small percentage of money from non-critical government endeavors and saved it up 'just in case.' Unfortunately, by the start of the 90s, it was TOO hush-hush. Control of government finances increasingly went to computer control and, with so few people knowing about the program to begin with, that number decreased even more. By 1995, the only people who knew about the program numbered SIX according to the approved clearance list in the files uncovered. All six of those people died on the same day, one in Washington, the other five in New York City - none of the project files had been accessed or registered attempts at accessing since just prior to 11 September 2001.
And the only ones with knowledge of the existance and knowledge to access some $40 Billion were a dissatisfied-with-the-world postal worker and an AI butler...
“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
“They opened up a can’a dumbass!” – Jon Stewart regarding Fox News, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.” – Harvey Fierstein
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#8
Shinji? Well, they're probably trying to hold off on mentioning the local NERV until he accepts the bombshells he's already been hit with. =^_^=

...though the Gendo-modelled targets in the STARS practice ranges would probably be a good therapy tool...

...albeit four of the gynoids and androids in NERV's staff (R. Misato Katsuragi, STARS Hazard Division Director; R. Kaji Ryouji, STARS Intelligence Division Director; R. Ritsuko Akagi, Section Three Chief Researcher; and, maybe, R. Naoko Akagi, Section Four Chief Researcher) would freak him out even more.
Also, as I doubt anyone'll notice, a quirk of the handwavium batch found by Alex Xanatos is that the only AIs anyone using it are  capable of 'waking up' are replicas of fictional characters, and even then they have to be DEAD in their canon material. Everyone blames the name he chose for himself, obviously.
“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
“They opened up a can’a dumbass!” – Jon Stewart regarding Fox News, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.” – Harvey Fierstein
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#9
...... I'd be hesitant to include them. They would've been in the Ikari Shinji story already on some level, if they'd been mentioned at all. It's pretty important to me that, for the time being at least there's no other Eva characters out there aside from Gina and Rei..... it gives Shinji a genuine chance to grow. The point was, that the only touchstones available to Shinji were those two.....

NERV can exist. It just feels odd that 152 pages (Of Word) went by without them being mentioned in some way. Most would've had something to say..... Misato would've gotten in contact for sure, and Shinji would have noticed her name among the list. And since it's starting to wind up towards the finish I really don't want to have to completely rewrite the thing to fit them in properly.

NERV can exist.... I can make it 'Yeah, some martians used the name and trappings'.... but I'd like it so that there aren't too many familiar faces out there for Shinji. At least prior to 2024/5.

And you'd want to be careful about bilking 40 billion from the US government..... both in universe, and as a plot point.
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*shrugs* Consider the four EVA characters in NERV forgotten. It was just a suggestion, and, when I look back on it, kinda cheesy...
...I'm keeping th Gendo targets, though.
As for the $40 Billion, remember - no one else knows it exists, and those involved would hardly ADVERTISE where they got the money.
Wait for the story I mentioned earlier for a better origin story.
“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
“They opened up a can’a dumbass!” – Jon Stewart regarding Fox News, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
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Hmmm.... I'll wait for word of mod. That is a fat sum of money to have to hand.... and we all ready have plenty of candidates for Richest SOB in Fenspace.

I have to admire someone who'd name themselves 'Umbrella Corporation'. Then again, I was the person in Candle in the Dark who suggested Fenspace first jumpship be named 'Event Horizon'.....
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I must admit I am a little bit skeptical about "X stealing 40 BILLION dollars" too.
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Part of what makes the Forty Billion idea work in my mind is that it is not just Alex's personal money and that NO ONE actually knows how much money any of the SEELE Council members have. The reason is that, fearing that he would become the kind of rich SOB he's always despised and unknown to practically anyone not on the SEELE Council, all of the council's money (both what's left of the original 40B "start-up" money and any later profits) are under the control of the cyberspace hands of Edwin Jarvis, seeing as the AI is based upon the morals and personality of someone Alex had always respected.
It was also Ed who came up with the idea of seeking out like-minded individuals who wanted to make a postive mark on the world and only laked the financial means to do so. This seeking out and initial founding of the SEELE Council original members was called Project EVANGELION - Project GOOD NEWS, in other words. Since then, the council - barring the aforemention 'Struve Conspiracy' and Biwa Mishima's little arsenal splurge - has been following the guidelines of five quotes of businessmen that Alex had actually respected and that are included in the SEELE Charter:
“Surplus wealth is a sacred trust which its
possessor is bound to administer in his lifetime for the good of the
community.” – Andrew Carnegie

“I believe the power to make money is a gift of God …
to be developed and used to the best of our ability for the good of mankind. Having been endowed with the gift I possess, I believe
it is my duty to make money and still more money and to use the money I make
for the good of my fellow man according to the dictates of my conscience.”
– John D. Rockefeller

“The
desire for wealth is nearly universal, and none can say it is not laudable,
provided the possessor of it accepts its responsibilities, and uses it as a
friend to humanity.” – P.T. Barnum

“Being the richest man in the cemetery doesn't matter
to me ... Going to bed at night saying we've done something wonderful... that's
what matters to me.” – Steven Paul Jobs

“Disobedience is the vehicle of progress.”
– John McAfee, Explaining why he did not follow the normal rules of business to
reporter Josh Quittner in 1992
“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
“They opened up a can’a dumbass!” – Jon Stewart regarding Fox News, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.” – Harvey Fierstein
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Also, Dartz, I'm kinda considering editing the "Project WHITE MOON" part - either deleting it entirely or making it more clear that it is a STARS Intelligence Division report that arose from the still ongoing manhunt for Harry Struve when they uncovered evidence of a still unspecified ('cause I haven't thought it up yet ^_^Wink corporate conspiracy daneside.
Also, as I forgot to mention it in the prior post, MOST of the original Forty Billion is gone by the late 2010s - between buying initial equipment for the council member's start-up production lines, making H.G. Wells and Sheffield a place to call home instead of just some manmade caves in a dead volcano, some rather substantial (and anonymous) donations to the Mars Terraforming Project and the Nikaido Foundation, and then Phases Five and Six of RED EARTH... the total sum of the joint SEELE Council coffers is somehwere around the combined personal accounts of Scott and Marsden for all of the council members put together.
“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
“They opened up a can’a dumbass!” – Jon Stewart regarding Fox News, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart
“Never be bullied into silence. Never allow yourself to be made a victim. Accept no one's definition of your life; define yourself.” – Harvey Fierstein
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O_o;

Why do I suddenly feel inadequate?

DeputyJones? I insist you tell us, at some point in time or another, how the heck you got Yuku to make such nice stuff appear. It always gives many of us fits just trying to embed video. (I have indeed noticed that you got all that in on one-shot without having to edit your post. For a first-timer to a message board... that is DAMN IMPRESSIVE BOY!!!)
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blackaeronaut Wrote:DeputyJones? I insist you tell us, at some point in time or another, how the heck you got Yuku to make such nice stuff appear. It always gives many of us fits just trying to embed video. (I have indeed noticed that you got all that in on one-shot without having to edit your post. For a first-timer to a message board... that is DAMN IMPRESSIVE BOY!!!)
You know there is a "preview" button, right? Wink
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The 'Preview Button' does not equate to an 'I Win' button for Yuku-Fu.
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blackaeronaut Wrote:The 'Preview Button' does not equate to an 'I Win' button for Yuku-Fu.
No, its the "infinite savegame" button... its just limited by your own endurance. ^^
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Making some content and grammar corrections...
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Pavonis Arcology
Pavonis Mons in Tharsis is home to not one but several interconnected, quasi-subterranean communities that operate under the banner of the Pavonis Arcology. All of them were built and are still supported and partly managed by the NERV Foundation. They are each a part of the multi-phase plan, Project RED EARTH, that is the main focus of the foundation’s Natural Environment Re-creation Venture. It is worth mentioning that, similar to Canada, Pavonis is bilingual in its signage and education: English and Japanese, reflecting its founders.
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Flag of Armitage III Mars, used by Pavonis

Using Binford’s super-hardy construction material vulcanocrete – a ceramic material made up of the lava rock of Pavonis herself mixed with ground-up quartz and something else (generic plaster mixed with pure handwavium, it’s not a very good secret) – the NERV Foundation successfully carved several Martian settlements into the extinct volcano.

While originally rather bare of settlers who didn’t directly work for NERV members, the arcology had a boom in population once construction on RED EARTH Phase Four started in March 2011 when the Elies, at least for the foreseeable future, threw their lot in with Pavonis. It also saw a slight increase during the Boskone War of Belters, but the majority who went to Mars instead of cislunar space went to Port Lowell and Helium, instead. The arcology’ biggest population boom to date was after the opening ceremony for New Port City when a surprising number of Japanese immigrants moved there.
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See NERV Foundation article.

Red Earth
Phase One – NERV Headquarters (No First Ancestral Race Lifeforms were Harmed During Construction…): Started in 2010, the western quarter of “the Big Peacock” houses the primary production lines, offices, and labs of the NERV Foundation and SEELE Council members. Declared fully operational in January 2011.

Phase Two – Hollow Fields Plantation (…or any Mad Scientist Students…): More multi-sectioned, enormous greenhouses than plantation, these sources of fresh foodstuffs are run by NERV Section One’s Agro Divisionand were constructed at the same time as NERV HQ to provide local perishables and a source of export revenue. Also like NERV HQ, while operational the moment the first greenhouse was finished, constant improvements and the occasional expansion continue.

Phase Three – H.G. Wells Spaceport (…and Neither were any Tripod-Driving Natives): located in the southern portion of Pavonis Mons’s cone, it was completed in November 2012. Facilities include both slips for ships of various sizes, several large joint hangars, as well as cheaply rentable three to five room apartment flats called The Peacock Arms and simple but comfortable temporary rooms at Hotel California. It was constructed at the same time as and followed closely by…

Phase Four – The Town of Sheffield (“For the last time Kazuo– NO SPACE ELEVATOR!!”): completed in February 2013. Sheffield is built in an ancient (at least 2.2 billion years old) secondary, vertical lava tube of Pavonis that was covered by its latter, more obvious one. Uncovered and excavated during the spaceport’s construction (the precious stones recovered filled the foundation’s joint project coffer quite nicely), the resulting settlement proved amusingly funnel-shaped.

Phase Five – The City of New Port (“Yes, I know the city plan is out of NGE, but using the original name just doesn’t fit.”): After the caldera’s vulcanocrete lining and Genesis-made, pitch black pressure dome were completed in January 2014, construction on Phase Four was carried out in as secret an environment as possible using Cyberdyne’s T-Series non-sapient robots as laborers and with non-disclosure enforced supervision. After a certain fellow with the initials “K.S.” was granted reluctant admission to assure the more paranoid that nothing untoward was happening and agreeing to secrecy so long as this was true (“K.S.” actually seems to get a kick out of just grinning whenever someone asks him what he learned), nothing but rumors about parks and “the first forests on Mars” managed to leak out until the Convention at Coruscant, shortly after the Pan Incident, when the SEELE Council decided that something ‘very positive’ needed to occur at the Convention for morale’s sake... see story “Red Earth Opening Ceremony” [Soon To Come]

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New Port City, main district (2029)

Phase Six – The Geofront (“’How did it get hollow?’ Oh, come on – where do you think all the raw material for the vulcanocrete used in Phase Five came from?!”):
An attempt by the NERV Foundation to create a self-sustaining ecosystem, The information gained during its development will hopefully provide useful data to the Mars Terraforming Project.
Rumors that the Geofront serves as the base of operations for a secret section of the NERV Foundation are, of course, complete hogwash.

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‘Ecosystem Monitoring Facility’/NERV Section Five Complex
The Sightings: In the countless manmade tunnels and caverns of Pavonis, sometimes the mind plays tricks on you – or does it? Rumors of sightings of a mysterious teenage Japanese boy wearing a bandana and carrying a backpack and umbrella wandering the tunnels lost are told in the bars of Sheffield. And that isn’t all…

Elysium Cooperative
No description of Pavonis can really be given without including a mention of the basics about the Elysium Cooperative. Slayers Fen, Rune Soldier Fen, Zero no Tsukaima Fen, GURPS and Palladium Fantasy Fen… Seemingly all fantasy-minded short of the Wizards and D&Ders decided to band together to claim a homeland for themselves on the Red Planet.

Or, at least, to prepare for a future claiming of said homeland. The “Elies” have decided that, when the time comes once the Mars Terraforming Project reaches that point, the Continent of Elysium and her islands in the Sea of Utopia shall be their Promised Land.

Until then, however, the Elies have hunkered down in Pavonis, some commuting daily to the future sites of their individual or collective settlements to do what work they already can – the (temporarily!) pressure-domed, pan-fandom city of Seiluun and her various white-walled city districts seems to be coming right along – on Elysium, while still others work for NERV or independent Pavonis employers to meet ends meat and save up funds for their own special projects.

Education
Until what became known as the Red Earth Opening Ceremony, the only educational facilities available were those classes available at the Sheffield Community Center. Once Akamatsu-sensei (who requested the Hinata-sou built as a private home for himself in return) and other copyright holders secretly signed off on it, however, Mahora Academy, with mixed and separate gender classes from elementary to graduate (and later post-graduate) curriculums was ready to open following New Port City’s big reveal.

Religion
Reflecting the American and Japanese roots of its founders, religious needs can be met at the non-denominational Travelers’ Chapel in Sheffield and, later, the Tatsumiya Shrine in New Port City. Several alternatives not sponsored by the foundation also exist.

Infrastructure
The four departments of the NERV Foundation and their various divisions handle most public services throughout the arcology.

The Pavonis Arcology Police Department, Pavonis Arcology Fire Department, and their precincts, while started by the NERV Foundation, were immediately decentralized form NERV to private control following completion.

Sheffield and New Port City each possess a mayor and a town and city council, respectively. H.G. Wells Spaceport and Hallow Fields Plantation each have an administrator appointed by the SEELE Council. NERV Headquarters and the Geofront are directly under NERV Foundation control.
At the CorusCon it was announced that a new five-member council, the GEHIRN Council, would be taking over the Oavonis governance duties previously held by the SEELE Council starting that January. The GEHIRN Council is composed of the democratically elected mayors of Sheffield and New Port City, the administrators of H.G. Wells and Hollow Fields (now to be appointed by GEHIRN majority vote), and the SEELE Chairman representing the NERV Foundation.

Entertainment
While nowhere near the totality of Pavonis’ entertainment options, some of them include: various activities at the Sheffield Community Center, the same community’s four-screen Majestic Theatre, various clubs and the sixteen screen Peacock Megaplex on NPC’s Electric Avenue, and, starting in 2022, the fantastic Kaleido Stage.

Food
In addition to several common American and Japanese chain and franchise stores, Pavonis also features: Cheers (an American-style bar based on the one in the television show of the same name; Sheffield), Bar Nonbou (a combination Japanese-style bar and Korean BBQ; Sheffield), The Italian Job (Italian food, obviously; New Port City), My Big Fat Greek Restaurant (Greek cuisine, again obviously; New Port City), Café Relish (a Japanese maid café; New Port City), and The Ministry of Silly Walks (an English-style pub; Sheffield).

Trivia
Due to a bit of secretly purposeful micro-managing by several SEELE Council members, Toyota and Ford each opened shops on the same day at the same time on 24 May 2019 on Copperhead Road in New Port City across from the Rubber Duck Trucking Company –they each claim right of “first car dealership off of Earth.”

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NERV Foundation
The NERV Foundation is essentially a business conglomerate with a board of directors – the SEELE Council – who, while maintaining complete control over their own enterprises, cooperate heavily with one another in various joint projects and philanthropic ventures.

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Emblem used by the NERV Foundation

The most ambitious of the foundation’s philanthropic ventures and the plan from which the foundation draws its name is its Natural Environment Re-creation Venture, the natural environment in question being the natural environment for humanity, the current focus project of which is Project RED EARTH (see Pavonis Arcology article).
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The Pavonis Arcology Support Services (PASS) provide and service electrical utilities, water supply and treatment, life support, running Hollow Fields (Agro Division), and similar work for the Pavonis Arcology.

NERV Section Two
The Special Tactics And Rescue Service (STARS)is a paramilitary organization whose Security Division, Defense Division, Intelligence Division, Emergency Division, Logistics Division, and Hazard Division serve the NERV Foundation and Pavonis Arcology.

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Badge prototype; RPD shield and POLICE replaced with Armitage III planet-in-tree symbol and PAVONIS banner in final version

Note: The STARS do not provide regular police and firefighting services.

NERV Section Three
Technological Research And Development (T-RAD)…enough said.

NERV Section Four
Biological Research And Development (B-RAD)… ditto.

Joint Projects
Ongoing joint research and development projects between the NERV Foundation members include:
Project FRAGMENT (Altimit/Heartland project that produced a working version of the DotHack franchise in-series MMORPG, The World [available November 2012])
Project ATF (energy fields and force fields)
Project SUPER SOLENOID (energy generation)
Project EGO BOUNDRY (man-machine interfaces)
Project HEINFLICK LIMIT (FTL technologies)
Project REFRESHER (following Struve Conspiracy, data on biomoding the Boskones considered ‘useless’ recovered during investigation used to offer those getting on in years and otherwise down in health an option of several ‘controlled biomods’ – Antarctic Press Furries [‘too strong and free willed’] and Fantasy Short Folk [‘too limited a customer base’] surprisingly popular, as is the Mischievous Kitsune Biomod)
Project DIRAC SEA (dimensional studies [after Interdimensional Incursion Incident and release of WFC])
Project LONGINUS LANCE (paranormal studies [after Interdimensional Incursion Incident and release of WFC])
Project BLACK MOON (Boskone War development plan for defense programs; discontinued after the war; rumors that some continued under a secret NERV section are, of course, entirely preposterous)

DECA
The Digital Enclave and Cyberspace Archive is the central computer core of the foundation. It is connected, but not integral, to the Pavonis Intranet, and can be isolated at a moment’s notice both manually and automatically.
As one might imagine, it is controlled by the three MAGI – but each MAGI is itself composed of three artificial intelligences. Casper is made up of three based upon several ‘Vagrant AIs’ from the DotHack franchise: Aura, Lycoris, and Macha. Balthazar is made up of Meg, Lou, and Nam from Bubblegum Crisis. Whoever Melchior consists of, however, is classified.

NERV Section Five
***WHITENOISE***

This section of NERV – the U.N. Mars Force (UNMF) – does not exist.

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ZotE Bufram Militia flag. Used by the U.N. Mars Force

DETAILS FORTHCOMING

Project WHITE MOON
***WHITENOISE***

STARS Intelligence Division File 1028.4
Investigative Report: Ravenwood (private military contractor)
Cross-Reference IR(s) x4: Jennings & Rall, Incorporated; CyberConnect Corporation; Tricell Pharmaceutical Company; Struve, Harry
DETAILS FORTHCOMING
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SEELE Council

The NERV Foundation is essentially a business conglomerate with a board of directors – the SEELE Council – who, while maintaining complete control over their own enterprises, cooperate heavily with one another in various joint projects and philanthropic ventures.

The seven people presently on the council are: Alex Xanatos, CEO Cyberdyne; Biwa Mishima, CEO Mishima; Mary Gamblin, CEO Altimit; James “Jimmy”Blake, CEO Binford; Kazuo Jenkins, CEO Ajax; Lana Izavia, CEO Heartland; and The O, CEO DeLorean.

Former council members consist of: the late Airi Ikuhara-Xanatos, CEO Ikuhara; and Harry Struve, ex CEO WilPharma, on the run and wanted by Great Justice following the Battle of Serenity Valley.
Council chairmen: Alex Xanatos (founding-January 2019) and Kazuo Jenkins (January 2019-Present)
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Cyberdyne Systems Corporation, Limited
Producing human-use bionics and non-sapient robots, it originally outsourced a goodly amount of its electrical components from daneside sources and later fellow councilmember Ikuhara Electronics. Following the Battle of Serenity Valley, Cyberdyne absorbed Ikuhara and its product lines in keeping with the prior owner’s wishes.
Its bionics fall under the C-Series of products, which are increasingly customizable by the generation.
Its main line of robots come under the T-Series which, while having an internal computer brain, possesses only a number of AI-designed specialist systems that are designed to be easily modifiable and reprogrammable, o and consist of:
T-100 GASAR (Ground Assault and Support Actions Robot; based on the T-1s/T-10s from the T3 movie; 70 were made for NERV HQ defense; 10 units designated T-110, based on the versions from the Salvation movie, were made and sold to Operation Great Justice, at cost; neither are legally available to the public)
T-200 Maintenance and Repair Robot (made in various chassis configurations, the earliest T-202 model was available to the public on 11 January 2011)
T-300 Specialist Combat Robot Series (Project BLACK MOON programs to replicate the T-325 Mototerminator, T-350 Snowterminator, and T-375 Hydrobot; programs ‘requested’ by Great Justice to be suspended following Boskone War conclusion; see ‘NERV Section Five’)
T-400 Stealth Combat Humanoid Robot (Project BLACK MOON program to replicate the T-HX; program ‘requested’ by Great Justice to be suspended following Boskone War conclusion; see ‘NERV Section Five’; no successful prototype yet produced as of 2020)
T-500 “Harvester” Heavy Construction Robot (customizable heavy labor robot; available to the public 18 March 2012)
T-600 Multi-Function Humanoid Robot (first successful fully-humanoid robot approved for mass production; most noted quirk is that any attempt at disguising a unit as being human fails [often humorously], much like with its rubber-skinned source of inspiration; available to the public 5 November 2013; AI-Avatar capability upgrade package sold separately at same time)
T-700 Heavy-Function Humanoid Robot (essentially a larger and more durable version of the T-600, and available to the public at the same time as its ‘little brother’)
T-800 Advanced-Function Humanoid Robot (available to the public starting on 12 August 2018, the T-800 Series initially comes in the T-801 “Governator” Classic Model, T-825 “Cameron” Customizable Female Model, and T-850 “Cromartie” Customizable Male Model; utilizing WilPharma pioneered CMS-101 Synthflesh, it is half again as expensive as the still-available T-600)

WilPharma Corporation
Initially acting as a middle-man for Earth-made supplies, WilPharma began coming into its own in early 2011 when it began producing its own hospital grade basic materials, and received a hard won victory when the several daneside health organizations certified its products in 2012.
The corporation received a major shake-up following the Battle of Serenity Valley, where evidence recovered by the Roughriders revealed that not only had CEO Harry Struve been supplying the Boskones via daneside intermediaries, but had concocted a plot with the terrorists to kill the other members of the SEELE Council – of the nine members, only he did not attend SerenityCon – and allow him to subsume control of the NERV Foundation and the Pavonis Arcology.

Following these events, with the corporation routed of Boskones and their supporters, control of WilPharma was seized by the SEELE Council until such a time as the surviving seven members could appoint a replacement as CEO. This presents problems (see Ikuhara section).

Mishima Heavy Industries
Your friendly, neighborhood defense concern.
Like many of the original SEELE Council members, Mishima started out supplying Fenspace with products it bought daneside as a middleman. Uniquely to Mishima’s case, and a source of much groaning and headaches once the rest found out about it, a goodly amount of its start-up capital went to purchasing items off of black market arms dealers – partly to keep them out of the wrong hands, mostly because Biwa, being the military otaku she is, just couldn’t help herself. Fortunately, the council members managed to keep any of this from leaking out (they hope), though they now have a secret stockpile of weapons to make any Third World dictator envious.
This being Fenspace, and Ms. Mishima being a Japanese military otaku, one would think her company’s products would include mecha – one would be right.
Following the mobile suit scale MHI-M1 to M3’s failures, a try at arm slave scale produced and admittedly underpowered and unimpressive MHI-M4 “Mistral II” for sale in July 2011. The much improved MHI-M5 “Type-96” was available by April 2013, with a slightly better MHI-M6 “Bushnell” arriving in May 2015.
Rumors of a large, metal container labeled “MHI-M9” and “GERNSBACK” being spotted in transit through a NERV Personnel Only tunnel in Pavonis is denied outright (see‘NERV Section Five’).

Altimit Corporation
Internet service, network setup, software development, specialist programs, computer games – if it needs to speak 010010, Altimit are the folks to talk to –especially as most of the employees are AI themeselves. Starting by purchasing the rights to the DotHack series and its related material, a LINUX-based operating system, ALTIMIT OS, has been in use by the NERV Foundation and SEELE Council members since 2010 (upgraded to ALTIMIT MINE OS following the ‘Struve Conspiracy’).

Binford Tools Company
Producing first hand tools and basic parts, then power tools, and finally actual heavy equipment, an unknown fen working for a building crew at Mars Vegas once famously commented that Binford could be described as “the backbone of any construction project on Mars.” Needless to say, they take great pride in this.
Two of Binford’s earliest successes – so early that the CEO was also sole employee –were also critical to the development of the Pavonis arcology: vulcanocrete and the ultrasonic laser. Vulcanocrete is a ceramic material made up of lava rock mixed with ground-up quartz and something else (generic plaster mixed with pure handwavium, it’s not a very good secret). The ultrasonic laser is more the former than the latter, it is made out of old sonogram and sonar equipment and modeled after the device of the same name from The Core – unfortunately, its not quite as effective as its inspiration and, thus far, all attempts at making unobtanium have proven futile.
In a quirk that alternately annoys and amuses the company’s employees and owner to no end, no handwaved Binford product will work correctly unless it bears a ‘6100 Series’ label.

Ajax Material Supply Company
Growing out of initial obscurity in the early 2010s, whether it’s a product they produce themselves or import from Earth, Ajax as of 2022 is recognized as the largest chemical, wood, paper, plastic, and stone supplier outside of cislunar space.
They’re initially tried to supply metals as well, but there was so much competition there already that they just gave up on it – the main reason that metals of various sorts are now one of Pavonis’ largest imports.

Heartland Play Systems
Handwavium and toys… there exists not the space to encompass the joy and madness conceived.
Note: Never ask about the Chucky dolls… just don’t…
Extra Note: Their Jumanji holographic board game is pretty fun, though.

DeLorean Motor Company
Purchased outright from Stephen Wynne, The O (never forget the ‘The’) now slaps the DMC logo on both waved and unwaved nich-market products both space- and planet-side.
Products include the DMC-12 Classic, the DMC-38 Yako (based Yak 38 Custom jet interceptor in Evangelion; space-capable), the DMC-40 Blue Angel (shuttle based on ‘UN 789’ plane in Evangelion), the DMC-48 AD-Police Interceptor (chiefly exported to Genaros; ‘Car 48, Where are You?’ opening music must be played before starting), and the DMC-50 Peel (based Peel P50; rights purchased 2016).

Ikuhara Electronics
Selling waved, partly waved, and non-waved electronics and electrical components, Ikuhara was a successful business from its start to its end. Following Airi Ikuhara-Xanatos’ death at the Battle of Serenity Valley, the company was absorbed by Cyberdyne, per its late owner’s wishes.
According to the SEELE Council Charter, the membership of the council must remain at nine persons. This means that another business enterprise must be invited to join both the council as well as the NERV Foundation. This also means revealing a number of secrets to said invitee, some still only in the planning stages. The council is debating its choices…

Politics and Goals
While encouraging maintaining ties of various sorts with Earth, the SEELE Council is quite open with its opinion that each settlement on Mars - and in Fenspace in its entirety - should be as self-sufficient at least in the essentials as possible.
The council fully supported the goals of Operation GREAT JUSTICE, and later the organization Ggreat Justice, providing its still internally incomplete joint flagship - an unarmed but heavily armored design based on the carrier submarine from Full Metal Panic!, the SV Tuatha de Danaan (TDD-1) - as a troop transport at the Battle of Boskone Prime. While reclaiming the ship post-battle, a second ship of the class - SV Celestial Court (TDD-2) - was sold at cost to Great Justice in June 2017.     
  
“In politics, stupidity is not a handicap.” – Napoleon Bonaparte
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And if its not too presumptious of a newbie like me, can I suggest New Port City for the 2024 convention?
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DeputyJones Wrote:And if its not too presumptious of a newbie like me, can I suggest New Port City for the 2024 convention?
No problem - Mars hasn't had a Convention since 2021, so there's no risk of them dominating the schedule.

(We'll push CentuariCon to 2025...)

As for the big post... Vice-Mod still hasn't read it., so won't comment yet. I've left time in my schedule tomorrow evening, though...
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I'm tempted to just recommend letting the construction take a few more years and push back your dates a bit.
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ECSNorway Wrote:I'm tempted to just recommend letting the construction take a few more years and push back your dates a bit.
This might also solve the money issue...

instead of "stole insane amounts of money", it was just more hard work for a lot of people over the years.
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Yes... peoplemay not notice it disappearing, but they will notice it appearing again. And they will ask questions....
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Still haven't read the article, but I did notice something that makes me want to quote from the "Image Requested" page on the Wiki.
Quote:For legal reasons (nobody wants a Big Media company's lawyer trying to shut us down because we used one wrong image), all images should be Public Domain or licenced under terms that allow their inclusion in our Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 3.0 Unported License. Unless we create them ourselves, of course.
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This is actually my first post to a forum - here goes nothing. Thanks again to Bob wor welcoming me to the community.
While this is my first post, I've been catching up on things since I found the forum and wiki. While things are pretty well fleshed-out in Earth-Luna space and the Belt has received quite a bit of attention recently, Mars seems to have been overlooked a bit. Hopefully, these three posts - and can someone else add them to the wiki; I haven't got the faintest clue how - will correct that. Opinions, suggestions, criticisms, and, of course, compliments are all welcome.
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Pavonis Arcology

Pavonis
Mons in Tharsis is home to not one but
several interconnected, quasi-subterranean communities that operate under the
banner of the Pavonis Arcology. All
of them were built and are still supported and partly managed by the NERV
Foundation. They are each a part of the multi-phase plan, Project RED EARTH,
that is the main focus of the foundation's Natural Environment Re-creation
Venture. It is worth mentioning that, similar to Canada, Pavonis is bilingual
in its signage and education: English and Japanese, reflecting its founders.


[Image: MarsFlagArmitageIII.gif]


Flag of Armitage III Mars, used by Pavonis

Using Binford's super-hardy
construction material vulcanocrete – a ceramic material made up of the lava
rock of Pavonis herself mixed with ground-up quartz and something else (generic
plaster mixed with pure handwavium, it's not a very good secret) – the NERV
Foundation successfully carved several Martian settlements into the extinct
volcano.

While originally rather bare of
settlers who didn't directly work for NERV members, the arcology had a boom in population
once construction on RED EARTH Phase Four started in March 2011 when the Elies,
at least for the foreseeable future, threw their lot in with Pavonis. It also
saw a slight increase during the Boskone War of Belters, but the majority who
went to Mars instead of cislunar space went to Port Lowell and Helium, instead.
The arcology' biggest population boom to date was after the opening ceremony
for New Port City when a surprising number of Japanese immigrants moved there.

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Contents

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  • 1 NERV Foundation
  • 2 Red Earth
  • 3 Elysium
    Cooperative

  • 4 Education
  • 5 Religion


  • 6 Infrastructure


  • 7 Entertainment
  • 8 Food
  • 9 Trivia
Contents

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  • 1 NERV Section One
  • 2 NERV Section Two
  • 3 NERV Section
    Three

  • 4 NERV Section
    Four

  • 5 Joint Projects
  • 6 DECA
  • 7 NERV Section
    Five



  • 8 Project WHITE
    MOON

Contents

  • 1 Cyberdyne
    Systems Corporation, Limited

  • 2 WilPharma
    Corporation

  • 3 Mishima Heavy
    Industries

  • 4 Altimit
    Corporation

  • 5 Binford Tools
    Company



  • 6 Ajax Material
    Supply Company

  • 7 Heartland Play
    Systems

  • 8 DeLorean Motor
    Company

  • 9 Ikuhara
    Electronics

Contents
  • 1 NERV Foundation
  • 2 Red Earth
  • 3 Elysium Cooperative
  • 4 Education
  • 5 Religion
  • 6 Infrastructure
  • 7 Entertainment
  • 8 Food
  • 9 Trivia
Contents
  • 1 NERV Section One
  • 2 NERV Section Two
  • 3 NERV Section Three
  • 4 NERV Section Four
  • 5 Joint Projects
  • 6 DECA
  • 7 NERV Section Five
  • 8 Project WHITE MOON
Contents
  • 1 Cyberdyne Systems Corporation, Limited
  • 2 WilPharma Corporation
  • 3 Mishima Heavy Industries
  • 4 Altimit Corporation
  • 5 Binford Tools Company
  • 6 Ajax Material Supply Company
  • 7 Heartland Play Systems
  • 8 DeLorean Motor Company
  • 9 Ikuhara Electronics
  • 10 Politics and Goals


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